Leverage Plio to Make Business With Your Art

Stage 1: Take full control of your portfolio’s appearence

 

Here a list of available Premium customization feature:

 

  • Custom additional stylesheet for any content entry of the portfolio
  • Custom favicons
  • Custom social sharing buttons
  • Custom display for metadata by content entry type
  • Custom legal notices
  • Advanced portfolio navigation
  • Advanced home page settings
  • Custom entry types for RSS feeds

 

Note: New Premium features will be available soon:

  • Specific variation for any content entry
  • Forms in pages
  • Full integration with social networks

 

Stage 2: Prepare your exhibitions and promote your artwork on sale

 

A good way to give online visibility to your portfolio is to drag the visitors of your exhibitions to your site. The right tool for that is called QR Code: it’s a kind of little square bar-code that you can add and print with your tags and that the visitors can scan with their smart phones. This code embeds the URL of your artwork in your portfolio that can be this way easily added to their favorites. It’s more and more popular, Plio Premium already gives it to you!

 

To print one of your artwork’s QR code:

 

  1. In the backend of the content entry related to your artwork, click the “Download” button of the “QR Code” box.

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  2. Save the image file on your hard drive at the desired location.

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  3. In your editing software for your tags, import the saved image file in the tag related to your exhibited artwork.

 

Note: Soon you’ll be also able to:

  • Publish outside of your portfolio a collection for your artwork on sale
  • Publish the prices and sale status of your artwork

 

Stage 3: Promote Plio and start making money on your Premium membership

 

Participate in our Affiliate Program:

 

  1. Go to your profile page and to the Affiliate menu.

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  2. Select the “Yes, I’d like to be an affiliate member” checkbox, enter your PayPal account’s email address and “Save the Changes”.

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  3. Go to your dashboard and to the Appearence > Widgets menu.

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  4. Add the Affiliate widget to the side bar of your choice.

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  5. Tell your fellow artists that you love Plio and they can get to know it as well by clicking your promotion link on your own portfolio.

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  6. When they get Premium members as well, we’ll share the revenue with you!

 

Note: Soon you’ll be able to add sponsored links to your portfolio and earn related advertising revenues.

 

This article completes the series: Get your Plio Portfolio Up-and-Running in 10 Simple Steps.