How can I market my art?

Here are some basic marketing tips to get your art seen and sold:

1) Make sure your website is optimized for greater visibility; implement key words within your site, both hidden in the html design and showing on your web pages. A picture of a word is not a word that a search engine can find, it must be typed.

2) Buy space within an art hub website, and link it to your website.

3) Submit your website to search engines.

4) Offer to collaborate with non-profit organizations. Create a special piece of art specifically designed for a certain cause. You can offer to donate a portion of sales from prints of that particular image.

5) Have postcards made of your art, and send them to interior designers.

6) Keep a couple of pieces for sale on ebay. You might sell them and you might get traffic to your website. Here's where using your name as the domain name is important, how will people find DillyDallyArtShop and know it's you?

7) Search for art galleries online that carry the same sort of art that you create. Call art galleries and ask the director if you can send a few jpegs along with some information. Only send 6 jpegs and make sure they are low resolution (72 resolution is perfect) and small enough (600 pixels either way) to load fast. Do not call them and give them your website address over the phone, but you may include a link to your website in the email.

8)Participate in art events, and keep in touch with anyone who shows interest in your art. Make sure you do your follow ups.

9) Link to other artists websites who create art completely different from yours (they aren't in competition with you) make sure they are willing to link back to you as well. Links back and forth increase your chances of being found by a search engine.