THE KEY TO START YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS!

 THE KEY TO START YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS!   

Are you excited about starting your online business? After having an idea about how to create digital art that sells passively, how to price your artwork and where to sell it, it’s time now to make an online startup plan for your business.

In this post, I have summarised all the necessary information you need to know to launch your online business. So, without wasting more time, let’s get started:

1. What are you selling?

Knowing what you’ll be selling is the first step in building a strong platform for your business. It is always crucial to focus on one area of art as a beginning. After getting along with setting up your business, you can expand your services.

2.  Who are you selling to?

The perfect answer for this question is not everybody. You need to have specific customer target so that you can study how your customer think and behave. This way, you can gain your customer’s loyalty and appreciation toward your art. 

How can you know who are your customers? Easy! Create a Customer Persona for your artwork. You can do this by answering the following questions: what is their name? where do they live? What do they do for living? What do they read? their interests? You can collect this information from your social media accounts by having the insight of your followers.

Maybe your customers are:

* Restaurant owner who wants to add a touch of modern art into his/ her place.

* Cool couple who buy art printed on Mugs, Pillows or even T-shirts.

3.  Where will you be selling your art online?

There are a wide range of websites where you can sell and promote for your artwork, and I’ve detailed this in my previous blog post. Visit my post and discover 20 interesting places you can be selling your art in it easily. 

4.  Don’t forget packaging materials:

Make sure to choose a packaging which is cohesive with your brand image, Eco-friendly. creative and memorable. After that, calculate how much each item costs you and add it to the shipping costs of each art piece. 

5. Price your art:

This step is crucial for your business because it can take your work to the next level of success, or not! All you need to do is to focus on your target market and give your art the price it deserves. You don’t know how to do this? Just check my post on how to price artwork cleverly!

6. Create your page and start a mailing list: 

You need a page and a mailing list to keep in touch with your customers and keep them updated about your new artworks.

While you do so, tell people stories behind these artworks and what inspires you more as an artist. People are always hungry for stories! And don’t forget to share this in your social media accounts ( Check out my social media accounts :  Instagram, facebook and Twitter and follow me there! )

7.   Setup your site:

Your website is a great opportunity to express yourself as artist. First, start by writing a bio about yourself and how you started making your art. Focus on making your website simple, consistent, easy to reach and creative. 

8. choose an upcoming date for your business:

Your website is a great opportunity to express yourself as artist. First, start by writing a bio about yourself and how you started making your art. Focus on making your website simple, consistent, easy to reach and creative. 

9.  Opening day! 

You finally made it! A lot of hard work to do, but it’s worth it.

Good things take time. Develop your plan, stay consistent toward your goal, keep learning, be patient and have faith in yourself and you will reach it. 

 

ESSENTIAL RULES YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU PRICE YOUR ART!

MANAGE YOUR SALE PRICE CLEVERLY

 ESSENTIAL RULES YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU PRICE YOUR ART!      

   One big challenge an artist can be facing as a first step to start selling art online is pricing it. Don’t worry, things will be clear for you, at the end of this post, if you keep in mind  the following rules and apply it to your pricing strategy.

1.  Know your competitors’ prices and do some research about their artwork:

   As they say: '' keep your friends close and your enemies closer''. Put yourself next to your laptop and do your research about artists who sell the same artwork as you.

   Having a global information about prices of artist’s similar work than you will guide you to create a full evaluation about your work regarding the price, the quality and your target customers. 

2.  Give yourself a living wage:

   Being an artist is not a cheap work to do. You need to add materials and equipment to your living expenses.

   Start by making an hourly wage for you and record how long your work takes from you  to finish it. After that, make a reasonable estimation of your costs. 

3.   Know the Market Value:

   Pricing your art lower than the value of the brand will affect your business badly. This will make  it harder for to increase your art price later when you get more customers.

   Give value to your art based on your earned skills and price it wisely. Do your market research and make sure your prices match with the market value.

4.     Consistency is crucial:

    Make sure that the price of your direct artwork compliment with the online products. In  this way, you can create a balance between your gallery and its online version.

      5.  Intersect between feelings and facts:

 Don’t interfere your feelings when it comes to Money! Give a high price for the piece of work you feel it deserves more without justifying it. Let your artwork talks itself.

     6.  Seek the right moment to increase your sale price:

     As an artist, improved skills should come with increased prices for your brand artwork.You might increase your selling prices yearly or for your best-selling artwork. However, keep consistency in your work.

           7.  Stay firm with your prices:                                                                                   

     Don’t let people negotiate with you about your prices or drive you to decrease it. There is no low price for talent and creativity.        

 Keep your artwork value high so you can gain more profit with maintaining a strong image of  your artwork. 

     8.  Art Pricing Calculator:        

Let’s make it easier and practical for you and start pricing your art with Art Pricing Calculator.

ll you must do is download the app, add some simple details, and then you will have  a full  ,up-to- date, real-world art pricing information. The application  works online and offline. What’s greater than that!                                                                                                                                                 

Now LESS talking, MORE working! Follow these art pricing rules, have faith on your  artwork and grow your online business GLOBALLY. 

                 

20 PLACES FOR YOUR ARTWORK YOU SHOULD BE KILLING IT RIGHT NOW!

INCREASE YOUR ARTWORK REACH

20 PLACES FOR YOUR ARTWORK YOU SHOULD BE KILLING IT RIGHT NOW!

Did you know that you can build your online business art easily and start selling your Digital art from home? what is more exciting about this is that the entire process is for FREE.

I have explained before how to USE PROCEATE IN MAKING DIGITAL ART THAT SELLS, and now I want to share with you 20 interesting websites for selling your artwork actively!

The first thing to think about before selling your digital products, you must focus on who you are selling to. Your customers would be designers or business owners who appreciate CREATIVITY  in your artwork.

To give you a little push-up to start this out, I’m going to make things easier and introduce to you 20 fascinating websites where you can promote your creative artwork :

1. ETSY:

   The best part in Etsy is that anyone can have an account on it. However, there is $0.2 fee for each product you add and they take 3.5% of each item you sell.

    The main reason why I like this website is that it has over 1.7 million sellers and more than 28.6 million buys which will create such a strong customer niche for your artwork.

2. SPOONFLOWER:

   If you want to see your artwork on fabrics, wallpapers or wrapping paper, Spoonflower is the perfect place for you.

   Start your business here right away only by uploading your designs and make an order for the items you want to sell. You don’t have to pay any fees, but you will take only 10% of each sold item.

3. SOCIETY6:

   Society6 is one of my favourite online platforms that makes things easier to see  on mugs, iPhone cases, pillows without thinking about the shipping of your items.

   All what you need to do is creating a new account and start uploading your designs. The good thing is that the website takes only a small portion of the profit you make.

4. PRINTFUL:

   Printful is also an interesting website that I want to introduce to you as well. It’s a print on demand online source that hundles the production, packaging and shipping of the ordered items of your artwork.

    You can see your work on mugs, shirts, pillows and its’s up to you to put the PRICE and the profit.

5. REDBUBBLE:

   If you are interested in Fan art, Redbubble is the right place to start selling your work. The main thing that I love about this website is the quality of the work there.

   Redbubble gives a full control on the commissions you receive from your sold work.

6. ARTSTATION:

   If you are looking for a professional high quality website for your digital art, Artstation is the ideal place to start selling  your artwork toward industry professionals 

   What I like more about this website is that you don’t need to promote for any new item you upload .Wait for more! you can have up to 95% profit from your business.

7. THREADLESS:

   Another similar website to Society6 and RedBubble is Threadless. In this website, you only need to focus on your art work when they take in charge all the production, packaging and shipping steps.

   I was fascinated by the variety of available products for the artwork there. You will take 40% from each item you sell and it’s up to you to do the pricing (easy job! )

8. EBAY:

   Ebay is one of the global online marketplace where you can sell and promote all your art easily. The website doesn’t need more words to say about it .. Just join it and start invest your creative artwork there.

9. HANDMADE AT AMAZON:

    Handmade at Amazon is an online platform which transforms your artwork into handmade items based on their requirements and quality of their products.

    All you need to do is to set up a profile page for your story and artwork, but don’t forget that Amazon has strict rules regarding self-promotion and interaction with customers.

10. ZAZZLE:

    If you are looking for another alternative website to Etsy, Zazzle is the answer. It’s the perfect marketplace to see your art on thousands of products with a full control on your own royalty rates.

11. ARTFIRE:

    ArtFire is one of my favourite handemade marketplace. If you want to see your art on vintage items, clothes and even crafty peeps, you are in the right path with artFire.

12. SAATCHI ART:

    If you want to be part of this global online marketplace, Saatchi is the ideal place for you. With  full guide on how to start your business, to price your items, to promote and package your products. The greatest thing of them  all is that you get 70% of your sales.

13. ARTFINDER:

     Artfinder is a great place to list your artwork (prints, sculptures and Digital art) for free, anywhere, anytime you want. What I love about this website also, is that you can have a direct interaction with customers based on the messaging system of the website.

    The only thing that Artfinder differs from the previous listed websites is that you have to take in charge the shipping of your products. However, you will be paid back the moment your order is received.

14. DEVIANT ART:

    If you are looking for a social network and online marketplace for you as an artist, you are in the perfect place.

    What I admire most  about this website, is that you can express yourself as an artist and tell your stories while selling your art.

15. ART STACK:

    You have undiscovered art and you want to share it! ArtStack is your destination. Here you can sell your art and also get inspired by meeting other artists through their profiles.

    Don’t miss this opportunity and turn your work to be a global destination for art lovers via the website and its apps.

16. HOUZZ:

     If you want to see your art on home products, Houzz is the perfect website for you. The offered items include floor tiles, sofas, cabinets and other interesting products.

    The creation of your profile on the website is free, but Houzz takes a 15% commission from your work.  

17. MINTED:

    If you are thirsty for competition and want to show your work as the public votes design winner, Minted online marketplace is here to make this come true and enhance your artwork into a high-quality process.

    After that, Minted open your own online shop where you can sell and promote  your designs and products.

18. VANGO:

    I just adore the name of this online art marketplace ! and what I love most is that Vango makes things easier for artists to start selling their art without any contract ( no commitments to them only which is great so you can give it a try in more websites).

    Vango will take in charge all the shipping and packaging processes with the availability of a cool app that makes you interact ore with your customers.

19. ARTPAL:

     ArtPal is a great website with a huge variety of artworks such as photography, paintings, Digital art and more.

    The interesting thing about it is that it offers a highly competitive pay rates which makes the artist earns into 95% to 100% of the sale price.

20. IMAGEKIND:

    ImageKind is a great online marketplace for artists like me and you. You can join the website for free and enjoy plenty of valuable options such as dedicated URL for you only, unlimited uploads and what’s make it more attractive is that you can have 100% profit from your sale price.   

                                                                                                                                                    Nothing can stop you now from going global and start selling your art. I wouldn’t blame you if you join all of these top online art market places. To be honest with you, who wouldn’t?

    Don’t hesitate to make a comment and tell me about your favourite online platform.

THE DEFINITE GUIDE FOR THE USE OF PROCEATE IN MAKING DIGITAL ART THAT SELLS

  MARKET YOURSELF AS AN ARTIST
THE DEFINITE GUIDE FOR THE USE
OF PROCREATE IN MAKING
DIGITAL ART 
THAT SELLS  



As an artist, I have started thinking more and more digitally on how to create  digital art that 
sells actively, anywhere, for anyone, anytime! 

Gratefully, all what is necessary for creating digital art that sells (in Etsy and Society6) 
for me( or anyone else) is my Apple Pencil, iPad Pro and Procreate  application. 
 I have discovered, day by day, that Procreate is such an amazing little app that simply has
 powerful tools to create worthful digital art  as I never did before. 
Therefore, I have started learning how to use it effectively via Domestika (the ideal place 
for online learning where you can enjoy the Procreate app abilities professionally). 
The first class that I have joined was  Óscar Lloréns’s Digital Illustration with Procreate. 
I advice you to start with it as it is delivered to all Digital Artist Levels interested in 
 learning a complete course on Procreate, since it covers all the necessary options from  the 
basics to help you building a bright future in digital art. 

You can join Digital Illustration with Procreate with more than 70% Discount by clicking 
here.
The next class I joined was Jaime Sanjuan Ocabo’s Realistic Painting and Illustration with
 Procreate. He is such an eager teacher who knows how to cue the attention of big fans 
of Procreate like myself and use valuable techniques and tips to create a realistic still-life 
painting with different textures and materials.
Actually, if you are interested in taking only ONE class from the listed courses, I would
 recommend Introduction to Procreate which helps you to take your illustration studio 
anywhere you want with the leading app for iPad.

If you want to add fun to your learning experience of Procreate, I highly recommend Santiago 
Moriv’s Creation of 3D Miniature Worlds with Procreate and Cinema 4D where Santiago
 will guide you how to design, model and texturize a 3D miniature set beyond imagination.
After that, if you enhance your skills with it, you could sell your work in the best online 3D 
marketplace such as: TurboSuid, CG Trader, Shapeways, Cults3D, 3DSquirrel, 
Renderosity,Sketchfab. 
After gaining more experience and getting along with Procreate, I recommend you taking 
Roman Garcia Mora’s class of Naturalist Animal Illustration with Procreate which makes 
you learn how to illustrate the animal world in detail from your iPad and divulge it visually. 

Now if you want to enhance your potentials in lettering with Procreate as I did. I suggest for 
you Daniel Hosoya’s class of Introduction to Lettering with Procreate. You can feel the 
passion that he has toward his work on how to create fascinating digital drawings of letters.
One of the main things why I admire Procreate a lot is that I can easily export my work in 
a variety of formats ( PDF, JPG, PNG…or even a video!) and save it in my desktop so I can 
make the final touches of my piece of work in  Adobe Illustrator. After that I share it on 
social media (facebook, Instagram, Twitter) with my friends.



EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HAVE 
TO START CREATING DIGITAL ART THAT SELLS WITH 
PROCREATE


· 
    iPad or iPad Pro ( 12.9-in or 11-in so you can have the full up-to-date procreate     
            experience).
    Apple Pencil ( 2nd Generation) that pairs with the two new Pro models.
     Procreate for the iPad app.
     Mostly your Creativity and Passion!


THE MOMENT YOU BECOME AN EXPERT ARTIST IN MAKING DIGITAL ART THAT 
SELLS ACTIVELY, YOU NEED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW AND WHERE TO 
SELL YOUR ART:
20 Places for your Artwork you should be killing it right now!
  The Key to Start your online Business Art!
  Essential Rules you need to know before you price your art.