What is the best social media network for artistic promotion and customer search?

With the different social networks that are available today to promote, teach or get new customers, it is difficult to know where to focus our efforts.

The rise of the internet through the different devices that we have today, has allowed we can contact artists or clients in a way that would have been almost impossible before if we weren't going to the traditional distribution channels. With the social networks that exist to teach our skills, it can be "easy" to get a job, I say easy, if we really find one that, based on perseverance, an artistic work that stands out and positivity, we will surely be surprised by the possibilities that can come to have.

I will not discover a new world with this entry, but if some advice to get into the different social networks in a better way, and not waste any time in one that may not achieve the expected result. I will try Behance, Instagram and Dribbble.

There are other like DeviantArt that are important and without forgetting the Facebook pages for easy access to family and friends to see our work, or the typical communication channel such as Twitter or LinkedIn. But I will focus my efforts on these three mentioned, which will surely surprise you when I comment on Instagram.

And as always do not forget to have a website where you can show your portfolio. The time lost in social networks that will not affect you at all can be used to gradually create your website so that it is as professional as possible.

Also, the presence in several connecting them together like the 3 below, with a Twitter profile, LinkedIn and a Facebook page, make up a good network "ecosystem" for your online artistic portfolio.

Behance

It has formed a huge conglomerate where you can get to know all kinds of artists within the visual and graphic and that it can be a platform to show our art to future clients or to the same thousands of artists who swarm through its network to interact with them.

It is a great tool to display "work in progress" or work in progress so that our followers can admire how we go from a foreshortening or primary design to a final one. Apart from having "badges" to be able to know if an illustrator or graphic designer has had some milestone or has shown works that he has later sold or that have been hired for his services.

Behance is an essential platform, which may not have the popularity so that any user can know your work, but it is important on a professional level, and it is every day more.

Instagram

Surely some of you can tell me why I put Instagram instead of DeviantArt, but the fact that this social network is there is for a great reason and it is the power you possess to reach millions of people worldwide.

Anyone who uses the internet daily through a Mac, PC or a smartphone, has an Instagram accountSo, if you have artistic works that stand out on their own, they can reach hundreds of people if you put a little emphasis on having them displayed.

Your Facebook contacts can be the first to promote your work and through some circle you can surely get a job. It is important that you interact with the fans that arise, and never be the silent artist, communication is of vital importance.

Apart from that they are already many artists who claim that Instagram It has gotten them a lot of work

Dribbble

Dribbble has a handicap of its own, and that is that you will have to fill out a form to be accepted as an artist. In this network you will have to pass a «casting» And there are already companies that ask certain professionals about their profile on Dribbble, since it is as if you have a profile there, you have enough quality to be hired.

A website that is having more and more impact and that should not be missing as a platform where you can get a job and move your art. As always, mastering a language like English will always benefit you for promotion.