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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Tips to Promote Your Art & Design Business Online FREE! - Part 4: Online Community

Three weeks ago we gave you a brief overview on how to promote your Art & Design business online for FREE!

We talked about blog postings, guest posting on complimentary blogs, and last week we talked about creating your own eBook and how you can leverage and promote your business online for FREE.

This week the topic is about online communities and how you can participate and promote your Art and Design business.

Online forums or online communities are becoming very common these days and they can be found everywhere…online and offline! The key to this is to find the right online group that resonates with you and is in line with your expertise so that can share your experience and business with your fellow members. These powerful online communication tools provide many great benefits. However, you need to be mindful and allocate a fair amount of time as it can be addictive and distract you from your day to day business. Planning your social media wisely will definitely help in your business growth.

So ask yourself these questions:

What is the real purpose for me to join an online forum or community?

Am I prepared to share my experience and knowledge with others?

Below are some potential benefits if you are regularly involved with your online group:

Intellectual exchanges will stimulate your mind.
Learning and embracing new ideas and refining old ones.
Enjoy networking with fellow members
Influencing the forums evolution.
Sharing is caring! By offering your expertise and receiving advice from others.
Drive traffic back to your website. People love to learn what you do and want to learn from you because you are the leader in your creative field.
Build a new network of friends.
Generate new business leads and opportunities for joint ventures with other business owners.
Keeping you in the loop and up to date with current events.
Learning about new opportunities.

There are plenty of forums or community groups on the internet. You just have to find the one that resonates with you and once you've found the right one you will see great benefits and will find them extremely rewarding. Plus knowing you are helping other people grow and succeed in their own business is truly rewarding.

Below are some suggested online forums that you can try out:

Next week we will talk about Article submissions and how it can promote your Art & Design business online for FREE.

Want to learn more about how to gain your online presence?

It’s as simple as 1... 2... 3...

1: Like ArtSHINE's Facebook page

2: send us an email to Onlinepresence@quantumcompass.com.au

3: Contact Vinh for a no cost, no obligation coaching session on 8060 9321, or 0410 636 138.

FREE COACHING SESSION:

Click here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ArtShineDiscovery

Part 1: Blog Posting
Part 2: Guest Posting on complimentary Blogs
Part 3: Self Publishing Ebook
Part 4: Online Community
Part 5: Article Submission
Part 6: Joint Venture or collaborating with compliment businesses

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Tips to Promote Your Art & Design Business Online FREE! - Part 2 : Guest Post on Complimentary Blogs

Guest Post By Marie Nicole

Last week we talked about how you can promote your art and design business online for FREE by posting your blog regularly and how your blogs can help you increase your online presence.

Today our discussion is about Guest postings on other complimentary blogs and how you can promote your art and design business via others' business blog.

There are a number of ways to get involve with guest posting. Below are some suggestions that you might find useful:

Get in touch with the blog owners and ask whether you can write a guest post for their blogs.
You can find these compliment blog owners via social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and many more. It can also be on those favourite blogs that you have been following for some time already.
Look for the following blog owners; artists, designers, art suppliers, business coaches in the creative industry or any blog owners who need your expertise in art & design. For example, real estate companies who need regular guest posts on artwork for homes or advise about interior design tips for modern apartment etc.
Your guest post should also include a summary about you and your business, and a link back to your website is a must.
Plan out your guest post carefully. Write blogs that add creditability to your work and blogs that demonstrate your creative flair and expertise. Make sure that your blogs add value to the blog owners' blog.

Most blog owners are very welcoming to receive guest posts because it adds value to their own blog. Particularly if the blog owners have a large readership following which means you will gain great exposure to a huge audience that you have not reached and at the same time you also get great traffic back to your own site. Guest posting will definitely add to your credibility as an artist or a designer.

And it's totally free! You just need to invest the time to connect with complimentary blog owners.

If you are keen to start contributing your blog, you can submit a guest article to ArtSHINE’s blog. Also, you can contact myself direct to Vinh@artSHINE.com.au if you would like to experiment with guest posting on ArtSHINE's blog just like Artist & Designer Marie Nicole who is an ArtSHINE associate and regularly contributes her articles to ArtSHINE's blog monthly.

Next week we will talk about Self publishing your eBook and how it can promote your Art & Design business online for FREE.