http://www.websavvyartists.com Internet Marketing Tips Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:23:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Increasingly, websites and services require you to establish a username (often your email address) and password before you can access the good stuff they offer. While we used to worry about handing over email addresses because we feared we would be spammed, these days you’ll find most sites you choose ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=19 www.claudinehellmuth.com OR www.collageartist.com(same site - two domain names) Don't be intimidated when you visit Claudine's site. It is AMAZING! It helps that she used to be a web designer before she turned full-time artist. (Now you don't feel so bad, right?) Claudine's blog generates remarkable traffic. It helps that she blogs nearly ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=7 Just finished reading David Allen's Getting Things Done; the Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Allen prescribes a way of developing lists and keeping them, along with all your other papers and “stuff” organized at your work space. I need to be efficient just to ensure that all my different businesses and projects keep ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=18 Last year I signed on for a fantastic teleseminar series called the SmArtist Telesummit. What a fantastic leap of faith that turned out to be! The speakers and their handouts were great and everything was backed up with a recording that I downloaded and saved to my computer. I've listened ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=17 Every email you send out is an opportunity to promote your creative business. If you have a blog or web address, it should be provided as a live link in a signature at the bottom of your emails. This is a line or two of text that is automatically added ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=16 "A thousand mile journey begins with one step." - Chinese Proverb If you are gonna begin your web journey anywhere, let this be your first step: register your name as a domain name. The domain name or url is this thing - http://www.yournamehere.com When you set up a website you need three things ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=8 Time for another field trip.  This time head over to www.elance.com and start by watching the video of Timothy Ferriss, (who, by the way, wrote a very cool book called The 4-Hour Workweek. Timothy will briefly explain how elance can help you hire other folks (web designers, writers, graphic artists, etc) to ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=9 From Stampington, the publishers of Somerset Studio, check out Artful Blogging. It is 144 pages in length and retails for US$14.95. This is'nt really a how-to publication, but more of a showcase of blogs by artists - female makers into mixed media, textiles, art journaling . . . all the stuff I personally love, I do ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=13 www.simondegroot.com Simon Degroot is an artist based in Brisbane, Australia. His website is clean and bright to showcase his work. Navigation is so easy. Is he a man of few words in real life? He is on his website. Text is minimal. Simon has an email list subscription form. Excellent. And check out ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=6 I keep a notebook on my computer desk where I jot down ideas, questions, and other matters relevant to my business. Some of the entries relate to promoting and growing the business. This notebook is also where I keep my "things to do lists" and where I write down contact ... http://www.websavvyartists.com/?p=5