CREATIVE MINDS – Dan Fonseca

Posted by on Feb 1, 2012 in Blog, Creative Minds | 9 comments I have met Dan on twitter, maybe a year ago, started reading his blog and was attracted by his thoughtful and inspiring writing skills. We had some great discussions, thoughts about anything and everything. Besides his writing, I found out that he also paints, makes music and studies communications/media. Let me introduce Dan Fonseca for this month’s Creative Minds...
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New Addiction For Artists, Creatives & Visuals: PINTEREST!

Posted by on Jan 26, 2012 in Blog, Ideas & Inspiration, Living & Design | 23 comments Who’s tried it yet? Do you have an account? Yes, there’s another forum on the market and I am usually the one who watches the benefits first and analyzes its pros and cons. Kinda like facebook. I was on facebook when they just started and I had 5 friends for 1 1/2 years. How often did I use it? Not at all! If you have just 5 friends who post as much as you do, you can imagine how much...
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What To Do When There Is No Market For Your Product Part II

Posted by on Dec 16, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog, Ideas & Inspiration | 2 comments In Part I, I wrote about the most important ingredient that you need in order to have success for the product that you are trying to sell: PASSION. You need to love what you do and you should not have a single doubt that it is great and has value. It’s the result of the work that keeps you up at night! There are many different ways to sell your artwork and let me assure you this: there is...
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How The Internet Can Change Your Life

Posted by on Sep 7, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 20 comments I clearly remember the day when I opened my very first email account with the help of my former boss, the Executive Chef of the Steigenberger Inselhotel in Germany. It was at the end of my chef’s apprenticeship just before my graduation in culinary arts in 1999. Back then, it was only vaguely perceptible how the online world would change my life. At the end of the same year, I moved to New...
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How To Attract People To Your Artblog

Posted by on Aug 5, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 8 comments So now after I talked about how you can scare people away from your artblog, I thought I should leave a constructive post how to actually attract and have them come back! - don’t use music on your blog: if people want to hear music they will turn their favorite channel on - use a template that is neutral and not too flashy, too dark or distracting from beautiful pictures, artwork and the...
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How to Scare People Away From Your Artblog

Posted by on Aug 4, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 14 comments In the last year, I have come across quite a good amount of blogs. I have seen pretty stuff, ugly, loud, colorful, scary, interesting, boring, you name it -seen it all! And guess what? I have made almost every single mistake on the list (except the loud part). Sometimes, we need others to tell us what’s wrong with what we do and some good criticism could help. I have had some good online...
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How To Clean Up Twitter Effectively

Posted by on Jul 20, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 22 comments Do you know the feeling when you go to Twitter and all you read is stuff that you’re not interested in? B O R I N G … I don’t want to waste my time with people who bombard spam at me (not the meat) or got nothing to say. Today, I un-followed my husband on Twitter a) because he doesn’t follow me b) he doesn’t use it. It’s pretty simple, I don’t follow...
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Should I Have Google+ ?

Posted by on Jul 14, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 11 comments Oh no! Not another social media site… It’s all getting too much, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Friendster, etc. I have to admit, I thought the same when I heard there’s another platform coming up. Then I thought, ok, maybe I should check it out and see what it’s got to offer, won’t hurt. Just open it, if I don’t like I’ll close it again. No,...
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Target Market For Artists

Posted by on Jun 3, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 0 comments I have been doing some analysis over the past weeks figuring out what the ideal client for an artist would look like. The first exercise would include to objectively categorize the kind of artwork you create: 1) is it sculptures or 2D, i.e. paintings that you make? 2) are they hung on a wall, do you paint on the wall, how much room do they need? 3) what medium do you use: oil on canvas, mixed...
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Why You Should Have An FB Fan Page

Posted by on May 19, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 6 comments What is a Facebook Fan Page? Facebook is a social media site and it offers -besides your personal profile page- a fan page where you can present your business. It allows you to post photos, announcements, events and much more. You can even check your demographics, what age visited at what time. If you reach 25 followers, you can determine the ending of the url of your site like I did:...
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How To Get Accepted By Technorati, Part II

Posted by on May 1, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 9 comments After I signed up with Technorati and claimed my blog, it took a couple of days until they accepted my application. In my last post I wrote about how to apply at Technorati and how to place the code they send on your blog post. The code has to appear on your RSS feed, so it’s best to place it somewhere in the beginning of your post. Right after I posted the code, I logged back into my...
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How to use Technorati as a Blogger, Part I

Posted by on Apr 24, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 10 comments AEN5W7MDXGBD Want to know what’s this number? Read on! I just decided to submit my blog to Technorati. Technorati is a real-time search engine for bloggers. Once you signed up with them, your blog posts will automatically show up on their website and people can find you through keywords. The sign-up process is quite easy. You choose a name and a password and then you will receive an email...
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Best Must-Have Plugins

Posted by on Apr 15, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 2 comments Just recently, I found two very useful plugins for wordpress blogs; they are absolute must-haves in order to stay engaged with your readers: - ReplyMe - CommentLuv 1) ReplyMe -it took me a while to find this one and ever since I’ve installed it, my readers and I love it. What it does: whenever someone comments on your blog and you as the admin respond, the commenter will be notified. That...
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How To Promote Your Online Art Business

Posted by on Apr 10, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 0 comments After I decided I wanted to turn my painting talent into a full-time business, I actually had to get into gear and start painting. All of my paintings are left behind in Germany, so I had to start from zero and I spent the last three months with producing. The next step was a portfolio/catalogue -all of the paintings need to be accessible to the public, so I took pictures with a high-quality...
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When People Help People

Posted by on Mar 18, 2011 in Art, Blog | 6 comments I wrote about this before but I thought, I need to write another post about this topic. With all the bad things that just happened in New Zealand and Japan, a blogger friend of mine Heidi Alberti just made a point and I thought, yes she is right. She just wrote about people in need. While it is great that so much help is given to the Japanese people from all kinds of countries and individuals...
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25 Visual Artists Coming Together To Promote Cancer Awareness

Posted by on Mar 4, 2011 in Art, Blog, Ideas & Inspiration | 8 comments I am very honored to be part of Matt LeBlanc’s cancer awareness campaign. Here’s his message about the video: “As a way to kick off my cancer awareness effort this year, I went to my fellow artists for some help. I’ve spent the last couple months putting together this video with 24 other artists from different part of the world. The idea is simple — each artist...
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Keep Blog and Website Separate?

Posted by on Feb 28, 2011 in Art Marketing, Blog | 6 comments After numerous hours/days/months figuring out how to build a blog, I finally have my blog set up the best way I could find on the internet. And finally, I have my own website where I can sell my paintings. I would like to share the best options that I have come across with you. I have made some stupid mistakes but it has been an amazing learning experience. This is what I would do if I had to...
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Do You Google Yourself?

Posted by on Nov 18, 2010 in Art Marketing, Blog | 2 comments You may wonder why this could be important? Why should you google yourself? I am attending business networking groups to make connections, to meet interesting people and to expose my brand. When I moved to the US, I didn’t know anyone besides my husband, so I decided to find groups to meet people: Meetup was one of the options to find groups. Ever since, I have  met with all kinds of...
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