Selling Art Online: How to Choose an Online Art Website Service

January 14th, 2010

Etsy, Artfire, Foliotwist, 1000Marktplaces, Big Cartel…these are just a few of the places online that artists and crafters can go to open a website, an online store, or online portfolio. While have a number of choices is great, it also can make it a big hard to choose the right one for you? In this episode, I’ll talk about how to find and choose the right online service to help you build your website or sell your artwork.

1. Decide what kind of features you need- (ecommerce capablity, blogging, marketing, search engine optimization etc)

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Selling Art Online: Building a Online Store on Your Art Website

September 17th, 2009

If you want to sell your craft or your artwork directly from your own website, there are a number of things you need to put together to make it work. But with all of the different components to put together, how to pick something that’s not too confusing or too expensive? In this episode I’ll discuss what you need to do to turn your art website into a online web store.

E-commerce sites have all of these components:

1. Payment Service Provider- a payment provider allows you to take payments electronically

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Selling Art Online: Building Your Own Art Website vs Using an Art Portfolio Site

September 15th, 2009

Art portfolio services and craft sales sites like Etsy , Artfire, Fine Art Studio Online, and Artspan are a great way for an artist or crafter get an online presence quickly. But is it better use one of these services or is it better to create your own website from scratch? I’ll discuss the pros and cons of each and how to decide what’s best for you.

Using an art website service- pros

  • Setting up a website can be quick and easy
  • There’s built in traffic for those on these services
  • Most services have ecommerce services built in
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