There are lots of great opportunities online for an artist to make money. Being an artist that is now over 40 years old, I remember the days when artists all were literally starving. The internet has really changed that.
No more lugging canvases to coffee shops and galleries, just to get rejected. No more showing your art in dark and smokey bars, where everyone is too drunk to see it and the lighting is terrible.
Now all I have to do is put images of my art on my home computer and join an art gallery site...and like magic...my art is seen by thousands of people with the click of a mouse. Let me share with you some of the fantastic sites I use to show and sell my artwork.
No more lugging canvases to coffee shops and galleries, just to get rejected. No more showing your art in dark and smokey bars, where everyone is too drunk to see it and the lighting is terrible.
Now all I have to do is put images of my art on my home computer and join an art gallery site...and like magic...my art is seen by thousands of people with the click of a mouse. Let me share with you some of the fantastic sites I use to show and sell my artwork.
Making Money Online with your Art Requires Marketing
How to get people to your online stores
You can have a dozen online stores, all filled with fantastic art, but what good is it if no one can find your online store? In order to actually make money from your art online, you need to also know how to make your online store stand out from the crowd and be seen in the search engines, so people can find your stores.
Every online artist should have some marketing training. I myself tried dozens of things to get more traffic and sales to my online stores, and was ready to pull my hair out in frustration. It just seemed like no matter how hard I worked, nothing helped.
Then in total frustration, I decided to get into affiliate marketing and put my energy into that rather than wasting any more time on my art, which just wasn't selling. I started studying how to do affiliate marketing and after a lot of false turns I started thinking maybe affiliate marketing was just as difficult as selling my art.
Here is the thing, I am the worlds biggest skeptic when it comes to all these programs and systems for making money online. The truth is that most of them are just scams that help the guy selling the program get rich, but don't help you actually learn how to do it yourself. Then there are the other ones that might work if you have a few thousand dollars to invest...well I sure didn't.
A friend told me that a program called "One Week Marketing" was different and had changed his life as well as changed the way he marketed his products online, and that making those changes had actually worked and he was really making money online. He also told me that this wasn't a "get rich quick" scheme, that it was more like a shortcut that actually gives you the tools you need to succeed online and get real traffic to your sites.
Well, I finally broke down and purchased "One Week Marketing" myself...and yes it really did change my life and the way I marketed myself online. The thing I like about "One Week Marketing" is that the marketing methods you learn can easily be adapted to promoting your own products, which if you are an artist like me, is your artwork. This program teaches you how to get real traffic to your online stores, which equals sales, which means you are finally really making money online.
I don't normally endorse anything like this, because most of the "make money online" stuff is a scam. This is different, it's more like a tool box with instructions that actually teach you how to use the tools inside. As a fellow artist you know that having the right tool to do the job makes all the difference. You can't pound in a nail with a wash cloth and you can't wash the dishes with a hammer. So if you're tierd of broken dishes, check out One Week Marketing today!
Every online artist should have some marketing training. I myself tried dozens of things to get more traffic and sales to my online stores, and was ready to pull my hair out in frustration. It just seemed like no matter how hard I worked, nothing helped.
Then in total frustration, I decided to get into affiliate marketing and put my energy into that rather than wasting any more time on my art, which just wasn't selling. I started studying how to do affiliate marketing and after a lot of false turns I started thinking maybe affiliate marketing was just as difficult as selling my art.
Here is the thing, I am the worlds biggest skeptic when it comes to all these programs and systems for making money online. The truth is that most of them are just scams that help the guy selling the program get rich, but don't help you actually learn how to do it yourself. Then there are the other ones that might work if you have a few thousand dollars to invest...well I sure didn't.
A friend told me that a program called "One Week Marketing" was different and had changed his life as well as changed the way he marketed his products online, and that making those changes had actually worked and he was really making money online. He also told me that this wasn't a "get rich quick" scheme, that it was more like a shortcut that actually gives you the tools you need to succeed online and get real traffic to your sites.
Well, I finally broke down and purchased "One Week Marketing" myself...and yes it really did change my life and the way I marketed myself online. The thing I like about "One Week Marketing" is that the marketing methods you learn can easily be adapted to promoting your own products, which if you are an artist like me, is your artwork. This program teaches you how to get real traffic to your online stores, which equals sales, which means you are finally really making money online.
I don't normally endorse anything like this, because most of the "make money online" stuff is a scam. This is different, it's more like a tool box with instructions that actually teach you how to use the tools inside. As a fellow artist you know that having the right tool to do the job makes all the difference. You can't pound in a nail with a wash cloth and you can't wash the dishes with a hammer. So if you're tierd of broken dishes, check out One Week Marketing today!
Cafepress
A great way to sell your art online!
I've been using cafepress for quite a few years now and really like it. It was one of the first t-shirt print on demand companies out there and it gets a lot of traffic. It also has a lot of artists making designs, so the competition is pretty fierce. So getting traffic to your particular store requires you to also create outside links through blogging and advertising, but there are lots of free ways to do that.
Cafepress offers a very small free store, but I recommend getting a premuim shop. It only costs a few dollars a month per shop, and it enables you to offer so much more. Plus once you start making commisions, they just take the small fee right out of that.
Some people like to have lots of different cafepress shops, each with it's own little specialty. I've tried that, but found the cost per shop was eating up my profits. For me, having just one gigantic shop works best.
Cafepress offers a very small free store, but I recommend getting a premuim shop. It only costs a few dollars a month per shop, and it enables you to offer so much more. Plus once you start making commisions, they just take the small fee right out of that.
Some people like to have lots of different cafepress shops, each with it's own little specialty. I've tried that, but found the cost per shop was eating up my profits. For me, having just one gigantic shop works best.
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