Getting started on ArtByUs.com 

A short tutorial on the basics

Helpful Links on ArtByUs.com 

ArtByUs.com Art Widget

Bring life to your desktop with fun, stylish, and useful Yahoo! Widgets.The ArtByUs.com widget is a little application that displays random artworks offered at ArtByUs.com.

When you click on the artwork, it opens the web browser and displays the art auction.

To use this widget, you need to have the Yahoo Widget Engine installed. It works on PC's and Macs!

ArtByUs.com Seller Kit

With the ArtByUs.com seller kit, you can add a real-time ArtByUs gallery to your website in just seconds.

ArtByUs Fee schedule

In a nutshell: it's free.

* no final value fees
* no listing fees
* no membership fees
* no commission fees

The only fees you might encounter are the optional feature plus ($9.95) or bold ($1) fees - those are valid for the duration of your auction, but will be repeatedly incurred when you choose auto-relist for your auction, so be aware that any time you have your auction automatically restarted, it will also charge you the same fees again for that new auction.

ArtByUs Shipping Center

ArtByUs.com Shipping Center page, a new informational guide to help you with your shipping efforts.

ArtByUs.com Advertising Information

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Escrow Services

Using a trusted third party can reduce the potential risk of fraud by collecting, holding and disbursing funds according to Buyer and Seller instructions.

Tips and Tricks 

• The ArtByUs.com Art Blog is where you can find interesting news, tidbits, and even post your own or comment on the posts already there.
  You can also add it as an RSS feed to your own site...
• For maximum effectiveness of your Feature Plus fees, use the 60 day listing - more time, same price - only $9.95!
• Use caution when using auto relist in combination with Feature Plus or bold - when your auction relists, it will also re-charge the fees! And they are non-refundable - so consider that before approving your Feature Plus auctions.
• Good images are VERY important when selling online - make sure they are clear, straight, well lit, and if possible true to real life color of the original. Closeups are an excellent way to show the buyer what they want to know - brushstrokes, signatures, details, damages, all the little things that the buyer would like to notice if they were looking at your artwork in real life.
• Take a moment to write a concise, detailed description for your item - it builds confidence in your work, and lets your buyer know what they are looking at.
• Add a short comment on what inspired your artwork, location created at, comments from previous buyers, significant information about the piece, etc.
  It will give the buyers a personal connection to your work.
• Your Seller's Gallery page is your very own online art gallery/auction page - this is where you can really ring the bells about your work.
  Add your Bio, pictures of yourself, links to your website,your views on life in general, etc.
  Your Seller's Gallery contains a list of all your current auctions.
• With the ArtByUs.com Seller's Kit you can add your auctions (or those from other sellers) to your website. Just download it from the Resources area on ArtByUs.com, and paste the html code into your website code.
  It is customizable so you can match the colors to your site's design.
• To gain extra exposure for your work, add your listings to your social bookmarking pages, such as stumbleupon, digg, mister wong, del.icio.us, furl, kaboodle, spurl, etc. - and make sure your friends know you're artwork is online at ArtByUs.com.
• Use the free e-cards from your auction to mail your auction to your mailing list.
  Go to my artbyus > i'm selling and check the auction you want to promote, then click the promote button.
  You can enter up to 100 email addresses at once...a great way to notify your collectors of your new auctions!
• Price your work realistically - not too cheap, not too expensive.
  Chances are, buyers will buy if the price is right for the work offered. If you are asking a lot less than your work is worth, you will devalue your work - If you ask a lot more more than it is worth, people won't buy.
  Since you will not be competing with cheap import reproductions on ArtByUs.com, you do not need to lower your standards on your prices either to fit in.
• Make sure to add your artist name to your auctions in the "artist name" field - if somebody searches the site for your artist name, it will pull that auction up, but only if it is there...
• When sending out your newsletter to your buyer base, make sure you add the link to your ArtByUs.com gallers - it's the place where you can showcase all your listings without distractions to your buyers.

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eyeopening I publish a blog to help jewelry designers find new markets for their handmade jewelry. It sounds like an excellent resource for my readers. Keep up the good work. :-) Posted February 20, 2007

rhiamon13 I'm glad I found you! Posted November 14, 2006

deboraheb1 This is a great resource! Posted October 12, 2006

desertdarlene You are doing a great service to artists. Keep it up! Also, I like your sheep lens. Posted September 12, 2006

News in the Art World 

USATODAY.com - Artists take paintings to masses

A phenomenon is breathing a breath of fresh air into the artworld of stuffy galleries and snobbish art dealers: artists that are taking matters into their own hands to create a marketplace that works FOR them, not against them, by changing the way they create and the way they connect their artwork with buyers.

One of those connectors is ArtByUs.com, where buyers connect directly with the artists to purchase real art, not cheap machine made prints or sweatshop productions from far east.

Maria Puente of USAToday has written an article, explaining the basis and idea behind the artists new found freedom.