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Web Art Academy offers the Affiliate Program where you can make money by referring new members to the Club.
You can earn $35 per every new member who signs up via your affiliate link.
Please check the Frequently Asked Questions section for more information.
You can register as the Web Art Academy affiliate here.
Your affiliate link
Your affiliate link is available on an affiliate dashboard, it looks something like http://art.webartacademy.com/join-the-club?ap_id=username, where username is your unique id. Sometimes you might want your link to be shorter. This can be easily done by using free URL redirection services, like the services below:
» goo.gl
» cli.gs
» bit.ly
» tinyurl.com
Shorter links are useful in places where space is a premium, like on Twitter, for example. Your new shorter link will be redirected safely to its destination, keeping your affiliate username in place, so that you can earn commissions.
Below you will find a variety of promotional methods to advertise your affiliate link. The list includes both free and paid methods. Do not be overwhelmed with the amount of marketing jobs you will need to incorporate. Study the methods and select one or two that you feel comfortable to start with. Later on you may try another method and decide for yourself which one works best for you.
How to advertise your Web Art Academy affiliate link using FREE techniques
Email marketing
Article marketing
Banners marketing
Blog marketing
Facebook marketing
Press Release and News marketing
Twitter marketing
Social websites marketing
Social bookmarking marketing
Video marketing
Forums marketing
Blog commenting
Wizzley, Hubpages and Squidoo Marketing
Classified Ads Marketing
Google Plus marketing
Yahoo Answers Marketing
Yahoo Voices Marketing
Email marketing
If you have a list of friends, colleagues or subscribers, this is one of the most powerful ways to advertise your Web Art Academy affiliate link. Simply send an email describing the benefits of the fine art Club to those people on your list. If you’re serious about building your own list of subscribers and marketing to them, one of the best tools you can have is AWeber.com. This online system will help you to build and manage your list of subscribers, providing great opt-in boxes, email templates, deliverability and results reporting.
When sending an email to your contacts, please do not forget to include your affiliate link, so that your friends can be referred to the Club members. Here’s an example of an email you may wish to send to your contacts:
Email 1:
Subject: Oil Painting and Drawing Videos
Hi,
Just sending you this email because I think you might be interested in the Fine Art Video Tutorials available on Web Art Academy.
I’ve joined the Web Art Academy Club and I’m really enjoying the video lessons on classical oil painting and drawing techniques. Videos show step-by-step instructions from professional artist, Natalie Richy. Check it out:
[your affiliate link]
The fine art course is a six months program. Every month I receive new video lessons, video demonstrations and bonus books. There are lessons on oil painting as well as on drawing techniques. Every video opens new secrets I’m so glad to learn. Here is the link again:
[your affiliate link]
Kind regards,
[Your Name]
Email 2:
Subject Web Art Academy video course
Hi,
It’s been few days since I sent you news about the Web Art Academy video course. Did you have a chance to check it out?
It is a great resource of real practical knowledge on how to oil paint and draw. Academy tutors have made videos available that offer the step-by-step process of oil painting and drawing creation. I enjoy the course tremendously; it is like sitting next to a professional fine artist, watching how she paints and listening to the explanatory narration. Check this site out:
[your affiliate link]
Hope you will enjoy it as well.
Kind regards,
[Your Name]
P.S. They say the price will go up. I think it should. Use this opportunity to take advantage of the introductory offer:
[your affiliate link]
Article marketing
Advertising your Web Art Academy affiliate link on article sharing sites is another very powerful way to get it noticed. Article sharing sites are well-ranked by Google, with lots of searches and readers each day. All you need to do is to write a short article (about 500 words) explaining what the Web Art Academy Club is all about, and how it would be beneficial to fine art students who are looking improve their oil painting and drawing skills. You may incorporate your affiliate link into the article. Please make sure you have the link in an author description box. This is the short paragraph telling the world about you.
You may use the following article marketing strategy:
• write or re-write 10 unique articles about the Web Art Academy courses (or ask someone to do it for you for as little as $5 per article on fiver.com)
• publish 10 articles on 10 article-sharing sites, multiplying your exposure;
• In time you will end up with not 100 articles, but 1000s!
• Web-masters and blog owners around the world are looking for good quality content to be published on their websites. They are free to use your articles, on the condition that they keep the author box that includes your affiliate link. You know the rest; people will be coming from all over the world via your link without you working hard. If done well, it’s a great way to earn passive income, earning as you sleep.
Please check a couple of article examples you can use as an inspiration: Web Art Academy Articles.
You may use the following article sharing sites.
» EzineArticles
» Submit Your Article
» Suite101
» Helium
» ArticleDashboard
» GoArticles
» Buzzle
» Isnare
» ArticleCity
» IdeaMarketers
» Article Alley
» TheWhir
» Articles Factory
» Amazines
» Article Snatch
Banners marketing
This is the most eye catching way to advertise your Web Art Academy affiliate link. You will have a variety of ready-made banners in different sizes you may use straight away. To access the banners, please login to your affiliate dashboard and click on Ads / Banners. All the banner files are already hosted on the Web Art Academy server, so you don’t have to do anything technical in order to use them. Just copy the code, which already includes your unique affiliate link, and paste it into your website or blog.
Blog marketing
Marketing your Web Art Academy affiliate link on a blog is a great way to get results. This applies if you already have a blog. If you don’t, it’s easy to set one up and doesn’t cost anything if you use one of the free blog publishing platforms. If you would like to make a new blog, please check the following sites where you can do so free of charge.
» blogger.com
» tumblr.com
» wordpress.org
» posterous.com
When you have your blog set up, the next thing is to populate it with content. In addition to your posts, you may consider publishing articles about the Web Art Academy fine art course, place banners, or even set up an opt-in box to collect your subscribers list so that you can send them news and updates together with information about the Web Art Academy. Such posts, banners and emails should contain your affiliate link, so that the next time a new member joins the Club via your link, you get a commission.
Facebook marketing
If you have a Facebook account, then you know what potential it has. Facebook is used by hundreds of million people who share and communicate, so aggressive marketing is not the way it should be used. Share your experience about the Web Art Academy course, or tell a short story about your thoughts on the course. You may post photos of your new paintings and drawings, or just simply share your inspirational words. Don’t forget to include your affiliate link, so others may find the Academy you are talking about. Direct messages or participation in fan pages are also good ways to get your affiliate link spread over the Internet.
Press Release and News marketing
Utilising Press Releases that are published online is a really powerful strategy in marketing your Web Art Academy affiliate link. There are hundreds of thousands of news correspondents around the globe who are constantly looking for new material. If your press release is found and used by a major media company, it may result in a massive traffic surge coming through your affiliate link. Please view this example of the press release about the Web Art Academy:
» Web Art Academy Press Release.
Below are some Press Release and News publishing sites you may find useful:
» pressitt.com
» openpr.com
» Free-Press-Release.com
» PRLog.org
» 1888PressRelease.com
» NewswireToday.com
» PR-Inside.com
» 24-7 PressRelease.com
» EcommWire.com
» TheOpenPress.com
» PressMethod.com
» Free-Press-Release-Center.info
Paid Press release submissions:
» PRNewsWire.com
» I-Newswire.com
» PRWeb.com
» PRLeap.com
Twitter marketing
In recent years Twitter has become one of the websites you should not ignore when it comes to marketing your affiliate link. With millions of users around the world actively tweeting on Twitter.com on a daily basis, using Twitter is a great opportunity for your link to be noticed. If you don’t have a Twitter account yet, register one today. It’s free and fast to set up. There are thousands of websites telling people how to use Twitter, so I won’t describe in details what you might already know. However, there are a few tips you might consider.
• Shorten your Web Art Academy affiliate link because Twitter’s micro-posts are limited to only 140 characters. URL shortening is described here.
• Follow and gather followers who have a fine art background, thus greatly improving your chances of conversion.
• Don’t use straight-forward advertising.Twitter is for communication, not for sales. You have a much better chance of telling people about your personal experience with the Web Art Academy and helpfully providing a link to it, than by telling them to visit the site
• Use one of the automated services to manage your Twitter account. Automatic tweeting is a great way to save time. Check for example
Socialoomph.com. You can use this service free of charge.
Social websites marketing
There are many other social websites aside from Facebook and Twitter. The number of users on those sites is smaller, however, and some sites will be more relevant to the topic of fine art education. Those can provide better results in driving traffic with your affiliate link, converting it to the Web Art Academy members.
» Teachstreet.com – information for student on classes and teachers
» Taltopia.com – online artists community
» Gather.com – creative content sharing and cultural discussions
» Lifeknot.com – interests and hobbies
Image and Photo Sharing sites marketing:
» DeviantArt.com – creative portfolio sharing
» Lafango.com – creative portfolio sharing
» Flickr.com – photo sharing
» Dailybooth.com – photo sharing
» Fotki.com – photo sharing
Social bookmarking marketing
Social bookmarking is a great way to share your favourite websites that have multi-millions of internet users in their communities or forums. You just create a free account on the sites listed below and bookmark your affiliate link URL giving a short description why you like the Web Art Academy fine art course. Your affiliate link will be published in seconds, inviting people to visit the site.
Please use this list of most popular social bookmarking sites:
» Digg.com
» Stumbleupon.com
» Reddit.com
» Buzzfeed.com
» Delicious.com
» Tweetmeme.com
» Fark.com
» Slashdot.org
» Friendfeed.com
» Clipmarks.com
» Newsvine.com
» Diigo.com
» Dzone.com
» Chime.in
Video marketing
The way people search the Web has changed forever since YouTube has been introduced to the market and bought by Google. You can use this great wave of video searches to advertise your Web Art Academy affiliate link. Simply register a free YouTube account, if you don’t have one yet, and upload any videos you think would attract the attention of a targeted audience.
A video can be quite short, under 10 minutes. You may think it requires a lot of effort but it’s actually very easy to do. No video editing or other technical skills are required to place your video online. What kind of video it could be could it be? You may just take Just use any video camera – your phone, iPad, digital camcorder or flip camera and shoot a couple minutes saying why you think the Web Art Academy is a great place to learn fine art online, mention your personal experience in taking the course, or just your opinions on the oil painting techniques you discovered in the video lessons. You could also take a short video of your latest artworks and narrate a few words while filming.
Give a meaningful fine art-related name to the video file. When uploading the new video, be sure to use fine art-related tags and keywords in the video description. This how people will find your video, based on your keywords. Its very important to include your affiliate link in a video description. You may place the link twice. Begin with a link, give a good description and end with the same link. You may also embed your affiliate link into the video itself. When viewers find your video, they will be curious to know what Web Art Academy Club you are referring to, so they will click on a link. The main video sharing website today is YouTube.
You may consider the following video sharing sites:
» YouTube
» Blip.tv
» Vimeo.com
» Viddler.com
» Dailymotion.com
» Oneworldgroup.org/tv
» 5min.com
» BrightCove
» Metacafe
» Flixya
You may use Oneload.com to aggregate video uploads.
This can be a very useful tool to advertise via video sharing – Trafficgeyser.com (paid service).
Forums marketing
Marketing your Web Art Academy affiliate link on fine art-related forums can deliver really good results. Forums are a great way to be engage in discussions and be helpful to other people, by providing the information they are after. You can also start your own threads. Here are a few tips you should be aware of. Do not use forums for straight advertising. People are there not to be sold to, but to get answers to what bothers and fascinates them. So try to help them. If your answer would be more helpful by mentioning the Web Art Academy course, so be it; otherwise it’s OK to just be involved in a conversation. After some time and a few posts later, you could include an affiliate link in your signature. Everyone reading your helpful responses will also notice what your signature is saying. You may put something like "I love the Web Art Academy Course" or "I’m so happy to discover traditional oil painting and drawing techniques" into your signature. Curiosity will take forum readers from your link to the Club.
Please peruse some fine art related forums you may start with.
» Wet Canvas
» Fine-Art.com Community
» Concept Art Forum
» Art Fortune Forum
» Art-Newsletter Forum
» Fine Art Registry Forum
» Art Span Forum
» ArtConversation.com Forum
Blog commenting
There are millions of blogs out there and many of them accept comments from readers and visitors. Of course it makes sense to use blogs closely related to the fine art topic. You can google such blogs using the following method. Do a Google search for something like "fine art" + "submit comment" or "oil painting" + "leave a reply". This will give a long list of search results with websites that use your chosen keywords, as well as allow you to post a comment. Some blogs moderate comments, and some don’t. It is better to go for more popular blogs with higher page ranks (PR), which will give you better odds your comment will be moderated, published and found by readers.
By its nature, commenting is not direct advertising, so be polite and helpful. Comment on the topic of a particular article, give your opinion or compliment the writer. Don’t leave short message like, "Nice blog" or "Very interesting article". Comments like that are too generic and don’t add any value to the blog. The best thing you can do is close your comment with a question. This will indicate you’re interested in the topic and want to know more. It will also help a commenting chain to grow, which is exactly what blog owners want. Be sure to include your affiliate link, but do it in a way that engages conversation and provides value.
For example, the following comment on an oil painting technique would be appropriate: "Thank you so much for sharing the info on the oil painting technique. It is really useful to know. I’m currently taking the Web Art Academy course and would like to learn everything I can on traditional oil painting methods. Will you be publishing any more articles on this topic? Also, it would be great to find out what the average number of paint layers it takes to do a painting in Old Masters style." Wouldn’t you agree that such a comment has a much better chance of being approved and published?
Wizzley, Hubpages and Squidoo Marketing
» Wizzley.com
» Hubpages.com
» Squidoo.com
These three community blog sites are very popular and rank high in search engine results. You can use one, two or all three of them to market your Web Art Academy affiliate link. All three sites have similar functions. You can create accounts and publish your pages on fine art related topics. This is quite similar to article marketing, but with these sites, you can embed images and videos. Wizzley provides automatic interlinking of content showing the latest 6 articles you’ve published. Another advantage of community blogs is revenue sharing. You enter your Adsense, Amazon, Allposters and Dazzle ID information into your account settings and every impression can generate a small profit. Well-written and presented pages (on Squidoo they’re called ‘lenses’) will have a great deal of visitors, so having your affiliate link there will deliver the results you want.
Classified Ads Marketing
Free classified ads are a great way to advertise your Web Art Academy affiliate link. Search engines are constantly crawling classified ads and many people find them. There are hundreds of classified websites today. You can start with the following list:
» USFreeAds.com
» Craigslist.com
» 88db.com
» Oodle.com
USFreeAds.com is one of the biggest classified ad sites. For $9.99 per month you can place UNLIMITED ads. And, you can link directly with your affiliate link. Use the "Hobby & Leisure" Classified section to advertise your Web Art Academy affiliate link.
Craigslist.com is by far the biggest Classified Ads Site. The best strategy for using Craigslist is to make a "sandwich" of links. Place a free ad on Craigslist and link it to the article page you published earlier on an article sharing site, even better, link it to your personal blog post. Needless to say, your article or blog should have your Web Art Academy affiliate link or banner. So, link your Craigslist.com classified ad to your article or blog, then link the article or post to Web Art Academy website using your affiliate link.
88Db.com is a classified ads ad site that is based in Asia. Upon login pick any country to list under – Hong Kong, India or China – you don’t need to be a resident there. Just set up your account and start adding your classified ads. Make sure you use their picture uploader and put up some nice pics. This site can return really great results.
Oodle.com – another great place to publish your classified ads. Similar to USFreeads, CraigsList and 88db.com, you can publish ads containing your Web Art Academy affiliate link. Use good descriptions, images and link.
A few last tips on using classified ads to advertise your affiliate link
• Don’t spam. Give people a reason to be interested in Web Art Academy course, describe its benefits and the value of fine art video lessons.
• Publish ads often. Over time old ads will fade away, so make it a routine and keep them current.
• Use various headlines, tags, descriptions and images. This will help you to avoid duplicate content and keep your ads fresh.
• Submit your ads to social bookmarking sites such as Dig.com or Delicious.com. Don’t overdo it. Quality here is better than quantity.
Google Plus marketing
Google Plus is a new platform and, without a doubt, its going to be big. Marketers predict that it will be a real competition for Facebook. Since Google dominates the search, its better to set up a home on Google Plus to gain additional advantages.
Use the following 5 steps to get best results from Google Plus.
1. Create an Account. Make sure to use a good headshot, as it will be featured as your thumbnail.
2. Spend some time writing your introduction. It will influence other people to include you into their circles. Do not forget to include your affiliate link into your intro. Add images.
3. Make your profile searchable and relevant. Double check that the "Search Visibility" check-box is checked as it will help others find your profile in Search Results. Optimise your links to the right of the profile using keywords. For example, "How to Oil Paint and Draw Video Tutorials" would be a good phrase to use for your affiliate link. Add videos to your profile because they will be ranked higher in the search results. Add Fine Art as a "SPARK" and use it like you would a Google alert so you can follow the top articles in the Fine Art Area. Also, get a custom URL to share your Google Plus profile. You can use gplus.to to do so.
4. Use "Circles" to communicate with others. "Circles" is the the best feature of Google Plus. You can include your colleagues, friends, clients and others into various circles you set up. Google will notify people when you add them into circles. However, they won’t know which circle.
5. Use +1, Comments and Share to build up relationships. The +1 has similar functionality to Facebook’s "Like". You can also add a comment and SHARE within your stream. Ask questions and use Hangouts.
Yahoo Answers Marketing
Yahoo Answers is a great way to get your Web Art Academy affiliate link noticed. It is a Q&A social network with over 90 million users. Each Yahoo Answer form has a section to include links as references to an answer; your prospective referrals will come via those links you set up. Here are three simple steps to using Yahoo Answers to drive traffic with your affiliate link.
1. Set up your account, upload avatar and fill in your profile. Pick the Fine Art related category.
2. Be active. Visit the site a few times a week, search questions in your category and help other people by answering fine art related questions they might have.
3. Include your affiliate link when it fits the answer, but don’t spam.
Your answers will stay and be indexed by search engines. People who search for your answers, as well as those who place the questions will find your affiliate links and hopefully take advantage of it by clicking them on.
Yahoo Voices Marketing
Another way you can use Yahoo to spread your Web Art Academy affiliate link is to use Yahoo Voices.
Yahoo Voices is a Contributor Network sharing articles, images and videos. You can set up your account and choose Fine Art related topics from the Yahoo Assignment desk. As a publisher, you can place your content on Yahoo News, OMG!, Shine, Voices and other major websites visited by more than 600 million users every month.
