Blogging and Making Best Use of your Time

[EpiphaniesAfield]

My problem with respect to blogging, making art and selling will always be making best use of my time. My blog at http://epiphaniesafield.blogspot.com/ and my Etsy shop have always gotten low views and probably always will since it's visual art which is best sold, I think, face to face. Since my artwork itself takes hours and hours of time, much of it in remote outdoor locations, and since I work weekdays in a call center, I've been unwilling to invest much time in learning new untried ways of promoting my paintings and cards on line, preferring to learn and develop in a way that makes sense and is not overwhelming. However I want to keep gradually bringing traffic on line and wonder if a few people might look at the blog and suggest obvious next steps to make for increased visibility. Would the next thing be backlinks? Unlike a lot of Etsy sellers' blogs I think, my own centers on the experience and background knowledge giving rise to the art, not so much the technique or materials used in making the art. If I were linking with others I don't know if I'd want them necessarily to be other artists (this is not an absolute statement) but rather educated folks interested in travels in the natural world.

[Former_Member]

What matters is that you talk about your most passionate about, I find that was the key to making my blog grow over time. Because i am not just promoting my shop ( I rarely do) Instead I focus on things that have been happening in my life that I want to share with them. So I take it on a personal level not about promoting my items so much. Unless there is something new coming up in my shop I am willing to share or have a few pointers to enhance their experience in my products.

But otherwise its random things that I like to chat with. I also recommend blog hops. you will find people coming to check your blog out and some will follow you. I dont blog that much I keep it to a min of 2 posts a week and that works for me. I do so much and am so busy that 2 posts are the most I can do for now with me shop featuring and writing one post about myself its a lot of work on top of doing everything else... but it works for me... I find more people read my blog because I find random things to discuss rather than just shop stuff... it works better for me. In the beginning I used to talk about my shop and promote it but that got boring quickly... Even i got bored just talking about work all the time. When I started doing it random posts in what was interesting to me it helped so much in people reading my stuff. People knew I would have 2 posts each week to read on facebook and I would have Network blogs to have this posted and tweeted to get them to come reading :)