selling prints online
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- MrAbominable
Hello.
I was contemplating making an edition of a drawing or two and throwing it up on my site for sale... see what happens.
Do any of you have any experience with this pro/con. And secondly, if you do an "edition of /100" do you print them all up at once or just print the first 25 or whatever and then go back and print out the edition as needed?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
- MrAbominable0
that's sort of like pointing me at google, u.
- benfal990
iam trying to sell prints on etsy and society6 since last week. The competition is VERY high, many many people had the same idea and many talented people out there take large parts of the cake.
- What are you doing to promote them?
breadlegz - paid the 7$ on etsy for the Search Ads. otherwise, nothing, just hoping people will stumble on thembenfal99
- Might need to do a bit more than hope. Do you have a blog and an email capture and all that?
breadlegz - i have a website, not a blogbenfal99
- A site for you, or for the artwork for sale?breadlegz
- not selling on my site nobenfal99
- to be successful on etsy you have to post new products regularly.doesnotexist
- What are you doing to promote them?
- breadlegz0
Is Scott Hansen on QBN (though I saw him once).. he seems to sell tons of prints online: www.iso50.com
- sublocked0
I just snagged a Persue print off http://1xrun.com/ ...cool site. If your stuff is up to par you might try getting @ them.
- bjladams0
i sell quite a few online - not thru a vendor/shop, just straight off my website.
it's a lot less expensive to print all you want at one time, but i'd recommend going for smaller runs to start with.
- love your workbreadlegz
- thx, breadlegzbjladams
- bj... do just print then what you want to risk at the time or is there a method?
MrAbominable
- detritus0
Ah, I was wondering when Ben would finally get the chance to chie in..!
Surely one print run equates to one edition?
The very idea of printing an edition of 100 in 4 runs of 25, or whatever, seems off to me.
- Hue0
@bjladams I would be interested to know how you print your prints. Do you screenprint them yourself? or work with a local printers?
- bjladams0
mostly local printers, hue. and most that i sell online are digital prints on nicer paper (watercolour, linen, etc) - keeps the cost low, which means i sell them for less but sell a whole lot more of them (i think last year my print profits almost offset the cost of my mortgage).
i do some thru a local letter press printer, but those usually sell out before i have a chance to put them online, so i don't even bother.
- MrAbominable0
thanks. particularly deritus and bjadams.
re detritus upfield... sculpture and photo editions are often produced in batches.
i wasn't sure if that was the case with giclee etc. obviously with something mechanical and not digital, the cost would be really prohibitive to do it in segments unless you were charging an arm and a leg.
bj... i have, like, a million questions for you. :)
- MrAbominable0
first off ben, that site is perfect for your work. is it a template or something built for you? you seem really prolific and i image the cms on it must be difficult?
without revealing any secrets, would you care to share any of your edition choices... limited, by year, by size, etc? different print options you work within? how and when you've segmented print runs?
- benfal990
But i dont think its the Klondike, selling prints online. Like I said only a few people seems to sell a lot to make significant money. Like those guy http://society6.com/rubenireland… & http://society6.com/Diego_Fernan… for exemple, and their work is stunning. It's very hard to become popular on those websites.
- already making the art work. just looking for a way to spread out. fame and fortune optional.
MrAbominable
- already making the art work. just looking for a way to spread out. fame and fortune optional.
- bjladams0
it's just a wp template.
& there's no real secret to it - every now and then i make something that i'd consider buying if i hadn't already made it... so i get it printed and show other people that like the same sorts of things.
feel free to email me if you like - but really, i'm not sure i've much insight.
- where_am_i0
has anyone here had any success with places like societ6 / threadless etc?
- microkorg0
^ Yeah I use Threadless to sell tshirts and prints.
It doesnt make me a fortune but it allows me to buy a new toy every now and then ;)
I'd recommend using Facebook Ads. Everytime I have done i'd get back what I invested. e.g £20 towards a targetted add would see sales and bring through £20 profit that goes to me.
- show us what you got!
(i buy stuff from threadless and s6 almost every month)sted - oh wow, good to know. show us your stuff!where_am_i
- show us what you got!