Do You Have at Least One Thousand Twitter Followers?

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Do you have a Twitter account to promote your art and drive traffic to your website? The common adage is that unless you have one thousand or more Twitter followers you are not in the Twitter game and no one takes you seriously on Twitter!

When I find a Twitter account with very few followers I know that it is either a new account or inactive. What is your Twitter account telling others about you? The more followers you have the more others will want to follow you. Twitter people want to follow active accounts with thousands of followers.

My Twitter account @Artozon (Artists On Amazon) has 6,910 followers. From my @Artozon account I regularly Tweet news about the art available in my Transmedia Artist Amazon Pro Store.

I have other Twitter accounts too. From my @TransArtGuide Twitter account (which currently has 5,595 followers) I Tweet ebook news, links to my published articles on artists, arts business and artist news.

Both my @Artozon and @TransArtGuide Twitter accounts have thousands of followers. I can get thousands of Twitter followers for your Twitter account too. I offer Twitter account management to visual artists and arts professionals. I set up an account for you and keep it active with daily tweets at key times, adding new followers daily, send out Tweets about you, your art, your news, to increase your online presence and visibility. I get hundreds of new followers for you each week–read the details here.

Currently, I manage two Twitter accounts for artists. One account has over 4,000 followers and one has 5,237 followers. Tomorrow they will both have dozens more following them.

Since I spend a couple of hours on Twitter every day, at every opportunity I visit follower’s Twitter profiles to discover new sites. Here are two I found this week that may be of interest to you:

The Entry Thingy lists many small town USA arts events call for submissions. If you look down the list you will also find New York, Miami and other large city opportunities. In the list I encountered this San Francisco Flat File opportunity.

The new, still in Beta testing, Graduate Showcase is a free art student site for listing art and connecting with opportunities.

Naive Emerging Artists Operating on Assumption + Attitude

Sunday News after the Passing

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Some emerging artists maintain a fantasy that someone will search the web for details and put together news about them. They may even expect this and assume that is how things will happen for them. When asked for a press release or if they have a news room, in comes the attitude! They don’t have time, don’t want to “sell out”(!?) or “become corporate”(!?).

Guess what?! Your good friend, spouse, partner or a paid assistant might search the web about you and put together a news room for you but why would a news writers do all that work for free? If you want press coverage–whether an article published in a traditional print newspaper or magazine, or an online article by a contributing writer for Yahoo! or Technorati news or for a blog, then you will need to provide lots of new and up-to-date information to the writer!

Become a Press Friendly Artist (article details news rooms and why you should have one and how to get a news room).

Another assumption some emerging artists make is that news writers rehashing old content found online and turn that into an article. Wrong! Guess what news writers need? News! That news may be your exhibit, open studio, new CD or DVD, your new book, the competition you won, your fascinating art-making technique, a new project, a new website community,a new shop, a new product, etc.

Any news article writer appreciates receiving a press release! All your details should be in a press release. (It is far too time consuming for the writer of any article to track down details about an artist! It is unrealistic to ask them to do so). Send your press release so the writer can formulate and ask questions from the information in the press release.  If you have news you should write a press release and send it out to all appropriate contacts. If you send out a press release it is likely that you will get an article published about your art that will bring you valuable exposure, attention, and increased sales.

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