Ave Hurley Illustrations Featured Artist Network(AHI-FAN) is a social network and e-commerce marketplace for artists, painters, illustrators, photographers, visual artists, digital artists, pyrographic artists, art galleries, and fine art collectors.
Visitors to AHI-FAN can choose from around 4,000 pieces of original artwork including paintings, sculptures, drawings, mixed media, jewelry, and more! Many of the originals are also available as fine art prints-on-demand, right here at AHI-FAN as well as other recommended sites that our artists have accounts with.
Unlike large POD Sites, AHI-FAN is all about the artist first in helping them get established online in showing , promoting and selling their art.Tips on selling are provided along with tricks of the trade in marketing and promotional services.
Free members have access to all the tools, tutorials that are needed to do their own promotions and sales. They can sell here commission free . They can even re-direct a buyer to another website location when indicated.
Low cost Ad Campaigns are found or created to benefit the artists, saving them hundreds to thousands of dollars annually.
Cross promotions are done and encouraged and members can promote their own websites , stores, auctions and other websites with no fear , since the site is about the artist first and what will work for the artist in order to become successful.
There are many POD and social artsites out there, but they keep the artist reliant solely on their services alone and dont let out any trade secrets.
Ave Hurley shows simple easy to understand methods on presenting art and how to properly edit their works to gain search engine submission, thus promoting the artist so they never get lost in any photo pools as on most sites.
Supergroups is a listing of available sites to promote an artists works at that are eitehr completely free or very low cost.
AHI-FAN provides customized services tailored uniquely to the individual artist and provides personal attention to its members.
Promotional and advertising services are available for artists that either do not have command of the internet or haven't the time needed to do their own promotional work. AHI-FAN will promote any art site the member wishes and creates 'platform' advertising to promote the artist and will go beyond providing promotional tools that many artists don't know how to use, but will show artists how to do's and even for small upgraded membership fees will do all advertising and promotions for the member.No other POD does as much for its members as AHI-FAN !
AHI-FAN is a promotional tool and service for artists and art galleries due to it's continual integration of methods employed in trying to help artists get known online and not be lost in the shuffle of vanity press, artists as commodities type of businesses. It is not a business in the sense that other POD's are.
This is a network built by and artist for artists meant to meet the needs of the artist rather than just the corporate handlers.AHI-FAN is 'personal' and art collectors will come and get to know the artists and can contact them directly about their art. They can even commission artists here to do portraits, murals and custom artworks for various events.
Each visitor to AHI-FAN is unique among fine art websites and fosters a sense of community amongst the members of the site. Unlike other art websites AHI-FAN does not have nor allow any 'adult' content art, nor anything that is offensive to people of moral or religious backgrounds. All art on site is suitable for viewing by all ages and religious persuasions. It also encourages something completely unique - the purchasing of fine art originals by any of the moral majority of peoples as well as is suitable for homeschoolers art appreciation as well as budding young artists looking for inspiration, through browsing our galleries.
If an art buyer / collector can meet the artist to view his or her work, that collector is more inclined to to spend more money on original.
Unlike most POD's, AHI-FAN is not run strictly for profit and is evolving into what may become a "MySpace for Arts", created and run solely by and artist, Ave Hurley, with the assistance of administrators, Jacquei Essex and Nan Wright and friends that volunteer. The site is evolving and has already made its mark on the internet in under a year, since members began adding their art to its galleries.
All members of AHI-FAN can upload artwork, which is reviewed and approved to meet site standards of decency. Members can advertise in our Classifieds, blogs & forums to make announcements about their art and any upcoming events.
Artists can post job openings, post blogs, issue press releases through Twitter and Facebook and many other 'share' options available to them, and participate in online chats and discussions.
Membership onAHI-FAN is free, but participation and cooperation in the presenting and editing of their work is required . It is a pro-active manually run network that has a small in-house print-on-demand program, that requires no annual fee to participate in, unlike other sites that charge for the accessibility to printing when a sale is made. This alone saves all members approximately ts $30 / year.
AHI-FAN is currently adding new artists every week and growing steadily and is on it's way to becoming the safest most pro-active online destination for artists, galleries, and collectors from around the world.
For more information about AHI-FAN and our services, please contact: Ave Hurley or leave your comments here below. :)
