I Need Some Artists To Feature On My Blog That Is Now Up To Almost A Thousand Visitors A Day!

Cathy, I've been checking out your blog on occasion, I even commented on one of your blog posts. I have seen you posting here in the forum for a while now, I have a suggestion that may help with your blog.

Right now you are using a broadcast approach posting to those who are reading the forum, asking them to "Come join me!". Perhaps as a way of gathering even more participants, you could do something a bit more personal and go artist direct, or direct marketing. Most people want to be acknowledged for what they do or have done, what they have created, and not many will take the appropriate time to market themselves. Also, the number of users on the forum is very small relative to the number of registered members of FAA.

A way of increasing you responses might be to put together an introduction letter, similar to the one you present here on the forum, and contact artists directly through personal messages. Send a intro letter with your pitch that you have looked at their portfolio, and would like to feature them on your art blog. It creates a whole new dynamic, and could possibly work for you. It would be almost the same exact pitch, but more direct. If you take the time to approach people one on one, and you acknowledge their specific artworks, you may be able to increase your participation rate just a little bit.

I know for me, that when people take the time to PM me, I give much more weight to what they have to say.

-YoPedro

Do you want the examples of our work in low resolution?

I'll send you something once the kids are back at school.

Thank you Yo Pedro....good tips! I also posted a couple of contest the other day to help! I don't know why, but I hadn't thought of that.


I look forward to it Steven.

Ann the resolution is up to you, plus I don't have any problem with posting pics with light watermarks if it makes you feel better.

What size jpegs do you want. I mean, do you want the same images we upload to FAA. Most of my stuff is 3000X4000 so around 12-13 MB. I can just shrink them down to any size by just choosing a lower jpeg compression. When I upload to flickr I usually compress down to maybe 3 MB. Is that more what you are looking for?
Thanks,
Les

It would be beneficial for you to do a highly detailed step by step tutorial blog post of how you want the submissions to your blog to be made. That would give visitors another reason to visit your blog.

I can provide a "head shot" that is my logo (as seen here to the left) that is about 800 x 800 px. I also have web-ready copies of several of my images. They are mostly 750 x 500 px, less than 100K and do have my watermark w/ name and URL. If all of that works for you I can put something together this week. Then I can do a blog post on my own site about what it is that you are doing.

~ Bill
~ USPictures.com

Good idea Yo...where have you been all my life??? I will do a post ...or maybe a page. Thanks.

Bill that sounds fine.

Digital Photographic Arts: Pics less than 2MB is good and I think from there the software will adjust it.