Tag: Advice
How to Price Your Artwork
If you are just starting out as a professional visual artist and you have a good body of work that you’d like to sell, but you don’t know how to begin when it comes to pricing your art….here are a few pointers that might be helpful! *Note: I do try to respond to everyone in the comments, but sometimes it takes me a while! My website: ArtByCedar.com A few footnotes I wanted to add after receiving some helpful feedback from other artists: The price examples I give are for gallery-wrapped canvases, ie unframed. So for me, the cost of framing is not a factor. If you frame your work, you will have to add your framing costs onto your retail price (obviously, or you wouldn’t make a profit!) In this case I’d probably still price by size to start with, then tack on the framing costs afterwards. I’ve seen many artists that have 2 prices for each piece they sell, a framed price & an unframed price. I think that’s a smart way to do things, as many galleries and collectors may prefer to frame a piece themselves. (But of course this all depends on your work–the frame you choose may be of integral importance to the work.) A note about size: looking through the goggles of my own situation, I hadn’t even considered how low /inch would be for very small sizes, since the smallest size I typically work in is 20″ x 20″. If you make smaller paintings, you’ll want to start higher than /square inch. (A 5″x7″ painting for would be ridiculously low for most painters–except possibly if …
10 YouTube SEO Tips: Increase YouTube Search Rankings [Creator Tips #4]
rseo.co ► YouTube SEO Tips from the YouTube Creator Playbook. YouTube put all their best practices and strategies into this book and offered some advice as to what affects the YouTube search algorithm and how you can best optimize your videos to take advantage of YouTube SEO. 10 Tips for YouTube SEO YouTube SEO Tip #1) Likes and favorites increase your videos rankings in YouTube search. YouTube SEO Tip #2) Publishing videos regularily to YouTube will improve your rankings in the YouTube search algorithm. YouTube SEO Tip #3) More content will lead to more viewership and more rankings in the algorithm. YouTube wants you to keep posting videos to YouTube. Metadata is critical YouTube SEO Tip #4) Write good titles. Put keywords first and branding at the end. Make sure they are compelling titles. YouTube SEO Tip #5) Include keywords in your tags and place those most important keywords and keyword phrases at the start of your tags fields. Include common and specific keywords (dont spam). write 12 or more tags and use as much of the characters as possible. YouTube SEO Tip #6) Put your most compelling information first in your videos’ description on YouTube and be sure to include plenty of keywords. Make sure you include links to other content you own and any other links that users could use to learn more about you. Also include a recurring keyword tagline. YouTube SEO Tip #7) YouTube’s search algortithm favors videos that link to and drive traffic to other YouTube assets within …
Search Engine Optimization Interview: SEO Advice & Tips
Get Connected host Mike Agerbo interviews SEO consultant Tony Hutchcroft during the 2008 Vancouver Massive Technology Event about website search engine optimization strategies. Various topics are covered offering tips and advice on a variety of SEO services like search engine friendly website design, site & server analysis, key word research, optimizing website content, Meta tags and analytics. SEO services are designed to increase online visibility by attaining top rankings and listings on the major search engines like Google and Yahoo. Hutchcroft is with 1st on the List Promotion Inc, an Internet marketing company out of Vancouver, Canada that provides search engine optimization and online marketing services to businesses throughout Canada and the United States. For more information on their search engine optimization services check out www.1stonthelist.ca