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Internet Marketing for Fine Artists 101 (Podcast)

How to market fine art online is a struggle for many artists.

Many artists prefer painting, photography, sculpture, etc., or even the the lifestyle side of their business driving around the country to exhibit their art at art fairs, instead of the complexities of building websites, social media marketing, SEO, and e-commerce sales set-up.

To help these hard-working artists make more money online, last week I did a podcast interview at ArtFairInsiders.com, the #1 online community and discussion forum for art fair artists.

They titled the podcast interview "Online Marketing for Artists 101." 

Help Selling Your Art Online

If you are an artist trying to make money online, listen to this free podcast interview for helpful tips to improve your online art sales, including:

• tips on cheap and easy website building
• email marketing strategies
• building your online "social media" presence
• the online asset artists can build as an "electronic retirement plan"

Thanks to Connie Mettler, Publisher of ArtFairCalendar.com and ArtFairInsiders.com for inviting me to this interview to help her art fair artist friends.

Visit ArtFairInsiders.com here to listen to the Art Fair Radio show and learn more.

 

 

Disclosure reminder

Hello - It's time to remind you again that Scott Fox, The Liminal Institute, Click Millionaires, and associated persons or businesses may have content, promotional, advertising, customer, consulting, or equity relationships with the entities discussed or recommended on this web site. Many of the links on our web sites and in associated materials contain affiliate advertising codes, for example.

While efforts have been made to identify the best suppliers/vendors in each of these areas, we assume no liability for your use of them. You should use your own independent judgment to evaluate their services and fit for your needs.

Please see the Legal & Disclosures section for more details.

Marks, graphics, and names are property of their respective owners, as appropriate.

Thanks for reading!

Small Business Radio Advocates for our Tweetathon

I was up early this morning to promote the 12 Days of Christmas Tweetathon on the radio.

I was pleased to be a guest again on my friend Jim Blasingame's nationally-syndicated "Small Business Advocate" radio program.  You can listen below to either of the 2 segments we broadcast together.

The first segment is about this week's Tweetathon promotions using Twitter.com, and the second is about best practices for putting social media to work for your business online.

SEGMENT ONE

SEGMENT TWO

Thanks to Jim and his team for booking me again, and for Jim's generous donation of prizes for the Tweetathon:  copies of his books Small Business is Like a Bunch of Bananas and Three Minutes to Success.

If YOU would like to win a copy of one of Jim's books, join us during the final days of the Tweetathon this week daily at 3pm ET at www.ScottFoxShow.com. 

What is Click Millionaires? Free Podcast

Why is everyone talking about Scott Fox’s Click Millionaires? Are you wondering what all the fuss is about?

Listen to this fre-e podcast to hear me explain the philosophy behind my new Click Millionaires online success coaching community. 

Click Millionaires membership can help you redefine success for yourself in the 21st century. Tune in to learn more about how this new social network dedicated to your personal e-commerce and online marketing success can help you upgrade your life!

Click on the player to listen now online or right-click on this download link and select “Save Target as…” to save an MP3 copy to your own hard drive.

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Please let me know what you think of this Click Millionaire Kick-off podcast?  It's my most personal one yet and I'd love to hear your feedback in the Comments below!

Recent Radio Thanks

With the arrival of my new book has come a new wave of radio publicity.  Luckily for me, radio listeners all over want to learn more about today's Web 2.0 marketing and e-business opportunities!

I've been pleased to appear on a bunch of radio shows recently to talk about e-Riches 2.0 and the latest modern online marketing strategies it details.

My special thanks go out to these radio hosts:

• Russ & Sully of the "Big Biz Show" on the Business Talk Radio Network

• Kate Delaney and the America Tonight team

• Peter Anthony Holder on Montreal's CJAD and Toronto's CFRB

• Jim Blasingame and his nationally-syndicated "Small Business Advocate" program (You can listen to my chat with Jim below, too!)  Jim's team also picked e-Riches 2.0 as their "Featured Book of the Week" after my appearance.  Thanks, guys!

If you would like to hear me on your radio, just ask your local station's program director or hosts. Most talk radio hosts want to hear from you - let them know that e-business and online marketing are topics you'd like to hear more about!

Twitter vs. Bill O’Reilly: Results?

Can Twitter really attract new customers? How do social media really stack up versus traditional media for attracting visitors to your web site? Those are basic question all online marketers want to answer today, aren’t they?

Thanks to recent PR efforts here at ScottFox.com, I actually have an answer to these questions! Would you believe that one Tweet can attract more web site traffic than appearing on a major nationally-syndicated radio show? Would you believe that Twitter beat Bill O’Reilly’s national radio show in sending traffic to ScottFox.com?

Twitter Beats Major Media (at least this time!)
The publicity dream of most entrepreneurs is to get positive coverage on a major media outlet. Most of us expect that a national radio appearance would bring tons of free traffic and dwarf the results from most social media activities. Apparently this is not true!

Twitter rocks! Rare Twitter vs. Radio Comparison
I recently had a rare opportunity to measure an “apples-to-apples” comparison of social media marketing versus traditional press coverage. I’m going to share with you details of the traffic attraction success of my recent blog post “4 Annoying Myths About Twitter” versus my appearance on the nationally-syndicated radio program, The Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly.

Hopefully this can help you evaluate where to direct promotional efforts for your business, too.

My Big Time "Radio Factor" Appearance
I was recently a call-in guest on Bill O’Reilly’s final radio show. This was a major media hit for me and my blog because The Radio Factor was carried by 400+ radio stations nationally (until that final show anyway). (I was the Executive Producer of the original BillOReilly.com, so Bill and I have a longstanding (non-political) relationship.)

What’s more, Bill had me on the air and said some VERY nice things about me and my books. (You can hear my radio conversation with Bill O'Reilly here. Thanks again, Bill.)

Not surprisingly, traffic to ScottFox.com spiked! 1500 new unique visitors showed up in the following 24 hours. I got lots of signups for my free email newsletters, too. I was pleased with this national radio appearance. Enter Twitter!

A Rare Peek Behind the Twitter Curtains…
Then, just 2 weeks later, I posted a short commentary on ScottFox.com titled “4 Annoying Twitter Myths.” This post combats several negative “myths” that many Twitter “gurus” spread to newbies. (You can check it out my whole Twitter series here. Be sure to read the many insightful comments from fellow readers, too.)

Here’s where it gets interesting: The traffic generated by this blog post’s appearance on Twitter generated more than DOUBLE the traffic as my appearance on The Radio Factor!

The choice of timely content (anything Twitter related is hot these days apparently), a decent analysis of the situation, and a catchy headline soon caught readers’ attention.

I Stirred Up a Tweetstorm!
Before I knew it, the ScottFox.com servers were straining from new visitors. People were buzzing about my “Twitter Myths” across the web, and commenting on my blog, too.

Then @guykawasaki retweeted my post! Stumble Upon kicked in and so did Digg, too. Big “twitterati” like @twitter_tips, @therichbrooks, @alexkaris, @lt_draper retweeted it, too. Wham, bam.

Overnight the unique visitors to ScottFox.com were double those attributable to the nationally-syndicated radio appearance, and I added 100+ new Twitter followers just in the first several hours and have added hundreds more since then.

Ironic But Successful Publicity via Social Media
The funny part? All this Twitter love was for a post that specifically says “I won’t follow you back unless I know you!” LOL.

It’s not often we can find an “apples-to-apples” comparison of new vs. old media, but since I had one, I wanted to share it with you.

I hope that this insight into radio vs. Twitter might helpful to all the online marketers that read me and PR pros, too.

My Conclusion for You? 
Social media may be more powerful today than those mainstream press opportunities that you’ve been pursuing!  So, please take this example as proof that social media can work for you, too.

I’m not a “Top 100” Tweeter, nor do I follow 10,000 people on Twitter. I just wrote a decent post and the social media community rewarded that effort.

You can do this, too.

Thanks to the many re-tweeters and all of my new Twitter followers, too. Check out “4 Annoying Twitter Myths” here.  And the followup post “How to Get More Followers at the Twitter Party”- to see my list of people I recommend following on Twitter, too.

[Tough Twitter bird courtesy of Monkeyworks.]

How about you?  Is your business finding success using Twitter?

Thanks, James Holmes.

Today I had a great time chatting with my new friend, James Holmes.

We met online via Twitter.  It turns out that he is a big fan of my book, Internet Riches. 

Our common interest is in online marketing and small business success, so today we chatted for his podcast show.  Topics include e-business models, how to find a niche market, and Twitter protocol, too. 

James titled the interview, "Meet Scott Fox Author of "Internet Riches": A Conversation About Creating Online Marketing Success."  If you'd like to listen to 45 minutes of my Internet business strategy and online marketing tips, visit here to stream it online or download, too.

Thanks, James.

Disclosure Reminder

Scott Fox, The Liminal Institute, or associated persons or businesses may have content, promotional, advertising, customer, consulting, or equity relationships with the entities discussed or recommended on this web site. Many of the links on our web sites and in associated materials contain affiliate advertising codes, for example.

While efforts have been made to identify the best suppliers/vendors in each of these areas, we assume no liability for your use of them. You should use your own independent judgment to evaluate their services and fit for your needs.

Please see the Legal & Disclosures section for more details.

Marks, graphics, and names are property of their respective owners, as appropriate.

Thanks, Bill O'Reilly

Almost the #1 question I get when I speak in public is "What was it like to work with Bill O'Reilly?"

My short answer:  It was great.  We created a very profitable web business together and had fun doing it, too.  (I helped create BillOReilly.com back in 2002-2004.) 

But today was the final day of Bill's long-running and very successful radio program, "The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly."  So I called in to the radio show to congratulate Bill and his hard-working team on their continued success.

He was generous enough to not only take my call on the air, but Bill gave a hearty endorsement to Internet Riches and my new book, e-Riches 2.0, too.

Click the little PLAY button to listen here: 

ScottFox.com definitely got a nice traffic bump after that endorsement.

Thanks, Bill.

[And welcome to the many new Radio Factor listeners who have arrived today!  Please join us by subscribing to my fre-e email updates here.]

Radio with Jim Blasingame

Yesterday I had another great on-air chat with nationally-recognized small business expert (and radio host), Jim Blasingame.  Like me, Jim specializes in speaking "plain English" about business.

During this visit, we spoke about the surprising number of businesses that STILL don't have web sites, and how those business owners can and should get online now.

Right-click and "Save Target" to save this MP3 file to your hard drive. Then you can listen to this Small Business Advocate radio interview for some good info. It's a 30 minute segment.  I hope that you enjoy it.

I'm much obliged to...

My Radio Hosts!

Every Tuesday I have the pleasure of speaking with Sully and Russ "T" Nailz on their nationally-syndicated Business Talk Radio Network show, the Big Biz Show. Of course, I’m the guy who talks about pursuing small business success on the Internet. You can listen live weekdays from 5-6 pm ET on stations nationwide, live online here, or visit this link to hear a podcast.

Thanks also to my new friend Mike Butts of Mike Butts & Friends in the Morning of WNCL in Milford, DE, serving the Del-Mar-Va peninsula. Mike is savvy about opportunities online which made for an entertaining and informative conversation for Mike's morning drive time audience. Thanks, Mike, for your enthusiasm and the great dialogue.

Another early morning call was with Don Campbell of KETX in Livingston, TX. Texans got an earful of my theory that E-Commerce entrepreneurship is our generation's "Gold Rush."

And just last night, I had the exciting opportunity to be interviewed by Rick Frishman, the head of Planned TV Arts, the top publicity firm for authors. This national teleseminar attracted a LOT of listeners. We had a good time and took some great questions from callers, too. (You can listen to a replay of this call here.) Thanks, Rick!

Time on Your Hands this Weekend? Try Site Build It.

Holidays are great.  We all need breaks. But holidays can sometimes leave you with time on your hands.

When you're used to being busy, suddenly having a few hours unscheduled can be surprising.  It's not enough time to really go DO something but still enough time to wish you had more productive plans...

Here's a suggestion:  Take some time this weekend to investigate your own Internet business.  More specifically, check out Site Build It.  It's a great system that can help anybody develop their own online business.  They offer a free tour and an ironclad 100% money-back guarantee from their CEO, Ken Evoy, too.

Here are some links to get you started: My Review & Explanation of Site Build It Video Tour of Site Build It Site Build It sales pages If you've been reading my stuff, I know you've been thinking about an idea for an online business anyway.  Maybe this weekend you can find that extra couple of hours to dive in and finally get started!

BONUS FR-EE MP3:  I was on a radio program with the CEO of Site Build It last week.  You can listen to this 1 hour radio interview, courtesy of Peter Anthony Holder's "Holder Tonight" program on CJAD-Montreal/CFRB-Toronto.  Right click to download this fr-ee MP3 file to your PC and then click to play.

Lot's of inspiring information in this recording as Ken Evoy and I discuss the best bets for today's online entrepreneurs.  Check out Site Build It and get started!