Early 2009 at Bali Art Sales

2009 Bali ArtSales Experience
The new adventures of our reckless webnut.

Mid to late 2008 saw me with my new Mark 3 website (www.baliartsales.com). It's not enough to sit back with a sigh and a long ice-cool drink, and wait for your new customers to make their orders.
Even so, it was tempting to just watch the hits on the website as nature intended. After a while, and a few grumbles, it was Google Adwords and Adsense,the additional headaches of attempting to penetrate into the spin of the licence to print money that is Google. All the arcane terminology or skewed, deliberate mis-use of the English language to camouflage real intent, or the use of obscure explanations that only made things worse. Keyword choices, Placements, Ad Variations, CPC, CTR, CPM etc etc.
Anyway, that was one track to pursue clients.
The second one is to provide added value on the web-site by having items of interest like articles about art, culture, history.
This article is partially a plug for my site so here are the links:
Art: www.baliartsales.com/category/short-art-history/
Religion: www.baliartsales.com/category/religion/
About Bali: www.baliartsales.com/category/about-bali/
European Influence: www.baliartsales.com/category/european-influence/
History: www.baliartsales.com/category/history/
People: www.baliartsales.com/category/people/

Late 2008 to early 2009 has seen a quieting in orders (although one or two clients continue to order paintings in multiple dozens). I'm investigating international links for expanding the ranges of styles available, and introducing people to art they may not have been familiar with.
The worldwide credit disaster has not been kind to anyone, so we have to wait and see what develops.
Watch this space..

Maurice

PS: it would be great to hear from people reading these posts.