If you're looking for the best place to sell your art online, then look no further. For over two years EE has been reviewing the best (and worst) art-selling websites on the internet as well as sharing tips and techniques specifically for artists selling art online.
In 2009 we also launched foliotwist.com, a unique portfolio website service for artists that combines several powerful art-selling tools with a professional design and an easy-to-use interface. If you're looking for a personal artist website that's both easy and effective, make sure to check it out.
Now, here are a few must-read articles on selling art
NOTE: Each of these articles focuses on art-selling techniques for the internet. For additional marketing tips, check out EmptyEasel's section on marketing art.
7 Tips for Selling Art Online (Getting Buyers to Find your Artwork)
How Building an Authority Art Website Can Help Me Sell My Art Online
10 Things Every Online Artist Needs to be Successful
And here are some of EE's most popular reviews
Imagekind: A New Way for Artists to Sell Art Online
Zatista.com: More Than Just an Art Marketplace
RedBubble.com: Online Art Gallery and Community
Want more art selling help? Everything else is below
From the most recent article to the very first, here's everything EmptyEasel's ever published relating to selling art on the internet. Enjoy!
Since launching foliotwist.com earlier this year, we’ve only offered one template, and quite frankly, it looks nothing like a “normal” artist website. Instead, it’s a rather unique blog/portfolio hybrid, which we specifically designed to pull in lots of traffic from Google and other. . .
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Just like traditional galleries, online galleries NEED people to visit them. Without a lot of visitors, there’s not much chance they’ll sell a lot of art. So today I’m going to share the monthly traffic estimates of over 30 online art galleries. . .
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IVoteForArt.com is a small online art gallery that combines community voting and art buying in one place. The artwork is "fun, quirky and affordable" and in many ways, I Vote for Art is very different from other art galleries online.. . .
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ArtfulHome.com is an online art gallery for North American artists which features all types of artwork and handmade decorations for the home. Whether you’re looking to sell furniture, glass art, jewelry, or traditional wall art, Artful Home is the place to do it.. . .
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Lately I’ve found a couple of different examples on how to use our beloved, but sometime feared (!), social networks. Perhaps some of you have already heard these stories, but I find them quite intriguing and would love to share them with more people.. . .
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If you haven’t heard of it yet, Nuzart.com is a new print-on-demand service for artists and photographers that is based out of Madrid, Spain. Like other popular print-on-demand services, Nuzart offers artists an easy way to sell prints of their artwork online. . .
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Taking a good photograph of your artwork is a crucial step in the process of displaying and selling your art online. Online viewers will ONLY be able to judge you as an artist by the digital images they see - so you will always need high-quality photos. . .
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I’ll just come right out and say it: ArtQuiver is, in my opinion, one of the most innovative and refreshingly simple ways to find and buy art online. Here's why. . .
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