Selling Your Art – Part IV (Etsy)
Recently were Part I, Part II and Part III in this art marketing series – this is all in response to Sue O’Kieffe of Sacred Circle Mandalas (http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com) who recently wrote me “i am curious to know out of all the ways you sell your art, which is the most profitable for you and which is the most enjoyable?” I have been getting some good feedback from various people that this is being helpful to them. What a great question, Sue!! I know some other artists sometimes read my blog – I hope everyone will chime in – this could be very helpful to us all! I am really looking forward to hearing from others too! We have already done an overview of offline selling (much more to be said about that!), online selling from a shop where you the seller ship directly to your customer, and online selling from a shop where the site produces the merchandise and ships directly to the customer. Today we will focus on one online shop (Etsy) where you the artist (and seller) ship directly to the customer. Check back in Part II to refresh your memory of some of the pluses and minuses of this method of online selling if you like. I have several online shops where I ship directly to the buyer – there are LOTS to chose from. I will give you details about my 2 current favorites and tell you why I like them. They are Etsy and 1000 … [CLICK TO READ MORE]