 | The Artopium.com Newsletter
Issue 3, Volume 1 | Hello My Friend,
You are receiving this email as you are a member artist of Artopium.com
Welcome to the third newsletter ever published by Artopium. What an momentous occasion! We've been publishing newsletters for nearly three years, and that's three newsletters; how exciting! Well, the great news I have for you today is indeed exciting. I've decided to forego the usual story and trivia questions, just to bring you this special information. Just keep reading and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed with everything Artopium.com has become.
Be sure to come back to the site and log into your account, as you will want to immediately make some changes to your profile page, including updating shipping preferences, and review preferences.
Amazing new features on Artopium.com
I'm incredibly excited to bring to you the news that Artopium.com has gone through some wonderful and innovating changes, granting more freedom and flexibility for you, the artist to sell your Creative Works online. It's been a long journey, but I think you'll be impressed by all the new features. Here's an almost complete list of what I'm calling Artopium 5.0.
New Features
For everyone...
1) Artopium has a new, sleak yet simple look, helping to present your work in the best way possible.
2) Every single written article has been updated with the latest information.
3) The "Art, Music, Fashion, Video & Book" drop down menus have been fixed so that work in most versions of IE
4) You may now sign up for Artopium's Newsletter once again. Just add your name and email to the feature at the bottom of the home page. It shouldn't be too long before a new newsletter comes out.
5) Artopium now has a new and improved privacy policy, protecting your sensitive information.
6) The Artopium forums have been removed. Nobody was using it anyway. I'm looking into new forums or blogs or something to take it's place, however, I'm not putting much effort into it until I see a need for it.
For Standard Artist Members...
7) All reviews posted by Artopium onlookers are now secured by captcha (people must solve a simple code to post). Only a very few people were being harrassed by spam, but not anymore!
8) "Buy Now" pages are now a lot more appealing to buyers. By presenting more information to buyers in a nicely formatted design they will be more enticed to buy. Also, buy now pages are much easier to be indexed by google and other search engines.
9) All Artist profile pages as well as buy now pages contain a "Link to this page" box, enabling people to copy and paste HTML links from their blogs, websites, forums, myspace pages, etc. to your art work.
10) You can now add google and youtube videos to your Creative Works by simply pasting the video embed code into the appropriate box when you "add a video clip". This feature only applies to Video Creative Works.
11) Totals for the amount of money either Pending, Verifying, Cancelled, Refunded, Completed and Paid Orders are now presented at the top of the Orders page.
12) You can now change the order in which your Creative Works are presented on your profile page, as well as the number of works per page.
13) The Shipping Center has been completely renovated and upgraded into a full fledged and fully functional shipping preferences settings page which enables you to set shipping costs (and insurance for original works) for your Works.
For Premium Artist Members... (Beta)
14) Artists who choose to upgrade their accounts for a small subscription will get a host of more features including:
15) The ability to instantly add your Creative Works to eBay! Just pick a category and your Creative Work is immediately available for bidding!
16) 80 MB more disk space (a total of 100 MB) for uploading music, video and images to Artopium.
17) A higher base rating for every Creative Work listed, pushing them all higher in the Artopium search results as well as causing them to appear on the Artopium home page more often.
18) Longer ranging statistics. Your stats will be saved for two years instead of only one.
19) Premium account holders will be charged nearly half the commission for sales of their works on Artopium. In essence this is the best feature, as if you are a high volume selller you can instantly increase your earnings. In accordance to these new changes a fees chart has been created.
20) There's probably more that I'm just forgetting to mention, but do you really want to sit there and keep reading about it, or are you going to go check out the new site at Artopium.com now?
Become a Premium Account holder! (Beta)
This is still a very new feature and is still in the beta testing phase. I am going to give away a few Premium accounts and let artists use the features such as adding works to eBay, completely for free for one year. This will eventually be a $24.99 per year value, but if you are interested in testing out the new features, please contact me and I will take a look at your account. I'm looking for artists who have a very well formed profile page, completed with everything that can be. The higher your rating points and account activity the better too. Anyway, this is a limited offer (maybe only 5) and will be on a first come first serve basis, so don't hesitate. Just contact me ASAP. :)
Festival In The Works
OK Folks, the next festival you've all been waiting for is now in the beginning stages. I've definitely decided that it will be in Portland (bet you didn't see that one coming). I have a few ideas about the location, but I won't say exactly where at this stage in the planning. Let's just say I'm shooting for downtown somewhere.
And this one's going to be big! No joke. I've got a great theme in mind and I hope to bring in a lot of different, very cool organizations to help put on something truly grand. If space and funding are available there will be two stages, and a very large area for booths. I'm currently writing up the budget for all of this, so if you, or anyone you know, can give me good estimates for stage, sound and lighting, as well as promotional ad space, it would be appreciated.
It would be nice to think that I can put together the festival I see in my mind by the end of this summer, but for the next Artopium Roving Festival to really be on the next level I'm thinking I may go ahead and set the date for 2010. I know this is really far ahead for most artists to book, so I'm going to wait a little while longer before opening the festival sign up.
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Sincerely,
Artopium News Staff
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