How to make this website work for you
If you are new to the craft of promoting yourself and your art, and you want to know how to do it, this area of the website might be of interest to you.
First look the website over, and then...
If you are new to the craft of promoting yourself and your art, and you want to know how to do it, this area of the website might be of interest to you.
First look the website over, and then...
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List Yourself
As an artist, or an art related group or business you might want to market yourself but don't have the funds to do so on your own and think that collective marketing would suit your purposes. To this end I will include any Galiano artist or crafts person or community art related group or art related business who wishes to be listed under an appropriate category for free. A free listing includes your name, or your group's name, and a link to your website, or to the website of your group. If you do not have a website please consider using one of the free website hosting services on the web; they are generally easy to use. If you want to be included in any list please let me know by using the Studio/Gallery Contact Form below. (The only information I will put on this website is your name and a link to your website. All the other information is so I can contact you. And no, I will not make that kind of information public nor will I sell it to anyone.) Indicate the various lists in which you wish to be included - do this in the comments section of the form. If such a simple free listing does not suit your needs, you can buy an upgraded listing, (More legal stuff under Legal Stuff, here.)
If you are a group holding any artistic event, please use the Event Contact Form below.
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Link to this Website on Facebook , Twitter, LinkedIn or Just Tell your Friends
How nice it would be if you put a link to this site on your website, Facebook, etc.: copy and paste this sites web address from the navigation bar and paste into your web page's links section. Linking to this site will place this site higher on search engine results for browser searches for 'Galiano' and 'Art'. This is a good thing for all of us. Art is not supposed to be a rare event but a continual explosion that requires as many of us as possible working together to be seen by as many as possible.
Mention this website on Facebook and Twitter. Like our Facebook page [when it is up and running].
Tell your friends about us. Ask them to link to us. Tell people this site is a great site because so many people have visited us and thousands of art geeks and art lovers cannot be wrong. There is a visitor counter and a flag counter under Advertising Rates/Number of.... Click on the symbols to find stats.
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Put Your Studio/Gallery on Google Maps, or on GoBC
Use Google places to do this, here.
Or go here for one useful site that will help you to do it.
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Advertize Yourself On This Website
See Members' Area/Upgrade Rates, here.
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Get yourself a website for a public face
- if you've got the dough, hire a pro designer to run a website for you and advertize yourself here.
- if no dough, and if you can write html, write up a website for public exposure, find a host.
- if no dough and no dough, use Weebly.com and drag and drop to make a website for free.
- if you can't understand Weebly, attend a workshop in how to make a web site using Weebly. [see Workshop and Schools, here.]
- or maybe a blog would be better, attend a workshop in how to make a blog using Wordpress.com.
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Raise the Benchmark
People are more likely to be attracted to Galiano, and to your event, if it is professionally done and professionally marketed. The purpose of this website is to help do the marketing. But if you don't have your act/event ramped up to the expectations of the public, they will be disappointed. That doesn't mean you have to be a slick as Grace Slick. People get a lot of fun out of watching a well-done amateur hour, but it does mean that it has to be obvious that you are trying to get better and better. When you get on stage, make sure you have all your songs down. Hang your pics in a neat and tidy way. Have your shipping stuff looking good. It isn't about you, it's about the audience. Don't be too nervous (people who are completely not nervous are hams), but know that when you present yourself to the public, the stage, the event, is the safest place for you to be, because you are in a role, you are not you at the time. The public reads into you what they want. And what they want is a good time. Give them a good time by having a good time. As an artist or a cultural provider, you give people the expansive and inspirational time they crave. And if you are inspired, why not give it to them.
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Change it Up
Same old same old is a good thing as it can develop great skill. But changing it up is sometimes more exciting.
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As an artist, or an art related group or business you might want to market yourself but don't have the funds to do so on your own and think that collective marketing would suit your purposes. To this end I will include any Galiano artist or crafts person or community art related group or art related business who wishes to be listed under an appropriate category for free. A free listing includes your name, or your group's name, and a link to your website, or to the website of your group. If you do not have a website please consider using one of the free website hosting services on the web; they are generally easy to use. If you want to be included in any list please let me know by using the Studio/Gallery Contact Form below. (The only information I will put on this website is your name and a link to your website. All the other information is so I can contact you. And no, I will not make that kind of information public nor will I sell it to anyone.) Indicate the various lists in which you wish to be included - do this in the comments section of the form. If such a simple free listing does not suit your needs, you can buy an upgraded listing, (More legal stuff under Legal Stuff, here.)
If you are a group holding any artistic event, please use the Event Contact Form below.
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Link to this Website on Facebook , Twitter, LinkedIn or Just Tell your Friends
How nice it would be if you put a link to this site on your website, Facebook, etc.: copy and paste this sites web address from the navigation bar and paste into your web page's links section. Linking to this site will place this site higher on search engine results for browser searches for 'Galiano' and 'Art'. This is a good thing for all of us. Art is not supposed to be a rare event but a continual explosion that requires as many of us as possible working together to be seen by as many as possible.
Mention this website on Facebook and Twitter. Like our Facebook page [when it is up and running].
Tell your friends about us. Ask them to link to us. Tell people this site is a great site because so many people have visited us and thousands of art geeks and art lovers cannot be wrong. There is a visitor counter and a flag counter under Advertising Rates/Number of.... Click on the symbols to find stats.
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Put Your Studio/Gallery on Google Maps, or on GoBC
Use Google places to do this, here.
Or go here for one useful site that will help you to do it.
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Advertize Yourself On This Website
See Members' Area/Upgrade Rates, here.
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Get yourself a website for a public face
- if you've got the dough, hire a pro designer to run a website for you and advertize yourself here.
- if no dough, and if you can write html, write up a website for public exposure, find a host.
- if no dough and no dough, use Weebly.com and drag and drop to make a website for free.
- if you can't understand Weebly, attend a workshop in how to make a web site using Weebly. [see Workshop and Schools, here.]
- or maybe a blog would be better, attend a workshop in how to make a blog using Wordpress.com.
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Raise the Benchmark
People are more likely to be attracted to Galiano, and to your event, if it is professionally done and professionally marketed. The purpose of this website is to help do the marketing. But if you don't have your act/event ramped up to the expectations of the public, they will be disappointed. That doesn't mean you have to be a slick as Grace Slick. People get a lot of fun out of watching a well-done amateur hour, but it does mean that it has to be obvious that you are trying to get better and better. When you get on stage, make sure you have all your songs down. Hang your pics in a neat and tidy way. Have your shipping stuff looking good. It isn't about you, it's about the audience. Don't be too nervous (people who are completely not nervous are hams), but know that when you present yourself to the public, the stage, the event, is the safest place for you to be, because you are in a role, you are not you at the time. The public reads into you what they want. And what they want is a good time. Give them a good time by having a good time. As an artist or a cultural provider, you give people the expansive and inspirational time they crave. And if you are inspired, why not give it to them.
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Change it Up
Same old same old is a good thing as it can develop great skill. But changing it up is sometimes more exciting.
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Workshops and Lessons.
Hold them. Teach classes. List them in this website under Workshops and lessons.
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Hold them. Teach classes. List them in this website under Workshops and lessons.
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Crowd Funding
Learn about crowd funding platforms and raise money to do a project. List your crowd funding projects on this website under events. If enough people do this I could have a whole section for Crowd Funding. Her are some links to crowd funding platforms.
ArtistShare - music projects -
Indiegogo - all arts -
Kickstarter - all arts -
RocketHub - all arts -
Sponsume - all arts - (only UK, I think, but I includd it here for interest)
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Learn about crowd funding platforms and raise money to do a project. List your crowd funding projects on this website under events. If enough people do this I could have a whole section for Crowd Funding. Her are some links to crowd funding platforms.
ArtistShare - music projects -
Indiegogo - all arts -
Kickstarter - all arts -
RocketHub - all arts -
Sponsume - all arts - (only UK, I think, but I includd it here for interest)
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Or you can help with this
- if you have a good idea about art or this website that might work, fill in the contact form, here, and let me know, and maybe I'll include it in the blog.
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- if you have a good idea about art or this website that might work, fill in the contact form, here, and let me know, and maybe I'll include it in the blog.
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Or Do This
Buy an upgrade (I'll use it to pay the costs and to advertize in great, local magazines.) I won't use it to travel to Shangrala, I already live there. Let's advertize the heck out of this island's art.
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Buy an upgrade (I'll use it to pay the costs and to advertize in great, local magazines.) I won't use it to travel to Shangrala, I already live there. Let's advertize the heck out of this island's art.
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