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If you're an artist interested in using the Internet to gain as much exposure as possible for your artwork, you owe it to yourself to check out this opportunity. For the first time ever, you can have your work displayed on a high profile web site, and maintain the content yourself 24 hours a day!
Doubletake Gallery's Award winning web site offers a large and ever changing inventory of artwork by the big name artists with whom visitors are already familiar. They find high quality art work, fair pricing, and great service on a web site that's unique to the Internet. Hundreds of visitors per day use Doubletake Gallery to find what they want, sell what they want to replace, or just spend some time window shopping.
As you may already know, having your own web site will not guarantee you'll have many visitors. In fact, most home pages get only a few visitors per week. On the other hand, Doubletake Gallery's web site is getting a large and ever growing visitor count. Good positioning on the major search engines and focused promotions are the key to our large traffic flow.
By displaying your art work on our web site, you greatly increase the odds of being noticed by qualified collectors (and other gallery owners) who are searching for new and unique types of art. It's like advertising in a magazine that's circulated to art collectors, except you can change the advertisement any time you want!
We contacted many artists before starting to build this page. What we were told was that it had to be organized, easily searched, and never, never out of date. Potential buyers had to be able to contact the artist directly, either to purchase or just to ask questions. It had to be easily updated directly by the artist, either at work during lunch or at 3:00am when that last touch has been applied to their latest masterpiece. And maybe most importantly for some, it had to be affordable. It sounded like a tall order, but it's exactly what we decided to build. Below are just some of the exciting details.
Artists are given a password that gives them easy access to add, change or delete any of their information. Any changes you make instantly updates the web site, 24 hours a day! Using this page is as easy as filling in a form and clicking "Submit". You will not need to learn any special programming codes.
Write your own brief "Artist's Statement" and attach a representational image next to it. Visitors are able to scan quickly through those statements by clicking on the artist's names.
Add to or change your Biography as often as you want. You can keep changing it until it reads exactly the way you want it to. As much contact information as you want can be included with the Biography, including address, studio phone, fax phone, email address and Home Page address.
List and display up to 20 works of your art in any media, with full size images, details, descriptions and prices. Add, change or delete art work from this list as often as you like. A built in FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program allows you to attach images to your art work titles with a simple click of your mouse. Even people with no previous computer experience will find the process easy to use.
You can use pull-down menus to select the Type, Style, Media, Subject and General Size of each individual piece that you put online. If you need to, adding a new category selection is as easy as typing it into a form.
Visitors are able to search by Type, Style, Media, Subject, and General Size so they can find the exact artist that best fit their interests. Because of the dynamic programming incorporated into the web page, visitors are only offered options that are currently available. Search results that return no values are a thing of the past.
Visitors are able to review your exhibition schedule, complete with dates and addresses. Completed exhibitions are automatically added to your list of past exhibitions. You're also able to display a list of Museums, Corporations and Private collections that include your artwork. Details about each collection can be kept private or made public, at your discretion.
You do not pay a percentage of your sales to Doubletake Gallery unless we're retained to help secure a sale. We're here to help if you need us, but only if you need us.
Our philosophy is simple; if the Emerging Artists Page is easy and affordable, you'll take advantage of it. If it's designed well so that different Styles, Subjects and Media's are easily found, collectors will come back often and be willing to buy from you.
You can retain Doubletake Gallery to act as a Transfer Agent as needed to help facilitate a pending sale. Those services include packing, shipping and insurance of your sold pieces and coordinating the transfer of funds between you and the buyer. We can also scan artwork from photos that you supply to us, and attach the completed image files to the appropriate artwork titles. If you need a price quote on any of those service, just give us a call.
Planning future upgrades to Doubletake Gallery's Emerging Artists Page is continuous so that it will remain the best location for art collectors to see new artistic talent. Some of these upgrades will be included in the basic monthly service package while others will be offered separately. Listed below are just a few of the ideas currently under development.
You'll be able to store your client's email addresses in your own private database. Visitors will be given the option to add their name and email address directly to this database. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you'll be able to bulk email an exhibition announcement or a postcard of your latest release to those potential clients.
When visitors to Doubletake's web site are browsing through works by established artists, they'll be offered the option of viewing a list of emerging artists that share the same style of art work as that established artist. That way, if a visitor to the web site recognizes an artist's name, but they don't know what that artist's artistic style is called, they can still find emerging artists working in a similar style.
A voting system will be created so that visitors can vote for their favorite artist and/or their favorite piece. At the end of each month, the votes will be tallied and the winning Artist will be given a privileged position on Doubletake's Home Page.
If you would like the opportunity to display your artwork on this semi-exclusive web page, please mail a few photo's of your artwork, along with your name, address and phone number, to Doubletake Gallery at the address below. We'll contact you after we receive it. If you currently have your artwork on the web, you can also Email the URL address where it's located. Make sure you include your full contact information in the email so we can get back in touch with you after we visit the website. Visit our Sponsor  Current Inventory | Classified Ads | Emerging Artists | Price Lists About Doubletake | Home Copyright © 1997 - 1998 Doubletake Gallery, All Rights Reserved | ||||||||||||||