A free Cafe Press shop is one of the easiest ways to build an extra income online. With a few images and half an hour, you can be making money by the time you go to bed tonight. You may want to print out this series of articles, to follow as you set up your [...]
Is YOUR website earning extra cash with AdSense ads? For years, they provide me with a steady, three-figure income every month. In 2008, I began relying on them less, as ad blocking software prevents many visitors from seeing the ads. But, AdSense is still a good choice if you need to supplement your website income. [...]
When eBay sales hit a slump, some artists panic. They don’t realize how normal it is to alternately get lots of bids in a high range, and then have a time when nothing sells, even at absurdly low prices. The Christmas shopping season is one of those times. If you haven’t sold through eBay in [...]
When you begin selling your art at eBay, it’s often just to get a bunch of art out from underfoot in your studio. Well all do that. We clear out things that are just sitting on the shelf, to make space (physical and mental) for more creativity. And, at eBay, we know that the art [...]
eBay selling prices can fluctuate wildly. It’s just part of the game, really. And, it’s not just in art. One extreme is popular Pagan author Silver Ravenwolf (eBay username: veiledcrossroads). Her auctions came up when I was seeing who else was doing shrines, and who else was doing fairy-themed items. One of her “magic” kits [...]
Aisling’s notes: Bob Baker, author of “Unleash the Artist Within” and “Branding Yourself Online” offers some very helpful advice about creating interesting and helpful websites. This is a reprint of one of his articles. I wish that I’d read some of this years ago. 9 Ways to Communicate a Rock-Solid Identity by Bob Baker Branding [...]
Every artist needs his or her own website for credibility. And, it should be a website that is free of pop-up ads. DOMAIN NAMES AND HOSTING SERVICES GeoCities and Fortune City may be great places to start, but to look professional and really earn money, you need your own domain name and your site should [...]
You can use HTML (or Javascript if you have a paid account at Live Journal) so that your LJ entries are automatically embedded on a webpage at your own website. It’s easy. I used to do this myself, using simple JavaScript code copied from Live Journal. The entries were automatically fed to a webpage that [...]
The subject of LiveJournal.com comes up regularly, in terms of marketing. Important: It’s in LiveJournal’s terms of service that you can’t use your LJ membership as a blatant marketing tool outside of your journal itself. Be sure to check this if your primary interest in LiveJounal is PR. (Related rules can be seen at LiveJournal’s [...]
Keywords are the words and phrases that are important to the subject of the webpage. They are also the words that people are most likely to use when they visit a search engine for a list of relevant websites. Search engines look for keywords. Some–but not all–look in the “keywords” section of your META code. [...]