The 101 Guide to Choosing A Website Hosting Company for Your Illustration Website

When you’re thinking of making the switch from a hosted website platform - like Blogger, WordPress.com, Squarespace or similar - to hosting your own site, the whole process can seem like a daunting, mysterious vortex. One from which you’ll never escape! Before you even get to thinking about the fun bit - how it’s going… Continue Reading ⇒

How Does Your About Page Measure Up?

It usually comes as a shock to many illustrators when they check their stats and realise that the 2nd most visited page on their site - after their portfolio - is very often the “About” page. As an illustrator, the good thing about this statistic is that it gives you a golden opportunity to make… Continue Reading ⇒

Good Money Management Practices for a Profitable Illustration Business

If you are like many creative entrepreneurs, you may have a strained relationship with money. Obviously you’d like more of it but then again, you don’t want to sell out as an artist or compromise your creativity to get it. And when you do have it, it never seems to go as far as you… Continue Reading ⇒

5 Powerful Ways For Illustrators To Use Twitter Favorites

Are you on Twitter? Do you use the “Favorites” function? If not, then you’re missing out on a powerful tool which can be used creatively to help your illustration business, your creativity and your marketing. Here’s how…

5 Ways Illustrators and Artists Can Use Google Plus

Unless you’ve been in a creative cave recently, feverishly working away on your latest piece, you’ve probably noticed the online crowd is a-buzz with the latest social network to hit the scene: Google+ I jumped on it a couple of weeks ago and immediately saw some excellent ways it could be used as a business… Continue Reading ⇒