Fine Artists: How to Sell Your Art Online - (Hint: Etsy is NOT the Answer)

a personal website won't do anything without social media. nobody will know who you are until you start creating content. it's also helpful to be honest with yourself about what you're doing. rich collectors and museums care about art, most everyone else just wants something to put on their walls.

I closed all of my Etsy shops and was thinking about reopening. Thank you for saving me from going down the Etsy soul-sucking bunny hole again.

Fine Art America...Never sold a thing.
It's the same for Authors, too. You need a personal website and a way to drive traffic.
Good business advice, meshes with other info I've heard in classes and other vids.

FYI, Etsy charges 20c in the USA to list something- imho that is very little. Fees are only paid if you sell and are far less than many places- especially galleries.

So helpful, thank you Jennifer! Was this a paid partnership with the designer? Or did you reach out saying "hey I love your design style and I think my paintings would fit well with it"

The tip of reaching out to an interior designer was the best. Sometimes resources are available but no one uses them, perhaps because they focus on resources that are more popular or known like Etsy or social media. Also artists have some kind of blockage when it comes to this. I went through this, I had hundreds of art pieces that no one had seen but once someone told me "Why don't you reach out to this nation wide magazine?", something I had never ever imagined, a magazine I already knew, so I did and they immediately said yes and loved my work.

There are lots of things available out there but we don't see them or think about them. Is so weird. Maybe is something generational? Older generations used to do all this, send letters to people, contact them, ask them for help, opportunities but that is not thought about now, I think it is even frown upon in the new generations or laughed at. New generations would say "How in the hell do you think that would work? Impossible! I bet they recieve thousands of requests like that, mine won't be seen" when in reality everyone thinks the same and no one sends anything and the resource gets untapped with zero requests. As a milenial I kind of get this. Knowing how to connect with humans is the most important resource. Maybe this is also a problem for newer generations that are getting kind of anti social tendencies, who knows. I just know that artists are dumb in these things, obvious solutions are oblivious to us many times.

Now I'll look up for some interior designers and see what I can get. Is worth the shot. Thank you!