Comments on: The Gold Mine in Your Artist Blog

By: Alyson Stanfield

Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:07:27 +0000

In reply to kraftyiam.

No, I didn’t say this. I said that about newspaper and magazine articles.

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By: kraftyiam

Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:47:43 +0000

Good day, so glad I found your blog. I read through and gained some insight so thank you and I thank those who commented as well. I stumbled in here because I was researching a comment I read elsewhere that said, “You don’t technically own the blog or its content,” and I was wondering if this is true. Or whether this pertained to a specific blog engine. Any thoughts?

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By: Marsha Knopf

Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:15:12 +0000

I am new to having a website and in learning to market my artwork, and am also a right-brain artist and not a left-brain computer geek (my husband, an electronics engineer, says I don’t even have a left brain!).
So this information on having a blog is very interesting and helpful to me and I’d like to learn more so I can start my own blog on my website.
Thank you, everyone!

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By: Clara Teixeira

Thu, 01 May 2014 21:40:21 +0000

In reply to Alyson Stanfield.

Terribly sorry! I was directing the question to Karen Lynn. I am enjoying this blog and the suggestions very much. So helpful! Thank you!

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Thu, 01 May 2014 20:36:58 +0000

In reply to Clara Teixeira.

Clara: I don’t believe I said not to have a FB page. I’m just providing some perspective. Unless you’re referring to a comment above.

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By: Clara Teixeira

Thu, 01 May 2014 20:19:36 +0000

I am just beginning to do more art and am strongly considering a WP blog to help get my work out in public. I am confused by the suggestion not to have a Facebook page. I follow a lot of other artists on Facebook and enjoy their updates so much! How do you direct traffic to your blog without social media like FB? I realize it is not all in how much traffic you get but rather word-of-mouth through loyal customers. But it would still be nice to have a relatively easy way to direct people to your blog…

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By: Karen Lynn

Sun, 20 Apr 2014 01:16:44 +0000

Susan Fox, congratulations on your blogging success!
Alyson, thanks for the renewed focus on the importance of blogging. I need to step it back up to weekly (at one time I posted twice a week on one blog, and about weekly on another, but I’ve lagged since).
And thanks to your advice I removed my “Follow me on Facebook” badges from my website. I realized how much viewership had dropped last August and September, when I saw how very much the numbers had dropped on the FB page for our local open studios program. (I’d done most of the FB posting there for four years.) It’s too darn bad! Now, although the FB pages are there to look at, it’s sad to think posts won’t actually get out to new, or old, likers. It was very helpful marketing for a time.

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By: Carol Watson

Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:06:34 +0000

Alyson, et al … This has been an interesting read about blogging. I’m not yet up on one although it’s my next priority and I found a lot of helpful comments and encouragement in the fact that it, like everything we do to be found out and followed, takes time and concerted effort.

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By: Lauren

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:11:28 +0000

Alyson: Thanks so much. As usual, your advice comes exactly when I need it most. Daniel: your comment was also timely– I must admit, though I love writing about my processes, my craft, and where my inspiration comes from, it’s sometimes disheartening when I see how few hits there are. I start to wonder, “what’s the point? is anyone actually reading and getting anything from this?” I have a small number of followers (thank you!! xoxo!) and often need the reminder you so eloquently dispatched. Thanks to you both–I’m going to go write the new post I’ve been putting off!

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By: Marion-Lea Jamieson

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:23:11 +0000

Thank you Alyson for creating & maintaining this great site! I just stumbled across it and am very impressed with your advice & the comments of other artists. I too have a WP blog & portfolio, and have been wrestling with many of the same issues. Sometimes it does feel like you’re talking to yourself and who’s listening except a couple of totally annoying spammers who get around the Akismet spam filter? But apart from the networking aspects of blogging it is a great way to organize ideas and have them easily accessible when we need to come up with a description or explanation of the work. I am looking forward to following up on other artists blogs.

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