How To Sell your Art Online
How can you market cost effectively while gaining a good return on investment?
The answer is visibility and the Internet. However, even if you are a talented artist don't waste your time on e-bay but start listing your name and artworks with as many existing online art galleries as possible.
If you plan to sell online with your own unique website you need to get yourself a domain name first, then set up your online gallery. Some providers even offer free setup for websites!
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Once this is done, you need to start thinking about promoting your site and do a lot of research.
Follow 3 easy steps!
- Domain names
Domain names are distinctive internet websites. For example yourname.com or namesurname.net. These names have a suffix (.org - .net - .com) which identifies the kind of website you have (commercial, network, organization etc). You need to buy your own name in order to use it.
Choose a good name, check its availability and register it
NOW
- Set up your online gallery
To design your gallery or website you can easily use Frontpage which comes with the Microsoft package. Alternatively you can buy templates, which are
inexpensive ready-made websites
or have your own website
custom-designed for you
but in this case, prices vary considerably.
To display your gallery on the web you now need to buy "space on the web" which is something like real estate. For this you need
Web Hosting
Some companies even offer all inclusive Domain Hosting Plans which means that you pay a fee and they will do all the work of registering your domain name, offer free templates for you to choose from and give you "estate" space on the web.
- Promote your site and do a lot of research
Is your gallery visible on the WWW or is it lost among the thousands of art sites out there?
There are many ways of promoting your site but most importantly think of search engines... take a look at http://www.freewebsubmission.com/.
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