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TO ALL ARTID ARTISTS : Please be sure to send us an email to info@artid.com with a link to your blog post about upcoming art shows or exhibits. We will post it in our Member Art Shows blog so art collectors have one central place to look for information… Continue reading… 0 comments

I'm sitting in Austin, TX attending a conference on Inbound Marketing using SEO, Social Media, and Blogging .... basically hob-nobbing with the gurus of the Internet. My Goal: to make sure ArtId and all of our members' ArtId's "get found first" through all available outlets on the web. I want ArtId to be THE most effective online art marketing tool for our artist members as well as an incredible source of original art for the art buyer . So here is Mike Volpe, VP Marketing for Hubspot , dragooning me and putting me in front of his video camera at the conference… Continue reading… 0 comments

Linking to web sites throughout the Internet is a good way to build traffic. Especially if you can get reciprocal links back to your website. One way Search Engines deam your rank and importance is by how many 'relavant Inbound links' your web site has. Meaning, the more people who link to your website, the better your rank when someone is looking for you on Google. So make sure you link, link, link when you are posting a blog on ArtId. And make sure you tell everyone else you know who uses the Internet to link to your website on ArtId! There are two ways our site recognizes something as a LIVE LINK . 1. Type in a URL. When you submit the post live, our code will automatically convert it into a live link. For example, Come see my latest work on ArtId www… Continue reading… 3 comments

In my next few blog posts, I want to hear your thoughts about having a personal website, belonging to art community websites, and how having an Internet presence may have helped you with marketing your work. Here are some thoughts about personal websites and why they may not be working for you. #1 No one is marketing your web site , including you....it's just sitting alone in cyberspace and you have minimal traffic. You're asking yourself why you're spending money on this electronic business card that just sits there and looks pretty. Why can't it do more for me? That begs the question...… Continue reading… 3 comments

One question we hear frequently from artists is about how they should price their art. Our in-house art consultant, Carla Santia , posted a blog back in November to help answer this question artid.com/members/carlablog/blog. I think it's important to continue to have this discussion and to learn from other artists from around the globe how they handle pricing their work in different markets. Below is a question posed by one of our members, Mary Exline, and ArtId Staff member Mary Lawler's answer. Please feel free to comment as it would be nice to post a follow up with guidelines based on an international artist audience point of view. 4.25.08 Mary, I've been thinking about my prices and others' prices. It seems to me that my prices might be too high… Continue reading… 7 comments

I like keeping up with art trends & how art sells around the globe. Whether you're an emerging artist looking for clients or just paint for yourself, I've always wondered if there truly is a struggle for artists between making the sale & paying the bills vs. connecting with the buyer to find a 'home' for the work. Clearly, this brief article in Feb… Continue reading… 8 comments