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		<title>New Art Mural Wallpaper Website from Richard Wilde</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Art Mural Wallpaper Website Launched A new art and mural wallpaper company has been launched this week that aims to blur the lines between wallpaper design and art. The company, MuralsWallpaper.co.uk, aims to create exciting new possibilities and a new way of thinking when it comes to interior design. By offering unique services including [...]


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<h1><strong><span style="color: #888888;"><strong>New Art Mural Wallpaper Website Launched</strong></span></strong></h1>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">A new art and mural wallpaper company has been launched this week that aims to blur the lines between wallpaper design and art. The company,</span> <a href="http://www.muralswallpaper.co.uk/">MuralsWallpaper.co.uk</a>, <span style="color: #888888;">aims to create exciting new possibilities and a new way of thinking when it comes to interior design. By offering unique services including art wallpaper murals and a service where you can get your own</span> <a href="http://www.muralswallpaper.co.uk/bespoke-wallpaper.htm">bespoke wallpaper</a> <span style="color: #888888;">designed and created just for you, the company aims to revolutionise the way of thinking when it comes to decorating homes and commercial premises in a unique way.</span></h2>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">The company is looking to bring together designers and artists who can offer their skills and services to create original designs and art murals that can be sold as wallpaper permanently on the new website. A few artists are already contributing works, and the company is now looking for even more unique and interesting creative’s to contribute designs. The website could also prove a good money-earner for artists, as all profits on sales are split evenly between muralswallpaper.co.uk who manufacture the wallpaper, and the artists who design them.</span></h2>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">MuralsWallpaper.co.uk has been developed by the team behind the art community website</span> <a href="http://www.artybuzz.com/">Artybuzz.com</a>. <span style="color: #888888;">The creators feel that this new project will be of great interest to artists who would like their work created and shown in new and interesting areas. The concept is also an interesting offshoot from the current print on demand service offered by the team.</span></h2>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">For artists and designers who are interested in getting involved and having their work produced and sold as</span> <a href="http://www.muralswallpaper.co.uk/">murals wallpaper</a>, <span style="color: #888888;">they simply need to visit the website at</span> <a href="http://www.muralswallpaper.co.uk/">www.muralswallpaper.co.uk</a> <span style="color: #888888;">and get in touch if they would like their work to be considered.</span></h2>
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		<title>Treat Your Customers Well and Gain a Following</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Wilde is my guest blogger today in a blog post exchange in which I have participated. There are no magic quick fixes or techniques when it comes to marketing your artwork, or anything else for that matter. Successful marketers, brands, businesses and creative individuals who achieve sustained success concentrate on providing long term benefits [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #888888;"><em>Richard Wilde is my guest blogger today in a blog post exchange in which I have participated.</em></span></p>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">There are no magic  quick fixes or techniques when it comes to marketing your artwork, or anything  else for that matter. Successful marketers, brands, businesses and creative  individuals who achieve sustained success concentrate on providing long term  benefits to their customers, treating their customers well over time, and  meeting their customer’s needs effectively.</span></h2>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">As a creative  person looking to get generate business, it is therefore important to treat each  and every customer and potential customer well. Doing this will help you to gain  a following of loyal fans that truly love what you create, these type of fans  can be known as ‘true fans’. The ‘True Fans’ concept was raised by Kevin Kelly  on his website; ‘True Fans’ are fans and admirers of your work that will buy and  follow just about anything that you produce. They eagerly await your latest  work, they buy your latest prints and t shirts, and some of them are likely to  buy your latest original pieces of work when you create  them.</span></h2>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">If you concentrate  on developing 1000 True Fans then you can turn a hobby, a tiny business, or a  personal struggle to survive into a thriving lifestyle or business for yourself.  Let’s say on average a true fan would spend £50 a year on the work you produce,  if you have 1000 fans that’s a cool £50,000 a year, not a bad annual take home  in anyone’s book, and more than that, it is for doing the thing that you  love&#8230;producing your artwork.</span></h2>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">1000 is an  achievable number, if you added one a day it would only take three years, and at  the end of it you would be in a fantastic position. 1000 may be too many, if  your work sells for a good price then 100 may be enough. Think about this and  choose a number that you think you need to reach the goals you desire, and then  go for it.</span></h2>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">Treat each of your  customers well and slowly build up a loyal fan base over time, they will treat  you well if you do the same to them, and will also spread word of your work to  others, speeding things up very quickly when it comes to expanding your fan  base.</span></h2>
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<h2><span style="color: #888888;">On a slightly  biased but truly accurate note, a great place to start gaining and developing  your fan base is on</span> <a href="http://www.artybuzz.com/">www.Artybuzz.com</a><span style="color: #888888;">.  There are loads of people both on this site and who visit this site that have a  massive appreciation for art of all kinds, and they buy it. So speak to them,  comment on work, create and add work to groups etc. Get involved in websites  like this, make an effort, gain a following and get out what you put  in.</span></h2>
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<h2><em><span style="color: #888888;">This article was  contributed by Richard Wilde, owner of </span><a href="http://www.artybuzz.com/">www.artybuzz.com</a>, <span style="color: #888888;">an online</span> <a href="http://artybuzz.com/">artists  community</a> <span style="color: #888888;">where anyone can sell and buy art, design and photography  as</span> <a href="http://artybuzz.com/">giclee art  prints</a>, <a href="http://artybuzz.com/">canvas art prints</a>, <span style="color: #888888;">t shirts and much  more. This particular article is an extract from his free</span> <a href="http://artybuzz.com/ebook.php">Art Marketing Ebook</a><span style="color: #888888;">, which can be  downloaded for free and read at</span> <a href="http://www.artybuzz.com/ebook.php">http://www.artybuzz.com/ebook.php</a></em></h2>
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