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Made you look! Gosh, the internet is an amazing, overwhelming and inspiring place to be. Not to mention addictive. I am supposed to be spending most of my time creating art, but instead, today I am becoming a slave to the internet in an attempt to drive traffic to my website and increase sales of […]

12th November 2009/by Studio Damoah

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My website is now finally completed in the foundation format! You can now buy from any one of my major collections, which in total now comprise of 49 prints! If you have been following my progress since the early days (2006), you will remember when the Black Brits exhibition was first aired on national television. […]

10th November 2009/by Studio Damoah

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How to get lots of traffic to your blog/website and make lots of money online selling art prints

12th November 2009/by Studio Damoah

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Made you look!

Gosh, the internet is an amazing, overwhelming and inspiring place to be. Not to mention addictive. I am supposed to be spending most of my time creating art, but instead, today I am becoming a slave to the internet in an attempt to drive traffic to my website and increase sales of my fine art prints. Does that make me a sellout? I know of a few artists that would say so. Who cares, I have a mortgage to pay and what is wrong with wanting to succeed? Gosh, another topic I will address in another post, art, money and artists…

I have lost count of the sheer amount of blogs and articles I have read this evening (or should I say this morning, it is 1am!) around the subject of internet marketing. Can these principles apply to selling fine art prints online? I don’t see why not.

OK, here is a summary of what I have learned today(gosh, I feel like I am back at uni):

The Zen Habits Blog says that branding is key. Ok so have a consistent message and tap into the desires of your audience. I get that. You as a brand. The idea of the artist as a brand is nothing new, although my manager would beg to differ… But then look at Damien Hirst, well thats a whole other blog…That guy is a legend.
Key words, key words, key words! So imagine if you will that you are selling Fine art prints like me, so the more times you say fine art prints in your blog and on your website which is linked to your blog, the better. See what I just did;)
Link building! Links back to your website, blogging, linking to blogs from your blog 😉 comment on other blogs with your link in the comment, guest writing for other blogs, writing articles for online ezines, pay per click, social bookmarking, participating in relevant forums, writing reviews (Amazon is a good place to write relevant reviews about your particular area of interest- keyword that you want to rank highly for), free press release website (PRLog is the best that I have found) submission sites, paid ones too, link trading, adverts, directories, and social networking. And breathe.. All of this I read in this article from SEObook. It had a lot of useful information.
Oh how could I miss out affiliate marketing. That is a good one, if you can recruit lots of affiliates to sell your product. If you have any advice, please do let me know, comment thanks.
Last but not least, subscribe to ittybiz. Just brilliant learning tools on this whole business.
And another thing! I stumbled across this brilliant blog post by Chuck Westbrook. He has created a group to help increase traffic to blogs that have good content but no readers. Basically, you join his group and everyone takes turns to read everyone else’s blog. Really good idea, but I am not sure that the blog readers will be in my target market group. Well you never know, stranger things have happened…

So that is my summary of internet marketing and monetizing your site/blog. Oversimplified I know, but this is not really my subject matter! Excuses!! I am just learning about all this net marketing business, my passion is art.

The question is, have I committed a cardinal sin by daring to place art and making money in the same blog post? Again, another post for another day. I will end on this note, I come from a background of a biology degree with honors followed by 6 years in the pharmaceutical industry selling pharmaceutical products. I have painted all of my life, so the concept of art and money is not alien or uncomfortable to me. I find some many artists I speak to get horrified as soon as I mention business, money and art all in the same sentence. Why?

Like I said, another post for another day.

Best

Adelaide

12th November 2009/by Studio Damoah

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Christmas special offer to you from me 🙂

My website is now finally completed in the foundation format! You can now buy from any one of my major collections, which in total now comprise of 49 prints!

If you have been following my progress since the early days (2006), you will remember when the Black Brits exhibition was first aired on national television. It was an exciting and inspiring time! So many people wanted to have the black David Beckham, the black Kray Twins or the white Naomi Campbell on their walls. To this day, I still get requests! So finally, after 3 years these prints are now available for you!

I am letting you know now that I am making a special Christmas offer! If you order an A3 signed print now, I will personally write YOUR special message on the PRINT for you! When you get to Paypal, simply add what you want me to write in the special instructions box.

Of course, included in the prints on offer are the specially commissioned NCDV paintings. We are dedicating the profits from these special prints to the NCDV (registered charity no.1115360). We would like to help them raise as much money as possible to help to support the important work that they do. One of the statistics that shocked me to the core when I was approached to do this project was that two women are killed every week in the UK, by a violent partner! (Home Office statistics). This cowardly crime affects people across all sectors of society regardless of gender, race or social background. You can help to support this important charity by simply buying a print and forwarding this offer to anyone you know who may be interested.

There are lots more exciting things coming up for me and the team here! 2010 is looking set to be our best year yet! I will keep you updated of all developments in the coming weeks and months 🙂

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PS: Special thanks to Ray McCarthy for the fantastic photography!

Extra special thanks to my amazingly talented and fast working web developer Darren Debono of Elysian labs.

Of course, thanks to my ever supportive, encouraging and hard working manager John Murray-Smith

To you reading this now! Thank you for your support, I would be lost without you all!

10th November 2009/by Studio Damoah

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How to get lots of traffic to your blog/website and make lots of money online selling art prints

Christmas special offer to you from me 🙂

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Christmas special offer to you from me 🙂

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Christmas special offer to you from me 🙂

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