Seven Ways To Grow Your Artistic Career With Social Media

November 15, 2012 7 Comments



Seven Ways:

As part of a new seven sentence series of guest blogs we are asking influential people to write helpful seven blogs for artists on how they can use the internet to benefit their careers.

The first is from Lori McNee a professional artist and blogger. You can find her on Twitter @lorimcneeartist  and her blogs, Fine Art Tips  and Lori McNee.

 

Seven Ways To Grow Your Artistic Career With Social Media:

  1. Networking: First of all, social Media enables artists and creative people to easily find and connect with other like-minded individuals.
  2. Relationship Building: The power of social media enables us to turn our networking contacts into valuable relationships and life changing opportunities!
  3. Branding: Social media is the perfect place to develop and strengthen your brand identity in order to stand out from the crowd.
  4. Marketing: Social media is a free art marketing opportunity, for example, send out special updates announcing gallery openings, art exhibitions, artist gatherings, chats, art promotions and new available art.
  5. Drive traffic: Easily direct your social media following with links to your website, Esty store, Flickr portfolio, video channel, art gallery, recent blog post, or newly created piece of art.
  6. Contests & Giveaways: Hold your own Facebook or Twitter contest or giveaway and grab attention by offering a free print, painting, mug or t-shirt to your top re-tweeters or loyal followers.
  7. Hashtags: Be sure to use the power of a ‘hashtag’ (the # symbol, ig: #arttip, #art) to further refine and target your audience with your tweets and Pinterest, and Google Plus updates.

 

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About GeoffTalbot: Geoff Talbot is the founder of this Creative Blog. He loves writing words that encourage creative people.

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  • Occam

    I’m sorry but this advice is so generic as to be utterly useless. First, “strengthen your brand.” The sentence means virtually nothing, just the latest jargonistic sloganeering. Further, to say that social media is the “perfect place… to stand out from the crowd,” goes beyond merely useless to downright misleading. Social Media (which is not a “place” and you will fail if you think of it that way–they are channels) doesn’t allow you to differentiate oneself from the crowd… it IS the crowd. It is how you speak to that crowd that matters.

    • http://sevensentences.com/ Geoff Talbot

      While I agree with you that It is how you speak to the crowd that matters… that there is a crowd means that there must be a space all be it a virtual one?

    • http://www.facebook.com/JoTito Jo Tito

      For someone who is new to this, this info is really helpful! I agree with the points given, it is nothing new to me but to an artist just starting out, this is gold!

      I do see social media as a space, place that CAN differentiate you from the crowd. Perhaps those aren’t the right words though and YES the crowd are those that are drawn to what you put out there on FB. And it is all about the connection and I’ve realised some will connect and some won’t – that’s the reality.

    • Delaney

      Agreed. So disappointed. I got a great basic commission contract from Lori’s website, but this advice looks like it was copy pasted from an ad. Anyone who’s ever looked at a blog could’ve figured this out.

      • http://sevensentences.com/ Geoff Talbot

        Remember guys she had to do in only seven sentences. This isn’t an all encompassing piece

  • http://sevensentences.com/ Geoff Talbot

    Hi Christine… feel free to contact us if you are wanting some advice on web traffic; there are several ways in which we could work together. Best Geoff