Art Print Issues by Barney Davey

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GicleeBusiness.com - Digital Fine Art Printing & Art Business Directory

The Giclee Business  Digital Fine Art Printing & Art Business Directory Debuts

If having a convenient, easy-to-use giclee printer directory, plus a digital fine art printing services and robust art business resources guide would help your art career, then you will love the Giclee Business directory!

Giclee printing and art business resources at your fingertips

Until now, artists seeking to learn more about how to get their original works reproduced as giclees have had difficulties finding giclee printers, fine art image capturing services and other fine art business resources.

Your problem is solved with the Giclee Business online directory of digital fine art printing resources and fine art business and art marketing resources. It contains a growing list of nearly 500 giclee printers, fine art digital printing service providers, and contacts for the art market's top art marketing and art business resources.

The Giclee Business directory connects visual artists and companies with services for them.

Here are some short videos to help you get started:

 

 

 

In addition to the videos, you will find answers to your questions on the Giclee Business Frequently Asked Questions pages. They are designed to help you find the information you need to get the most from the directory whether you are a visual artist user, or a company seeking to list and advertise to reach visual artists.

For giclee printers, and those companies providing art marketing and art business services, GicleeBusiness.com is a great place to affordably advertise to reach artists

If you want to reach artists in the most powerful way possible, this directory is for you. When artists and fine art photographers come to the Giclee Business directory, they will be seeking solutions to help them in their careers. There is no better time for your message to reach and influence visual artists than when they are actively looking for the products, services and advice you routinely provide them.

The Giclee Business Directory is produced by long-time industry pro, Barney Davey

This directory is curated and published by Barney Davey, author of How to Profit from the Art Print Market, a perennial bestseller on the Amazon.com "Business of Art" category since 2005. By being intimately involved in the fine art print reproduction market since 1988, he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this exciting new giclee printer directory developed exclusively for visual artists and fine art photographers.

Since 2005 he has published more than 400 hundred posts and articles aimed at helping artists learn how to work smarter and keep more of the money they make. Most of that information can be found here in the Art Print Issues archive, one of the most highly trafficked and well respected art business blogs on the Internet.

Digital Arts Studio Rocks How to Profit from the Art Print Market and GicleeBusiness.com

Our good friends and supporters at Digital Arts Studio in Atlanta and Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale are already enjoying the benefits of their advertising in the directory and also in the 2nd Edition of How to Profit from the Art Print Market.

The ad for Digital Arts Studio seen on the right can also be found in the book. Look for a profile about this the premier giclee printing studio in an upcoming issue. You'll want to learn more about them.

Part of its benefit package includes an exclusive webinar provided for its artists coming up on Arpil 4.

Because the book is produced just like giclees with print-on-demand technology, it is never too late to start advertising. You can get full details here.

Please help spread the word to publicize the Giclee Business Directory

I will greatly appreciate your help if you would kindly share this post with your artist friends, blog about it and link to it. It will be a way to make it more useful and to make the many hours in its production all the more worthwhile.

Why You Must Own Your Domain Name!

Just like many of my readers, I have a day job. I work at something besides providing marketing advice to visual artists.

While helping artists is my main passion, I find my day gig to be a good job with great benefits. As such, I work my blogging and consulting in around my full-time hours. A trade-off I'm willing to make for now. One trade-off I will never make is letting another company own my domain names.

Insight from My Day Job

I never mention my employer’s name so as to not have to provide the required disclaimer about my opinions being my own … blah, blah, blah, legal mumbo jumbo. I can say I work in support, sales and consulting for a high tech firm that is huge in the Internet domain market. The experience does let me see common avoidable mistakes made by small business owners. One we see regularly is domain name ownership.

You Must Own Your Domain Name

Not a day goes by without me making this admonition to my customers calling in for help or to purchase products. The advice is simple: “You must own your domain name.” Without that ownership and control, you are in a potentially precarious and unpleasant position.

Custom websites also should be hosted in an account you own

I believe artists who have custom websites should also have the hosting for that website in an account they control. For example, you have a WordPress site, or something built by a web developer using an html editor program such as Dreaweaver, which is then hosted on some third-party hosting account. There is no reason for you not have control of who has access to the hosting. How do you part company with your web developer when they own the hosting with your site on it?

Exceptions to the rule on hosting ownership

If, on the other hand, you are with one of the fine providers of artists’ websites such as FASO (Fine Art Studios Online), FolioTwist.com, Beautiful Artist’s Websites, or any of the many others you can find listed under the Website Services for Artists & Photographers, which can be found at GicleeBusiness.com, then owning your hosting does not apply as your website is being professionally hosted and managed. In this case, I still believe you should control your domain ownership.  

The reasons I insist on you owning your domain name are foremost it is your intellectual property, and thus should not be controlled by anyone else. Also, should anything happen to the relationship between you and another party owning your name, you are faced with a huge and potentially expensive problem trying to get it back, if you are fortunate to get it back at all.

The ramifications of someone else owning your domain name are not good

It might be a domain with your name in it and pointing to a website with content relating to your business, but if you don’t own it, no domain registrar is just going to hand it over to you. Without cooperation from the existing owner, you likely are looking at legal maneuvers to try and get back something you should have never let go in the first place.

Think it won’t happen to you? We get numerous calls every day from frantic business owners who have seen their domains expire in someone else’s account, which causes their website to go down. Or, they are in a disagreement over monies owed and services provided. Or, the current owner has disappeared or has been hospitalized. It doesn’t matter, the outcome is if the business owner had the domain name in their account, they would not be calling.

When you own the domain, you control where it is hosted

If you own the domain name, you can point the nameservers away from an existing hosting provider and reconstruct the hosting account. Not a pleasant or inexpensive scenario, but at least one where your customers can find you.

If you don’t know who owns your domain name, you can look it up on a publicly available whois database such as www.who.is. Unless there is privacy on the domain, you will see the contact information for the registered owner and you can learn what domain registrar it is registered with.

Don't wait, act now to get your domain name in your account

The first step is to contact the present owner and request your domain name to be transferred to you. If you have an account with the same registrar, it is normally a quick process with no payment required by the registrar. If you want it registered in an account with a different registrar, you purchase a domain transfer from that company and follow its instructions to complete the transfer.

If you have an uncooperative owner, then you may have an inclination there are potential problems already brewing. Clearly, the current owner wants to control things in ways not favorable to you. In this case, you likely will need to consult an attorney to determine your next course of action. It the current owner is unresponsive, you can contact the current registrar to determine if it can provide any advice to help you secure ownership of your domain, but that is an action without good odds on the outcome for you.

Don't unnecessarily make yourself a victim! If you don’t own your domain in your name now; make it a mission critical task to get this done immediately.

Time to Build Your Art Career on Defensive Opportunistic Optimism

There was disturbing news this week in the art print market. *Boundless Gallery, an online art venue had been around for a several years, and also had become an important online art business retailer and a steady source of income for some artists. It abruptly announced it was closing its doors saying the business model was no longer profitable

This week, I added my comments to a lengthy and ongoing commentary to Maria Brophy's blog post, Should you be a Sucker or an A-Hole – You Decide. Maria manages the business for her artist husband, Drew Brophy. He has been rocking the surf art world for 20 years. Her post details how an arrangement went sour with a company had hired Drew to custom paint 50 of its camper van rentals.

The gist of the post is after tough negotiations that led to an original discounted price, the buyer announced he was getting offers to do the job at a price more than 30% lower than his current contract with  Drew. He gave them an ultimatum to lower prices or he would pull the deal. Read Maria’s post and the comments for more details.           

These events punctuated a moment of clarity I received after contemplating for some time about what is best for visual artists in the art business today. The clarity came in the form of three words:

• Defensive
• Opportunistic
• Optimism

Defensive – now, more than ever, artists need to realize they are mostly on their own. That is, they cannot count on publishers, galleries, or dealers to be there for them as in the past. The news about Boundless Gallery and the blog post by Maria proves the point.

I am not saying you should not trust galleries, online art marketers or art dealers. I am saying you cannot afford to rely 100% on their ability to look out for your best interest, especially if it conflicts with their own best interest. To some extent, this has been the norm, but the situation is worse now.

Opportunistic – it follows if you cannot put as much trust in others to carry your water as before, then you have to be opportunistic to create your own direct sales opportunities. Fortunately, in these times, visual artists can benefit from the confluence of growing Internet and e-commerce usage, changing consumer habits and Social Media trends to forge their own distribution models.

Having a Website used to be a personal decision. I believe it is now a “must have” item in your marketing arsenal. Further, I believe virtually every artist should have a blog. The SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Google Page Rank benefits alone should make blogging paramount to artists.

Additionally, I believe the divide between those artists who do and don’t blog will grow larger with the former category taking market share from artists without a blog. Those who add a Facebook page, build a real Twitter following and utilize other social marketing tools will pull further away.

Optimism – unarguably, you need optimism to fuel your attitude, desire and ability to generate your best results. While you may temper enthusiasm with an honest realistic view and even pessimistic view of how times are tough, to be positioned for success you must prepare for and visualize the best possible outcome for your career.

You may not always be able to control your circumstances, but you can always control your reaction to them. If talent, hard work and luck are equal; optimism will win out every time. When you confidently convey you expect good things to happen, you take your collectors and other constituents with you.

I have a sister who has dealt with much adversity in her life, much of it coming from things over which she had little or no control. She reminded me of the great opera singer, Beverly Sills, who, despite a fabulous professional career, had painful personal hardships in her life.

Sills succinctly summed up what I mean about being optimistic in tough times when she said, “I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.” 

If you watch your back, look out for yourself, and stay as cheerful, optimistic and as open to opportunity as possible, you give yourself the best chance to enjoy success in your fine art career

* A shout out of thanks is due to both Fine Art Studio Online and Empty Easel for their generous offers to help artists who were on Boundless Gallery. If you are one, check them out.

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Using SlideShare to Promote Your Fine Art

These days, actually any days in the art business, you need as much promotion and exposure as you can muster. Fortunately, you have many unique opportunities to promote your fine art to galleries and collectors.

In a recent post, I told you about printing your own four-color magazine from MagCloud. Long time readers may recall I posted about the power of SlideShare by linking to a most impressive presentation titled Shift Happens. Today, I want to reacquaint you with SlideShare by introducing you to a wonderful presentation of fantasy art by Rebeka Rodosek.She is a talented visual artist from Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Fantasy Art By Rebeka Rodosek

I found Rebeka the same way I am sure many other have, which was by searching the Internet. An email from SlideShare about new features prompted me to revisit the site. I had not been there in quite a while, but my good intentions to do so needed a reminder.

When I searched the site for "art," I found Rebeka's palette and subject matter jumping out at me. She is in the print market, as a Google search shows her with work on Imagekind, among other online art sites. I am certain I would have also found her Facebook fan page sooner or later as well.

Email marketing works to promote art

By keeping in touch with me, SlideShare has managed to maintain my interest to the point that I am touting it to you once again. Repeated exposure has worked for it. If you are not using email marketing, you are letting an important and powerful tool go to waste. There will be more on email marketing in a future post. For now, let your imagination run wild and brainstorm on how many ways you can use SlideShare.

Blending marketing elements enhances how you sell art

If you sense there is a thread running through this post, you are right. We talked about how with MagCloud you can create your own four-color magazine. Then we moved onto SlideShare and also mentioned email marketing. Finally, we mentioned Imagekind, an online fine art print gallery site that will sell your art, print it and fulfill it for you.

Your art marketing plan should be to combine powerful elements, such as these, into a cohesive plan to reach and influence your best art collector prospects, dealers and customers. In doing so, you will leverage each component to lift the other and thereby greatly raise awareness for you and your art.

In my humble opinion, this is how to sell art using affordable tools that are readily available and easy to use. Weave them with your Website, blog and social media presence to generate buzz and increase your income.

How Lucky Do You Feel? - Global Climate Change Options

Today is Blog Action Day. Along with 7,000 other bloggers, I have agreed to blog about Global Climate Change, the topic overwhelmingly chosen by participants. While I am inclined to believe it is more likely to be happening than not, I know some very smart people who believe it is a trumped up hoax. 

Like many Americans, if not most, you will find me concerned and in the middle on this and most thorny topics. In the case of global climate change, I am certain taking no action is wrong. I can't find fault with improving gas mileage, saving the rain forest, finding clean alternative fuels, being less wasteful and caring about our planet.

We cannot afford to hope to be lucky with the outcome of global climate change

The thing is with climate change, we do not know the outcome. We are part of an experiment right now, in the test tube, if you will. I don’t like that situation and bet you don’t either. If you have seen the direst predictions, then you know the situation could turn bleak quickly. Those who oppose the notion either don't believe the current climate change is not happening, or that current changes are a normal part of global function. Many of them think we are on a course of destruction by trying to save ourselves from something that will never happen.

Regardless of where you stand, for, against, or uncertain, this video will help you gain perspectice on what the real options are for the argument either way. I found it eye opening and thank Roy H. Williams, the Wizard of Ads, for exposing it to me along with many other great ideas.

Getting solar power ramped up to the right proportions would be a game changer

Energy consumption is a topic where all nearly agree we are too oil dependent and need to do something. Developing massive solar power energy would improve global climate change and benefit humankind now and for future generations.

Last week, I saw a tweet from Kathy Heasley, a powerhouse brand marketer with Heasley & Partners. The tweet led to The Information is Beautiful site and this article titled,Surface Area Required To Solar Power The World. It is a great example of the power of thinking large to solve big problems. If we could get our leaders to start backing ideas like this instead of the more trivial and parochial ones that hold their attention, we would all be better served by them.

25 Tweets about Art, Business & Social Media - plus one just plain funny one

1. "Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up for work" - Chuck Close #quote ~ I love this guy! http://ow.ly/l0bt  
2. Thieves snatch Wyland art worth $700,000 from gallery ~ Didn't realize any he made carried that value http://ow.ly/ozFb  
3. Artists - Read & heed ~ Sexy Isn’t Easy: Being a Career Artist http://ow.ly/ozSI
4. Art as business as art http://ow.ly/ozJ9
5. Social Networks & Blogs 4th Most Popular Online Activity. Facebook is ahead of personal email! http://ow.ly/od1Z
6. Selling Art on the Internet: 3 Things You MUST Have to Sell Art on the Web http://ow.ly/nZOS
7. How to market yourself as a speaker http://ow.ly/o61U
8. Jasper Johns: Gray at the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM From - http://ow.ly/o5YN  
9. RT @NancyMcCarter: Why we need art education in school: http://bit.ly/8FXHO
10. 10 SEO Tips For Maximizing Facebook Visibility http://ow.ly/neM7
11. Want to rank high in searches? 10 things NOT to do http://ow.ly/mtHD
12. TEN MYTHS ABOUT ARTISTS #4: Artists Are Not Business People http://ow.ly/moiD
13. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Artists ~ @makingamark2 hits the mark http://ow.ly/lBuC
14. Joan Beiriger's free videos on art licensing http://ow.ly/lvRx
15. 'Ringling Will Be the Preeminent Art and Design College Worldwide...hmmm, quite a boast with some validity. http://ow.ly/lyS2
16. The Best Online Art Galleries, Auctions, and Stores of 2009 from escapeintolife.com http://ow.ly/lvJu
17. ARTISTIC LICENSE: How to be a more prolific artist ~ some practical advice here http://ow.ly/lvGT  
18. Surviving and Thriving as an Artist ~ wrap your head around this thinking. He's onto something. http://ow.ly/lrGq
19. Printmaking grows in popularity as artwork Style thrives in economic times http://ow.ly/lrea
20. You already knew Santa Fe was one of the best art towns. Here's another reason to love it. http://bit.ly/QIEya
21. Good stuff @clintavo 12 Steps to Get Your Artwork Noticed by Galleries http://ow.ly/lkh5  
22. Creative Art Marketing Idea - Bookmarks ~ this is a nifty idea! http://ow.ly/l0bB
23. Does an Artist Really Need An Agent? http://ow.ly/l09l
24. WorkBar Opens as Boston's Newest Contemporary Art Gallery ~ I like this idea for mobile workers and artists! http://ow.ly/lrnh
25. EBSQ Spotlight on Hand-pulled Traditional Printmaking: Paul Helm http://ow.ly/kSiW

And, the funny one, especially for those who have had the pleasure:

RT @RoamingArtist I laughed till I cried! How to prep for a colonoscopy - hilarious!... http://bit.ly/f06eL

Can Visual Artists Succeed Without Using Twitter and Facebook?

For nearly four years I have been honored to be a guest blogger on Absolute Arts, which remains one of the most highly respected and trafficked online art sites. My most recent post for it went up today. It is titled: Success and the Unconnected Artist. The post tackles a question am frequently asked, which is can I make it as a visual artist without having a Twitter and Facebook account? Not to mention Linkedin, MySpace, FriendFeed, Flickr and on and on.

The short answer there, and I encourage you to go there for the longer one as well, is yes. An artist can devise ways to sell art and enjoy a viable long term career without the benefits of Facebook and Twitter, etc. While I am a strong proponent with my own regular involvement, I think most visual artists who do participate in social marketing would be hard pressed to accurately assess their return on investment from their involvement. This incongruity does not diminish the activity.

David Ogilvy, arguably the most influential advertising person ever, is reported to have said, "Half the advertising I do works, I just wish I knew which half." So if a Madison Avenue superstar can't pinpoint return on investment, it means you shouldn't fret over it either. Despite believing it's possible to make a career outside of the Internet's widely bandied Web 2.0 tools, I remain a stalwart believer that artists can positively affect their careers by using them.

In order of importance, I would start with a good Web site that can professionally promote and properly present you and your work. Follow that with a blog and then let those things be the platform to launch into Twitter and Facebook, which can effectively be used to drive traffic to your site and blog. There's obviously more to it than that, but this is a good overview of how to get started using Web 2.0 to promote your art career.

Easy Way to Put Your Website on Mobile Devices with .Mobi

Read Art Print Issues formatted for your mobile phone at:

www.artprintissues.mobi

If you don't have an iPhone, you surely know someone who does. The statistics for percentage growth of those using mobile devices to connect to the Internet are growing rapidly. Here is part of a recent comScore press release:

comScore: Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many

Number of people accessing news and information on their mobile device more than doubles in a year

Reston, VA. March 16, 2009 –comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported that the number of people using their mobile device to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009. Among the audience of 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices in January 2009, 22.4 million (35 percent) did so daily; more than double the size of the audience last year.

Now, if you have a blog or Website and can afford $4.99 a year, you can get your website formatted for mobile phones, or Mobilized, using GoDaddy.com's free Mobilizer software.(For full disclosure, I work there for GoDaddy. However, there is no monetary gain for my mention here. And, all ideas and opinions expressed here are mine and do not represent the company in anyway.) Follow this Mobilizer link to test the software. It will let you see how your site will look using it. It's a free look and if you want to buy the .mobi domain, you can get it on sale for $4.99 a year. That's $10 off the list price of $14.99.

Notice the new formatting for Art Print Issues?

I have moved the left column to the right side of the page. That allows the blog posts to download first. This better accommodates mobile device users. Also, it helps those with slower Internet connections be able to start reading the blog post without having to wait for the left column content to load. I already had been contemplating doing this for the latter reason, the addition of .mobi to my communication arsenal sealed the deal for me.

20 Reasons to Follow Me on Twitter

Twitter is all the rage these days with Ashton Kutcher racing CNN to be the first to get to 1 million followers and Oprah broadcasting her first tweet. This kind of publicity generates interest and at the same time it turns others off.

Don't despair, there are many ways to get value from time spent on Twitter. It's not just working to try and get a bunch of anonymous followers who may or may not have the same interests as you. If you decide to follow a bunch of people, get a tool like www.tweetdeck.com to help you manage the stream.

Some say we are in an age of oversharing, but that is what filters are for

The stream of tweets comes at you continuously and there is no way for anyone with a life to try and keep up with it. I liken it to standing in a fast moving stream with fish swimming by. You can't catch them all, so you take what you can get. I work days in marketing at a tech company. For security purposes, we can't get social media or personal email connections on our computers. Nor can we have a cell phone out. So, other than a quick Blackberry email scan at lunch, I'm out of the loop. It's just as well, the job is consuming.

If you find Facebook, Twitter or other social media interfering with your job and time management, you might consider self-imposed restraint and limit your access to certain hours of the day. It works for me. If it didn't, I would learn to live without all of it. That is, I like using social media and believe it adds value to my life personally and professionally. However for me, having it in proper perspective takes away any angst over how and when I use it. These are fun tools, but in nearly most cases, not game changers when it comes to your success.

Don't be concerned about missing out on the good stuff

If I let it, lack of daytime access could be a problem because many of my fave tweeps are daytim users. I'm usually on late at night with a different equally interesting crowd. With Twitter and Facebook, what I do is find those who seem to consistently put out tweets that have ideas or links I want to read.

Here is one solution for time shifting. If you click on the name of someone in their Twitter profile, or know their Twitter address, such as mine, which is: http://twitter.com/barneydavey, it will present their tweets in chronological order. Then you can quickly browse just their tweets to find those you want to read. You can also click on the star in the tweet to favorite it so you can get back to it for future reference.  

I do have some dialog with others in my tweets, but many more are either short ideas, observations or links to other items of interest. Naturally, most are art related, but occasionally I include a link from a recording artist or some other item of intrigue to me and perhaps you too. Here is a sample from the past weeks of some tweets I trust you will find interesting:

1. Art for Cash: An Artist's Guide to Selling Work Check Out These Local Places to Hang Your Art http://twurl.nl/qyqial
2. For New Hotels, Art Isn’t Merely Decoration http://twurl.nl/iq6pp3 Stills from from about Warhol art pool bottom http://twurl.nl/g882px
3. Joanne Shaw Taylor's "Bones" from her White Sugar CD flat out rocking blues singing and picking with serious chops! http://twurl.nl/14bogt
4. Winery settings for local artists' works add fresh flavor to Wine Country experience. I toast this concept! http://twurl.nl/jhbtqy
5. First Impressions of Facebook’s Ad Platform http://twurl.nl/m3bcna You'll find experienced insightful with this post.
6. Gatekeepers & Music Promotion Overload: The Good News = applies equally to visual artist http://twurl.nl/zs37mf
7. iPriest, David Hockney "It's absurd to call it digital art. That is like calling a traditional drawing pencil art. http://twurl.nl/0tkhim
8. Venus Envy. What a clever name for an all-female arts festival! This one has grown to be the largest of its kind http://twurl.nl/isk2at
9. Amy Winehouse and Linda Ronstadt "You Know You're No Good" Yowser! I'm gonna say it again...Yowser! http://twurl.nl/pzu55u
10. Way cool Gaping Void makes Purple Cow an art print. Geek art on commerce and marketing made w/old school serigraphy http://twurl.nl/qhd6a7
11. St. Louis Art Museum shows works on paper http://twurl.nl/qchihz they possess a freedom more self-consciously important works often lack
12. IMHO, not since Hendrix has anyone played the electric guitar with as much sensuality as Ana Popovic http://twurl.nl/nw34qn
13. Type Porn - 20 websites for font, letter and symbol enthusiasts - http://twurl.nl/4pcocc
14. Copyright Clearance Center teaches “Copyright Basics” with its animated educational video. Free stuff http://twurl.nl/yzdola
15. That's right, giclee lampshades... what next? Giclee couches! Giclee polo shirts....jeez http://twurl.nl/zajmxw
16. Time mag: The New Internet Start-Up Boom: Get Rich Slow http://twurl.nl/aa0zog
17. Entrepreneur mag: 25 Common Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs - Self-assessment Do you have what it takes? http://twurl.nl/v3r5f2
18. Digital Artist 2009 The first awards to showcase and recognize the best digital artists and designers across the globe. http://tr.im/iK9m
19. I love this newsletter. Read Magnolia Editions. You will agree it is truly magnificent and inspiring! http://twurl.nl/dxt3vk
20. Free topnotch serious university level learning. I did say free!! This is a great concept. Check it out! http://www.academicearth.org/