LEAVE A COMMENT!
Okay, I'm being a little harsh I guess but here's proof showing why it works...
This is a view of one of my recent visitor logs. Aline and Susan left comments on my blog. See the little red arrows? Know what they mean? They mean that someone visited THEIR sites via the comments they left on my blog. The arrows denote "outbound" traffic.
Have a site? Leave a comment. Don't be tacky, though, and leave your website URL in the comment field. Leave it in the website field along with the info blogs ask you to identify yourselves. I've done it before. It works. I've even gained collectors this way.
I often get feedback in my email from artists after I send a newsletter/update. That doesn't really do them any good. A blog comment can.
And as a "Thank you" to both Susan and Aline for their comments, here are links to their websites:
http://paintingsbyaline.com/Paintings_by_Aline/Welcome_to_Paintings_by_Aline.html
http://susangutting.com/
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BUT...other posts will remain open permanently. So if it's a larger painting or another subject, your comments and links back to your site will remain visible/clickable.
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That's a good point, Susan, and I appreciate it.
That's the one thing about this blog that I hope to convey to everyone. I'm putting it ALL out there, warts and all. So maybe that will help other artists to see the value in it.
I think there's too much online that's phony and just geared toward "marketing." In fact, some artists seem to be trying to be more "tech" and "marketing" gurus than true artists. That's not for me.
Hope you have a great weekend, too...and thanks for your comment. :)
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By the way, your artwork is great!
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I don't know if you can do it on Blogger. But they have different templates...so perhaps you can on some. The thing about Blogger is that people often check out your profile, and that's where I have my website link. I get visitors here through mine.
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Your paintings are wonderful, but really holds my attention is how another artist expresses himself in words and pictures via a blog. So far I haven't discovered very many artists who blog regularly.
I have been blogging for almost 4 years and post 5 days a week. It has been enormously satisfying, but I often wonder if I am just fooling myself that it is a viable marketing tool.
Thank you for giving me hope that blogging isn't just an excuse to not join Facebook/Twitter/et cetera. . .
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Keep up with the blogging. This one is still relatively "new" since I haven't used it a whole lot until now. But it is working. I've been quietly working on a project that I'll be exploring publicly here.
Personally, I believe a blog is THE MOST POWERFUL marketing tool in existence on the web. And if this project goes as planned, I should be able to prove it...over time.
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Hi Brian, "Early Spring" is AMAZING, one of your BEST, I tried to comment but as you said you close the comments. BTW, thanks for letting me know about the problem on my blog!
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No problem...I thought you'd like to know. It was kind of like writing with "disappearing ink." :)
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Thanks for commenting. :) And congratulations on your big sale, too! What I want to know is how did you manage to do a painting 36"x48" in size? Must have seemed huge, didn't it? :)
I put the "caveat" about the auction paintings here because I will be closing those to comments. But I don't mind if artists want to comment on them too. And the thing to remember about them is, even if comments are only open during the auction period, any painting that is getting bids is being watched by someone who buys art. So....