Selling
1. Etsy.com
- is a market place not an auction
- 20 cents each item
- 3.5% percent of the total sale (excluding shipping)
- paying fee – credit card on file - billed or auto billed once a month
- built in shopping cart so not needing to have one on your website
- can use your own logo and put links to your website in profile
2. Ebay.com
- do a search for self representing artist to see what others do
- fees vary to price listing – 20 cents to $4.80
- percentage of total sale starts 5.25 and then goes down high the price it sells forself
- representing artist – then broke down into medium, subject or style
3. yessy.com
- fee yearly - $59if you use –their shopping cart then the fee is a 10% percent of sale but if you use your own merchant account then no additional fee
4. artbyus.com
- free - you put up your items but you use either your merchant account or paypal
- also good for networking
5. Boundless Gallery - Stephanie mentioned this one. It looks like they have a free sign up and many free features but I am not sure if you sell things via them - their might be a fee. But I haven't signed up or know enough about them to know for sure.
6. Absolute Arts - I don't know anything about them - but came upon them in some searches the other night. It looks like there is a free sign up but if you want more features then it costs.
Networking & Marketing
1. a blog - Sept 10th Class is on Blogging
2. many of the above sites where you can sell your work also have forums which are good for networking - make sure when you sign a post to forums that you put your web url under it.
3. EBSQ Art
- $78 yearly fee for artists
- Portfolio
- links to your website, etsy, ebay, blog
- in rotation for being a featured artist
- online community
- not a site for selling but a site for showcasing and networking
4. Wet Canvas
- a forum
- articles
5. writing articles - because the more your name is out there the more you will get unexpected hits from many sources (I haven't used any of these yet.)
- http://www.squidoo.com/
- http://www.ezinearticles.com/
- http://www.associatedcontent.com/
- http://www.helium.com/
6. Yahoogroups or Livejournal Art Communites
Yahoogroups - do a search for your medium or just a general search of art and see if something catches your eye. There is not only valueable information for marketing your art online in many of these groups, it is a place to market, network, find new techniques and communicate with other artists.
Livejournal - it is not only a place to blog but it has many artists communities - again do a search for your medium or art in general.
7. Myspace.com, 723.com, deviant art, indiepublic
They are all similar. They are a place to have a profile, blog (I would never use it as my main blog though), network and communicate with others. They are all free for sign up.
Myspace.com - I don't really have a fondness for as most of the time when I got to people's myspace pages they are very clunky in loading.
The rest of these are geared towards artists.
723.com - it is like a myspace but for artists. It is fairly new so not sure on where it will go.
indiepublic - Again like a myspace but for artists
deviantART - it is more like EBSQ where you can have a gallery, people can comment on your art, there is a shop but it is for prints of your work, and there is forums also
Tips
- make sure your business cards, letterhead, brochures, advertising has your website address
- make sure when you do emails to anyone - everyday correspondense or online forums have your web address in your signature
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