Free Art Marketing Advice
Welcome to my free art marketing advice blog full of free tips and tricks to help your get your art, craft or photography business online and get your work seen and sold.
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Most Recent Art Marketing Advice
135 – Using Black Friday To Sell More Art
What is Black Friday and how can you use it to sell more art even without discounting
New Art Marketing Website
My new Simple Art Marketing website went live today. I hope you like it and find it useful?
134 – Why Has Instagram Engagement Dropped Recently?
Why has your Instagram engagement dropped recently? Let me try to explain why and what you can do about it
133 – Currency Rounding In Etsy
What is Etsy’s new feature for rounding International currencies and why should you use it?
132 – Why Open A Redbubble Shop
What is a Redbubble shop and should you consider opening one to sell more of your art?
131 – Using Preorders In Your Art Business
Why should you consider preorders in the 4th quarter to raise finance to purchase Christmas stock?
038 – Instagram Engagement With New Likes & Follows
Why is it important to increase Instagram engagement through talking to new likes and follows on your account?
15 – Do I Need A Mailing List For My Art Business?
Why is it essential to have a mailing list at the core of your online art, craft or photography business?
9 – Create Your First Art Website
Create your 1st website. What do you need to get started? What are the options?
8 – Choose A Domain Name For Your Art Business
What is a domain name and how do you choose one and register it for your art business?
7 – Create Your Art Business Branding
Why is branding important for your online art business and what does it involve?
6 – Create a Logo For Your Art Business
Do you need to create a logo for your art business? Why do you need one? What to consider and more.
5 – Do You Need To Rethink Your Art Business?
Is it time to rethink your art business? Its important to step back and reassess what you did before regularly as you move forward.
4 – Who Does What You Do In Your Art Business Already?
Who else does what you do in your art business? Find other art, craft and photograpy businesses similar to yours online and learn from them
3 – What Are Your Unique Selling Points (USPs)?
What are your unique selling points (USPs) and why is it important to identify them early on?
2 – Define What You Do
Why it is important to define what you do clearly early on when describing your business
1 – Choose A Name For Your Art Business
Choosing a name for your art, craft or photography business can be confusing. Here are some things to consider.
The 100 Day Project
An introduction to my 100 day project and how I used this project to help me focus on starting to document my knowledge of art, craft and photography online marketing
135 – Using Black Friday To Sell More Art
Black Friday is coming but how can you be using Black Friday to sell more art? Black Friday week is already here if you use Amazon but what is it? Is it all overseas marketing hype and do you really need to be a part of it? These are some of the questions I am often...
New Art Marketing Website
New Art Marketing Website As many readers of my blog will have realised I have traded as Instinctive Systems since 1991. Today I launched my new art marketing website simpleartmarketing.co.uk. I rebranded and started trading as Simple Art Marketing earlier this year....
134 – Why Has Instagram Engagement Dropped Recently?
Why Has My Instagram Engagement Dropped - what has changed and what can I do about it? Has anybody else noticed a drop in their Instagram engagement recently? Have you noticed considerably fewer likes on your posts, fewer comments, fewer...
133 – Currency Rounding In Etsy
Currency Rounding In Etsy - Why You Should Consider Rounding Prices To Help Overseas Sales If you have logged into your Etsy account recently you might have noticed a message about rounding prices in other currencies. This great new feature has recently been...
132 – Why Open A Redbubble Shop
Why Open A Redbubble Shop - awesome products from independent artists like you It can be confusing where to sell your art online these days and where will you find the time - what with your website, Etsy, NuMonday, Folksy, Fine...
131 – Using Preorders In Your Art Business
Using Preorders In Your Art Business Approaching The 4th Quarter - How Can They Help To Make Christmas More Successful Hopefully you read the recent update to my post 65 - Christmas Begins In August recently as we approach that 4th...
038 – Instagram Engagement With New Likes & Follows
Day 38 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Instagram Engagement - Talk To New Likes and Follows To Grow & Engage Your Instagram Audience Social media isn't called social media for nothing! Unless you have an extremely niche product mixed in with a lot of...
15 – Do I Need A Mailing List For My Art Business?
Day 15 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Do I Need A Mailing List? So you have a product to market and you have created the basics of your 1st website why not jump straight into setting up your all singing all dancing shop? Well it is too soon just now. It...
9 – Create Your First Art Website
Day 9 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Create Your First Art Website Updated 23/11/2020 Do you want to create your first art website? A big mistake with online marketing is trying to run before you can walk. Many people think they can quickly create a website...
8 – Choose A Domain Name For Your Art Business
Day 8 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Choose A Domain Name For Your Art Business So this is where it starts to get a little technical but hopefully I can keep it simple for you. On day 1 you chose a business name. Today I want you to think about a...
7 – Create Your Art Business Branding
Day 7 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Create Your Branding for your Art, Craft, Photography Business. I have used a daily prompt in this project to talk about different elements that you need to think about when starting to market your art, craft or...
6 – Create a Logo For Your Art Business
Day 6 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Create A Logo For Your Art Business Do you need to create a logo for your art business? You are starting a new art, craft or photography business and you have so many other things to do such as creating something to sell...
5 – Do You Need To Rethink Your Art Business?
Day 5 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Do You Need To Rethink Your Art Business? If you have got this far with me that is great. Hopefully you have had a lot to think about so far before we go much further do you need to rethink anything? - on day 1 -...
4 – Who Does What You Do In Your Art Business Already?
Day 4 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Who Does What You Do In Your Art Business Already? Don't go in blind and definitely do not reinvent the wheel. Traditionally that would have been naive in the least but also very costly and a cause of so many business...
3 – What Are Your Unique Selling Points (USPs)?
Day 3 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - What Are Your USPs (Unique Selling Points)? What are your unique selling points (USPs)? This is another one to focus you and focus your customers and something to lead with very quickly on your website and promotional...
2 – Define What You Do
Day 2 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Define What You Do In Your Art Business This may sound like stating the obvious but clearly defining what you do both helps you to stay focused but also quickly informs your customers what you do before they decide to...
1 – Choose A Name For Your Art Business
Day 1 of #100daysmarketingcreatives - Choose A Name For Your Art, Craft or Photography Business Choosing a name for your art, craft or photography business can be daunting so lets go right back to basics before I get to the technical stuff later (apologies...
The 100 Day Project
On Monday 2nd April 2019 I will start The 100 Day Project #the100dayproject on Instagram using my hashtag #100daysmarketingcreatives. The project is designed to help people focus on developing something creative over a period of 100 days using the project to...
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