2012-2013 membership table
Mini Gallery™ 2012-2013 annual membership benefits table
This year Mini Gallery™ is 10 years old!
The membership options for 2012-2013 are outlined in the table below. As well as the existing benefits which are included in the table we are planning to add many more valuable features over the coming months as part of our overall rejuvenation of the website. Some of the improvements will be made to the artists' Mini Gallery™ pages and others to the Mini Gallery™ website itself. Scroll down for more information underneath the table.
All membership subscriptions run from 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2013. No commission fees are charged for art sold, the annual membership fee is all you pay (no VAT is charged) and there is no obligation to renew.
| Mini Gallery™ MEMBERSHIP LEVEL | COMET | STAR | GALAXY |
| 10th anniversary special offer price for all artists (new subscribers and those renewing) | £50 | £100 | £200 |
| Your personal Mini Gallery™ online gallery mini website... | |||
| · An attractive art website address eg. www.minigallery.co.uk/Joe_Bloggs/ | yes | yes | yes |
| · Online gallery space for up to x artworks at any one time | 25 | 100 | 400 |
| · Individual Mini Gallery™ home page with 'Introduction from the Artist' | yes | yes | yes |
| · 'Biography' website page | yes | yes | yes |
| · 'About My Art' website page | yes | yes | yes |
| · 'Gallery' website pages | yes | yes | yes |
| · 'Contact Information' website page | yes | yes | yes |
| · An email enquiry form (protected from spam bots) for direct customer enquiries | yes | yes | yes |
| · 'Customer Comments' website page | yes | yes | yes |
| · Secure online shopping basket facilities provided by PayPal. In order to run a secure shopping basket enabling online card payment for your visitors it is necessary to own a PayPal business account (it is free to set up a PayPal account at www.paypal.com). | yes | yes | yes |
| · Your PayPal account is fully integrated automatically - no need for HTML knowledge/PayPal buttons etc | yes | yes | yes |
| · Currency convertor for each artwork for sale in your online gallery | yes | yes | yes |
| · 5 thumbnails of your art on your personal home page in up to 5 rotating sets | - | yes | yes |
| · Additional images for each artwork eg. 'mounted', 'framed', 'detail', 'in situ' | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| · Facility to organise artworks into x gallery rooms | 2 | 10 | 40 |
| · 'Exhibitions' website page | yes | yes | yes |
| · Website link to your own independent personal art website | Yes | yes | yes |
| · Gallery picture index page(s) - grids of thumbnail sized images | yes | yes | yes |
| · Art eCard feature which enables visitors to send an online greeting with your art | - | yes | yes |
| · 'You may also like...' similar art tool showing x thumbnails on each artwork page | - | 3 | 5 |
| · Facility to allow visitors to search your art by keyword | yes | yes | yes |
| · 'New Art' page showing art you have added within the last 30 days | yes | yes | yes |
| · Individual Mini Gallery™ website site map | - | yes | yes |
| · Ability to select which navigation menu icons to display | - | yes | yes |
| · A-Z list of your art pages | - | yes | yes |
| · Facility to allow visitors to sort your art by price, size, media etc | - | yes | yes |
| · 'Interview with the Artist' feature website page | - | yes | yes |
| All the facilities you need to manage your Mini Gallery™ website at your convenience... | |||
| · Easy to use Mini Gallery™ artist's admin area | yes | yes | yes |
| · 24 hour access to your Mini Gallery™ | yes | yes | yes |
| · No HTML knowledge required at all | yes | yes | yes |
| · Unlimited text updates/changes for your Mini Gallery™ | yes | yes | yes |
| · Unlimited number of image changes for your Mini Gallery™ | yes | yes | yes |
| · 0% commission on all art sales / art commissions | yes | yes | yes |
| · 'Pic-to-Matic' tool to automatically resize your electronic JPEG image files & cropping tool | yes | yes | yes |
| · Fields for providing all the info eg. media, size, price, framing info, descriptions, keywords etc | yes | yes | yes |
| · Customisable shopping information pages and terms as required by the distance selling regulations | yes | yes | yes |
| · Flexible multiple area/method options system to set up your delivery prices | yes | yes | yes |
| · StatCounter visitor statistics information for your Mini Gallery™ | yes | yes | yes |
| · Overall Mini Gallery™ art sales/commissions statistics for all the artists | yes | yes | yes |
| Promotion on other parts of the Mini Gallery™ main website... | |||
| · Inclusion in 'New Artists' part of the seasonal email newsletter | yes | yes | yes |
| · Inclusion in 'New Artists' section on home page of Mini Gallery™ website | yes | yes | yes |
| · Inclusion in 'New Artists' page of Mini Gallery™ website for the first month | yes | yes | yes |
| · Inclusion in 'Recently Updated' page of Mini Gallery™ website each time you update your gallery | yes | yes | yes |
| · Inclusion in 'New Art' search pages of Mini Gallery™ website each time you add new art | yes | yes | yes |
| · Ongoing rotation in the randomly selected artist slot on home page of Mini Gallery™ website | yes | yes | yes |
| · Inclusion in the A-Z of artists page of Mini Gallery™ website | yes | yes | yes |
| · Inclusion in the online directory of artists by region | yes | yes | yes |
| · Inclusion on artist location map for UK residents | yes | yes | yes |
| PLUS | |||
| · Priority weighting in the artwork search | 3rd | 2nd | 1st |
| · Automatic submission of all website pages to Google and other major search engines | yes | yes | yes |
| · Automatic submission of all art for sale in feed to Google Shopping | yes | yes | yes |
| · Automatic submission of all art for sale in feed to Twitter | yes | yes | yes |
| · Eligibility for gift ideas section of the seasonal email newsletters | - | yes | yes |
| · Equal rotation as 'Today's Featured Artist' on the art search | - | - | yes |
| · Eligibility to be chosen as the featured artist in the seasonal email newsletters | - | - | yes |
PLANNED FOR 2012-2013
Over the months ahead we'll be adding as much as we can to the Mini Gallery™ experience - below are some of the ideas we have:
| Mini Gallery™ MEMBERSHIP LEVEL | COMET | STAR | GALAXY |
| · Inclusion in the slideshow on the new version of the home page of the Mini Gallery™ website | - | - | yes |
| · Inclusion in image slider of new art on the new version of the home page of the Mini Gallery™ website | yes | yes | yes |
| · Facility to upload accompanying video / blog links showing you creating your art | - | - | yes |
| · Features that involve linking and integration with social networking sites eg. 'like' buttons, embedding an artist's Mini Gallery™ in Facebook, YouTube videos, blogs, RSS feeds | some | most | all |
| · Interlinked multi-format listings for artwork eg. an artwork can be listed conveniently as an original, a limited edition print and a greetings card conveniently at once | - | yes | yes |
| · Display choices so an artist's work can be viewed in a selection of layouts eg. list, thumbnails, thumbnail plus information, slideshow | - | yes | yes |
| · Addition of 'all my places on the Internet' area in the artist's admin area to facilitate automatically generated links to all the online presences an artist has | - | yes | yes |
| · Improved presentation eg. slideshows, mouse overs and image carousels for individual artist's Mini Gallery™ pages | - | yes | yes |
| · More space dedicated to 'Today's Featured Artist' | - | - | yes |
| · eBites feature which enables visitors to receive updates when you add new art to be upgraded to include sharing widgets, RSS feeds as well as notifications | yes | yes | yes |
| · Increased use of share this tool bar enabling visitors to send links to friends | yes | yes | yes |
| · Development of Mini Gallery™ app for mobile phones | yes | yes | yes |
| · Optional inclusion on artist location map using Google maps | yes | yes | yes |
| · Facility to allow website visitors to create an account with their favourite artworks, build their own Mini Galleries and share them with others | yes | yes | yes |
