Guest post scams may be a new idea to you, but once you’ve got a blog on a custom domain with a few decent posts and a high enough DA (domain authority), you’ll start to get the emails.
They sound complementary and enthusiastic about your writing, and they say they want to publish a guest post on your blog. Should you let them?
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Branding yourself as an artist is a big deal – there are lots of articles floating around that will tell you how to brand yourself as an artist with streamlined visuals, typefaces and marketing materials, but that doesn’t always cut through to the deeper part of branding.
Besides that, it doesn’t address the underlying insecurity you may be feeling about yourself as “a brand”, and who you want that brand to appeal to.
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There’s a particular kind of emotional attachment that I feel about my websites. I don’t know if other artists feel the same way, or if it’s just because I’ve spent so much time labouring over them; anyway, they’re more to me than just a shopfront or a way to make money from words.
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Pinterest is one of the essential marketing platforms that I’d recommend to visual artists. I’ve been using a manual pinning method for some time now, but I needed to upgrade to a scheduler to be able to manage my multiple accounts.
Tailwind is purpose-made for Pinterest, but I found it too expensive for what I wanted – managing three Pinterest accounts and Instagram as well.
So I tried Buffer. Was it any good for Pinterest?
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When I think about writing up my creative activities for this blog, it’s always focused on the visual art side, because that’s how I mainly see myself.
When I talk about my writing here, it’s always focused on the creative writing or maybe critical essays, and even when I mention the journals I’ve published so far I don’t link to them because they belong in a non-art genre.
But this week my other writing career got a major shot in the arm, and took me off on the crest of a wave that’ll probably last for at least another week and pay off hugely for a long time to come. So far this week I have:
Often whilst balancing a cat on my lap. Oh, and I’ve experimented with copper-leafing a pair of shoes. Seriously.
Not entirely sure. Something started it – my guess would be finally committing to pay for Tailwind and accepting that I’d have to make some better images to make that investment worthwhile – and then I realised how very out-of-date a lot of my articles were, and how much better my entire publishing business could be if I just woke up and pulled my finger out.
Sometimes you just get into a rut with a creative business, and there’s nothing like parting with some money to create enough pain to snap you back into action!
So my big blog will get the benefit first, and then I’ll overhaul this one once that’s ticking over.
Well, it doesn’t hurt to try. I have a cat who particularly likes new shoes… he specifically likes to scratch them to bits.
I thought I might as well have a go at rescuing a pair that fell victim to his claws. Of course, being an art materials hoarder, I had one single sheet of metal leaf left from a sculpture I made in 2003, and the little bottle of leaf size to go with it.
Will it look good? That’s subjective, and high fashion doesn’t usually mind looking dreadful, if we’re telling the truth.
Will it stick? Now that’s something I’ll have to answer after the weekend.
