Digital Birmingham is a Birmingham City Council initiative and part of a city wide strategic partnership of more than 30 public, private and voluntary organisations
Mobtal (www.mobtal.com) is a new website giving artisans, painters, photographers and sculptors the tools to showcase and sell their artwork online. The vast website has taken 2 years to complete and has been developed by LHM Media, the award winning digital marketing agency based in Birmingham.
The site enables artists to join its social networking platform featuring individual profiles, events and news pages. Artists can sell their work online and to mobile phones internationally.
Gary Snow the vision behind Mobtal said "This is a remarkable opportunity for artists to generate so much publicity, global recognition and sales for their passion. We genuinely believe that we will provide a spring board to launch careers for unknown artists. Currently there is no other site out there that enables them to generate revenue streams using the sheer reach of mobile, and this is just the beginning".
Embracing the world of Social Media, Mobtal is marketing its services directly to the global creative community and is swiftly gaining exposure and recognition utilising both Facebook and Twitter.
Mobtal is already attracting high profile artists to the site including Abhilasha Singh, an international Indian artist who has exhibited in India, the UK and Russia, Martin Aveling who has exhibited in the UK and South Africa, Gayle Mason who is a full member of SOFA and Fine Art Photographers Christopher Marsh and Martin Howard.
One member of Mobtal who has enjoyed its E-Commerce services early on, recently spoke to popular Arts & Culture webzine 'Escape Into Life'. Artist Janet MacCallum, says "Since joining Mobtal I have sold three paintings and have been recommended by one buyer to his friends via the M-card function. The M-card is a quick and efficient method of promoting my artwork and has already helped me line up some commissions!"
The website is actively supporting the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, offering £10 to the foundation for each artist that signs up to use its service.
