How can you make the best use of slow periods in your art business? Here are 10 ways to get value from the downtime.
Since the secret of social media is engagement, simply posting links to art you have for sale isn’t going to work. That’s a fast way to get blocked and ignored.
Having started painting silk 30 years ago as a young mother, Kavita developed a retail business and eventually turned to almost exclusively wholesaling her work.
Quite often, a blend of retail and wholesale works to accentuate the positive aspects of each method of selling.
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It’s a great way to build confidence in new buyers and offer them peace of mind that your stand by your work – and can really boost new opening orders.
Production work as well as one-of-a-kind art are sold through several gallery accounts in the southern United States. He also occasionally makes personal appearances at trunk shows to help those galleries promote his work to their collectors.
People are like moths – they look at the next bright area. By keeping the booth dark around the art, it leads the eye naturally to that point, and they are drawn to it.
If you have a background in business prior to becoming an entrepreneur, your odds of making it in an art or craft business are significantly higher.
Commission work allows me to create within the framework of others imaginations and needs. It is a chance to offer the monumental as essentially a difference in perspective.
Although wholesale buyers might be a mystery to many artists and craftspeople, they actually have many of the same concerns you do.