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Welcome to the first edition of Make Your Mark. Today we talk about why you should have your own website to showcase your art and photography, even if you are selling online already through other companies, venues or websites.

This is a very basic podcast, if you already have a site that focuses on your art branding you might not want to listen, but if you are new and need direction, you are involved in sites like CafePress, Imagekind, Etsy or eBay, you will want to hear this.

After you listen to this podcast, I recommend you listen to:
Affiliate ABCs – Website Basics. This podcast talks about basic pages every website needs, whether you are an affiliate or an artist/photographer starting a website.

For those of you just joining us here is the intro podcast. And be sure to follow us on Twitter!

What would you like our next topic to be? Drop us a comment. Let us know if this podcast was helpful and what you need to know next. We have several planned topics, but we are flexible and want to hear what *you* have to say.

James Martell has a series of podcasts that people subscribe to, but this month he is giving one away. He and I did a Coffee Talk back in November about how to effectively use Twitter to grow your business. Today he released that Coffee Talk as part of his May Newsletter and it’s available to listen to here – If You Don’t Tweet, You Should.

A couple of show notes:
Viator Affiliate Program is now Shareasale exclusive, not at CJ as noted in the show.
James Martell on Twitter
Loxly on Twitter
Arlene on Twitter (Epilepsy Moms)
And links to join our Clients, including Loxly Gallery.

In this podcast Viator Affiliate Manager Deborah Carney and Viator Marketing Director Kelly Gillease talk about how affiliates can leverage the travel market on their websites. Whether your affiliate site focuses on travel or not, you can successfully promote travel merchants, including hotels, airlines, tours and aggregators like Expedia. Gardening sites, family sites and especially bargain oriented sites can benefit from promoting travel products in the current economy. To quote Kelly “People are not planning to stay home, they are still going to travel.”

Some areas to focus on are the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, before and after since the hotels are adding capacity and will be offering deals to get them filled and a surprising popular travel destination is Iceland. Their currency has fallen in value so there are deals there to take advantage of.

You can also hear Kelly at her own podcast SEMcast over at GeekCast.fm.

Be sure to follow Deborah and Kelly on Twitter and visit their blogs:
Inhouse SEM (Kelly)
Team Loxly (Deborah)

And listen to our Viator Merchant Spotlight Podcast if you missed it :)

More information about the Viator Affiliate Program