What is AHI-FAN? Why are so many artists joining ? Ave Hurley Illustrations- Featured Artists Network~ Seems Confusing?

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When an artist joins AHI-FAN they enter into a realm where they will become empowered to show and sell their artwork online, in a very time saving, streamlined fashion, that will save them years of efforts elsewhere, as well as save them money, by obtaining help in becoming listed in many places that will actually aid them in selling their art online.

Look at the photography of Jacquei Essex from Spain.





Although YOU, as an artist may be immediately faced with some confusing issues upon arrival to the site, YOU will quickly find that the time you spend here is well worth it and that none of your efforts will be in vain, as you will learn to navigate my system and this will actually help you to streamline your internet art activities, so that you will actually save time when promoting your artwork online~

This site is designed to show YOU, the artist, by my own examples, tips and FREE resources, how you will learn to best present, promote and advertise YOUR own art online in a productive, organized and fruitful manner.

You will be doing it 'right', from the start and not wasting your valuable time on merely listing artworks everywhere for a moment of comments and then only hoping to be discovered.

Here you will find ways to help get your art the attention it deserves!~And it is all FREE~!

See Ave Hurley's Showcase



It is also a site that is promoted for online art sales, so viewers looking to buy art will come here and look and then possibly select your work and buy directly from YOU.


Its an interactive site, in which many other sites are included by LINKS back to them and you as an artist would not ever br banned for promoting your other sites, but encouraged to list your links to any sites you join or already belong to.

I have actually been banned by a few sites in which those owners don't see the 'big picture' and instead want their members going no where else~!! How counterproductive they are~!!!


I strongly believe in cross promoting art as much as possible on line, which helps ensure your online success as an artist.I sell my art all over the internet, a little here and a little there but then it all adds up to more sales and more exposure and better placement in search engines!

Your purpose in networking art online should be to get known and increase traffic to your sites [ more viewers to your art] in the ultimate hopes of leading viewers seeking to buy YOUR art online.


Unlike most art sites, AHI-FAN is a site that shows, teaches and gives tips on how to sell ART online and places YOU as an artist a centralized place that you can join or participate in that will actually HELP YOU to sell YOUR art rather than just post pictures everywhere, wasting countless hours yielding no results!

There are many sites that just post pictures and will exhaust your efforts achieving little or no results as a day or two passes and your art simply mixes into huge pools of photo storage.

See Paintings by Fran Hoffpauir~


At AHI-FAN YOU are shown how to properly post a picture with all the needed description, effective titling and basic tagging, so that your art does not become lost in a pool of pictures, or virtually unsearchable as they usually become on most sites.


Here you can place your edited pictures into Categories based on type of art , prices, artist name and alot more.

You can access sites where you can build permanent search engine advertisements, blogs that are searchable and read, and many USEFUL promotional site LINKS to be able to get you known in search engines so that people will look to see your art and be able to contact you directly.

See Collages by Basant Soni


The resources on AHI-FAN are free to use. Explanations for most things can be found in blogs or in typing key words into the search box at the top right hand corner of the webpage.

I am available most of the time to assist any artist in getting started and to answer questions.

These are FREE services you can aquire here are usually ones that are very expensively done through paid promoters elsewhere, ones like Dunn & Bradstreet that would charge you $895 a year to do limited promotions for you, BUT you can do THIS ALL through here for yourself~! FREE~

Your own efforts are your only costs~!This is your opportunity to shine~!

My growing Intersite Directories provide quick links back to your other sites and are here where you can sign up and post your webpage URL's to that make finding you at other sites easy for you and viewers.

See Bob Bello's Art




This is an important resource in cross promotions AND IS NOT available on most OTHER sites. In fact many sites want to be so exclusive that they wont allow you to list other sites within theirs and could actually ban you for linking your blogs and pictures together, but here you are free to do so here and become known at those sites in a featured manner, as viewers are directed to your pages on those sites right from here!

See the Art & Photography of Janet Marston-Wadle



Cross promotions are a key ingredient in selling online and help you get known on the internet and many advertising companies use these techniques but charge large fees, but if you take your time and do one thing at a time here you will soon find your way around the site and be able to effectively create your own promotions and enhance your sales online.

Another great feature is that you can openly sell your art on AHI-FAN directly or with links to your other sites, for example if you have a painting shown here but have an Imagekind account, you can simply post the link to that same picture on Imagekind and that will allow and enable viewers to go right to your POD site [print on demand site] & purchase your art.

I do not charge for this service as I built it and work it to sell my own art. I freely provide it as a tool to help YOU and ALL Artists to get the help you need in selling your work online. I walk you through the maze~!


AHI-FAN initially requires more editing on your work, but this is to your best advantage to do as if you joined the paid sites, which would also require this information so that they can represent your art to the public, here at AHI-FAN you get all the added benefits that can be found on the paid sites, but you get it all FREE~!

See Bill Wright's Art



I have been selling my art online for over 3 years and have researched and learned how to do this with my own work and am sharing what I have learned with everyone who joins or visits AHI-FAN.

There is alot to learn and that you need to know with online Art Selling and its complicated.
Part of why I started this site was to organize all my online efforts into one location.

When I realized it could be a learning tool and resource for others without hindering my own efforts, I decided to go public and let other artists join and use to their advantage, things I have learned and do.

See Sarah Palin Portrait by Murphy Elliot and other famous people's portaits.




For those who need help in basic editing and getting around the site, I offer Personal Help Subscription, that by subscribing, helps you get your promotional works done and also helps to offset a small fraction of my expenses in running this site.
I offer artists/subscribers a more personal level of assistance in getting their Promotions and Advertising set up, as well as help with titling and tagging your work and tips/directions to be able to properly edit and present your work online.

I will do my best to answer all questions in easy artist understandable ways as I am an artist first and this is my site - a site built by an artist for artists~!

As it develops and grows it can become YOUR HUB through Supergroups for your art online activities with quick links to all you are doing with your art online and a Classifieds Section.
AHI-FAN serves to be your own personal favorites list with links to all your websites easy to find in our Directories and your own personal page where you can list all your art and websites in one easy location that gets promoted right alongside my own art promotions~!



So read the blogs and forums, check out the Directories and Categories~! List and search out art by price ranges.


Anything you find on this site can be made to work for you without costing you any money out of pocket.

Join the recommended sites in the SuperGroups and participate free for your own success.~!

While I personally sell my own art using Paypal, on all my sites, any art done by members is sold directly through each member direct, so your art is secure here and as this site grows, if you list your art in all the categories relating to it, your chances of success will greatly increase.

AHI-FAN is a 'G' rated family friendly site so it is viewable by all age categories. No nudity or obscene or demonic art is allowed which makes this site open to grow into what may become the new MySpace for Art~

So WELCOME TO AHI-FAN~!! You have arrived at the one free place on the internet that will enable you to "do it all" and conserve your valuable time to be able to do more important things, like painting new pictures and developing your art, while creating an online business venue for your art ~!

AHI-FAN 's goal is to become the new MySpace for Art Online ~!!

:)Ave