How to Sell Your Gourd Art

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Karen LoCasale and I'm here to tell you about crafting with gourds. Marketing and pricing your work, lots of books have been written on this, lots of people have different ideas, it is really kind of a hard thing to you know give you a definitive but you have to think about how much time you have into your piece and you also have to remember where it is that you are going to sell your piece. Art selling this at a art show itself or in a craft show, are you in a flea market environment. So your environments are going to have a influence on your pricing. If I'm in a art show this piece is going to go for sixty dollars, if I'm in a flea market environment is going to be closer to thirty dollars. So a lot so variation there and that is also going to determine where you want to sell your products at. Obviously you are going to want to get the most that you can for it. And it is also going to depend on your environment as well and the people that are coming to your show which is kind of again like your flea market people are expecting to buy things at a cheaper rate versus a art show but your piece has to reflex if you are in a art show it should look like it belongs in a art show as well. So keep in mind your cost of your product to begin with and your materials, plus how many hours you have in the work and whatever it is that you are going to be marketing your piece at. "