Merchandise to Increase Your Art and T-shirt Sales
A merchandiser’s goal is to make shopping easier – often resulting in more sales. If you’ve bought an item from a store mannequin display or purchased an item that was featured on an aisle end (an “end cap”), you’ve experienced a merchandiser’s work. The same goes for those of you that have added a suggested item to your online shopping cart.
*Here are a few ways to merchandise the art a…
Make Your Art and T-shirt Pages Buyer Friendly
The Optimize Your Profile Page for Sales article proved that customization is a popular topic. Today, let’s apply customization and optimization hints to the “show work” (your art and t-shirt) pages.
First, let’s look at what a show work page should do. show work page example...
Optimize Your Profile Page for Sales
Your Profile page and Bubblesite are your consumer-facing galleries (some would say shops or storefronts). Here are some simple ways to make them both visually appealing and sales focused.
A brand called you
Your Profile page should contain an image of you. Many artists dislike this idea, but a happy, smiling image of you helps buyers connect. A photograph, painting, etching, drawing, e…
Using Facebook to Sell Your Art
For all of their pluses, there are plenty of confusing aspects of Facebook and Twitter.
The biggest positive is that Facebook and Twitter leverage your relationships with contacts. And we all know that relationships help sell art. Additionally, Twitter allows you to “follow” people that…
Ways to sell your art
Empower Others To Sell your work
It can be emotionally difficult to talk yourself up and sell your own work directly to a customer. But it’s easy for other people who like and believe in what you do to tell customers how great your art is.
Give family and friends a portfolio of your work and make it easy for them to sell your work for you, including handling payment. Give them order fo…