Getting onto the first page of Google searches is the holy grail of Internet Marketing.

Thousands of  posts have been written on Search Engine Optimisation, yet I can tell you how to do this in six words:

Put Keywords in Your Domain Name

That’s it. Simple isn’t it?
It just costs the price of a domain name, and web hosting.

Knowing how powerful keywords are in domain names, means that you should carefully consider what keywords you want, before registering the domain.

John McNally
Painting in Leamington Spa, England

There are some good things about being born in the 1950′s. Playing football in the streets (less cars), watching England win the world cup, and collecting comics in the 1960′s in the middle of an exciting time that is now called the ‘Silver Age’, (‘Gold’ is pre 1950′s).

Jim Steranko at Marvel and Neal Adams at DC Comics were the most prominent new artists of the late ’60s to enter a field that had been relatively hostile to new artists … and they brought breaths of modernism, referencing advertising art and pop art as much as comics.

I have just completed a painting of the Simpsons walking along Abbey Road zebra crossing ala the famous Beatles album cover.

           I started this last year and then got diverted onto other projects.   Now my project is to finish off all the half-completed paintings I have hanging around.

Any Beatle fan will immediately recognise this image. Homer Simpson is John Lennon, Marge Simpson is Ringo Starr, Bart Simpson is Paul McCartney and Lisa Simpson is George Harrison.

Have you ever wondered how those top selling Artists became Internet Marketing Superstars?

Would you like to taste the Success that these Artists have experienced?

If you answered ‘Yes’ to either of these questions, then you might want to check out this brand new product from Artist  and Internet Marketer Joelle Rene’ Hughes:

“Art Marketing Success” is not just another ‘fluff filled’ product containing lots of useless information.  This eBook was  created by an Artist who herself struggled with the challenges that Artists face when trying to sell their creations on  the internet.

Sold another painting last night, which will keep me in beer money for a couple of weeks.   I am a very happy artist at the moment because this is the first painting I have sold that isn’t based on a comic character, film or musician (my favourite subjects).

It was a painting of some sheep and a shepherd originally created by the British artist Mackenzie Thorpe. He was a favourite of the old Conservative Party leader William Hague, who used one of Mackenzie Thorpe’s paintings for his family Xmas card. MacKenzie Thorpe originals are quite expensive, and it’s usually just prints that you see in local galleries. (Even the prints are about £300).

Do you know what it takes to be a leading player in today’s overcrowded art market niche?

Do you even know what it takes to get in the game?

These are the questions that have perplexed internet marketer, Joelle Hughes for years and began her quest for the  answers.

Why would she care?  Because she is an artist herself and has struggled with the challenge of becoming successful selling  art in today’s saturated online market place.

Yippee! Last night I went to the pub, sold two of my paintings, and took an order for another one from the Landlord. That meant I drank all night and came back from the Hope and Anchor with more money than I started with.

This wasn’t an accident, but it WAS unexpected. One of the locals wanted a painting of the Alex character played by Malcolm McDowell in the film A Clockwork Orange. I painted two versions so he would have a choice. Then I took them to the pub together with another Clockwork Orange painting that I completed last year. 

The American Film Institute have named my favourite movie as the best Science Fiction film of all time;  2001 A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1968. The full list is here:
 

The film Clockwork Orange was banned in the UK because the director Stanley Kubrick feared British society could not cope with the ‘ultra-violence’ it depicted. There had been tabloid newspaper reports of ‘copycat’ violence breaking out after the film was released, and Kubrick himself had received death threats.

What made Clockwork Orange so controversial?

It was beautifully filmed and used Beethoven as the soundtrack. The violent scenes were often in slow motion with almost balletic aspects. 

Alex and his feral gang had their own uniform of white boiler suits, black braces and a bowler hat. They even had their own language. “Horror show” meant ‘good’ or ‘wicked’ in todays terms.  The overall effect was to glorify violence and make it seem trendy and fun. Not a good message for the youth of Britain.

The customer is always right, so if your clients make any suggestions to you, it’s worth following up. I am currently painting pictures of Batman for one of my customers. I would not normally have chosen this subject as Batman is a DC (Detective Comics) character, and I have always been a Marvel Comics fan.

I have already supplied a painting of Voldemort (Harry Potter’s arch enemy) for Esther, who gave it to her son for his birthday. Now her other son also wants a painting, and he is a Batman fan. Although the customer is always right, you can still negotiate and adapt any suggestions made.