How to Sell Art: The Abundant Artist Podcast

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If you’re going to sell your art online, you need to be at least passing familiar with how things work online, both technically and culturally.

Doing research is important because you’ll understand how other artists are already selling their art.

I’m not talking about researching what art to make. You should make whatever inspires you.

You can start with a simple Google search for the kind of art you make. For example:

• pet portrait painting

• plein air ocean

• bug art

Make a note of the top websites that you find in these searches

• What do you like about their websites? What do you dislike?

• What is their pricing?

• Do they talk about successful sales?

• From a collector’s point of view, is all of the relevant information there? Size, price, shipping, descriptions, etc

There are some neat tools that will allow you to figure out a little more about how successful an artist’s website is.

The Moz toolbar shows you domain, page authority, backlinks, and social shares of that page.

From there you can look at the artist’s social media activity.

• Do they interact with their fans? Which social medi

Hi there! I’m Cory Huff, and this is The Abundant Artist Podcast, where we teach you how to sell your art.

Go to TheAbundantArtist.com, where you can sign up for our free email course on how to sell art online.

Today’s episode is sponsored by ArtStoreFronts.com. Maximize your Art Sales, By Having a Website that is Built to Do So. Build a website today, and you'll compete on a new level tomorrow.

There's Dreams, which are ethereal qualities – I'd like to have more money, more free time, or I'd like to make more art.

A lot of business coaches tell you that you should set goals. It's one thing to dream up big goals for yourself. Setting big challenges is fun, but where I see a lot of artists burn out is setting their sights on something that they don't actually want because they think that they should.

This is often in the form of getting a big break, or getting into a gallery.

This kind of thought is important because it guides your daily actions. It guides the kind of art you want to create, who your ideal collectors are, and how you will share your message with your ideal audience.

Here’s one of my current Fantasy Ideal Day Schedules (as of this moment – I reserve the right to have as many Fantasy Ideal Day Schedules as I want, and so do you):

7:00am - Wake up, exercise, and eat

8:00am – Spend some time in meditation and spiritual study

9:00am – Make art – writing, painting or something else. Dedicated studio time.

12 PM – LUNCH!!

1:00pm - Email & social media

2:00pm - Consulting sessions with collectors

5:30pm – Dinner with my wife

7:00pm – rehearsal or show

This Fantasy Ideal Day Schedule is not super-realistic. For example, my time on email, Twitter & Forums currently takes up WAY more time than shown here, and at the moment I’m rarely in bed by 11:00 or awake by 7:00... Plus this schedule doesn’t account for any of the client work I currently have to do. But that’s okay – remember, this is a Fantasy Schedule.

It’s a template, because it’s something I aim for, but don’t always hit. That’s okay. Just having a template to shoot for helps me stay on track.

:22 - Cory & Melissa talk about why they ended the Creative Insurgents podcast, and what’s happening next

Go to TheAbundantArtist.com/podcast to see the new podcast

1:30 - we talk about why we are ending the podcast and what you can learn from it, and how we decided to partner together

4:00 - how we created a shared document that covered our partnership details

6:45 - our guests (you) expressed specific interests that they wanted something out of the podcast that Melissa wasn’t really interested in doing

10:00 - how we will continue working on the new podcast together. We are going to document how an artist starts an art print business. Melissa talks about her own experience with selling prints up to now

17:00 - Melissa talks about her experience sharing art on Instagram and how it’s transformed her art making and creativity business

24:10 - we sign up and Melissa totally embarrasses Cory with her sign-off