Although there are many different ways to bring visitors to your website, article marketing is by far the best way to gain targeted website traffic.  Article marketing isn’t new but it has become increasingly popular because it doesn’t cost too much, and very often it is free, which is important especially in the present financial climate, and more importantly, it works!

A good article can bring your site thousands of hits. A good article that is marketed properly can bring you more - a hundred thousand hits or more.  One well-crafted article can drive a steady stream of targeted traffic to your website, where you have the opportunity to tell them about the benefits of your products and services and ultimately make sales.

The top 3 New Year's Resolutions and how to keep them.  Probably the most popular New Year’s resolution is to lose weight.  The problem many people find is that their fridge is still full of tempting goodies left over from Christmas, chocolates, cakes and pastries, crisps and snacks, and on top of that it's really not the time of year to be thinking about eating a lot of salads because it's cold outside and we feel we need something hot to eat to keep us warm and keep up our energy.

Did you know that your personality affects the way you cope with stressors in your life? Some people cope fine with levels of stress that others would find crippling. Our reactions to stress are partly inborn and partly learned throughout our lifetime. Everyone reacts to stress, it just depends on the level of stress you can handle before symptoms arise. Some people are really quite 'bomb proof' and seem to cope fine with a multitude of stressful situations, but even they will eventually react once the pressure becomes too much for them.

There are several things that you might not have thought of, that add extra value to your artwork and can make it worth more money when you come to sell it. I'm not talking here about reworking pieces you feel haven't come up to scratch.

Everyone seems to have a view on stress, it has become so popular.  Are you stressed or does it not effect you at all?  Do you believe that managing stress is important, or do you think that it is a 'buzz' word, used as a convenient excuse?  Are you living outside your comfort zone?  What is stress any way?

We all know how easy it is to be so absorbed in creating a piece of artwork that hours can go by without even noticing. If you've spent a lot of time hunched, twisted, or slumped over your work you know you might regret it later, when your body tells you how uncomfortable it is.