What a great tribute portrait Murphy Elliott has just completed of Tiger Wood’s Dad~ Wonderful artwork~!

This would make such a wonderful collector’s item for anyone who appreciates the talents of Tiger Woods, as well as those who wish the honor of memory of his father who passed away last year.

This is also a great piece for those who admire the works of Murphy Ellott ~!

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See portrait of Tiger Woods & his Dad, being done by Murphy Elliott~!

Great work~!
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I work online continually and have been doing Art Promotionals and Advertising, for over 3 years selling my own artworks online.

When I was approached for promotional services, the cheapest promoter I found online was $395 for just an annual ad listing and some tag words and then Dunne & Bradstreet has a promo pack for $895 a year for little more in actual tangible services.

When I talked with their sales rep and he asked what I am doing in the ways of promoting my art online, he was astounded and told me that I should be working for them!!
He said that I actually do more in art promotions than they do~!!

So I decided that since I do it for myself and have succeeded in self promotion and now with all that I learned, I am willing to do it now for other artists,who need help in getting better known online

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I have been helping other artists on the road to notoriety and success by personally promoting and creating advertisements online for them as well as tagging them , blogging them and entering them into cross promotions successfully.

The promotions I do are listed in many major online venues including, Squidoo, Twitter,Facebook,Live,StumbleUpon,MySpace,Deli-c-ious, Netlog,Eblogger,WordPress, Search Engine submission, We2NK , Local.com,Craigslist and more.

I help with editing, tagging and introducing your art online with my personal endorsement, as I have a good online reputation with 100% positive online customer satisfaction.
See what others say about me~

To receive my services Just click this Link : Check it out & Join Here

I am an artist first and built my site customized for art promotions and sales & have free resources and tools for any artists to self promote their work, but for those who need help in promotions or need an editor, it normally costs $895 a year from places like Dunn & Bradstreet [ to which I am also a registered member} to receive similar services

I can provide my services to you for only $5 to start for the first month & only $7.00 per month there after for as long as you want ~ Even when my service prices go up in the future, you will continue to receive services at this agreed price~!!
No catchs, no crazy contracts and doubletalk~ Fully refundable if not satisfied ~!

I am just an artist like you but am helping other artists online to get ahead~!
There is so much talent out there and so many artists deserve more recognition and exposure online but simply do not know how or who to trust online and many like I was dont know where to get started.

I have done my research and homework on this and now am prepared and able to help promote any artist who needs help, but since it is very time consuming - at least 10 hours a month, to do YOUR personalized service and all I am asking is this very nominal amount, to simply help offset some of my internet time and costs.

I just happen to know alot more about online marketing than most artists and have more computer skills focused on art promotions than most artists you may know. I have now been helping many other artists to be able to get established online and I can personally help you, even with tech support and am an email away, as well as phone call 602-539-4053 , when you need to talk about your online art needs~!

Subscribing to my services is making me your promotional agent [in a limited capacity according to your permission] to act on your behalf, to help promote your art and to get you known online and to direct traffic to your art on any sites you belong to, for as long as you want ~!
I will even make permalink adsites for you in search engines that will be easily found in major search engines to remain, even if you cancel my services at any time you want to.

Ave Hurley
602-539-4053
AHI-FAN :Ave Hurley Illustrations – Featured Artists Network

Possibly the NEW ‘ MySpace for Arts’~? This is my Vision for AHI-FAN ~!! One can only imagine~ THEN one has to act~ and that is what I am doing with AHI-FAN!
I have been legally disabled since ‘1991 legally and physically disabled since’ 1985 when I had my accident. I fell through a window and severed my right wrist causing 85% damage to my hand when it was reattached, ending my art career in NYC where I was from.

It has been downhill healthwise since then, but we have to persevere~so I must~

I have been living on disability and initially started working on the internet initially hoping just to make enough to cover its monthly costs. I started out working with Prepaid Legal and was their sole North East US representative, but it was taking so many hours and ratio wise there were few commissioned sales that I finally bailed out of it.

I learned alot of marketing techniques from them however which was beneficial to my other online endeavours thereafter, including this one here on AHI_FAN.

Learning little bits here and there about different businesses, has given me more than just a glimpse into online marketing /

My daughter & her husband did those Amway type companies. I can’t remember its name….ah Quixtar~ They ended up spinning there wheels and had about a years worth of cleaning supplies by trying to make sales quotas..

Then they got into Primerica and busted their butts but never got far with that as it was chasing rainbows.. only those on top make the money, everyone else gets a whiff here and there and lands a big sale, but all the legwork involved has no guarantees that will feed a family ~ so they reluctantly left Primerica as it is a good company but couldnt meet their needs. I know they are loyal to it and it is perhaps a sideline job occasionally, but they too learned valuable lessons while promoting and selling Primerica.

I also tried selling Melaleuca, but soon realized early on it was bogus for a career, but still good stuff, just too many gimmicks involved to lead most members into only buying their own needs and providing free leads to the company..

All those promises of fortune but MLM is MLM and no one but the top ultimately makes any real money.. They toss a bone occasionally, enough to hook a poor sap into working tirelessly a year or two before they go broke! or burn out from exhaution…

I have been working hard online, but not for any other company anymore, figuring if I am going to bust my proverbial butt, it should be for myself and not some corporation~

I have gone so far down the rabbit hole that I do about 12 jobs at once and its gotten so complicated that I figured it was a waste to do it all solely for myself and that others can benefit from my own self styled way of doing things. I began sharing what I am learning with others who, like me want to sell their art online.

*IF* I already had a broad base of repeat customers, I could easily have about 12 departments with separate full time jobs for people and I could go back to painting and just hand the painting over to my staff~ as a proof over to the Promotions Department and have my hired Digital Art Print Shop size and set up prints, have another area where the Printing Department would then print and trim them.

They would then send them to the Quality Control Department to be inspected and the images would then be sent them to the “Art Department” for touchups prior to my having to hand sign each one.

After that they would be made ready and sent to Customer Service Department where they would be paired off with their Certificates of Authenticity, registrations to the buyers recorded and then attached to the customer invoices .

Finally they would be sent on to the Shipping Department where they would be readied to be sent out to the customer.

I would need to also have a Sales Department that was based on commissioned salaries as well as leads from a Promotions Department, those who would be my editors , working full time listing my artwork on auction sites, sales shops, blogs, internet web searches and more..

People that sell Kirby vaccuums get a 10% commission on sales. My son worked for them for over 4 years and put in so many hours I felt bad for him, but admired his spirit in wanting to be successful in sales.Sales persons are a special breed of people. They may get those hi-end deals accomplished, but they work very hard at what they do .
When he first began in sales, he got 3 sales one week and made $1029 check which hooked him into the next 5 working more years than 130 hours a week, on commission with no guaranteed paycheck unless he made the sale.He was in all their promos where sometimes he’d even lower the price to make the sale to reach his quota, often winning monthly sales awards, but those discounts came out of his commissions – so he often sold without getting paid much at all~ but he was dedicated and an asset to that company.

When I told him that I am now seeking experiences sales people that can also work independently like he did, that I would give them 33% commission.

He said that is too much that commissioned sales people can’t get more than 25%.
I said it is worth it to me to just start making more volume sales. -
I look at it as 1/3 materials, 1/3 me and 1/3 salesperson.

Maybe thats naiive, but it would work for me.

I made an ad for it on my site but it is currently on a back page.There is only so much to put on a front page. I often worry that it gets overwhelming for members as my site is already over 130 pages deep not counting the 3000+ picture pages and the 100+ albums~! Editing and visual appearance is everything with a website.. Simplification is needed as well.

There was a sales rep from Dunn and Bradstreet who was really impressed at how much I was able to do with my AHI-FAN site, considering it is a preformatted ning and how I was able to innovate and work with what I had to build it to be so unique.

I realized too that I haven’t even listed everything I do online in the SuperGroups Directory yet..

There is always more. It is growing fast and it will grow more.

I am trying to establish a method of easy promoting in steps, so everyone can promote their own work. When asked why, I say I want to help others who are in a similar circumstance to me, an artist with less than the amount of income required to live comfortably~

In doing all the background, behind the scenes promotional work, I realized how tedious it gets and is and that in itself might be enough for me to even need hired editors, as some members cant even do it on a basic level or perhaps they just wont or would want it, but get too overwhelmed trying to do it themselves, so based on that I now offer my editing services for a small fee, since they do take up most of my time.

If a person understands how complicated and time consuming promoting is, then they are more than willing to pay people like Dunn and Bradstreet to do it for them and figure $895 a year is actually a bargain. Who can you get to work below minimum wage to help you become potentially richer?

I’d love to have one person to do all my auction listings. That can be another full time job too.

Even to have someone creating Etsy listings – another tedious thing.

I made some new listings on Etsy tonight for it so they will be good for a few months..

So to do what I do and to have people subscribe, I figure $5 is affordable [its more like a tip] and better than $0 and as the promotions grow.

As I get more systemized in doing promos and ads, I want to train a few people to do edits, but those types of jobs are usually a min of $25/hr ,so I need to hone in my skills and make a training manual that could make it so 3-4 people can be promoted during the same hour, so I figured $7.50 a person split up. Then I could relist and update the promos that are out there and add in cross promo links.

I know I couldn’t afford Dunn & Bradstreet, so I took there ‘basic’ free offer and just as I promo others free, they do too to get more business and their hope is that I will bring them business which I said I will put their logo somewhere on my site and promote them.
Only thing I didn’t like was when they took a snippet from my RSS it was some blog of a member that I was considering deleting and that is now stuck in my page promo~ I might be able to fix it but havent spent the time researching how yet.

I would love to see success for everyone on my site and for those yet to come.I am working towards success for all my members as well as myself.

There is strength in numbers too , so as the site membership grows, I will receive offers from advertisers which would offset time costs and by then I will be able to polish my skills and be able to hire some computer programmers to write the script needed to make the site automatic.

I envision that as soon as an artist/craftsperson enters their picture of what they are selling , that it will automatically fall into all the categories applicable and go directly onto a promotions list and auto send to all the sites where promotions are received. Imagine 50+ blogsites receiving auto writeups on your art/crafts/sculpture/ jewelry at once~

The internet can be swamped with sale offers and our network would become the MySpace for Arts~!

So I think we all can be successful if we all work together and push forward with our best efforts. At this point in time there is no site that does it all, so the direction I am taking my network in will be unique..

I just realized as I wrote this to a friend and fellow artist that it would be good to blog about, so I have taken a portion of the original letter and used it for this blog… So you see, you are helping me too~! Ideas come and go but to catch them and bring them to life is the best way to move ahead of the line~!

Ave Hurley ~ AHI-FAN

This is being offered to help a family in Phoenix~

Taking over 100 computer hours to digitally paint in high resolution, pixel by pixel,I painted this scene from my heart and mind in memory of my late husband. It features a brilliant sunset, a lightouse, cliffs and a cross monument.

We should never lose hope in Jesus, as he never lost hope while he lived and went on to meet his savior last January 28,2009 after an illness and abuse in this life, he is now at peace.

When looking at Sunset of Hope I feel peace and hope in the future and hope that you too will see the same.

Now there is a family in Phoenix that I want to help. They have 8 children and their home costs them over $3000 a month to run.
Their Dad just lost his job due to the company he worked for, closing down.He is looking for a new job daily as their bills fall behind and I want to help them, so I am offering prints of this scene to benefit them directly.

You can purchase signed Giclee prints in various sizes of this print directly from my website:http://avehurleyillustrations.ning.com/photo/sunset-of-hope?context=album&albumId=2169159%3AAlbum%3A28

Special Purchase Prints on 13×19 inch stock with image measuring 12.75 x 18.5 hand signed, with a Certificate of Authenticity will be shipped FREE in the USA and can be shipped internationally for actual shipping costs.

Soon to come ~ are Art Collector’s Edition Postcards which will be available at my site for $5 ppd. within a few weeks~

So, join in with me with new hope that we can make a difference in other people’s lives, one family at a time. Ave
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This Digital Painting is also available at :
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This contest is fun~
All you do is go to any of the more than 100 Albums on my site and open an album and leave a comment on the album front page! Say what you feel- If something strikes you funny, say something funny ~
If it strikes you are noteworthy , say something notable~
If you see a way it can be improved, say so and how you think it can be improved~!
If you just like to look at alot of new and amazing art, just visit as many albums as you like~ Enjoy some music and have a cup of coffee while leaving a comment on as many albums as you feel like.

Each category will receive a prize worth at least $25 in collectible assorted signed Art prints~

There will be one random winner, picked by chance, but then there are also going to be 4 specific winners, based on what is said or how many comments are made~

So join in the fun and be sure to leave some comments and on July 20th after all the comments have been thoroughly reviewed~ The winners will be announced on ALL the sites I belong to including here and all the blogsites I belong to as well~!

PRIZES WILL BE FOR THE FOLLOWING ALBUM COVER COMMENTS~
1] THE MOST COMMENTS – [ANY COMMENTS MADE ON THE MOST ALBUM COVERS~!]
2] THE MOST NOTABLE COMMENT
3] THE FUNNIEST COMMENT
4] THE MOST HELPFUL COMMENT
5] RANDOM CHOICE/LOTTERY TYPE WINNER – CAN BE ANYONE~

EACH PRIZE WILL BE WORTH AT LEAST $25 AND WILL INCLUDE VARIOUS TYPES OF SIGNED COLLECTIBLE ART PRINTS CONSISTING OF EITHER CARDS, ACEO’S FRAMABLE PRINTS,POSTCARDS AND MORE~!! THESE ARE THE SAME I HAVE SOLD ON EBAY AND OTHER AUCTION SITES AS WELL AS IN MY VARIOUS ONLINE SHOPS~

PRIZES WILL BE MADE AND SHIPPED OUT VIA US MAIL ON 7/30 OR SOONER.

THE ALBUM WITH THE MOST COMMENTS WILL BE FEATURED IN AUGUST ON THE FRONT PAGE AND IN EVERY PROMO I DO IN AUGUST~

I used to get into manic moods and paint feverishly for months at a time, sometimes finishing a painting a day and making dozens of paintings on canvas, wood , rocks, glass or any object that would hold paint~ Then I would give them all away~!! At times I did participate in Art Shows and sold out faster than other artists and would go home early, disappointed that I hadn’t made enough paintings to be able to remain til the end as other artists did. Even in high school when I sold my art, others would get jealous as to how fast my work sold compared to theirs.

Eventually I stopped going to art sale shows as I felt alone at them, even though I always sold every piece, I didnt feel peace~ So I stopped painting and pursued another career and then another having had many successful and promising careers, never feeling satisfied. Once I was married and having children, I put my art on a backburner as something I would do again someday.

My children grew up and I did sign painting and murals for a decade or two then I did craft paintings and sold some but usually gave most away at Christmas to those who admired my work. When I got online and began to see other art works I decided maybe it was time to start my art again and hopefullyfind new avenues to sell on and I have found many but never enough to where I could develop a steady income from.

So again I backed off my art and tried some online businesses only to spend months following leads for that one elusive sale and overall realized I was wasting my time with MLMs like Prepaid Legal and a few other ventures I wasted a year or two at.I did learn some things about online sales through them however so it wasnt a total loss. I decided if I was to sell anything online it would be my own art. I wonder since I got online and trying to create and establish a business at my stage in life and with virtually no resources, I started small, selling in little shops like Etsy and auctions on Ebay and then started joining networks and meeting people from around the world.

I worked hard learning how to paint digitally, incorporating my actual paintings, that I made into digital art files from and then recreating new digital paintings from them. Then I began experimenting with printing and how to make better prints.

As I got better at it I researched various printers and found some good HP wide formats and better stocks and developed my products. I have worked sometimes 2-3 days without sleep and at least 20 hours a day, going all over the internet, finding places to sell my art and joining art sites.I sold many little paintings and prints on Ebay alone.

Still with all my customers 100% satisfied and developing a good seller reputation online, I began to seek to learn how to network, fumbling around many sites and learning more daily til I was asked to be an administrator of Art Auction Worldwide , where I then began to share what I knew about selling with other emerging artists and began building ning sites for others and incorporating outside sites into the ning sites for faster surfing. I built my own site that I added in most of my stores and auctions and then decided to use it as a hub for my online activities.

I learned to do a little basic html to create sub pages and categories, on my site including sitemaps and then helped others to do the same and began interlinking dozens of sites so that visitors to one could readily visit another and hoped that networking like this would create more traffic to my site and it has.

In 3 weeks my site had 3000 visitors and 100 members. It is growing everyday and as of 7/24 there were over 4850 visitors and more than 140 members!

It gets tiring but I am compelled to continue, although some have told me that I should charge a fee to build my type of sites for others since they contain site maps and deeper pages etc, but to date I still build them free, even though I spend endless hours working to help promote others and have not completed my own work for my benefit yet.

I feel sort of like a mother hen with all my artists friends from around the world as I continually remodel my site to be user friendly.
At times however, I am starting to feel like I am spinning my wheels as I advertise on twitter, facebook, oodle, local,squidoo, myspace and blog on dozens of other sites. It was all supposed to be to get better known and perhaps it is, as I can look my name up in search engines and see countless pages with my business name and activities broadcast on the net.

Still all in all, I have had very few sales and have been exhausting myself with ideas that make me wonder if it is all in vain or not. Although I worked on Wall St in NYC many years ago, I have been away from the business world for so long that I am not sure if I am just creating an invisible business or that it is just needing more time to develop, so I continue on but feel I am at a point that I need a fresh perspective from someone that has been in business and familiar with art sales, as perhaps my art isnt something that is salable on a larger level~

I have spent so much time online the last few years, trying to find ways to sell what I already have, that I haven’t painted anything new in many months.

I wish there was a way to have the internet part automated more or to have someone else doing the business part, that I would be free to paint and draw with the intention of creating what people would want.

Perhaps I am just exhausted now since I have been putting forth additional efforts since my former husband was murdered last January and I realized my children have no inheritance now nor my grandchildren and I see my family struggling and to me the only way I can make it right for them is to develop my business so I can provide some help for their future as well as my own as I am now getting older and cannot begin to fathom any career outside of my art, nor do I have the mental or emotional capacity to delve too deeply in all the nuances of developing this from a business venture viewpoint.

With my cat getting poisoned by the Sargents Flea Drops I put on her, the hospitalization and ensuing vet bill of $485 has depleted my savings and halted my summer activities as there have been no sales lately either, although I work so many hours day after day.

Up til this year, I painted for myself and my own pleasure, doing my art for gifts and also for charities and only occasionally for commissions to bring profit, not to do it as a business in a sense as I live on a disability pension and am comfortable enough if I never worked, my needs are met.

I want to rise above my disability and do something that would be meaningful to me and to others, especially other artists that I feel are struggling like me online in looking for a way to be known and appreciated and to become successful.

Seems some, if only a few artists, actually find their niche and fame that can rise above the poverty faced by the starving artists of this world, many who remain in obscurity yet whose talents leave those who know them breathless at times..

So few rise to the top and so much is lost along the way. So I wonder, should I stop putting forth so much effort and go back to living in retirement and taking it easy while remaining poor or puch forward and look for the avenue of my success – if there even is such a street~?..to paint or not to paint, that is the question…….. Advice is sought and welcomed. Also any artists and art lovers are welcome to come to my networkAve I hope to make like a MySpace for artists~!

“Daniel’s Mill at Sunset”- artist signed prints are being given away FREE as a promotion officially launching of http://AveHurleyIllustrations.ning.com  Featured Artists Network with more than 450 prints of Ave Hurley’s art as well as over 2200 works by more than 173 international artists, ranging from Abstracts to Seascapes, including Landscapes and still lifes, portraits  and photography~

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Join in the monthly Contests that are going on currrently ~!

ALBUM COMMENT CONTEST:
This first contest has begun and has been extended today by requests to July 15th~

Winners will be announced on July 20th & prizes will be sent out then!
View our many albums and tell us what you think. Make a comment on
the album.It doesn’t have to be lengthy or detailed, just let us
know you looked at the album and any comments you may have.

At the end of the month all albums will be reviewed for comments.
Every person who has made a comment’s name will be entered into a
random drawing.

The Album with the most comments will be featured in July.

The FIRST PRIZE winner of the drawing will BE RANDOMLY SELECTED [raffle] & receive some
artist signed ACEO’s & APCEOS from Ave Hurley.Value of the
prize will be approximately $25

A SECOND PRIZE will be given to the person who made
the most comments~!Value of the prize will be
approximately $25

A THIRD PRIZE will be given to the person who makes the
most notable comment.Value of the prize will be
approximately $25

A FOURTH PRIZEwill be given to the person who makes
the funniest comment.Value of the prize will be
approximately $25
A FIFTH PRIZE will be given to the person who made the
most helpful comments~!Value of the
prize will be approximately $25

No limit on entries.The more you comment , the more likely
you are to win~!

Just go to any album and leave a comment~! No limit on comments or albums, even new albums that are added during this time period are eligible!!
Why not add an album today? & also win the chance to be featured for August

ALBUM COMMENT CONTEST:
This first contest has begun and has been extended today by requests to July 15th~

Winners will be announced on July 20th & prizes will be sent out then!
View our many albums and tell us what you think. Make a comment on
the album.It doesn’t have to be lengthy or detailed, just let us
know you looked at the album and any comments you may have.

At the end of the month all albums will be reviewed for comments.
Every person who has made a comment’s name will be entered into a
random drawing.

The Album with the most comments will be featured in July.

The FIRST PRIZE winner of the drawing will BE RANDOMLY SELECTED [raffle] & receive some
artist signed ACEO’s & APCEOS from Ave Hurley.Value of the
prize will be approximately $25

A SECOND PRIZE will be given to the person who made
the most comments~!Value of the prize will be
approximately $25

A THIRD PRIZE will be given to the person who makes the
most notable comment.Value of the prize will be
approximately $25

A FOURTH PRIZEwill be given to the person who makes
the funniest comment.Value of the prize will be
approximately $25
A FIFTH PRIZE will be given to the person who made the
most helpful comments~!Value of the
prize will be approximately $25

No limit on entries.The more you comment , the more likely
you are to win~!

Just go to any album and leave a comment~! No limit on comments or albums, even new albums that are added during this time period are eligible!!
Why not add an album today? & also win the chance to be featured for August