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truly interesting… but the real question is : is my work worth of it ???
my best, francis.

Thank You Jason – much appreciated information – Thanks again!!

Very informative. Thank you.

Brilliant ideas, xxxxxxxxxx

Priceless information well received from me that’s for sure. I can’t thank redbubble enough. The amount of phenomenal contacts I have made and the commissions I have received have mostly been due to redbubble. I have been able to further my studies, gain personalised tuition from a former Uni level Art teacher and made amazing friends.

Thank you redbubble!

As an extra sideline to this, I was reading Australian Photography Magazine not long ago and came across a 6 page article on one of our own bubblers Victor Pugatschew. Actually thats not quite true. I bought the magazine because I saw the article as I was skimming it in the shop.

lol @Francis one man’s junk work is another man’s masterpiece. I recently joined twitter and have a couple art museum’s following me. I have noticed more traffic on my pages but have still not managed to sell multitudes of items nor have I been contacted by any of them but one never knows until you try.

.. Good advice…. but will it work ..?

That’s fantastic but I think the curator is Andrew May not Lay. Andrew does amazing work promoting photographers and putting together exhibitions, thank you Andrew for all you do.

Thank you!

Sam Dantone

Andrew is a member here Jason and I think it would be great for RB to also foster relationships with the people that are out there activily promoting and exhibiting RB artists, eg, may be some kind of sponsorship for exhibits, etc.
I think these relationships are just as important to RB and should be nurtured.

Wow….wonderful advice!
I wish I were in “that league” —maybe someday!!
Thanks for posting this!!!!

Very useful, thankyou! :-)

This is great. One more tip I’d throw in is to write the news yourself. Several of my local newspapers accept articles from the public for their community and what’s on sections. One of them has an online form to submit articles and even gives advice on how to structure your writing to improve your odds of it going to print.

Informative and helpful, thanks for posting!
And Kudos to Mindy McGregor and Tom Baumker :)

Fantastic!!!!!!!!

Congratulation’s to Mindy,

Another Tip:
Write a press release about yourself and a up and coming exhibition, I used a similar press release to this one and it was published.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/mchammerhead/journal/2440081-press-release

good to know, thanks rb :)

Wow thanks for this good info. I also belive it’s good to have your ducks in a row before diving into this. Business card, website, contact info.

.. You are correct Jason.. it takes a lot of effort, work and planning…

I have recently won 2 categories out 0f 8 in a competition run by Tourism Victoria and Travel in Australia magazine. This has resulted in 2 of my photos being turned into postcards and 2 more photos being published in this quarters edition of the magazine. (pages13 and 18).

http://www.travellinginaustralia.com.au/web_mag/low_121/web_mag.html

The overall winner of the is to announced this weekend at the Australian Travel Excahange conference. Australia’s premier tourism trade event.

http://www.visitvictoria.com/displayobject.cfm/objectid.B3BE6FB3-9271-4FB4-BD173786DDD753BB/

I have my redbubble address on all photos and i am hoping this will creat some business.
Any advice for when I am there?

Loads of great knowledge here!! Thanks so much for sharing this with us! It is nice to see fellow RB’ers getting publicity!! Maybe the next Ansel Adams will emerge!

I like to contact publishers and editors all over the world to showcase my talent, that’ll be cool.

no.6 is flawed ..
You always send images with a media release that is standard practice if a journalist is reading your information they dont want to wander around the internet trying to find your images clicking on links that might or might not work ,they read your exhibition info see what kind of work you produce and decide if they are interested and you offer to supply a higher res of your work under agreement if they need to reproduce in the chance of a cover story.

There’s enough work out there for all of us, you just gotta get at it the right way. Good luck all and great advice.

I’ve managed to be interviewed in the Photo Review Magazine Australia (check out the current edition) and have my photo on the cover! http://www.photoreview.com.au/information/photo-review-australia-magazine.aspx

I’ve had some really good feedback from it :-)

- paul

Interesting read. Thanks for the information !!!

good tips, thanks for putting them out there…

http://www.redbubble.com/people/zoet/journal/3238640-pay-it-forward

zoe

a good read.

I have found that it’s the unusual shot that’s the attention grabber where editors are concerned. For example,this one started me off on a nice association with our local community paper who has published several of my photos since. I keep up with local news and gossip and try to be in the right place at the right time (being retired is a big help here!) The paper’s own photographer takes the real “newsy” stuff so I look for a slant on the story – for example our recent big bush fire was well covered but my photos of the helitaks taking on water received almost as much space. Peter

Worth trying

Thanks for the info !!!

Wonderful advice ty, i actually came across RB quit accidentally, but i am enjoying being apart of a wonderfully talented community. I started out on another site where i sell my photos as stock photography here it is a lot different, and i am not sure if my stye really suites here.
Any help with this would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Thanks for posting this information. It’s very helpful and also encouraging.

Greeeat info thanks!

thanks for this .. and well done to those two artists, that’s fab !

Excellent and very helpful information, but as someone earlier has asked – Is my work good enough? I get so little response now on here, I fear I was just a novelty to start with.

Having said that I would encourage the youngsters on here to have a go. If at first you don’t succeed DON’T give up. Rejections are just stepping stones to success. Good Luck.

Several works of mine was published in one of the magazine in US name 76 PYRO issue number 7. they ask me photos and some story behind it and they are found me here…thanks Redbubble…with this some tips it helps me as i dont know nothing on this.

Great article and very interesting too,

Very helpful! thank you very much!

thank you!!!

Thanks a lot Jason and Jo O’Brien, I have been thinking of this, to be honest, thinking about it hasn’t done me much good so far, I believe the action goes further. :o)

The first step to the action is always the heavy one, and to know where to take off. How to sell the/your story. Comfort zone, it’s a nice place to be. :o) I guess it comes down to ask the question, “What have I got to lose?”

Such a GREAT information and very intriguing…but the real question is : is my work worth of it ???
TNX A LOT!

very helpful information! Thanks! Hope my work gets noticed! Soon!

Good Reading, and a nice solid gude up there. I like.

I was recently interviewed by Yuhmm magazine

http://www.yuhmm.com/rhys-mcdonald-decked-out/

It’s potentially NSFW, you’ve been warned.

Hoping to have the same chance ;)

There are heaps of benefits to getting a ‘press release’ published, not the least of which is the credibility it gives – one of my mentors says that advertising makes people hide their wallets – publicity makes them want your autograph!! There is certainly a real art to writing an effecitve press release …

Wow! Thanks so much for the tips. I will have some spare time up my sleeve in a few weeks, and I look forward to following through with some of your ideas.

The article written by Kerry Benjoe in the Leader-Post is very poor journalism. Unfortunately, the journo got the most basic thing wrong – the spelling of Mindy’s surname. Plenty of other mistakes in that piece, too.

Good luck to Mindy and Tom.

Congrats Mindy and Tom! I would also like to add that I have recently featured RedBubble artists in a quarterly ‘zine I publish online. When funding becomes more readily available, it will go to print four times a year but until that happens, I will be offering one print volume for the year.

The cover is from a brilliant RedBubble artist, Martin Muir, thanks Martin!!

Lori

The link in case you want in print is: www.nativlilith.com

oops correction - www.nativelilith.com

Hi…if i get noticed, i wud like my work published and earn, if possible…thanks RB for very encouraging note.

Here are a few additional tips provided by another reporter (and friend):

- Make sure that you contact the right person at the publication – search the web site or call the general number to find out who the right person is.

- Try to pitch the story with a time peg – an event or a release or something that has an upcoming date to which the story can be “pegged,” as we call it.

- Tell the publication about the story/event at least three to four weeks in advance (but not several months in advance).

- Before pitching, make sure the publication hasn’t written about that topic recently, or if they have, offer a different angle so they can’t say, “We just did something on that.”

- Think like a “regular person” when pitching, not like the specialist you inevitably are. Publications are looking for stories that will appeal to mass audiences, not developments that are only relevant to a small niche already dialed in to that subject.

- Press releases are helpful for some, but the basic info – who, what, where, when—plus a paragraph explaining what’s new or interesting about it is enough. Make sure to include a contact number.

hmmm… .

well done! Like Mindy I am also an artist and stay-at-home mum. Had some night photos shown in the Inner Northerns exhibition in Melbourne.

Great info and advice. Thanks for sharing!!

A.

This is all new to myself, I have never worked on line to show something off. I am attempting to show off some of my creative side in the music design prints I have presented online. They were done some 15-16 years ago when I retired from business and decided to venture into something that made me excited to get up every day and move forward. It cost me my wife of 25 years, kids and well my life surrounding that. Nevertheless I carried on and now that as of the 11th of June I am 60 I becoming excited to do it again through a different medium. As I said I don’t know what I am doing exactly but maybe with a little bit of luck and community help these prints of mine will open up a door around the World that I can walk into and be better than I am today and even better tomorrow. So if anyone out there wishes to assist me please contact myself and start a journey. Who know where it may go. A friend to all and to all a good day. Have a look and give me an opinion.

Very interesting article and I will try and implement some ofthe suggestions here. It is less difficult because I am in Hungary….but I will have a word ih he person who gave me an exhibiton recently, and see what he suggestes from the point of view of promoting my work.

thank you so muck

thank you for the write-up — information much appreciated & certainly to be taken on board!

wow sound so so interesting thing and works

POEM that I wrote “Oh to a Friend” and I have art work on this site and www.fineartamerica.com
Once again acrash from above
Again and again into the screen
Bird flew faster and harder
Each time hitting the ground
A fast running flash of fur
life or death for bird
Jaws not yet crushed
My pet release now!
My chest beat thump thump!
I embraced my new found friend motionless
Would you like a drink of cold water?
Still motionless
My friend and I drank and drank
Now awake with soft feathers, orange beak
shades of gray, purple, orange, and blue
such intellegent gentle eyes you have
I opened my hands to see my disabled friend
Like a bullet flew away
See you later, a friend
by Hal Newhouser

This is great info and much appreciation to RB for sharing this with us.
Now, is this possible for someone such as myself who is a beginner at photography. Also, someone who has low self-esteem and lack of confidence. This is a big step for someone like myself. Would this really be recommended for someone who is only a beginner such as myself?

Though since joining RB, I must add that everyone here has been totally excepting of me and my work. It appears that everyone seems to be equal (within reason) as to what levels we are all at. Experts or Beginners, no matter. I am getting some great comments back from my work (without sounding Bias), which I didn’t think I would. I thanks RB and the members for having me here and liking my photographs. BUT, back to my original question. Is this possible for someone like myself who is only just starting out in Digital Photography?
Thank you anyway for this very informative information. Greatly appreciated.

Thank You all for e-mailing me how does this promotion of my art work, take place? New to this. artisthal@aol.com Hal

Thank you for the info.

Oh very cool!

Great advice! Thank you!
Very inspiring stories! :)

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thanks for the tip!!