Greeting Cards Only

JH,
if you want to make money on your cards, you probably need to print them yourself or locally. I do mine myself...on metallic stock with a matching envelope, with full text on the back and in a clear sleeve for about $1.00
Then, you need to market them.

If they're not selling here, why bother?

Print them, or do the legwork with an album of Samples, take orders,get them printed.....all done without the Premium a/c.

There are other PODs.

I've sold greeting cards more than prints. Some of my buyers look at my stuff for a year before they buy. This is a fine art site not a greeting card site. However, all the cards I've ordered from here have been superb by comparison. I give my customers value messages - how to use it not what it does. My email list is my gold, if they wont buy now at least they can subscribe to my list ... and this is my method with my marketing.


I have not done this but, you might want to try a contest for greeting card art??? Have you joined all the greeting card themed groups?


EDIT: I do my business from Pixels.com and not from FineArtAmerica.com

I took off my single card price, meaning I dont sell single cards, but I sell ten for $30 with my mark up and 25 for $60.

I am promoting my cards at the head of the line on Pinterest, but that may change. I dont like the line up that way.

I have never sold a card, but I am on the new side.

Dave

you don't really make money selling cards. on this site i make $15 - yes they frame them, who knows why else they would spend that for a card. you'll make more with prints however. you can mark a card at any price you want on any store, but it may never sell. most sites sell cards. i would never use GCU - not ever.

this site isn't really set up to sell cards, it's a place to sell prints. so message cards may not do that well, and it's hardly worth a dollar profit.

i do recommend though that you drop the copyright death threats on each one, that is a sure way to annoy customers. you may want to look into better fonts as well. also black on brown is hard to read.

you have very few keywords, if it was a poster there is a chance at more tags. ideally i would focus just dropping the words and selling things as prints. but there are other pods we can't mention here now, they all sell cards. but again, they don't sell well because you can get them cheaper from hallmark and get them right away with no shipping.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Really, your plight is the same as the rest of us -- getting prospective buyers to come see your art and buy it. A quick glance at your work tells me it could sell very well, but you have to promote yourself and not rely on just being here. A detriment to you might be that I doubt many people come here seeking specifically greeting cards, though I know they do sell. One area to promote would be buying in bulk. Make prospective buyers see that buying 10 or 25 Christmas cards, for example, from you through here makes more sense than buying them at a store somewhere. Also promote that these are totally unique creations made by you and you alone. You can't find them anywhere else.

If you can't find a group or contest to your liking, make one yourself. I had thought about a Birthday Card group but just haven't sat down to form one yet. Ironically, I do have a few images that I market solely as cards that haven't sold yet, but an image that I thought would be the last to sell as one actually sold as 10. Go figure. Still don't know why the buyer bought the one they did.

or specialize in rare cards. like ones for Hanuka, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Festivus, and the like. or make them funny or really odd - like "when i said to break a leg..." type of cards.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I don't think people come here to buy cards. They might end up with a card if they can't afford framing and shipping.

Run don't walk away from GCU - what a racket that place is. Its slave labor taking advantage of people's dreams of being a card designer. You either have to launch your own card line (good luck against the Hallmark monopoly) or reassess your business strategy. Aim higher.

The bulk of my sales at art fairs are cards. I get the photos printed at walgreens for 19 cents then glue the image to a blank card (50cents) , put them in a clear cello bag (9cents) and sell them for $3.50 each. With a profit of $2.72 for each card. One art fair I sold over $900 in cards! There is clearly a market for cards, but not on fine art america. I've been here 6 years and only sold 8 cards through this website. Over the years, I've discovered that people like quirky or funny cards.

Message me where I get my supplies, if you want to do your own cards.

This funny Easter card is a big seller this time of year.