Build a Blog

Including tutorials on your artist blog is a great way to establish yourself as an expert in your indie business. Follow these steps to write a tutorial that your readers will love — and that just might get picked up by a popular website!

Author and blogger Alyson Stanfield reveals her best secrets for maintaining an artist blog — an essential part of marketing for artists. Founder of the Art Biz Coach and Art Biz Blog websites and author of "I’d Rather Be in the Studio: The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion," Alyson explains how to find the motivation to keep your blog fresh and filled with great content.

Using pictures on blogs can raise lots of sticky issues around who owns the image, whether it's OK for you to post it, and how to credit correctly. You'll probably want to use photos on your indie business blog from time to time. These tips will show you how to credit the photos you post to your indie business blog, and ensure that using pictures on blogs won't get the blog writers in trouble.

An indie business blog is a great tool in the craft community. You can reach potential customers, make new friends, even get book deals from an indie business blog. But where do you start when it's time to launch a new blog? These tips will show you how to create a blog that will draw readers and help build your business.

A craft blog can help you gain more exposure for your indie business, regardless of what you make and sell. But when you you write your own artist blog, it's easy to feel like just one of many voices throwing their posts out there into the world. Try these easy tips to help drive more traffic to your craft blog — and gain you more sales.