update-interesting new artists' sites

http://www.alivenotdead.com/
HK based artists network -which found by co-founders in Rotten Tomatoes which has been sold by million dollars in 2004, a popular film reviews site in UK

http://www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/
interesting art project introduced by SXSW¬
cited form the site "The idea for this site originally came out of my own list in my diary, under the very same title: Things I have learned in my life so far. Astonishingly, I have only learned twenty or so things so far. Over the last five years I did manage to publish these maxims all over the world, in spaces normally occupied by advertisements and promotions: as billboards, projections, light-boxes, magazine spreads, annual report covers, fashion brochures, and, recently, as giant inflatable monkeys.

So here I extend this same question to you:

What have you learned in your life so far? What is it that you are fairly sure about? What is it that you believe in by now?
Please do write it down beautifully. Design it digitally, photograph it, draw it, scan it and upload it. Use any media that works for you, paint, sculpture, film…."

Unspoken rule for successful in art and design

There are always some unspoken rules for success in some area. 101 UNSPOKEN RULES FOR SUCCESS claims out 101 unspoken rules in PR arena.

I think there is also a unspoken rule for successful in art and design marketing: networking. Connecting hubs as more as you can. Please not only just work hard on your works, but also work hard on connecting.

Connect the appropriate influential hub--One of Chinese art collectors told me, some of artists always gift him some paintings. The reason why the artists give their works to him is because after gifting him art work, the artist might advertise he/she "xxx collected my art work". The art collector told me that would be a pretty influential advertising in industry, once a famous collectors collect the artist art work, the price of his/her work would be rise immediately.
In fashion industry, alike, once a celebrity wears one fashion designer's clothes, the designer would become famous.

Therefore, my dear talent artists and designers, you should proud of your talent, you should work hard on your work, but please don't ignore to develop your connection with the hubs in your industry.
Marketing your genius via your appropriate hubs would be the efficient way to exposure your talent to the world.

My dear artist and designers, please don't be shame to go to some industrial authorities and say hello to them. Some artists always complained that how they can know some influential person. Actually it won't be that difficult.
In short, 1,exposure your talent before media-(take part of some competitions, join some online/off line social network)
2.find out the hubs in the networks, talk to hub person what you want and what you have-don't be shy!

But meanwhile you have to make sure your ability is good enough! It is the precondition of what I talked above
Good luck ¬I will going to analysis some list of networks for art and design sooner.

Wondering about how Sayvee can make money from poor artists and designers

This idea looks good for artists who want to build a website, right?
I tracked back to this coming simple web tool for art and design businesses...Sayvee!!
still have to wait... http://www.sayvee.com/content/NewsItem_15

My research result showed me that over 90% artists and designers who are doing interent marekting thought their websites are the most effective internet marekting tool!

Sayvee sounds would be quite good to help the people who from the artistic background and new to the web stuffs...
but somehow I wondering whether can they make money or not...as I talked to one CMS company CEO in a conference .. he said CMS might be not suit for small businesses, because the cost of CMS might be a bit costly for small business...
according the talk with someone(cannot released his name:P), an internet marketing expert in the biggest Chinese internet marekting company, he indicated that his clients just the big companies...not the small businesses, because they have less money, though the Internet marekting can help a lot for the small businesses...

...I wondering how can Sayvee make money from the poor artists and desingers?

3 WHYs for creative businesses

*why creative industry practitioners need business skills?
-The Creative Industries Task Force(CITF) recognize the important role played by further and higher education in training our future artists, crafts people and technicians, more graduates with creative degrees not only securing relevant emplotment, but also equipped with the business skills they will need to successd.(15)
-In a research (Source from : Qualitative data given by fraduates from Gray's School of Art, with reference to the Destinations & Reflections survey shows that) , 26% graduates thought business knowledge and skills and 15% thought business interactions are needed.


*Why creative industry practitioners need the Internet to facilitate?
-the economice relevance of art and desgin. In this new world of information, knowledge, globalization and technology gaining and holding human attention will be the currency of the 21st century.(p42) Wikinomic appearing proof that technologies changed the business model to be globalizing, sharing and peering.
-art and design are both about personal development, growth and exposure to new ideas.
The Internet is a easier sharing place for sharing new ideas in order to develop to be better.（42） Such as the well know online networks can help that, even some new sites provide more technical options to share various different sources (such as Flickr, Youtube, Zapr...etc). the Internet facilitate sharing cross the technical barrier.
-around 14% graduates thought IT skills what they need to be improved after gain the skill of art and design(72) Source: Qualitative data given by fraduates from Gray's School of Art, with reference to the Destinations & Reflections survey shows that)



*Why the art and design businesses size are almost small?
-Artists will not necessarily see themselves as running businesses in the way that a craft designer maker will, although both may be self-employed.(77)
-there were 14% of 28.1million working people, are self employed, most people -over 60% worked for small and medium sized businesses.
-Small size business is good for creative business.
As small size is easier for manage. Well-known creative pioneer Michael Peter, is planing no longer to run a big company but a small business , in order to communicate with his creatives better.

an artist website tool

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sayvee_makes_awesome_promo_vid.php
"Canadian startup Sayvee will "soon" launch a new service that allows artists to quickly and easily create their own websites to sell their art, build community, support positive political causes and more. That doesn't sound like a show stopper (unless you're an artist in need of a website) but the videos the company made to promote their service are awesome!"

加拿大一个公司“ 即将” 推出一个新的服务帮助artist简单迅速地建立自己的网站，帮助销售艺术家的作品，虽然这不是一个show stopper除非你是一个一定需要网站的艺术家，但是这个服务的推广短篇很有趣。