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Ways to Sell Art Online
ArtPal – Popular free gallery to sell art and buy art. Sell your paintings, photography, sculptures, jewelry, crafts, original art, prints, and much more. They also have a free Print-on-Demand service. Free membership, easy-to-use website, and many features to sell your art.*
Etsy – a community of artists who make hand crafted pieces. See our post on How to Sell Your Art on Etsy.
Adwords – Google’s advertising program. If you have a website where you sell your work, Adwords is a highly effective way of targeting those looking for art to buy. If you’d like some tips on how to use Adwords, please contact me directly.
Ebay – the world’s largest auction site. Follow @ebayart on Twitter to get an idea of what kind of art does well on ebay.
Amazon – the single largest directory of online stores, Amazon turned itself into one of the world’s largest retailers by creating a platform for anyone to sell anything. There are literally thousands of stores that use Amazon as their main source of sales. If you make handmade jewelry, Amazon has a section just for you on their front page.
Imagekind.com – high quality printing & framing, community, and marketing tips. See Imagekind Power Selling Tips.
Cafepress.com – for designing shirts, other screen printed things
Craigslist – in certain cities, people use Craigslist for everything. In Portland, I have seen everything from couches, to cars, to beautiful pieces of art for sale. Think of it as the world’s largest classified ad.
Artfire.com – a little bit like Etsy, but with a different focus. ArtFire’s Community Directed Development asks their artists to tell them what kind of features and products to build.
DailyOriginal.com – feature one piece of art each day on the site.
EmptyEasel.com – the most comprehensive guide to selling paintings on the internet.
Art.com – One of the largest sites for selling art online.
FineArtAmerica.com – sell prints at any price you want to set
Foliotwist.com – ready made art websites w/Paypal shopping cart built in
Yessy.com – One of the oldest, most popular sites for selling art online.
(BONUS) One on One Business Coaching for Artists – if you are very serious about your work and have the money to hire a professional.
I once attempted to gauge the stupidity and gullibility of consumers with an offering of "Old Vermont Firespoons". A product designed to save labor for those who regularly leave wooden spoons on gas stovetops. A "strike anywhere" version with a cutsey genuine fake parchment legend about their origin.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to sell more than two sets.
I had to drop the promotion when Walmart ran out of wooden spoons and one of the two colours of blue paint.
St. Phineas had it nailed!
I sell books on Amazon and antiques and other stuff on ebay and do very well.
I sell books on Amazon and antiques and other stuff on ebay and do very well.
I've got at least a hundred books that have been sitting in boxes since dear ol' mum passed away in ought-88. Biographies, autobiographies, some Time and Life series collections and other titles.
So how do you decide at what price to list the books with Amazon?
I sell books on Amazon and antiques and other stuff on ebay and do very well.
I've got at least a hundred books that have been sitting in boxes since dear ol' mum passed away in ought-88. Biographies, autobiographies, some Time and Life series collections and other titles.
So how do you decide at what price to list the books with Amazon?
Simple web searches by author and, separately, by title. Gives a pretty good picture of what's available, what's scarce and the going prices. The name "Abe Books" comes back to mind from several years ago but I may have that spelled incorrectly. Still, it might be a starting point.
I used to go to bibliofind.com to find out about rare books but I think Amazon bought them out cuz it takes you straight to Amazon. BUT, it also shows price ranges of others who have the same book for sale. Just type in Bibliofind.com and it will take you there
[MENTION=20545]Mr. H.[/MENTION]
I sell books on Amazon and antiques and other stuff on ebay and do very well.
I've got at least a hundred books that have been sitting in boxes since dear ol' mum passed away in ought-88. Biographies, autobiographies, some Time and Life series collections and other titles.
So how do you decide at what price to list the books with Amazon?