Don’t Sell on Etsy, Saatchi or Art Galleries | How to Sell Art Online

You never told us how to sell art online!

New here. Grateful. I could use help

Advising artists to sell only, or mainly, from own website is naive.

So, why don't do both?

Thank you, Martha, I like your esteem and passion. I am just about to create my own website and I can tell you it is really hard work if you’re not a techie at all, tiring, frustrating, scary. But I am progressing step-by-step. I also want to create a shop to sell my art. Today I discovered your video, it was in my feed. It just came at the right time for me and confirms all my doubts about selling my art through third parties. Thank you so much, please keep on with his channel. 😊

Hmmmm… Martha, getting traffic to any small site is mostly impossible… you know this, we know this. Gaining trust for your site/pay portal is very difficult these days. Galleries closing..??? Very very rare, art prices are booming…
Finally ‘gallerist’ isn’t a verb it’s a noun 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻.
You are just another scammer… like drop shipping on Amazon, earn thousands selling stock photos 🤣🤣🤦🏻🤦🏻.
I’m sorry but you have no idea…!!!

I would love to get to that point. If I had a decent following, a website and direct sales would be the perfect way to go. After 3 years of trying to market myself on twitter, instagram, Facebook, and Tiktok, I've accumulated just 170 followers. Half are probably friends and family. Nobody ever sees my stuff. I draw and paint and upload daily, you'd think some eyes would find me. I think the algorithms hate me, lol.

Load of rubbish, a famous dealer gallery gets ten times the amount of income for me than I do on my own. You dont keep 100% of the sale price, there is cost of sales, income tax and gst. People need to stay away from you. When i set my artist price its exactly what i get from a dealer gallery. They add the 40 to 50% on top. Dealer Art galleries are a far better way to get your career up and running, once you are making a decent amount you can choose to run your own gallery, you will still have enormous costs including staff, rates, insurance etc..

Duh.

That's all very well but driving traffic to a private website is another thing.

Got scammed on Etsy immediately, then got scammed downloading the authenticator app for Etsy again.

Good info but that’s all about why not how to do it.

Without Etsy and pages like this. OK but running own website is not for free :/ some are free only for some limited time. So where can you sell anything? Try to add too much posts on Facebook and you will be blocked (acvording to the algorythm it is adding spam) so what choice do the artist have??

Thx. ❤

Thank you. I am quitting Saachi Art because I didn't have time to update it for so long I felt like it was dragging me down. It doesn't seem to be a good way to connect with art buyers anyway, Facebook is actually better but doesn't give me the most professional image. Now I have more time and fresh motivation to work on my own, classy artist's website. Thanks to your video I realize it is 100% the right thing I need to be doing!

I like your advice here. Most people need short time solutions to sort their economy, so one solution might be to sell some art on the third-party sites, and keep your best for when you finally get your own company up and running.

good points.. thanks for sharing. Though I've noticed the best artist have their mind occupied by the art.. sales are a whole other brain think and time. Perhaps a myth that they can't do both? not sure, but what I have seen are the more successful artists are definitely not the more authentic.. or in my own value judgement the better ones, thats why we need people like you to do the selling.

In stocks I got 0.1$ for sell my work

This was the video I needed to see today. I tried Etsy and from the one sale I made in the first week, I actually wound up in negative funds because of all the fees and postage costs. It wasn't worth it. Plus it's ben overtaken by AliExpress dropshippers, and they flood the homepage :(

What about using those major online sites to sell your art WHILE you build your own website in the very way you describe? You can always drop the other sites once you get enough recognition via your own site, right? That's the approach I'm considering. I also just sold a major piece on Saachi Art ... and while they do take their considerable cut, ~ through the power of their global exposure I was able to reach a client that was willing to pay $13,700. My cut was still substantial, as I had named a price that included their cut.