How to Make Money Selling Art on the Internet
Artists who rely on selling their art for income are sometimes dubbed "starving artists," a nickname that indicates the economic difficulty artists face. The Internet has opened up many channels of reaching new audiences. With dogged self-promotion, social networking and great artwork, it is possible to make money selling art on the Internet.
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Create marketable art that will be relatively easy to reproduce and ship. If you want to make sales, you need to create art that people will want to buy and of which you can make copies. A good T-shirt design can go a long way online, but you probably won't get far with a wooden sculpture. Selling original art pieces online is usually not the best idea. Sell copies, replicas and prints of your work online and leave originals to be sold at shops or in person.
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Create an art blog or make your own art website. If you have web design skills, set up a website for your art that you can use to showcase photos and write about your designs. Even if you don't have web design skills, you can set up a free blog using a site like Blogger or Wordpress to showcase your art.
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Join art-selling websites. Two examples are Artbreak and Imagekind. Joining these sites will allow you to set up a shop for your work, network with other artists and observe the type of art people are selling.
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Utilize large, well-known e-commerce sites. Art websites are great for selling art to other artists, but other people often don't know about them. Use popular sites such as eBay and Craigslist to create auctions for your work.
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Use social networking websites to market yourself and your work. Even the best art will never sell if no one knows where to find it. Share your work with friends and set up accounts on sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube to connect with potential buyers and other artists.
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Set up a Paypal account for easy fund transfers. Making financial transactions online is easier when using a secure payment tool like Paypal. Paypal links financial information to an email address of your choosing, so you can have buyers send money through Paypal just by providing them with your Paypal email address.
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Tips & Warnings
It takes a long time to become an established artist, and the majority of aspiring artists never make a lot of money from their work. You need to be passionate about art to have success.
