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When you are first coming to FAA and joining the promotional threads there is a system to being a part of it all.

You must know how to copy and paste from one page to another or from one thing to another such as getting a link and placing it into an email as well.

First you must highlight what ever you want to copy, a phrase or a link or a word etc etc then

Ctrl and C at the same time will copy whatever you have highlighted hit the ctrl button first and then hit c while you still are holding the ctrl button down
Ctrl and V at the same time will paste the information you have copied to where ever you are taking it. just go where you want it pasted to and anchor your mouse on the page where it's going and hit ctrl and then v while you hold the ctrl key down and guess what, it's going to paste what you copied in there. simple.

You must also master the simple task of having more than one window open at a time, because you have to copy from one while having the other window waiting with your spot to paste the copied information to.

And thirdly and most importantly read the rules to the promotion if they say its a Social Media promotion (SM) then you need to have a social media account already set up prior to even thinking of joining the promotion. If you don't have one, then you are automatically breaking the rules when you participate with out one because, you can't share their images and promote them without one. And most prefer having two accounts such as facebook and twitter or twitter and google+ or pinterest, what ever combination you want or feel comfortable using or already have set up, just as long as there is one or two. The reason for a secondary is because not everyone uses the same social networking sites, so if you use pinterest and I don't want my images posted to pinterest because of one reason or the other, where am I going to gain benefit from your promoting me? I won't so you need a back up SM site for those who may not use the same one as you. Usually twitter and pinterest or twitter and google+ are what I see as the main ones and facebook of course. I have all of them. I don't use all of them on a daily basis, but if i need to i have an account with them.

Usually you have to have a social networking site set up prior to joining the promotion, because now the social media networks are what is helping you get your traffic to your galleries to buy. Not so much the keywords you use on the images anymore to get them to you.

Two You will need to know how to post all the information for yourself and you images for them to promote for you. And you will need to know how to copy and paste to do that. (I put directions on how to copy and paste on down in this thread)

three in order to do number two you are going to have to learn to open multiple windows and go back and forth between them and copy from one window and paste into another, well that or you'll be doing a lot of writing on scratch paper and alot of time wasted typing it all in....your choice.


Im going to use posting to the promo board as an example in this.....and walk you through the process just like you will be doing it.

First you are going to go to the board and do your bit on the promotion, sharing their images and saying kind words about their are that you like etc, you are probably going to like and favorite them to if you are doing a good job as a promoter you are doing all three of these things, it's call good promotional etiquette. Learn it, it will pay off you ten fold by them doing the same for you. Now once you have promoted theirs it's now your turn to give them the information you want promoted so people can start visiting the image you are telling them to promote for you......
Hallaallluujuah it's my turn!!!!

Ok this is how you open multiple pages: You already have one page open because you are here reading this blog. look up at the top of the screen and you will see a little plus sign next to the tab you have open each tab indicates a page you have open and usually has the site name or page name listed there on the tab that's how you know which one to hit to get back and forth between pages you have open. the x will close the tab out if you are through with that page, it's really rather simple.

once you hit the plus sign it will give you a fresh browser page, ok I have another window open now what? You want to use two pages within FAA right? so you want to go to the address bar and open up another FAA window just like you did when you first logged in to the site.
(if you use other browsers other than firefox just look for a plus sign somewhere near the http link line, or you can enter something into your google search box and it should also open up a seperate page for you if you dont see the plus sign anywhere. )

go through the process just like you are logging in. with faa since you are already logged in on one page you don't have to actually put your email address and password into this new page, but you will have to click the "sign in " tab to open your account up in the new page.

guess what ?? >>>>you now have mastered opening multiple pages on the same site.

On one page go to the group and then to the discussion thread where you have joined in on the promotion......go to the comment box and act like you are ready to post a comment in there. in other words anchor your mouse in the box to hold the box there while you go get the information you need to paste in there.

Now go hit the tab where your other page is open, this will be your runner page, this is where you will go to get information to copy and paste that's it you will do nothing else with this page but use it to go and retrieve the information you need to post in the comment box.

go to your gallery and find the image you want them to promote for you and copy the address (http://fineartamerica.com/yourname/your imge title whatever it says) and then hit your original tab that is holding the groups page for you and go to the comment box and paste the link in there.

If you don't know where that link is , it's the http address at the top of the image page you want to promote. just highlight it and use the copy command to get all that is highlighted and you have the direct link for that image. (same thing for the Artistwebsites.com site, you'd do the same thing there, just go to the image you want and copy the address information in the address bar at the top of the page)

now hit your primary page tab where you have the comment box open and paste the link into the box,.

now you need to go find you link for your social network where you have posted their work or "shared to" link. so you need your runner page or secondary page again, hit the tab so you are using your runner page and go to where ever you have that address listed or just simply type it's address if you know it into the comment box.

A good rule is to copy and paste all links you are associated with at the bottom of your bio on the site or any site really. It give people a list of sites they can find you on and also just as important it gives you a central location where the addresses you need to post are readily available for you to copy and use wherever you need to. So having a central location with a lists of your sites is a good thing.

Ok so now that you have copied you social media network address you just hit the intial tab where you comment box is and paste it in the box,

You have completed the process of giving them the link they need to post and also giving them the site where you promoted them.

Congrats if you have mastered this. You will find it is most helpful to you in many ways as you are learning your way around a using your computer to to surf the internet.