Marketing Tip 8th Week - Simple Free Ways To Get Your Name Around

Great tips - again. I experimented with no. 2 recently and had much fun and even some success.

People love love love to see work in progress videos! When I started to create Acrylic Fluid Paintings I filmed some of my sessions (very simple setup, Phone on a gooseneck tripod).

I cut the video (short scenes) and made Idea Pins for Pinterest out of them. The response has been (and still is) amazing!

This Idea Pin where I show how to make Jewelry out of Acrylic Pour Skins has 198000 impressions and 545 repins so far: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/426786502196147080/ I had someone filming me with my Phone for this.

My first Acrylic Pouring Idea Pin (from March) has 1.75m impressions so far: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/426786502195918770/ Simple setup.

Some people even bought Paint, tried what I did and posted the results in the comments of the Pin. Love that!

So I can only encourage you to give it a try!

Thank you Matthias. Nice to hear from someone who is already doing one of my tips themselves to show how it works!

Thanks Abbie, working on social media, joined many art forums in my niche, but need to work more with getting people to engage. I have a blog but really need to pay attention to it. I LOVE the idea of getting others to guest post on my blog and likewise I can do the same for them. Those backlinks are crucial for Google indexing. Thanks

I was just thinking the other day about making videos as I draw/create a mandala, but I have no idea how to record my screen while drawing and than edit it and be able to add music without violating copyright. I will have to look into how to do this. But I wonder if it is a big undertaking or rather an easy one?

I believe Youtube have editing and music tools, Angie

You need to look for screen recorders, I know there are some free ones out there

Thank you for these suggestions. This is my first time trying to market my photos and I feel a little lost!! This helps give me some ideas to start with.

Thank you for those tips. It's a big journey

I do short clips (10 to 30 seconds) on Tik Tok, including some collaborations with musicians. I was surprised that some musicians with quite big followings were happy to do a collab. Solves the copyright concern.

@Angela
Start with a short slide show, next one add sound and text, next could be voiceover. Best way is build it up gradually.

Thanks Abbie and James for your help :)

Hi James, very interesting! Would you mind sharing your TikTok profile?

More great tips, Abbie. Thank you. I like to add textures and do light compositing to my photographs. Along the lines of #2 - I find I get way more views/likes/clicks/comments (on Facebook) if I add the "before" image in the comments of my "after" image post. I make sure to say "original in comments" so viewers know to look. The "before" image is just an un-linked image file, and the "after" image is clickable through to my pixels website.

@Matthias
My Tik Tok
https://www.tiktok.com/@jamesfineart

If on the app, just @jamesfineart

I have found a community there, probably because I am not doing a hard sell, but doing duets, showing my process. More like a blog than a showcase. Nothing big, but growing.

Patti Deters, that's a great idea.

https://www.tiktok.com/@jamesfineart

Thanks James, will have a look soon! :-)

Thank you Abbie and everyone. I appreciate all the information and ideas.

This and your other threads I am working on have great information, I am taking notes, changing and going through images and keeping my notes with the check list when I upload and post to social media. Thank you so much, Abbie, for sharing these threads!! Will continue to work on some of these marketing tips!

Concerning #6, commenting on friends blogs. By default most blogs have a "nofollow" attribute to comments. What that does is tell search bots/spiders not to follow any links in the comments. It's an anti-spam feature. Your suggestion only works if the blog admin switches comments to "dofollow" or installs a plugin that creates a whitelist of people who's comments will be "dofollow." There is a group on FAA dedicated to helping each others blog visibility via a "dofollow" plugin and guest posting (tip #4). Such activities do increase a blog's page rank and visibility and, as such, puts more eyes on your work. If interested check out the group https://fineartamerica.com/groups/bloggers-supporting-bloggers.html?tab=overview

Actually not true it's not useful.

Many people have found me in the past by clicking on my name to see who I am. My link is always there

I have even made a sale through one.

So it's always worth it, search engine or not

Abbie, yes indeed. Someone *might* click on your link and follow to you. They *could* even remember your name. But that doesn't make the information I shared "not true." (And I didn't say your tip was useless. I just pointed out the facts about *also* improving the visibility of your blog through backlinks). A good blog SEO approach will include *both* "dofollow" and "nofollow": links. I also comment on blogs that I know are going to be "no follow" back links. There is indeed value in that practice. But it only makes sense to be aware of all the possibilities and how to use those to your advantage.

It's free and it syncs well with your tip. Just expanding on how to get your name in front of more people. That is the name of the game, right?

Bumping up an old thread

Thanks!

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"Marketing Tip 8th Week - Simple Free Ways To Get Your Name Around"


"...6. Visit friends art blogs and comment. You have to fill out your name and address and that will lead search engines back to your site.

7. Join online art forums and join in discussions after filling out your profiles in full. Yes... add your one site as your public website link..."