http://www.theabundantartist.com Dispelling the Starving Artist Myth Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:12:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en image by Matti Mattila There is a whole system of exchanges that happen on the web based around one of the most valuable marketing commodities out there. People pay for them. Corporations pay for them. Google crawls all over them (as does Bing and Yahoo). There are special codes written for ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/most-important-thing-on-the-web/ I have a lot of artists email or call me about what they can do to get started online. I think answering their questions is one of the best parts of doing what I do, but I don't always have time to answer all of those questions, especially not at ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/develop-your-own-coaching-sessions/ Ever looked for a comprehensive guide that you can use as a checklist to know what you should be doing to sell your art online? Here you go. This is a living list. As new techniques are added this post will be updated. Be sure to bookmark this post and ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/ultimate-guide-to-selling-art-online/ Click to play // Matthew Ebel blew me away when I heard what he was doing with his online music sales. He's becoming a force of nature and a model for how other musicians can support themselves full time without signing a deal with a major label. MatthewEbel.net is a site ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/matthew-ebel-musician-online-entrepreneur/ Hi there! If you got here by reading my guest post on IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com, I'd like to welcome you to the site. Like I mentioned in my bio, this site is about dispelling the myth of the starving artist. I teach artists (painters, crafters, sculptors, performers, musicians) how to sell their ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/welcome-iwtytbr-readers/ image by Stefan Baudy Artist Julie Martin wrote in with the following question: I am thinking of having prints made of some of my watercolor paintings and selling them on sites like Etsy. I’m not sure how to go about having prints made, as far as making it profitable. Any suggestions? This is ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/how-to-price-art-prints/ I've had some really great opportunities to interview a lot of artists over the last six months. I've been talking a lot about what I think you need to know when it comes to selling art online. Now I'd like to know - what questions do you have? Ask your question ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/questions-on-selling-art-online/ You've seen buttons like the ones above on websites all over the place. If you don't use them, you are part of a rapidly shrinking group. The rising generation of Internet users understand that these social bookmarking buttons are there to make it easier to share content. What is Social Bookmarking? It's a ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/how-to-sell-art-facebook-twitter-digg/ image via immike.net Most Flash based image galleries are terrible - especially the free ones. Here's why. Your website crawls like a 6 month old. Google recently made a major update to their search algorithm. That update, called Caffeine, takes into account your website's load time as one factor in your site's ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/why-artists-should-not-use-flash-image-galleries/ Click to play // Today we've got something a little bit different. This is a recording of an interview that I did with Laura Bergman, founder of Bottled Up Designs. Laura makes jewelry from reclaimed glass. It may be a buzzword to say "upcycled," but that's what Laura's been doing for ... http://www.theabundantartist.com/laura-bergman-bottled-up-designs/