How To Sell Your Art Online

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How to Sell your Art on line, With the World Wide Web artist are now able to access potential customers all over the world when you know how to use the internet for your advantage, keep reading and you will discover tips on how to sell and promote your art online.

Have You Got An Online Portfolio

Online Portfolio, Showcase and Sell Your Art Online 

Many artists still do not have an a portfolio. All artist if you are serious about your craft and making money doing what you love then you should have a Quality Portfolio Website.

Showcase your work, have contact information, preferably an opt in form to collect the email addresses, personal bio and shopping cart, or a link to where your art can be purchased.

Creating a Website does not have to be expensive, you create a website for very little money, create a word press photo blog, if you are not sure how to create one you can out-source this.

Squidoo.com this is where you are right now, you can create your own lens for free, upload photo' s of your work, Squidoo is Loved by the search engines. To sell your work on squidoo you can link to Ecarter, Free Ecommerce Website Design

Site Build It A website builder online system, they have one of the easiest web site creation systems and offer great support, not expensive, you can add a shopping cart. This is probably the best Online Website Builder If you Have No HMTL Knowledge.

Site Build It!

Blue Voda, Free Website Builder - You will love it! you can download and create as many websites as you want.

Wordpress.orgdownload a photo blog and upload it to your own domain, very easy to manage.

Establish Your Name On line to Sell Your Art 

As in the offline world there are many Galleries online which you can submit your art work.
There are many ways to build up your personal brand for free.

You can submit samples of your work to art community's and online galleries.

DeviantArt.com
Yessy.com are two of the most well known but there are many more, just search on Google.

The Art Of Social Networking, How To Sell Your Art Online 

Social Networking is huge, if you are not participating in Social Networking you are missing out on a world of potential buyers.

There are many choose from,

My Space
Facebook
Delicious
Digg
StumbleUpon
Twitter


Art Forums, participate in art forums, you might learn something and in your signature have a link back to your site ( More Free Exposer For You)

YouTube this is very important and other video sites, if you create an interesting Video you could have millions of visitors to your site in hours.

Making a video can be a bit scary but with you can make a 30 slide show video with your best art and favorite music and upload to video networking sites and your own web site. (and it's free too) a longer video might cost a few pound, 30 dollars I think. So either way its great value.

Discover the art of Twitter

Learn How Squidoo Will Help You

Who See's Your Art

Merchandise Your Art WorK,  

There are more ways than one to skin a cat, an old saying but true. There are many other opportunities to sell your art, with out actually selling your Art.??????

You just have to think out side the box!

Whether you have made a name for your self or not you can still merchandise your work.

Do You Have a Cool Logo?

Very Creative?

Put your designs on, cards, postcardshats, skate-boards, key rings, T-Shirts, Mouse pads, etc, prints, posters,

Sell them at your Art Exhibitions
With Cafepress and Zazzle you can you load images of your work and sell them as T-Shirts, hats, Mouse Pads, Cards, Key Rings, Plates Mugs etc, what ever you can stick a logo.

You can either put limited editions of each of your paintings, or have the merchandise to complement your art work and sell them along side your Art.

Check out Cafepress and Zazzle

Tips On How to Sell your Art Online. 

The key to Success of Selling Your Art Online A Step By Step Plan.

1 Create your own Page on Social Networking Sites

2 Have Your Portfolio on line (Own Website)

3 Attach a Blog to Your Website and Update it Reguarly

4 Create Wordpress and Blogger Blog (Free)

Have an Opt in form on your blogs and website to collect the names of all visitors, you can then tell them of each exhibition you have or up coming events, you can do this with aweber.com an auto responder.

Create a Squidoo Lens

Every time you make a post to any of these, submit your post to all the Network directories,

Ping each new post to Ping-O-Matic, feedping and feedage.

Write a Press Release and submit it to Online News Websites

Link your urls and rss feeds of all your accounts, this will link every thing together,

This creates more online "Real Estate For You"

The more exposure for you the better.

To learn how to promote your business on line join Internet Marketing University,
you will learn everything you need to know on how to promote any business on line.

How to build websites
How to use Google Ad Words to get targeted buyers to your site.

How to Get your Name Established online to Be a World Renound Artist.

How to promote your business online and off line.

If you would like on how to sell your art online please contact me and leave comments please if you like this lens.

Build your own lens too!

Don't forget to network, comment on other peoples blogs, leave a (url) link back to your website.


Ps. All this Takes Time and Effort But You Will Reap the Rewards

The Reason Why Artist Fail

Artist don't fail because of lack of skill, they fail is because lack of skill to sell....
Creating Art and Selling Art are two different skills, you need to master both or be extremely lucky. Internet Marketing and promoting your business online are crucial factors on whether you can make a living online selling your art.
Mc Donnalds are famous,
because they have the best food?
because they know how to market their Brand!

How To Sell Your Art On MySpace 

Create your Protfolio On My Space

If you are new to social networking, then you are in for a good surprise.

My Space is an international community. World wide there are about 180 Million users, individuals, business, organizations and other artists use My Space.

How to Sell Your Art Using My Space.

1 Sign up, create an account on the My Space Home page.

2 Customize your page with the My Space editor with graphics and colors.

3 Upload your photographs of your Art to the site. Number the uploaded images, there is a limit of 12 to 16 images, use your best or favorite. images.

4 Add links to external websites or online galleries that host your art work.

5 Create a blog, at blogger.com wordpress.com or any other blogging platforms, Down load a blog at wordpress.org and buy a domain at namecheap.com eg artistonline.com or brand your name eg, myname.com. Add photos of your art with background stories.

6 Invite people to become your friends on My Space, then send them buletins about you and your art as often as you like.

7 Invite people to become your My Space friends. You can then send them bulletins about you and your art as often as you wish.

 

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Are You Selling Your Art 

Why Do Most Artist Fail

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They Lack The Art of Selling

They Are Not That Good!

 

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