Comments on: Seven Super Tips for How to Sell More Art https://artmarketingnews.com/sell-more-art/ Innovative art marketing advice for visual artists weekly since 2005 Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Jeff dahilan https://artmarketingnews.com/sell-more-art/#comments/33088 http://artmarketingnews.com/?p=15450#comment-33088 Thanks a lot Barney, I’m looking forward to apply those suggestions.. Im an artist…

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By: CutZy McCall https://artmarketingnews.com/sell-more-art/#comments/33087 http://artmarketingnews.com/?p=15450#comment-33087 Thanks, Barney. Good advice all around. My main issue is: how to divide my life between art and writing to make a living. I am both, and can’t seem to help it! People say “Just focus on one or the other” but unfortunately, that has been the conundrum of my life: I am as much both of those things as I am a human being and, say, a woman, or Jewish, or have brown hair! This is what I am and though I have tried to give up one or the other, I have found it impossible. So writing novels, blogs, titles, poetry (reams of it) and short stories (because “real” writers write lots of ways)and being an obsessive pop digital artist who churns out work endlessly, it’s sometimes hard to knuckle down to the business end of things. That said, I actually like business. I’ve been successful in other fields. However, when it comes to my art and writing, that’s all I seem to want to do. And, as Emily Dickinson wrote, “Publishing is the auction block of the mind.” Yes, we artists do think that way.It’s hard for me to “sell like hell” those “children” I birth every day. And no, I can’t “stop” doing “so much art” or “watching it pile up.” I do it all the time because I am compelled to evolve as an artist and to do that you must be doing it all the time…same with writing. I go back and forth between the two; got a ton of notebooks always by my side. I publish, however, yes. I’m all over social media and even have a new website for my movemment: TechModernFineArt.com. I have to believe that just being there, and yes, with price tags on my Etsy, Saatchi and CutZyArt.com website, not to mention my ten million views and twenty thousand followers across FB, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Google+, it will happen eventually. Guess I had to write all of this to see it for myself: yes, excuses, excuses. But there they are. In the meantime, I do appreciate your good advice. I got some great ideas from this post re. negotiating and making big offers. I’m in the process of doing that now with my business consultants. I do know this from past experience: business takes time. You have to find that “sweet spot” – that pitch, that negotiating stance, that place you belong – with your buyers…so that you feel in control and not on the “auction block of the mind.” It’s easy to get discouraged when you have to do the work AND sell it…and you do know that artists never have a vacation, right? We never stop being artists. We’ve been “working it” – some of us – since birth. So we don’t really get a “rest.” Not that we don’t love what we do. I’m convinced that that’s why we don’t get paid as easily for our work: people think we are having too much fun. How can that be work? Unfortunately, they don’t do it, so they can’t know. We might love it. It might be play as much as work. But it’s still a job and tiring, often with not much left over for “sales.”

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By: Brigitte Willener https://artmarketingnews.com/sell-more-art/#comments/33086 http://artmarketingnews.com/?p=15450#comment-33086 thanks so much. All the best to you. Brigitte

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