Promoting Yourself on ArtyBuzz

ArtyBuzz provide a number of great facilities that allow you to get your art noticed and sold on ArtyBuzz.com. Take a look at the article below to see some of the great ways that you can promote your artwork on ArtyBuzz.com

If you want to get your artwork noticed and sell as much work as you can there are a number of self promotion tips that will help get your work spotted by more people. Check out our top tips below, andcontact us if you have used a self promotion technique that has been successful for you and would like us to add it to this list. We start with one of the best ways...getting involved on ArtyBuzz itself:

Get Involved

One of the best ways to get noticed on ArtyBuzz.com is by getting involved and participating in the community. Use the networking features and facilities to attract people to you profiles to view and buy your work. Get involved in...

Commenting People’s Work – don’t leave blatant plugs like ‘look at my work’ because people are likely to ignore it. Writing genuine comments about work you like on ArtyBuzz.com is a great way to get your work noticed by others. The artist whose work you commented on is likely to check out your own work in return, and other who see and like your comment may have a look at your profile

Adding Favourite’s – If you like someone’s art, favourite it, the artist will be notified and may favourite your work in return.

Create Groups – Creating and managing groups is a great way to get yourself noticed. People will view and join your group, and every time someone views it they will see the creator...you. You are likely to get a lot of clicks from this as well as positive feedback, fans of your work and sales.

Write on the Forums – Taking part in the forum discussions is another great way to promote yourself on ArtyBuzz.com. If you make a valid point or have something interesting to say, it is likely that people will take a look at your profile and hopefully buy your artwork. If you contribute to forums on other websites as well as ArtyBuzz.com, then it is sometime a good idea to give your profile page a mention on ArtyBuzz.com if it is relevant, or leave a link to your profile.

Contribute Blog Posts – We are always looking for people with interesting things to say. For this reason we accept blog contributions from our users. If you would like to contribute to our blog, send us your blog post and if we like it we will post it on the blog, crediting you with writing it which is likely to attract big numbers of people to your profile page.

Social Bookmarking

Use the ‘Share’ button located near the top right of every page to bookmark and share your work on social bookmarking sites. Bookmarking or sharing our home page and all the individual web pages where your work is displayed will help to get it noticed by people using sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious to find artwork.

Choosing Tags and Summary Descriptions Well

One of the most important things that you can do to get your work found on our site is tag your work and give a summary description. We ask for these because we use them to compile our search facilities, and also use them to provide META tags to search engines like Google. META tags are used by search engines to create their results from what users’ search; so it is important when writing your tags and summary descriptions to think about what people searching for work like yours might type into search engines. The same applies to the general description you give – make sure it makes sense, but think about including words and phrases people might search for in search engines too.

Use Facebook

Facebook is a great way to get your work noticed by your friends and family. Use our ‘Share’ button and click the Facebook button to link to your site from your Facebook account. Doing this will post a link on your wall which can be seen by all your friends who can then click to view and buy your work.

Blogging

Blogs are a great way to get your work noticed, if you do not have one, we recommend getting one. Blogs are a great way to get your work noticed by a wider audience, and you can use them to link to your ArtyBuzz profile so people can buy your work, this follows on to our next great self promotion technique.

Link to Us

Use the links provided in your control panel under 'Promote Your Work Externally' to link to us from your blogs, myspace account and personal websites. Just choose the banner you want to display and copy and paste the HTML code into your site or blog. People clicking the banner will be directed straight to your profile page where they can view and buy your work.

Join Us

Join and follow us on:

Twitter - Follow us at www.twitter.com/ArtyBuzz

Facebook - Search for 'ArtyBuzz' on Facebook and join both our group and become a fan on our Facebook Page