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10 Best Places to Sell Art Online

From the LinkedIn group, Art Lovers & Artistic Creations. We know that SOAR members use many, if not all, of these sites. We’ve also seen members using a site called Zatista. Share your experience with the community – please let us know which sites you use, and which you find most effective as tools for selling your artwork, in the comments!

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Call to Photographers: Women In Focus 3rd Annual International Women’s Exhibit 2014 In Celebration of International Women’s Month

More information at: http://womeninfocusatlanta.com/index.php/pages/2011_meetings.html

Women in Focus invites women photographers to enter our Virtual Photography Exhibit. In celebration of International Women’s Month March we are setting up a virtual Photography Exhibit on the Women In Focus website http://www.womeninfocusatlanta.com

Just click the image below, Virtual Exhibits International Women’s Exhibit 2013 to see last year’s exhibit. EXHIBIT INFORMATION

There is no entry fee each registered participant can upload a maximum of one photos per person. (see “How to Enter” below). Entries must be submitted no later than February 24, 2014

The Exhibit will be online as a Virtual Exhibit at the Women in Focus website. Entries are submitted electronically in the prescribed format (size, profile, color depth, file type). There will be a top 10 selection by the president of Women in Focus and those will be displayed at the top of the Virtual Exhibit. The Virtual Exhibit is open to

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Hannah West Design

  I would like to thank my connections at LinkedIn for the thoughtful and positive endorsements they have written for me! Thanks to my wonderful clients for their confidence in me and my work, and those I have worked with in the past in many  types of creative endeavors – you are all such good […]

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LeakedIn: Check if your LinkedIn password was leaked with this tool

We and many artists in the Rogue Valley use LinkedIn to advance our business networks. We found this article quite by accident and posted it asap since it’s information that might be vital to many of our friends and colleagues. We went ahead and used the LeakedIn tool and found our password had NOT been cracked, partly out of concern for the safety of our own data and partly to “go first” in case anyone gets sketched out about using the tool. We feel thenextweb.com is trustworthy, but thought it might make you feel safe to get another little peek at the message the tool uses so you feel better about checking your password with it. Details below: And by the way – if you haven’t done it yet, change your LinkedIn password and do it now!

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Top Contenders (Pretenders?) to be the Next Facebook

CNN’s What’s Next blog recently published a list of current social media outlets/apps that could take over as the “next Facebook” if everything falls into place. While there has been wild speculation in the past that other products would have replaced the big blue “F” by now, it hasn’t happened; however, I’m pretty sure that […]

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Social Media Demographics: Using the Right Tools to Reach Your Audience

Have you ever wondered if it’s worth your time to start that Pinterest page for your organization or business? Is it important that you know what Digg is? Thankfully, OnlineMBA.com has pulled together a fantastic infographic that will help you determine if Facebook is better for your message or if you should hurry up and […]

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CALL FOR ARTISTS TO SUBMIT TO ONLINE VIRTUAL GALLERY EXHIBIT SERIES

Artist Marketing Resources LinkedIN group members are invited to submit their 2-dimensional wall-art images for exhibition in a series of upcoming online shows in the 3D Virtual Gallery spaces of Exhibbit.

We are starting off our ongoing series of exhibitions with two gallery spaces. The curator will select an eclectic collection of artworks for each gallery. Exhibit titles will be devised from the artworks selected.

Shows will open March 1st 2012 and stay up for 3 months.

How to Submit: If you already follow the Artist Marketing Resources blog and are a member of the Artist Marketing Resources group on LinkedIN we are ready to accept your submissions. If you are not yet following, then go ahead and follow the blog ( http://ArtistMarketingResources.com ) then submit!

Send your submissions with the email subject link: Artist Submissions for Virtual Shows, include a link to your website or online portfolio in your

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Call to Women Photographers from LinkedIn Group for International Women’s Exhibit

International Women’s Month March, a virtual Exhibit on the Women In Focus website. Your image will be displayed for all to enjoy and share and the exhibit will be juried. www.womeninfocusatlanta.com/ The the top ten images will be printed displayed at the Central Library Gallery at One Margret Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Georgia. You only have two weeks to select your favorite and send your jpeg to me. [email protected]

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Transmedia Artist Marketing: Promotional opportunity with international art consultant

Thanks to Silvia Trujillo for forwarding this artist opportunity to us. We would appreciate feedback from artists on this particular art consultant if any of you have done business with her.

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