Artists' and Artisans' Place
Ways to Sell and Advertise Art and Crafts
by Jenny Stewart
Jenny Stewart 
Hello to all
In this Group you are invited to come and look for and post your suggestions on ways for us to advertise and sell our work. All suggestions and tips are welcome, whether they are on or off-line The more the merrier - we can all help each other here.
This is a permanent Topic - I hope everyone keeps adding new suggestions for advertising and selling art and crafts on most of these pages - so we can have a reference place to find links and other ideas.
Arts & Crafts Fairs are fundamental for many of us - and I think we will have a special section for these where we can talk about selling at these events and add our own experiences or information about future fairs taking place in our areas too.
Other ways of selling your work
Print advertising - are there any specialist magazines on your work. For mine - there are several magazines read by collectors of nativities, so when I can, I take an ad. The readers are a targeted public.
Leaflets or brochures - again they are not free - but can be a low cost way of making sure that your existing and future clients have a way of contacting you in the future.
If you are graphically inclined, you can create your own leaflets or brochures, and print them on your printer. There are many graphics, and templates online to choose from, and many fabulous papers you can buy to print them on.
THE INTERNET.
Your Website First of all - it is best to have your own website - these can be free - there are many places where you can make your own from free templates - Who can tell us about this???
What alternatives are available if you dont have one? Cafe Press is one
Arts and Crafts Directories. Again these are often free to put in your link, although sometimes your are required to give an exchange link. It is always better to have more inbound than outbound links to help you on the search engines but there are times that the site is good enough to merit the exchange. This can be ok if they are reputable, such as the Craft Site Directory which has been established for many years and is found to be very effective for many people. What specialist directories have you found useful?
Arts and Craft Articles - there are sites where you can post articles on your particular field of work - these help to establish you as "an expert" in your field and can often result in quality traffic and sales of your work.
There are several here at ApSense. Please come and tell us about the ones you know of.
There are many other ways to use the internet - please post your experiences on this forum. What works best for you?
AND If you want to show your work
Start a topic on this Group!
and Rose Enderud gives you this opportunity in her Artshow forum at AdlandPro and it also has a group of forums for Arts Crafts and Hobbies
Rose's Artshow at AdLandPro whether it is art or craftwork -
Other internet Communities with Arts Sections
James Maxwell (maxinvegas) who is also a member here has his own forum The House of Max which has an Arts and Crafts Section too. Rose Enderud has a place for artists at Bizzy Blogz Community
These are all free to join and a great way of spreading the word and getting our sites seen by a wider audience
This is just a beginning. Let's share our knowledge and help each other here.
Come and tell us more
Saludos
Jenny
www.alasyciagranada.com
May 27th 2007 15:40
Hello to all
In this Group you are invited to come and look for and post your suggestions on ways for us to advertise and sell our work. All suggestions and tips are welcome, whether they are on or off-line The more the merrier - we can all help each other here.
This is a permanent Topic - I hope everyone keeps adding new suggestions for advertising and selling art and crafts on most of these pages - so we can have a reference place to find links and other ideas.
Arts & Crafts Fairs are fundamental for many of us - and I think we will have a special section for these where we can talk about selling at these events and add our own experiences or information about future fairs taking place in our areas too.
Other ways of selling your work
Print advertising - are there any specialist magazines on your work. For mine - there are several magazines read by collectors of nativities, so when I can, I take an ad. The readers are a targeted public.
Leaflets or brochures - again they are not free - but can be a low cost way of making sure that your existing and future clients have a way of contacting you in the future.
If you are graphically inclined, you can create your own leaflets or brochures, and print them on your printer. There are many graphics, and templates online to choose from, and many fabulous papers you can buy to print them on.
THE INTERNET.
Your Website First of all - it is best to have your own website - these can be free - there are many places where you can make your own from free templates - Who can tell us about this???
What alternatives are available if you dont have one? Cafe Press is one
Arts and Crafts Directories. Again these are often free to put in your link, although sometimes your are required to give an exchange link. It is always better to have more inbound than outbound links to help you on the search engines but there are times that the site is good enough to merit the exchange. This can be ok if they are reputable, such as the Craft Site Directory which has been established for many years and is found to be very effective for many people. What specialist directories have you found useful?
Arts and Craft Articles - there are sites where you can post articles on your particular field of work - these help to establish you as "an expert" in your field and can often result in quality traffic and sales of your work.
There are several here at ApSense. Please come and tell us about the ones you know of.
There are many other ways to use the internet - please post your experiences on this forum. What works best for you?
AND If you want to show your work
Start a topic on this Group!
and Rose Enderud gives you this opportunity in her Artshow forum at AdlandPro and it also has a group of forums for Arts Crafts and Hobbies
Rose's Artshow at AdLandPro whether it is art or craftwork -
Other internet Communities with Arts Sections
James Maxwell (maxinvegas) who is also a member here has his own forum The House of Max which has an Arts and Crafts Section too. Rose Enderud has a place for artists at Bizzy Blogz Community
These are all free to join and a great way of spreading the word and getting our sites seen by a wider audience
This is just a beginning. Let's share our knowledge and help each other here.
Come and tell us more
Saludos
Jenny
www.alasyciagranada.com
May 27th 2007 15:40
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Sean North
BusinessOn the net I find my logs are bringing me in more work, my arts and crafts markets offline are thriving and at the moment I am working on building a online market arts and craft where artists and artisans can take a online stall Oct 7th 2010 02:30 |
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Avinash Kaur
 Business ManagerThere is a lot to learn if you want to start selling art in top art galleries in India. How you approach and then if you do finally get a meeting, what you say. What are they looking for and when they ask to see your portfolio, how should look it like? And more…. ARTALIVEGALLERY.COM Jun 3rd 2021 15:07 |
There are so many great art sites out there where you can build your own art portfolio...
Another good one is www.ArtWanted.com
The only problem with trying to sell your art through many of these sites is that your work might get lost if your prospect decides to look at all the thousands of other artists advertising on the same sites.
The best thing to do is create your own web site...
You can get a free one at weebly.com
Next is you might like to promote your site on ResidualQUIK www.residualquik.com/isucceedtoday
You will be able to place full web page views of your work and reach thousands of marketers who buy online...
I hope this helps~
Mario.
Aug 4th 2010 12:18