Internet 101 for Artists, Second Edition: With a Special Guide to Selling Art on eBay
Internet 101 for Artists, Second Edition: With a Special Guide to Selling Art on eBay
Educate yourself on all aspects of promoting your artwork online. This book includes a thirty-page chapter on the methods Susan F. Greaves, a California artist, has developed to successfully sell her work on eBay and make thousands of dollars per year. You’ll also learn about: acquiring a URL, broadcasting for results, designing your homepage, meta tags, guerrilla tactics, search engines, tracking visitors, and more.
Constance Smith began her career as an art rep in California. She has been assisting artists nationwide for over twenty years. She is author of the popular book Art Marketing 101.
Susan F. Greaves is a practicing artist.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Good Resource for Beginners
This book lives true to its title INTERNET 101. If you’re new to the internet and have never sold your art on the internet or participated in online forums or art galleries then this book is for you. It’s a good basic handbook for the newbie for the most part.
Nonetheless, I did find some new and useful information on blogging and some new websites I’d never encountered in my own searches.
I wish there had been more on Guerilla marketing though.
To sum up, I think this is a useful book if you’re just starting out. In addition, no matter how much blogging and surfing you’ve done, there may be a few new tips you have not encountered.
3 Stars Not bad but simplistic
If you are looking for out of the box ideas, this is not the book. But the ideas listed on are clear and simple, and, if you’ll take some time and energy of yourself, you probably will come with quite all the same as the ones in this book. Anyway I find not that bad, because it resume the basis of selling by internet, and gives you some references, without having to wonder what you forget. It is like a checking list, more complete.
3 Stars Too dated to be really helpful
My fault, I should have looked at the publication date. While some of the ideas are good, many of the links are no longer viable. It also doesn’t get into the negative feedback of listing on eBay, some of which I learned by doing my own research, nor does it list some of the newer sites for selling work. I guess I would say, an update needs to be made to make it worth while. Internet information changes so rapidly an author would need to have a book site for updated information or sell as an eBook so it could be constantly updated.
5 Stars Best Internet Book for Artists on the Market
I am the Director of The Artists Objective - a career coaching an information business for artists at [..] I find this to be a highly valuable book for artists and convinced me that the internet is definitely the way for artists to make a living while they pursue their careers. The part on eBay is both comprehensive and really well written. A must have for all artists!
4 Stars Satisfied and Ready to Get Started
I was looking forward to receiving this book because I’d been wanting it for a while. I’m glad I purchased it. It’s going to help me take the necessary steps as a artist to get my work out there.
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