Put Up a Free Webpage for Your Face Painting Business
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Okay, you’ve probably realised by now that having a website can be really important for building your face painting business. Face painting is visual, and unless they’ve seen you at a gig - potential customers always want to see examples of your face painting designs before they book.
But getting a website designed can be expensive, and when you’re just starting out you might just want to put up a free webpage.
Here are a couple of sites, that will let you create and host your own website on their’s for FREE!
http://www.weebly.com/
http://members.freewebs.com/
http://www.bravenet.com/
And don’t think that you have to know any crazy techy language. These websites give you easy to use templates, so if you’ve ever typed a word doc in your life, you should have no trouble putting up a pretty website with lots of pictures!
My favourite place to host your own free website is Google Pages. You can read about it here: http://pages.google.com/-/about.html (Firstly you need to sign up for a gmail account, when you do that, choose your username wisely, because your username will be part of your website name)
Why is it my favourite you ask? Well, I think you’d agree that having a website is pretty pointless, unless you’re getting traffic - getting other people to see it.
And how do you get traffic? Well, besides telling all your friends and family to go see it and printing your website address on your business cards etc you need your website to rank in the search engines like Google (Google is the most used search engine in the world!)
Now, do you think that if you used Google pages to put up your own site that maybe, just maybe, Google will favor your website… just a little…??
That’s why its my fav! Go check it out now, if you want a free and easy way to have your face painting business online!
And if you have any questions or have something to add, let’s strike up a converstion - just leave a comment to get the ball rollin’!
Happy Face Painting 
Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Want to learn more face painting designs before putting up a website? No problems, let us teach you how to paint new and exciting face painting designs with step-by-step photos and instructions right here: http://www.facepaintingtips.com
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March 11th, 2008 at 6:28 am
great idea- I love that it is free- I knew how to do a website but it costs about $25/month- free is even better!! Thanks, great ideas as usual
kim
March 12th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Thanks a lot! I have a bravenet.com website, but I don’t have any face painting pictures on it, yet. But you’ve given me some wonderful ideas on how to get some good pictures. I’m going to invite all my little cousins, grandchildren or any kid I know over for pizza and get them to let me paint them. My husband is an amateur photographer and can take the pictures. Girl, you are such a great help to me! You don’t know how much! This website offers wonderful ideas to get us started on building our face painting business! Thanks, again!!!
March 13th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
kept frezzing, so didnt enjoy watching it.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Thank you so much for the great advice on websites. I just created my site on google (not a lot of options on formatting and when I did a search, my page did not pop up, well at least not in the first few pages of results. But that’s okay. I basically wanted something that I could post a sample gallery, fee for service and contact info to send out to my network. The site works well for being free. You have been a huge help and I love all the tips. Just an FYI I purchased your online manual. .
March 17th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Hi Mulan,
I’m so glad that you went ahead and put up a free website! You took action straight away, thats wonderful!
What is your website address??, I’d love to see it… don’t worry if you don’t have rankings yet, that can take a while, and if you like send me an email and tell me more about it, I might be able to help you with that
Thanks for getting our online face painting guide! What do you think so far? Have you started face painting our designs?
Happy Face Painting,
Philadelphia Tivoli
March 20th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
havent got a website yet but ordering your online book today. I loved the 5 free lessons!!! Easy to follow instructions for a person who doesnt have much painting ability.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Thank you for the info!
Do you have to have a website built at one of those 3 free sites before you can put it on your Gmail? I would love to do this but it is all a little confusing for a computer dummie.
Thanks again,
Darrie Edge aka Giggles
April 1st, 2008 at 12:34 am
Hi Philadelphia, To all your readers, it is very easy to post a website on googlepages. If you can type a message on this blog you can create a website on googlepages. Here is my site: http://mulanmagicandfacepainting.googlepages.com
I just learned that you have to take an additional step to verify your website first before it is searchable. Philadelphia, to answer your question on the manual. I got value from your website and blog and the manual. The designs in the manual were too advance for me to turn in 3-6 minutes. But I have no regrets, your service and guidance has been well worth the investment. I’m learning so much and encourage anyone who has gotten value from your website to support you! Here is a tppic idea, if you can do a blog on “setting up your face painting station” I would greatly appreciate your advice and the advice of others.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Mulan… lovely site! I’m impressed how googlepages looks for being free.
Giggles… you do not need a gmail account at all for the first 3 free sites that Philadelphia posted. You DO however need a gmail account for the googlepages site. These are all separate from each other and you can create a free site from any, none or all of these if you chose to.
I hope that clarifies… if not, let us know so we can help you out
November 7th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Hi Philadelphia
Another New free resource face painters should be aware of is this Free Global Directory where they can list their face painting business (website).
http://www.face-painting-fun.com/face-painter.html
Lots of cool things about it-
Its Free
You get to upload an image
You can list whatever text you like
You are listed by country
You can add all your details
You can be rated by your peers and customers
Check it out
Regards
Andrew
www.face-painting-fun.com