Comments on: biz ladies 09: promoting & selling fine art online

By: Nell Hergenrather

Nell Hergenrather — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:17:19 +0000

Thank you for the article, I have been having a hard go on Etsy with my sculptural paitings and feel as if I have just had a critique worth exploring. Hugely helpful!! I’m off to blog about it!!

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:42:30 +0000

Hi
I feel like I could of written this article myself…not that it was bad, I feel it was great. I have about 3 sites with my art on them so I truly agree with what the writter was saying. I like the previous posting said, “I’m making a point to go back and read all the Biz Ladies articles..” I plan on the same thing.But Like I said I am an artist and the ones of you that are, don’t give up, with this economy I have tried giving up many times but I stop myself and say, “this is your life and you know you can paint and so keep showing others the same thing”…so I do. My next plan of attack is trying to get my name out there for Home Staging because I know I can make money doing that! You can make money with art but…and heres the but…no one is buying art when they need to buy food or pay a bill…that is something I have to stop and remember…Art is a pleasure and it’s not a must have..unless you have money and have nothing to do with it.

Donna Mc

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:03:31 +0000

Thanks so much for this article. I’m making a point to go back and read all of the Biz Ladies articles – what a fantastic resource! Thanks for doing this!

By: Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:21:46 +0000

This is a great resource for the artist/business owner. I’ll be sharing on Facebook!

Consider also 10,000 Markets. It is a website that works similar to etsy. High-quality pics of your work must be submitted and approved before you can get in. Another potential avenue, esp. if you work isn’t doing well on etsy.

By: alexandra hedberg

alexandra hedberg — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:51:40 +0000

I don’t know…
I must say that I know of many online galleries promoting artists work, but it’s very often that they represent artists of very uneven qualities. You might miss out on exhibitions in a good gallery if they find out you’ve been selling your art in the wrong context.

By: Andrea Gray

Andrea Gray — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:04:14 +0000

This is great post, I think I am now inspired to start a website…better get to photographing my work…

By: Stephanie Birch

Stephanie Birch — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:54:47 +0000

Thanks this is great, I better get to work

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:10:33 +0000

Heyya Nikko,

I work at BrooklynArtProject.com. I just wanted to clarify that at BrooklynArtProject.com we actually do actively generate traffic to our artists.

Particularly our featured artists at the moment, but we’re systematizing a broader way to promote the whole of the community.

Just wanted to put that out there. Thanks for the great post!

By: DesireeB.

DesireeB. — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:34:16 +0000

One aspect that wasn’t touched upon that I think might be useful to artists trying to build an audience is to produce a newsletter, Mailchimp is a free marketing tool which lets you create beautiful emails and also tells you exactly who opened your email. Weebly is a free website creation tool which allows you to create a professional image for no bucks and also get an idea of what it takes to maintain a website. I hope that’s helpful.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:14:10 +0000

Interesting article, Nikko. I’m wondering one important aspect of art sales–relationships. A brick & mortar gallery earns its 50% markup (typically art sold in gallery goes for twice what it does from artist’s studio) via its relationship with key collectors and museum curators (the latter is important for helping to drive the price of an artist’s work). How do you build these kinds of relationships online?