Name of your website?Robert Hansen original art with bspgallery
Your name?
Robert Hansen
Your Location (city, etc)
Malvern East
Tell a short description
Australian artist, and contemporary designer for the stage, painter and scenic artist. Shows many drawings and works in different media, paintings in pastel. Fine art exhibition plus antiquarian and old books, printed matter. watercolor, charcoal on paper, and pen drawings of the figure.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
To try to sell some of the work accumulated over many years.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
1997 It was a book selling site, and is still on the web.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
I used my own name and the name of the book site was after the registered business name.
What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?
I think it has many original works in it and many unusual photgraphs. digital art.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
Keep them both for income, but everything's for sale at a price!
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
It has been and amazing journey.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Probabably spend money on advertising and hire a big space to have a big exhibition.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Yes, I would hire people and work exclusivly on my own work.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Mainly the servers and hosting going down, this is a major problem, also the slowness of them and the high costs.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Being abel to work on my own.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Probably work of mouth and many links.
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
It has differed as I wasn't expecting much, and the result has been amazing. Of course it could always be better.
How long have you run the site already, and how long will you continue to keep it up if you don't enjoy big gains in traffic, income or popularity?
It has been on the web since 1997, but my art site has only been on the web to just over a year.
How do I see my work going in the future?
This is difficult to answer as it's hard to get known and popular. A long hard journey.
What is your website address?
Robert Hansen original art with bspgallery
