Living the Heart's Desire: Art, Video, & Healing for Spiritual Awakening

For those of you who didn’t see the post Announcing First Thursday Events – Share Your Best Blog Post, once a month (on the First Thursday of the month) I am hosting a day when you are free to list a link to your best blog post in the comments. It’s your chance to get your blog in front of a new audience, get a link back to your blog (always good for SEO), and have a chance to connect with other bloggers and have a little fun. And I get all of that and more traffic to my site. Good for us both. Consider it sort of a mini, nontraditional Blog Carnival you can join each month.

So list a link to one of your best blog post in the comments below. I use the CommentLuv plug-in so if you have a WordPress blog you automatically get a link to your most recent blog post if you check the box, and if you list another you get 2 for the price of 1. And who can resist a 2 for 1 sale, especially when the price is free!

Please pass the word to your fellow bloggers! All are welcome (but nothing x rated – let’s keep it family friendly) I look forward to reading your posts. Come back tomorrow and see what other people have posted. Be sure to comment on other bloggers posts (then you get more links back to your site!) Let’s all support each other in getting our message out into the world.

Not a blogger? Come read the posts and leave your comments. We all want your feedback!

PS. I just had a new idea! In addition, for those of you with web sites, but not a blog, post a link to that! And if you’d like to post a link to your fan page, do that, too. Then visit the blogs, websites and fan pages others post. Let’s support each other in getting our businesses out into the world!

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Clicking the CommentLuv icon under the post field will automatically create a link in your post to one of your recent blog posts. Please use it!

Next week on Thursday, November 4, there will be another “First Thursday” Event on my site. What’s a “First Thursday” Event? For those of you who didn’t see the post Announcing First Thursday Events – Share Your Best Blog Post, once a month (on the First Thursday of the month) I am hosting a day when you are free to list a link to your best blog post in the comments. It’s your chance to get your blog in front of a new audience, get a link back to your blog (always good for SEO), and have a chance to connect with other bloggers and have a little fun. And I get all of that and more traffic to my site. Good for us both. Consider it sort of a mini, nontraditional Blog Carnival you can join each month, or as your chance to guest post on my site.

Please pass the word to your fellow bloggers! All are welcome (but nothing x rated – let’s keep it family friendly). I look forward to your posts on November 4!

There will be a new post on November 4 to which you can post your comments. Last month there was a bit of confusion about where to post, so look for the new post from me on November 4.

Not a blogger? Come read the posts and give us your comments. We all want to hear from you!

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

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Today I’m going to introduce you to a website building course designed specifically for artists by Cory Huff (TheAbundantArtist.com) and Matt Mansfield, Selling Artwork Online. Corry specializes in helping other artists sell their work online, so knows intimately the problems artists face. He and Matt have created a six part course that takes you from setting up a simple WordPress site through setting up an e-commerce system to sell your art.

The course includes 28 step by step videos that aim to answer all your questions in the process of getting your site going. They include:

1. Start here:

• The-Dashboard
• Left-Column-Overview

2. Designing your site:

• Working-With-Themes
• Working-With-Widgets
• Custom-Menus
• Custom-Theme-Options-and-Editor
• Settings

3. Adding content to your site:

• Creating-and-Managing-Posts-Overview
• Creating-and-Managing-Posts-New-Post
• Creating-and-Managing-Posts-Advanced
• Categories-and-Tags
• Working-With-Media
• Working-With-Links
• Working-With-Pages
• Comments

4. Adding more functionality and features

• Users-and-Tools
• Plugins
• Updates

5. Setting up and image gallery

• NexGen-Gallery-Overview-and-Image-Upload
• NexGen-Gallery-Galleries-and-Albums
• NexGen-Gallery-Tags-and-Options
• NexGen-Gallery-Posts-and-Widgets

6. Selling Art from Your site:

• WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Activation-and-Overview
• WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Categories-and-Variations
• WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Products
• WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Widgets
• WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Settings
• WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Marketing-and-Upgrades
• WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Variations-Fix

And if that isn’t enough everyone who purchases the course gets six months free at The Abundant Artist Community, an online members-only forum for artists who are serious about growing their business. If you need hosting you’ll get six months of hosting for free as well. And all for the price of $150. AND…

The Guarantee: If you can’t figure out how to build a website using these video tutorials in the first 90 days, or if you’re unhappy with the course and the community for any reason, they will refund your money – no questions asked.

Here’s a quick look at the tutorials:

I think this is a very comprehensive program at a great price. And there is a money back guarantee! If you are an artist ready to create or recreate your website click here or the banner below for more information and purchasing options.

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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!

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