How to Sell Your Drawings

One of the biggest mistakes I made when I started my first business was overlooking the importance of financial management. I had no idea how to do business accounting or even manage my inventory properly. At tax time, I was in way over my head. I spent a long time working with a business accountant to understand the basics and explore the details of the process so that I could manage my own books through the year. That's when I published this blog. I hope the information here will help others like me who don't have the financial edge but still want to run their own business.

How to Sell Your Drawings

How to Sell Your Drawings

4 April 2017
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Business, Blog


If you are an artist who would like to sell your drawings, then you will find the advice offered in this article to be more than helpful. It will give you tips on some of the ways you can go about selling your posters so you can increase the chances of others seeing them and buying them without hassle.

Set up a website and social media sites

The more ways you go about getting your artwork out there to as many people as possible, the more chances you will have of selling that artwork. The first thing you want to do is to set up a website just for that artwork. Make sure you take very nice pictures of all your pieces for the website. They should each have a name or number so people can ask questions about them without confusion. Other information to include alongside the picture of each piece should include the price, the size, and any other distinguishing features. You should have a shopping cart set up on the site so people can buy what they want directly from it.

You should also set up some social media sites so you can allow others to keep up to date with your current and up and coming projects. You can also use those sites to point interested persons to your website where they can purchase the drawings. The social media site also allows people to easily communicate with you so they feel they are getting special attention. Posting videos of you working on various projects can also be a great way to get more people interested in purchasing your pieces.

Send your artwork with a little something extra

Since you are an artist and art is something many find close to their heart, you should also consider giving your customers something extra with each order so they feel more of a connection which can help make returning customers. Consider throwing in a short letter thanking them for their purchase with your signature, a picture of you working on their picture, or something similar.

Mail your pictures so they will be well-protected

One of the best ways to mail your drawings without risking them being damaged is to roll them up and send them to your customers in a white shipping tube of the appropriate size. Along with keeping each work of art protected, the tubes also make your work look more professional to your customers when it arrives. Talk to companies like Chicago Mailing Tube Co. about shipping supplies that will protect your work.

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One of the biggest mistakes I made when I started my first business was overlooking the importance of financial management. I had no idea how to do business accounting or even manage my inventory properly. At tax time, I was in way over my head. I spent a long time working with a business accountant to understand the basics and explore the details of the process so that I could manage my own books through the year. That's when I published this blog. I hope the information here will help others like me who don't have the financial edge but still want to run their own business.

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