Sell more Art - 3 Ways to Promote your Art
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Imagekind.com – is a great resource – they are a café press company that deals with creating product lines of your work and can plug you in to other net works that will help you sell your work. Let them do it for you –as a begging and intermediate artist you can have a product line of cards, posters, prints, prints on canvases and direct your friends and clients to your imagekind.com account. It is a way to totally get your wok out there with out spending a lot of cash and it professionalizes your standing – they even help you optimize your own traffic as written below- have lots of fun with this
My very best to you - Chuck DeWolfe Read the rest of this entry »
3 Artists Success Stories - Selling Art Online
This great article looked at by artnewsblog.com, looks are 3 specific artists who have caved their own line space with creative marketing approaches on line. These are solid examples of artist who took strong initiative and created basic marketing profiles for them selves and committed to their process. Sticking to it for 6 months to a year. Beyond there basic idea is the clear commitment to carry it threw and be consistent. This basic undertaking was more important than the work it self
And allowed for people to witness them working and got them the attention that they deserve – so check these guys out….
USA Today has wrote an article about how artists are taking advantage of the internet to sell their work. Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t know if you thought about this…
But have you considered the advantages of the art galleries at local colleges or universities?
7 FREE Ways to Promote & Sell Your Art Online
In this kick-butt article: “7 FREE Ways to Promote & Sell Your Art Online” by Kristin Royce on selling art she writes about the top online resources for artists to sell art and get exposure on the web. Free web directories, artist galleries, search engine submissions and more.
It is a clear and powerful article delivering rock solid information and you can find it here - The one thing that I want to add is this – it is important to know what your doing on line and to understand how the world works via the web because that is where we are and where we are heading and there is no turning back at all… but - and this is important - you can hire some one to help you implement all this great material- you can even trade them some art if that works - I would recommend WES UNRUH he charges 100 an hour but can implement in an hour what might take you 3 weeks…my very best to you and I want to thank Kristin Royce for giving us some great new recourses:
1. MySpace
http://www.myspace.com
2. Friendster . http://www.friendster.com/
3. Art.com http://www.art.com/App/OriginalArt/
4. Submit your artist website URL for free to these Artist directories:
. The Pauper’s Artist Directory
. Studio Arts - Online Directory of Local Artists
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5. Web Search Engines .
. Yahoo!
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6. Message Boards / Groups Yahoo! Groups for Entertainment & Arts
. eZBoard
. The Pauper Cafe Message Board
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7. Email Signature File Use your mail program to create an email signature file that will be included in every email you send….
BONUS! Read “Why Every Artist Needs a Blog” by Kristin Royce for the new innovative way to sell art online and check out http://BloggingforArtists.com to learn how to make money with your blog big time!
Paradise City Arts Festival Video Podcast - Mia LaBerge
Virginia artist Mia LaBerge provides some great tips on getting out and selling your artwork at shows. She also emphasizes the importance of starting up blogs as a way to present fresh work online.
Thanks Mia! (There’s quite a bit of great work on her site!)
Be sure to check back for more art tips from artists at the Paradise City Arts Festival!
Art Coaching is Essential!
If you are starting out in the art marketing world, able to see and acknowledge other points of view, value them, and learn from them is essential.
There is a great post at artbusiness.com by Alan Bamberger where he says
Before you can get representation or a show, you have to understand how people who sell art for a living think, what they need, and how you can give it to them.
To do this, you need to be part of a mastermind group. Artmastermind.com is a group designed to introduce you as an artist to an ongoing community committed to self-development and financial success.
The Paradise City Arts Festival
Outdoor art shows are wonderful places to get a feel for a community and to showcase your artwork. Art Coach Chuck explains in this video taken at the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton Massachusetts where works in studio furniture, art glass, large-scale sculpture, ceramics, jewelry and painting are on display.
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