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Everything from the basics to real strategy on how to utilize the social network for your own success!
Better Ways To Use Twitter
Since it’s inception, we’ve decided there were many ways to use Twitter for business. But we talk very little about the bite-size snippets of gold we might get from using it as a reader.
1. Using LISTS is great for keeping up with people in a certain topic or industry. For example, I’ve compiled a list of people from certain industries that either I know or find interesting to read from Fitness Industry professionals to Teachers and Librarians. You will also find the best way to FIND a List is by searching out others in the particular subject or profession that is either well known or familiar to you. They may have also subscribed or are part of a List that someone else compiled. You simply subscribe to the lists and a stream of tweets from the people that are members of that list will show on your app or Twitter stream.
2. CONVERSATION searches are a great way to see if you can find recent reviews, comments or links to current topics on news, sports or your favorite venue/product/place. If you feel like sifting through a mass of sometimes irrelevant and distracting tweets, then this is good. I like to do this when I haven’t found much feedback about a certain topic/event that I’m trying to get a personal reference on. I like to see what strangers are saying.
3. POTENTIAL Reference contacts. If you are active enough or known on Twitter to a group or variety of people, you may find sometimes you are being newly followed by someone in your local area or industry you’d like to connect with. Be sure to say something to them or pay attention to their tweets and start conversation. They followed for a reason, so it’s your chance to make that connection of value to both of you.
There may be some other interesting ways to use Twitter outside of the typical follow/tweet/reply/retweet actions. Share with me if you know or could suggest any!
What I Imagine – about dreams and goals
Sometimes we are carried away with an obsession that becomes real and tangible. It may be something a bit extravagant, maybe even totally obnoxious and seemingly impossible. A dream almost divinely ordained to you, and nothing else matters. Nothing. You push and pull against the obstacles and storms that befall you. You are steadfast and un-winded. You carry yourself with confidence and a determination that sometimes offends others. Your creative energy is inherently part of you, and doesn’t seem weird at all. Very natural. Very familiar.
For some reason, that allows you to have a perception of the future in some form that others cannot. You can see what the future could hold. Maybe it’s unfounded and imagined.
Maybe it is really true.
No matter the origin or it’s integrity, it is your’s. It is part of you. And you will jump every mountain, dive the deepest ocean or walk the longest mile just to see this realized.
Now how incredibly wonderful it would be, if we applied this to love. If we applied this to changing the world, instead of simply to express ourselves. To transform this passion and obsession into something bigger than ourselves. If we only used the same desire to make this world better. This is what I imagine.
Update and Good news for artists!
I have to apologize for not keeping up on here or my videoblogging or live studio painting sessions.
I’ve been back and forth on my blog here, deciding how I would keep up with it amidst all of my other work. I have been working steadily and fiercely on my new upcoming Charlotte Lively book, taking care of a very needy Doberman puppy, 
going back to school full-time to pursue my teaching, keeping up with client work and working on new content for artists. I have somehow become more sharp mentally, which is FANTASTIC considering how I usually am when unchallenged, but I see the busy schedule is taking a toll on my laundry room and garden.
SO! I had a wonderful experience doing the webinar for artists last week and am working on completing my other ebooks in the works. I know you guys have been waiting patiently for one on Twitter as well as Facebook and others. I’ve been working on those for some time and should have some smaller, gold filled ebook reports to share with you on marketing, social media and art business soon.
Facebook Course September 18th
I, along with Cory Huff of The Abundant Artist are going to do a class to teach you everything from the basics of creating and using a Facebook page to real marketing and art promotion strategy that you can do on your own!
Learn more here: The Abundant Artist. There should be more info soon so you can book your spot in the class! The blog is a great informative community for artists and visual creatives as well.
We are tentatively booking a webinar for Tuesday, September 18 at 5 PM Pacific – so mark your calendar.
Creating An Inspiring Home Studio
The art of making art. We forget this. The environment you create should be just as important as the art you are creating. Most of the time, we scramble to work on the dining room table or the living room floor. Or some of us really have a studio space but we are completely disorganized and supplies are piled up randomly across everything in the room.
Regardless of what we know or believe, the environment does affect us in the most subtle ways. To create art in a state of stress, clutter and total chaos can be constructive for a minor few but for everyone else, it’s a big creativity killer.
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Island Vs City: 5 Ways To Start Building Web Presence
Your website alone is not going to make you money, make your art popular or drive traffic. It is simply the home base of your art brand. Of you. As I’ve mentioned in one of my previous videos, it’s important still to have one of these and more options are available to do it easily, cheaply and with great design.
But it’s important to create a web presence through the connection of different communities and “cities”.
Social Media is the City. The traffic driver to your main website and main channels. You connect and develop relationships, business or personal, with other people who would otherwise have NOT seen your website or artwork. It’s the most economical and exciting form of website promotion. You only need to invest the time and practice of social media to make this happen. We’re not longer dependent on traditional advertising to expand your brand or expose your website to others.
A WEBSITE CANNOT STAND ALONE
Expect traffic and sales and you are foolish. Heavy advertising, word of mouth and self promotion are the only ways to make a website successful. It is a static marker. A calling card. But it is not simply known because it exists.
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