For many artists it is hard to start up a website that not only keeps your audience informed but also makes it easy for you to push your products. Most artists these days are using myspace as their home page but the reality is that it could be easier to just set up your own homepage and launch your own store. Granted it will take more time and effort but the pay off and professionalism will be far greater.
The hardest part is the storefront. One site that I have seen is aShop Commerce. This site has a one stop shop for building a store. Now I don’t personally use aShop but they do offer a ten day trial. That should be plenty of time to decide if this works for you, if its too complicated, if its not what your looking for. The demo offers use of their features that include requires no installation, accepts credit cards online, and has fully customizable design. It is also search engine friendly.
I am not saying this is the best shopping cart software or ecommerce software but it is one option that is out there. If you have any other suggestions, post them to the comments.
as|peers: emerging voices in american studies
calls for submissions by 1 December 2007
American Studies Leipzig
www.americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de
americanstudies@uni-leipzig.de
as|peers is a new, annual, peer reviewed journal for young American Studies scholars in Europe. It is a
platform for the best work done by American Studies graduate students below the PhD-level. It aims to
foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to thereby advance the field
and its genuine European perspective on ‘America’ and its presences and effects around the world.
as|peers is the only American Studies journal specifically targeting graduate students enrolled in MA
Programs in Europe. It is located at the American Studies MA program at the University of Leipzig,
Germany. Every issue will contain peer-reviewed, academic work, as well as a section of art, poetry, and
other contributions. Its first issue, scheduled to be in print in March 2008, will aim to produce a snapshot
of graduate American Studies in Europe.
For more information on as|peers and our mission statement, please refer to:
www.aspeers.com/missionstatement.
For its first issue, as|peers seeks outstanding academic writing demonstrating the excellence of graduate
scholarship, the range of concerns scrutinized in the field, and the diversity of perspectives employed.
Considering the short deadline, we thus explicitly invite revised versions of term papers or chapters from
Master (or Magister/Diploma) theses written by students of European Master (and the equivalent)
programs. Contributions to this section should be up to 10000 words (including abstract and list of works
cited).
In addition, as|peers seeks contributions to its open submission section. This issue’s open submission
topic is ‘Transatlantic Encounters’ and submissions should respond to this topic. We will consider for
inclusion printable submissions (poetry, photography, collages, etc.) regardless of the author’s
institutional affiliation or level of study.
For more information on submission guidelines and a timetable of the review process for this issue,
please refer to www.aspeers.com/submit. Please direct questions and inquiries to info@aspeers.com.
Institute for American Studies • Universität Leipzig • Beethovenstraße 15 • 04107 Leipzig
www.americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de • americanstudies@uni-leipzig.de
fon: (+49) 341 / 9737 330 • fax: (+49) 341 / 9737 339
So this site has been up for several years now with the intention of informing the Hip Hop world about the positive aspects of the culture. We have done this for free (actually at a loss if you count maintenance and host charges) this whole time. However that is changing today. HipHopCongress.com has joined the Smorty.com network. This site matches advertisers with bloggers. So now instead of posting for free, we are getting a little help by posting a few times a month for pay. We get to blog for money!!!
This blows our mind because we never thought it would be so easy to actually get paid for something we love. And don’t worry Smorty told us that we can still say exactly what we want to say in any post connected to their services. Also we don’t have to take on advertisers that we feel don’t fit into our site or in line with what we are trying to achieve here. If you know of any other services like this, please email berkowitz@hiphopcongress.com.
We love the fight but like everyone else, we need the resources. Also if you have your own blog and sign up for Smorty, remember to tell them that you were referred by us!
Weekly Updates | berkhhc November 30, 2007 | 
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