If you follow my Twitter feed, you might have seen this tweet: Here's that same tweet embedded (you can click the link in the Tweet to see the tweet as it appeared to my followers): My next Art Email Newsletter will be sent in just a few days - subscribe to it without even leaving Twitter: https://t.co/gOHTHmZAwm—…
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Twitter is the rising star of social media at the moment, and is a surprisingly good tool for artists. From US President Barack Obama’s use of Twitter throughout his election campaign to the UK comedian Stephen Fry’s high-profile use of Twitter, it’s clear that it’s gaining a lot of ground…
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In my earlier post on using Facebook to promote your artwork I promised an update on how it was going. So here’s the first update. Rather than doing a massive campaign of promotion for my Facebook page, I’ve been doing a few smaller discrete promotions to study the effectiveness of each one. …
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Facebook Pages are a recent addition to Facebook, and they’re currently the best way for an artist to promote their artwork on Facebook (better than Facebook Groups, which are an earlier addition). If you’ve got a normal Facebook account then setting up an Artist’s Page is very easy: go to…
I was chatting to a good friend of mine yesterday about business strategies for her music. She’s not planning on chart-topping super-stardom, she just wants to have a plan for getting her music out there and hopefully making some money on it. So, I thought I’d put together my ideas for…
I’ve written about social networks and their uses before, but I wanted to expand on some of my original thoughts. So, let me start with a quote from my previous article stating my position: I’m sure this isn’t just because I’m an anti-social bastard, but it seems like the big social networks…
The 2006 blog post Five mistakes you’re probably making with your MySpace page (on Andrew Dubber’s blog New Music Strategies) applies equally to visual artists as it does to musicians. The five mistakes (expanded on in much better detail in the blog post itself) are: Using MySpace as your…
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1. Start with a website OK, here’s the easy-to-follow three-point guide: If you are a competent web developer then create your own site. If you have a friend who is a competent web developer then ask them to set you up free blog software (e.g. WordPress) on a web-host with your own domain…
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