Doctors’ offices. Lawyers’ offices. Coffee shops. Restaurants. These are all great places to promote your art. Why? Because only a small fraction of the populace goes to art galleries. In addition, if you place your art right, you’ll get in front of the right people. Show your art. Most offices need a little bit of […]
10 Strategies to Improve Your Art Sales
This is a guest post from Carolyn Edlund of ArtsyShark.com. Carolyn and I have had several conversations wishing that we could help artists learn the actual skills of sales. In a former life, I was an annoying telemarketer. I learned all of these skills – the words to use, the way to ask for a […]
Selling Art Without Selling Your Soul
image by aristocrats-hat What if you could create a situation where you sell your art, you help people in need, and the people who bought your art felt like they were doing a good deed? I have personally spoken to a half dozen artists who are in just that situation. Over the past few weeks […]
How to Make Your First Art Sale Online
If I were going to work with an artist to help them get their first sale, and they had nothing, this is what I would do: Create Something to Sell – take a high quality picture of your work. It should be a high resolution image taken with good lighting, in a flattering way. That […]
Artists Who Sell: How to Write a Killer Sales Page (and why)
This is a guest post from Steff Metal. If you don’t know her yet, you’ll want to by the end of this post. When she emailed me her idea, I thought it was good. When she sent over the final product, I just about died. This is probably the best guest post on The Abundant […]




