7 Ways To Grow Your Artistic Career With Social Media

7 Ways To Grow Your Artistic Career With Social MediaBuffer Last week I wrote a guest post entitled, Seven Ways to Grow Your Artistic Career With Social Media for the creative blog, Seven Sentences. 7 Sentences is a blog that is written to inspire creativity on a...

Tips for Using Amazon Mechanical Turk to Build Your Business

Tips for Using Amazon Mechanical Turk to Build Your BusinessBufferDid you know Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) can simplify your small business tasks through the use of crowdsourcing? This process was introduced in Part 1, How To Harness The Power of Crowdsourcing to...

The Importance of Keyed-Out Stretcher Sets

When working in an art-related business, sooner or later a request will come up as to whether or not you are able to stretch a canvas. Some simply use strainer bars to accomplish this task, however, strainers are not considered acceptable for stretching fine art...

How to Use Your Twitter Friends as Character References

How to Use Your Twitter Friends as Character ReferencesBuffer Since I began using Twitter in 2009, I have made life changing friendships via social media. Many of these ‘friends’ have become professional colleagues, and personal friends. Recently, I have...

Marketing Your Digital Art: To Watermark or Not

Marketing Your Digital Art: To Watermark or NotBuffer Many artists, photographers and even businesses choose to add a digital ‘watermark’ symbol to their online artworks, designs and photographs as a way to protect their ownership and copyrights. The...

Lessons I Learned When My Blog Got Hacked

Lessons I Learned When My Blog Got HackedBuffer Never could I have imagined that my little happy art blogs would be hacked by a sophisticated hacking ring of criminals, but is exactly what has happened to FineArtTips.com and LoriMcNee.com during this past week. In...

To Sale or Not to Sale That is the Question

To Sale or Not to Sale That is the QuestionBuffer As a professional artist, having a sale on original art can be a tough decision to make. On one hand, artists want to respect the patrons who have spent good money purchasing their art and don’t want to under-cut them....

Advice for Selling More Art Online

Advice for Selling More Art OnlineBuffer Now more than ever, artists are taking their art careers into their own hands. Here at Fine Art Tips, I am always on the lookout for fresh and helpful ideas to help artists improve their art sales. This little guest post has...