Selling Your Art Online

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There Are More Opportunities Than Ever Before For Artists To Make Money Online!

When I first started using the internet to show and sell my artwork, the options were pretty slim. I started out with cafepress, which is one of the oldest "print on demand" sites, but it was over 3 years before I finally figured out how to really make anything more than a few dollars per month.

Now, 4 years after I uploaded my first image, I'm finally successfully selling my artwork online. Today, instead of one or two sites where artists can sell their artwork, there are dozens of wonderful free or very low cost sites.

Finding the Right Site to Sell Your Artwork

Depends on What Kind of Art You Want To Sell

Print On Demand
There are a lot of different sites where you can quickly become a member, open your own little online store and start selling your artwork on clothing, stickers, buttons and gifts today!

Some sites are free like Zazzle and others offer a small free store, but for a small monthly fee, you get a bigger multi-product store.

Some of my favorite sites for selling visual art using print on demand are:

ZAZZLE

CAFEPRESS

DEVIANT ART

IMAGEKIND

Design and Sell Merchandise Online for Free

Dazzle With Zazzle

A Fun Free Print On Demand Site

Zazzle is just one of the many Print on demand sites where artists can sell their designs on t-shirts, gifts and more. Please visit my zazzle store to see all of the great ways you can sell your art online: Mystic Mama Designs

Mystic Mama Designs

On Zazzle

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Cafepress or Zazzle

Which is better?

Do you prefer Zazzle or Cafepress? Tell us why.

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Cafepress

spunkyduckling says:

This is a tough one! Do I really have to choose between the two? Okay they both have their advantages and disadvantages but zazzle doesn't sell books so I'm gonna go with cafe press. Besides cafe press was the first POD company I joined and started making money without even advertising.

Zazzle

EelKat says:

In the "old days" CafePress was the best there was. When Zazzle first started it was a mess and not very user friendly. So for years, I had accounts with both, but barely used my Zazzle account at all.

Then in fall of 2006, Zazzle did a complete overhaul of their site and changed how they did things, making it much easier to both create and sell. Oddly, while Zazzle has been advancing, CafePress remains virtually unchanged.

Today, Zazzle has zoomed light years ahead of CafePress, and I'm now using Zazzle daily, and currently have over 8,000 products up for sale on my shop!

drifter0658 says:

I'm just starting to work with both, but I think zazzle is better. Seems to be a greater range of how yow can design your items.

 

Getting Traffic To Your Online Store

Marketing 101 for Artists

Once you have chosen a site where you want to display and sell your artwork, and built your online store, the next step is to get people to your store. You can have the greatest artwork in the world, but if no one can find your store, you won't make any money. I wasted 3 years trying to figure out how to get people to my online stores, spent lots of money on ADs and was ready to just give up and quit.

Then I found "One Week Marketing" and it literally changed my life. The funny thing is that this marketing stadegy was actually designed to help people succeed at affiliate marketing, and of course it is great for that too. I found that the skills it taught me easily converted into ways to get more people to my online stores also.

Now not only am I actually making a living with my artwork, but I've got the added income from learning how to succeed at affiliate marketing too. Here's the thing, in order to actually succeed online as an artist, you have to learn how to market yourself and your artwork. I'm making real money from my artwork online and you can too, with One Week Marketing

Sell Your Artwork at Etsy

Etsy is a fantastic place for all kinds of different artists. I use Etsy to sell my Art Quilts, Crotchet and original art. At Etsy crafters and artists of all kind can open an online store and sell their hand-made products for a tiny one time fee.

You get your own little Etsy online store where you can upload photos of your creations. Then you list a price and when someone orders it, you ship the item to the buyer. Etsy is a very easy site to use and the listing fees are really just a few pennies per item.

Etsy
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Etsy - A place for Artisans to Sell Their Work

Are you a crafter, wood-worker, quilter or make handi-crafts?

Etsy is a fantastic place for all kinds of different artists. I use Etsy to sell my Art Quilts, Crotchet and original art. At Etsy crafters and artists of all kind can open an online store and sell their hand-made products for a tiny one time fee.

You get your own little Etsy online store where you can upload photos of your creations. Then you list a price and when someone orders it, you ship the item to the buyer. Etsy is a very easy site to use and the listing fees are really just a few pennies per item.

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IMAGEKIND - Art Galleries

A wonderful place for photographers to show and sell their Art

Join Squidoo!

The best way for Artists to make money online!

Join Squidoo!

Squidoo is a great place for artists to show off their talents!

Squidoo gives Artists a format to really show off their talents and make a few dollars at the same time. At squidoo Artists create mini-blog like pages that are called lenses.

The Artist has complete control over what they write and how they present it. Squidoo has an easy to use format that makes the lens posibilities endless.

There are just too many cool ways to make a squidoo lens to cover it all in just one lens.

If you are an Artist and are not already a member of Squidoo Join Squidoo Now!

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    spunkyduckling Nov 25, 2009 @ 7:35 am | delete
    It's definitely helpful for newbies. Thanks for sharing. I'm gonna try that one week marketing and see what it has to offer. I did join Devianart some weeks aback but hasn't really been active in it. I need to grab a hold of myself first. Spreading too thin and too fast.. :-))
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    Ramkitten Sep 21, 2009 @ 9:49 pm | delete
    My husband just signed up for Etsy, to hopefully sell some "small" stuff in between bigger "stuff," to help pad his art account. He hasn't really tried it yet, but I'm hoping it'll work. In this economy, the pricey pieces aren't flying off the gallery walls.
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    mulberry Apr 5, 2009 @ 5:56 pm | delete
    This is really useful information for artists who are just starting to look at the opportunities online. Great lens.
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    Sojourn Apr 4, 2009 @ 11:10 pm | delete
    Great information! I have no artistic talent at all (and I'm okay with that) but I really enjoy the lenses with pics of others' artwork. It's amazing what people can create. Neat designs!
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    drifter0658 Apr 4, 2009 @ 9:10 pm | delete
    This was well done! Like I said above, I'm dabbling in both Zazzle and CafePress...and then someone dropped LuLu publishing in my lap. So, now it looks like I might have to give up swimming pool time this summer. I ain't givin' up the scoot ;)

    Thanks!

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