Take My Art Business To The Next Level!

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Are you looking for honest feedback about your work also?

advertise your work, have a consistent style.


you really need descriptions. i don't have a clue what this is. the buyer, needs direction. and all your keywords are totally generic. no one will find it from that.


finding your audience will be really tough. since you have to find them, they probably won't find you, you'll want work that would work in their house and i don't get the work. but because you have cut and paste generic keywords and no description, only shows a lack of effort on your part and it will be very hard for you to sell things here.


like when you made this - who did you have in mind when you made it, who would it be for? because this looks like a random friend shot ran through a comic book filter. and with the lack of proper keywords and a description or even a title, i'm lost at what i'm looking at. make things that you would hang in your own house.

so anyway looking at the work, its totally random, no themes, or style. no descriptions, keywords are generic, all the same, and doesn't fit for the most part. they can't all be abstract. and that's it. you have to find your audience.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Jay,

Welcome and good luck, break a leg.

Dave

"I haven't sold anything yet but I would like to make this my full time job. "

Don't quit your day job until your sales take off. Also consider how fragile your future success will be in you rely solely on a single income stream for your income. Things can change that are out of your control.

Best to build up your own business with FAA as a part of it but not the only part. Freelance or work for a company that will provide benefits. Its the dream of millions to simply post work and then lay back and watch the bank account fill up but very few can pull it off. Especially coming late to the game. At this point to achieve steady sales you have to claw your way to the top with lots and lots of great artists ahead of you.

Contact with people. Advertise you work via every channel possible. Work hard and after that work even harder. Maintain good website and add fresh content time to time - keep ppl interested onyour work.

• Learn the art print market: Understand trends and what's selling. Join groups, read online, learn about the industry you're joining.

• Build a body of work: A good number of images of consistent style; your voice and vision; high quality; uploaded correctly; saleable content (upload work people want to own and hang on their walls).

• Create an online presence: Use social media to share and promote your work after you have done the steps above. DO NOT promote an unfinished site or a weak looking body of work. People will write you off and never look again, even if you add tons of great images later on. The internet is fickle and demands interesting content or they walk away. First impressions matter. Don't promote using personal accounts, create business accounts on places like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.

• Try to participate in local/physical shows/galleries/art fairs: This is good experience, and puts your work in a different context, giving you more opportunities to meet people and to present your work in unique ways both on and off line.

• Keep yourself in front of your buyers: Advertise to your audience, share interesting things with them, build a mailing list, interact and keep on interacting. You want your work in front of as many people as possible, but you don't want to be labeled a spammer. Fine line there, walk it.

• Be patient: It takes a while to do all this, years in most cases. Going full time with this is not a passive endeavor. It's full time work.

Jay, to sum up what just about everyone here is telling you...."Don't put all of your eggs in one basket."

Bill Tomsa

http://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

Dont quit your day job.
Establish first your body of works. Visually consistent and of good quality.
As Cynthia said: "Create an online presence". Tapping social media is a plus factor. Since potential buyers/clients/collectors double checks through searches of who your are and what you have created .And at the same time if your the real deal And if they like what they see they would buy and maybe a repeat buyer/s.