SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE : Earning an income doing what you love..
Ok, so you've taken all these great photos, or you've been producing some great designs on Photoshop and everyone's ravin how great they are! But what now?
If you are not in a hurry to get rich (!) and enjoy the feeling you get when someone comments on your creations - and you ponder if you could make some money out of it, to pay for the materials or even time, for starters.
Here i hope to bring you some ideas and inspiration and hopefully even some motivation to get you to at LEAST try and see if your stuff are sellable. I will only 'teach' what i know and have tried.. and as i learn, and share - hopefully you too get to share the same feeling when you earn some money doing something you created (manifestation)
WHAT"S HERE
table of contents
- CREATIVE COMMUNITIES : ONLINE
- Free Image Hosting & Earn money too!
- PLACES TO SELL YOUR ARTS
- Read your way to creative success
- See All the Things i Make and Sell
- DESIGNING & MAKING T-SHIRT / APPAREL : TIPS & IDEAS
- PROMOTING YOURSELF
- WHAT OTHERS ARE CREATING
- PROMOTING YOUR CREATIVE BUSINESS
- Craft Creative Products
- CREATIVE ART & BUSINESS RESOURCES
- CAFEPRESS : another great creation space
CREATIVE COMMUNITIES : ONLINE
websites to visit to keep your inspiration alight
- FreelanceSwitch
- FreelanceSwitch, a Community & Resource for freelancers of all varieties - designers, writers, programmers, illustrators, photographers ...
- ARTDICTIVE : Intuitive Visions
- Get inspired and see what others are making, Whats happening in the Creative community around the world. Support others, make new friends.. share your stories..
- Ink-Hound.com
- Design your own shirts and hats - Ink Hound hosts an online community of artists and unique apparel seekers. Here is how the site works:
1) Artists submit graphic designs placed on hats or shirts.
2) The community rates and provides feedback on the designs.
3) One top rated shirt and hat design is put up for sale each week.
4) The artist receives $2 per item sold (no limit) and we return ALL rights to the artwork after the one week sale!
Free Image Hosting & Earn money too!
PLACES TO SELL YOUR ARTS
Recommended sites and community where you can sell your photos, creative arts and designs and much more.
Some sites you can upload your image, and make stuff from the products they offer, and sell them thru their marketplace, they handle the financial transaction, delivery, returns, etc
and some sites offer you a shopfront service, so you add details of what you have for sale (either elsewhere online or from your home)and you are responsible for payments, delivery of goods, etc..
Some sites you can upload your image, and make stuff from the products they offer, and sell them thru their marketplace, they handle the financial transaction, delivery, returns, etc
and some sites offer you a shopfront service, so you add details of what you have for sale (either elsewhere online or from your home)and you are responsible for payments, delivery of goods, etc..
- ZAZZLE
- Zazzle - We make quality custom products designed by you. Choose from over 350 products to design. Post them for sale in the Zazzle marketplace. When someone buys your product, you make $$!
* Powerful online design tools
* Millions of visitors
* Name your royalty on every sale! - RedBubble - Art Gallery and Creative Community
- RedBubble is an online art gallery and creative community. You can use RedBubble to:
- Sell your work online;
- Connect with a vibrant community of creative folk; or
- Buy framed prints, posters, canvas prints, t-shirts, greeting cards or your very own calender.
If you signup at Redbubble, and it comes to the part where they ask who reffered/recommended you.. let them 'Webgrrl' did.. and add me to your watchlist :) - EBSQ - Self Representing Artists
- Self Representing Artists
- Compare Art Selling Websites: Sell your Artwork Online
- Compare websites to sell art online. See features, prices, and restrictions side-by-side for several art selling websites. Find out where to sell artwork on the internet.
- District Lines
- Online Store & Order Fulfillment Provider
What can District Lines do for you?
* Custom Online Storefront
* Order Fulfillment
* Apparel Printing
* Graphic and Web Design - Instantly Personalized
- They sell a massive range of personalised gifts, toys, books, music, puzzles, childrens products, accessories and much more.. Like Cafepress but even a BiGGeR range of products!
- Shopit - The Social Commerce Network
- Shopit is designed to be a faster, easier and more cost effective selling and trading environment than any other available today. It is the world%u2032s first and largest peer-to-peer social commerce network that enables users to buy, sell and trade anything, anywhere on the Internet.
- Greeting Card Universe
- Turn your art and photos into Greeting Cards and sell them here. This place is only for cards, and you make USD 0.50cents per card you sell. You get your own 'shop' and tools to help you promote your card/shop. Free to join, no cost to you at all. One price for all cards (USD 2.49) for buyers
- Online Shirt Stores
- Online Shirt Stores provides designers with their own FREE webpage and online designer so that they can display their work and create their own t-shirt store
Read your way to creative success
Taking the Leap: Building a Career As a Visual Artist by Cay Lang
Most artists would rather focus on art than strugg more...0 points
The Artist's Marketing and Action Plan Workbook by Jonathan Talbot, Geoffrey Howard
This book has been written to help you become more more...0 points
How to Profit from the Art Print Market by Barney Davey
Visual artists will find this book to be an invalu more...0 points
How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist, 5th ed.: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul by Caroll Michels
The classic handbook for launching and sustaining more...0 points
Great Jobs for Art Majors by Blythe Camenson
Answers the question, "What can I do with a m more...0 points
Here's my favorite link:
DESIGNING & MAKING T-SHIRT / APPAREL : TIPS & IDEAS
collection of resources and ideas to get your art onto t shirts to sell
- MAKING TSHIRTS ; Photoshop tutorial: Tricolor images
- posterize images :) That effect is perfect in posters and t-shirts designs!
- Picture Perfect Products Australia - Sublimation and Heat Transfer Solutions
- Visit Picture Perfect Products Australia where you can learn about Heat Transfer Paper for both Light and Dark fabrics. You will find the needed skill to determine the best heat press for your application and a full range of many manufactured heat presses including Hix, Perfecta and Craftmaster.
- compete-tee-tion
- Compete-tee-tion is a new blog geared towards collecting information on the web's many t-shirt design competitions. My goal is to make this space a one-stop destination for anyone who is interested in these competitions, either as a designer or as a consumer.
- Wholesale T shirts/ Shirts, Design Your Own Shirt (Australia)
- T-shirt/Shirt Wholesaler,Plain or Printed T Shirts or Design Your Own Shirt.
There are no minimums, you can buy one T-Shirt for only $21.95, you can also chose from one of our 43 colours,the biggest colour selection for Design Your Own T-Shirts available on the net. - Custom Your Shirt (Australia)
- customyourshirt.com : T-Shirt Printing - Australia-based screen printing & digital to garment specialists - design your own (one/small orders) or big orders.. Reasonable prices.
- LOGO SPORTS WEAR
- Large range of apparel, and looks like good quality stuff too. They also stock tie-die tshirts and hoodies, that you can print on! USA based, can do international orders.
- tsdesigns | printing t-shirts for good
- T. S. Designs is an innovative, full-service apparel domestic manufacturing and screenprinting company. We help our customers accomplish their market goals throughout the product design process-from initial concept to "speed to market" delivery. We are committed to delivering the highest quality product by leveraging technology and creative design while pioneering sustainable practices and partnerships. We believe a business can only prosper through a sustainable business model that adheres to the 3 P's, People, Profit and Planet.
- T-Shirt Forums
- Online forum and newsgroup to discuss custom t-shirts, starting a business, screen printing, hard to find t-shirts, and announce your t-shirt site
PROMOTING YOURSELF
Where and How to Promote Yourself
Creating and making your art into something to sell, is just ONE of the things you've got to do, the other major and most important step, is Promoting yourself and/or the things you have made, to sell. Here i will add websites, tutorials and anything else of valued interest that will help you and me achieve some sales..
- OpenAd > The world's biggest creative department
- OpenAd is a global online marketplace for great advertising, marketing and design ideas. The smarter way to create your advertising
We are the first online marketplace for buying and selling advertising, marketing and design ideas. Let our 10,000+ creatives from over 125 countries pitch business changing creativity for you.
WHAT OTHERS ARE CREATING
creative creations from all around the world
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Self-Promotion for the Creative Person: Get the Word Out About Who You Are and What You Do
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 12/05/2009)
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It's called self-promotion for a reason: If you don't do it yourself, it usually doesn't get done! It's definitely a do-it-yourself proposition. It's an overwhelming proposition to make it big in the arts, and impossible if you don't take a proactive role in your promotion. This book will take the mystery out of marketing. It can't force you to embrace the concept, but it will teach you how to do it. It is the willingness (and ability) to market yourself and your art that increases your odds of making it. A lot of creative people have talent, but few have the know-how or desire to promote themselves.
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Craft Creative Products
craft and art products
Products, craft items that you make things from, or bags, boxes, you can paint and decorate.. Cellophane bags and product display.. all found here on ebay with great prices..
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CREATIVE ART & BUSINESS RESOURCES
How to make money from your art Resources : links and tutorials and even success stories that i find useful and motivating. Links to HOW other people have made stuff and sharing the information, and especially HOW TO GUIDES, where to find hard to find products to help you create..
- PUREBUTTONS INC - HIGH-QUALITY, CUSTOM 1 INCH, 1.25 INCH, 1.5 INCH, and 2.25 INCH BUTTONS!
Really well priced buttons (badges)in various sizes. Upload your own designs and order and resell? Great for promotions too ;) Good potential to do something here with designs especially..- Photography and The Law: Know Your Rights (Photojojo)
- Know where you stand with the law regarding Photography : where you are allowed or not allowed to take photos, what happens if you get some trouble, or they want to take your camera off you.. things like that..
- Free Invitation Wording Ideas
- Free Invitation Wording Ideas for your invitations. Make your own invitations with our free invitation wording guide. Use our invitation wording ideas as a guide and add your own wording verse ideas
- 30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes
- Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, can present them in a variety of ways. On big screen,
- Beads4u.com.au
- Beads4u.com.au Wholesalers of Beads, sequins, seed beads, bugle beads, faceted beads, pony beads, round beads, pearls, cloissone, semi-precious, firepolished czech glass, wooden beads, findings, rice beads and much more
- Starting a Greeting Card Business
- Even with the growing threat of e-cards, the greeting card industry remains very strong. Industry estimates show that over 7.4 billion cards were sold to Americans last year; that breaks down to approximately 235 cards sold per second! The good news is -- about 1/3 of these cards are created by freelancers. If you have the talent for photography, painting, calligraphy, and writing, this may be the business for you.
- Fabric Shops, Fabric Stores and Retail Outlets Around Australia.
- Fabric Shops, Fabric Stores and Retails Outlets in Australia. A complete listing of Fabric Shops that can be found throughout Australia for all your sewing projects.
- ZOOICIDAL
- Australias little personalised printing business where the customer is the most important person in the world.
- Photopreneur
- Make Money Selling Your Photos and Marketing Your Photography Business: Photopreneur exists to identify the new opportunities that these changes are churning up for professionals, hobbyists and for camera-owners who want to earn from their photography.
CAFEPRESS : another great creation space
They've been around since 1999
Though ive known about Cafepress since the very beginning, i didnt actually do anything till 2005. I would have to say that I've earnt the most money from here, and my first cheque was for USD$300
by Webgrrl
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