10 08 2010

  What NOT to do at an Art Festival when Selling Your Art  

  What NOT to do at an Art Festival when Selling Your Art  

What NOT to do at an Art Festival when Selling Your Art One of the most rewarding things you can do as an artist to help sell your work and establish yourself as an artist is to participate in a...

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8 08 2010

Art Marketing 101: How to create art that sells:

Art Marketing 101: How to create art that sells:

  One of the biggest downfalls that artists make when selling art is not creating art that people like. I know a lot of artists would disagree on why art should be created and if you should make a...

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4 08 2010

Marketing Art Work- 3 Quick Strategies to Market Your Art (Right Now)

Marketing Art Work- 3 Quick Strategies to Market Your Art (Right Now)

So you have created some fantastic art. Well good for you. The question is, do you know how to market your work today? Well here are three fast and easy tips that you can use today and continue to ...

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31 07 2010

How to Sell Your Art To Someone Who Has Purchased From You in the PAST

How to Sell Your Art To Someone Who Has Purchased From You in the PAST

You've probably heard the saying, "Your best customers are the ones who have already purchase from you". This is very very true. Many sales reps uses this theory in the business world and it could be...

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2 07 2010

7 Quick Easy Tips on How to Sell Your Art

7 Quick Easy Tips on How to Sell Your Art

As you know, selling art can be a challenge just like any other business. You have to know the in's and outs of marketing your art whether online or offline. You have to know different strategies and ...

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24 05 2010

How to Sell Your Artwork on Online using Youtube

How to Sell Your Artwork on Online using Youtube

[caption id="attachment_279" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Marketing Art Work on Youtube"][/caption] YouTube is one of the top five visited sites in the world and has been a great resource...

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11 02 2010

7 Tips on How to Hang Artwork at an Art Festival

One of the main ways to succeed at your local art festival is to have an attractive booth set up to appeal to potential customers. When I first started off selling my artwork at art festivals I ...

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6 02 2010

Three Ways To Present Your Artwork at Arts and Crafts Festival

Three Ways To Present Your Artwork at Arts and Crafts Festival

While people past several tents of fine artists at art festivals, many people observe how the artwork looks in relation to the way the artist displays his or her work. Some artist go into length to ha...

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30 12 2009

Having an Marketing Art Mindset is Part of Your Art Business Plan

Having an Marketing Art Mindset is Part of Your Art Business Plan

Selling art requires more than you sitting in a booth or having work displayed online or in a gallery. It requires you to talk a certain way, dress a certain way and even act a certain way. Selling ...

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15 12 2009

Hanging Art Properly

Hanging Art Properly

To ensure a good looking display for your artwork you need to properly think of how your art is going to hang your work. Whether it is in a home, an art show or art festival the first thing you should...

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16 11 2009

3 Quick Ways To Sale Art Online

3 Quick Ways To Sale Art Online

Michel Keck, also known as the "raw artist" used the number one e-commerce site in the world to catapult her art career to next level. She didn’t use galleries, outdoor festivals or any other tr...

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6 11 2009

Three Reasons to Have an Art Blog

Three Reasons to Have an Art Blog

1. You can use blogs to drive traffic to your main site: The more you post something on your art blogs the better your chances of more people seeing your art blog. Google loves blogs and if you have l...

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5 11 2009

Why An Art Blog

Why An Art Blog

Driving more visitors to his site online than people driving up to galleries to see his work, my artist friend uses an art blog to talk about his work, his upcoming shows and about his personal life. ...

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28 10 2009

How Other Artists are Marketing Their Art Using an Art Business Plan

How Other Artists are Marketing Their Art Using an Art Business Plan

How Do You Market Your Art? There are a plethora of ways to market your wonderful creativity in today's world. With the websites, blogs, social media you can tap into a large market and began to ma...

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26 10 2009

Is Your Artwork Good Enough to Sell?

Is Your Artwork Good Enough to Sell?

Why does someone buy one artist artwork and not another artwork. Is it because of the price, quality of work or becuase one artists has a better reputation than the other. What ever it may be, peopl...

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8 10 2009

Why The Assembly Line Method Works When Selling Your Art

Why The Assembly Line Method Works When Selling Your Art

Ford Motors dominated the car industry by using the assembly line method to produce cars for the common man at a faster rate. The same way Ford was able to produce the T-Model at a quicker pace artist...

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23 09 2009

Selling Art in the Rain at Arts and Crafts Festival

Selling Art in the Rain at Arts and Crafts Festival

As you may know the southeast region has been drench with ongoing rain. Just these past two weeks I have had three shows at different art festivals and they were all infiltrated with rain. And I have...

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31 08 2009

Artist Question, How Can I Manage Job, Family and an Art Business?

Artist Question, How Can I Manage Job, Family and an Art Business?

Well there is no right way to answer this. There are so many things that we as people have to juggle in today's world. You have a soccer game, dance practice, work, church functions, marriage and it s...

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19 08 2009

How to Establish Yourself as An Artist

How to Establish Yourself as An Artist

Believe in yourself. One of the most common negative traits a lot of artists have is not believing they are a good enough artist or that no one will buy their work. This is a bunch of bologna. If you...

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13 08 2009

Do You Really Need A Studio to Create Art?

The answer is simply, no. There are many artists who think that they can not create unless they have a studio. Well, that's not always true. You don't have to have the big space with all the supplies ...

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3 08 2009

How to Sell Art on Facebook

How to Sell Art on Facebook

First of all, can you really make art sales on Facebook? The answer is yes. I have made some unique sales by promoting my artwork on Facebook.  It can be another venue for selling your art online...

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20 07 2009

How To Set Up A Tent For An Outdoor Art Show

You would not believe how many artists who participate in an art show, don't know how to set up a tent properly. I was one of those people. I remember setting up my first tent at an outdoor show about...

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1 01 2009

How to Overcome Fear When  Selling Your Art

How to Overcome Fear When Selling Your Art

As a beginning artist many years ago, I did not move forward as much as I would have liked simply because I was afraid to step-out. I was afraid to submit my paintings to galleries. I was afraid to a...

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