New project, Artful Dreamers Studio.  The studio is a fun place that holds art classes of all kinds, including intuitive art where you just let yourself go and paint like a child no holds back.  The studio wanted to get a custom look to their site which was in wordpress.  She was using a template but wanted it more unique to the studio, plus I added some cool marketing items like a feedburner email subscription to the blogs.  I also set it up so whenever Nadine blogs it goes straight to twitter then to facebook.  All in one social media in one click.

www.ArtfulDreamersStudio.com

I actually decided to take one of the classes there where we painted rocks.  It was really fun!  I hadn’t painted in AGES.  We were asked to paint what the rock wanted to tell us, or what we saw in the rock.  I saw an alien in mine.  Not exactly a masterpiece…but I gave it to my boyfriend and he likes it.

My alien rock

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Heather is the owner and creative director of Third Eye Studio, a graphic/web/art studio located in Lake Worth, South Florida.

…specializing in creative and unique custom print and web design. Let me help you grow your business!

I spent a bit of time this morning helping a client out navigate her way through the features of her blog that I designed.  I taught her how to add video to her pages and posts.  It’s not too difficult at all but some people don’t know how to do it and she is beginning to put them on youtube.  Ok, I am am more or less posting this because her video cracked me up…and I am pretty sure it was meant to be that way, so I know I am not insulting her by saying that.   I tend to attract more colorful friends and clients and I like it that way.

The Cosmic Guidance Counselor

Don’t forget to turn off her music before you view the vid!

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Heather is the owner and creative director of Third Eye Studio, a graphic/web/art studio located in Lake Worth, South Florida.

…specializing in creative and unique custom print and web design. Let me help you grow your business!

Doing a bit of research with keywords and found this cool plugin for wordpress.  I can’t say enough about how much I like wordpress.  I think it’s a great content management solution for a website and with this plugin it makes it much easier to sell your stuff online.  I can’t wait to try it out.

Wordpress Shopping Cart Plugin

It has social networking tools built into it so you can promote new items when you put them on your site.  Best of all it’s a free plugin, but of course there is an upgrade to premium services, but free is good!

BTW, I love designing custom wordpress websites…

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Heather is the owner and creative director of Third Eye Studio, a graphic/web/art studio located in Lake Worth, South Florida.

…specializing in creative and unique custom print and web design. Let me help you grow your business!

Build it and they will come.   Not necessarily.  Build the website, then talk about it, network, promote it, facebook and twitter it, seo and market your website THEN they will come.

How can you get a head start on the promotion and marketing, before it is even completed?  Put up a temp page while it is being built, even have an opt in form to begin building your database of new clients, even months before the site is ready to go.

Why do this?  Well, google takes a look at the age of domain as well as the inbound links to cast it’s vote to bring it up higher in the search engines.  Older sites with lots of people linking to them will have a higher search engine rating while the ones that are just starting out won’t have much at all.  While you are brainstorming, building the website and business plan, it’s a good idea to put a temporary page up and add it to the search engines and promote it, in the meantime.  When your site is ready to be launched, you will get a head start on traffic.  Make sure you have an opt in form for people to get your newsletter, so you can tell them when it is launched and ready to go, and of course, send them news and tips and specials when your are an official online business.  Basically, these are called landing pages, but it’s a good idea to use a landing page as a placeholder in the meantime.

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Heather is the owner and creative director of Third Eye Studio, a graphic/web/art studio located in Lake Worth, South Florida.

…specializing in creative and unique custom print and web design. Let me help you grow your business!

Just finished this article, I have to admit she has a point…where do all your best clients come from?

The only way to figure that out is to track it.  For me it has been a combination of my website (people finding me, my newsletter, referrals & networking).  What about you?

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Heather is the owner and creative director of Third Eye Studio, a graphic/web/art studio located in Lake Worth, South Florida.

…specializing in creative and unique custom print and web design. Let me help you grow your business!

I am sure this applies to other social media sites as well, but I noticed on my squidoo lenses you can add your blog rss feed.  This is great to get more traffic because squidoo is a highly trafficked website, so any links pointing to your site, and the more of them, will help shift some of that to yours.  I just added this blog to squidoo, let’s see what happens…

Third Eye Studio Squidoo Lense

I am sure there are social media sites that let you add your rss feed, just gotta find them…

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Heather is the owner and creative director of Third Eye Studio, a graphic/web/art studio located in Lake Worth, South Florida.

…specializing in creative and unique custom print and web design. Let me help you grow your business!

E – Book covers marketing, product developement, motivation, how to get started on the website, article marketing & more from Kat Smith – Starlove.  She did it all herself from trial and error, learn from her experiences on what works!

How to be an Entrepreneur Online E-Book

$12.99 (Instant Download after Payment)

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Heather is the owner and creative director of Third Eye Studio, a graphic/web/art studio located in Lake Worth, South Florida.

…specializing in creative and unique custom print and web design. Let me help you grow your business!

I was just listening to this particular show on marketing with Bob Bly and it had so much good information that would be great for the people I do work for, and me, of course!  There are so many ways to market your business with little or no cost, you just have to use your brain and think out of the box and use the internet.  I would also like to say they emphasize having a website….hint, hint, hint…anyway, check it out…

How to market your small business with little or no budget

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Heather is the owner and creative director of Third Eye Studio, a graphic/web/art studio located in Lake Worth, South Florida.

…specializing in creative and unique custom print and web design. Let me help you grow your business!

An autoresponder is a software program that allows you to send emails automatically at a set time, per week, per day…etc. It could be an email newsletter, a series of tips (health tips, meditation tips, thought for the day…) The emails can be sent out from a specified email list and people can subscribe and unsubsribe, automatically. No extra work on your part. Set it it up and go.

How can they be used to build your business?

Keeping in touch with your clients is a good way to continue building your relationship. People do not always buy from your website automatically so, with their permission, you can send them a series of emails set up over a period of time.

Here are some programs I know of that use autoresponder technology.

Constant Contact

IContact

Mailchimp

AWeber

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Heather is the owner and creative director of Third Eye Studio, a graphic/web/art studio located in Lake Worth, South Florida.

…specializing in creative and unique custom print and web design. Let me help you grow your business!