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Well if you're talking about advertising your paintings on Ebay then my main concern is how you will ship your paintings. How big are they? Are you acquainted with the shipping process?
Ebay has community message boards and there's one relating to art specifically that includes tutorials by artists that have successfully sold their works on Ebay.
If you want to concentrate more on selling your paintings locally then you should use the resources that you have now. There are a lot of ways that you can start to sell your paintings locally but you're probably not even aware of them or just don't think that they will lead to anything.
Some of it will depend on the types of painting that you do but with anything you have to let people know that you are out there - regardless of whether you're doing it online, offline or both. All it takes to start is desire! There's this show that I listen to called "House Hunters" and you'd be surprise to know how many of the people that are the house hunters are artists that work out of their home - there are a lot of them. There are a lot of artists that are successfully selling their works as their business. There are a lot of resources available to you both online and off and if you're really serious about wanting to do this then you're going to have to start treating it seriously and start getting down to work - because as much as you will like the creative part of painting your paintings in order to sell them you're going to have to acquaint yourself with the "business" side of it. I'm not saying this to deter you. I'm saying this to say that it is not an impossible dream to want to be able to sell your paintings but it will require more than just painting.
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I am a freelance artist and find it hard to advertise my paintings.
Im not sure exactly how to go about it.
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Well if you're talking about advertising your paintings on Ebay then my main concern is how you will ship your paintings. How big are they? Are you acquainted with the shipping process?
Ebay has community message boards and there's one relating to art specifically that includes tutorials by artists that have successfully sold their works on Ebay.
If you want to concentrate more on selling your paintings locally then you should use the resources that you have now. There are a lot of ways that you can start to sell your paintings locally but you're probably not even aware of them or just don't think that they will lead to anything.
Some of it will depend on the types of painting that you do but with anything you have to let people know that you are out there - regardless of whether you're doing it online, offline or both. All it takes to start is desire! There's this show that I listen to called "House Hunters" and you'd be surprise to know how many of the people that are the house hunters are artists that work out of their home - there are a lot of them. There are a lot of artists that are successfully selling their works as their business. There are a lot of resources available to you both online and off and if you're really serious about wanting to do this then you're going to have to start treating it seriously and start getting down to work - because as much as you will like the creative part of painting your paintings in order to sell them you're going to have to acquaint yourself with the "business" side of it. I'm not saying this to deter you. I'm saying this to say that it is not an imposs!
ible dream to want to be able to sell your paintings but it will require more than just painting.
HI am an Artist with lots of printing working and I
WANT TO SELL THEM OUT.Will u be intrested I can sent u
sample if u like...... Thank you for your email.
I really don't have any idea what you are talking about. If you are talking about selling your works I wondering why you don't have a webpage. Have you investigated Ebay at all? A lot of artists are selling their works on Ebay. Some don't like the charges and fees and limitations that Ebay imposes so they are selling their works on their own - without having to deal with a middleman.
There are so many artists that are working from home and selling their works via the Internet and offline are are able to make a successful (and profitable) business at it I'm wondering why you are not trying to do the same thing. You have no webpage, no signature line and you didn't even specify what particular type of artwork you do.
If you are serious about wanting to have a career as as artist then you should really start with a business plan. And the number one reason why is because while you have your creativity as an artist you are going to have to get well acquainted with the "business" side of running a business. Have you sold any of your art? What kind of records are you keeping? What about expenses? Supplies? Portfolio?
If it helps you to feel better please know that there are artists who are selling their works online and are doing very well with it.
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