Successful Selling - Graeme Smith - Bog

Are you at the starting gates?Artistic skills do NOT decide success.Someone without these shouldn't be trying to make a professional career.But many artists do have those and are still not successful.Finance is for success in any field, including professional artist.You can't get into any business without finance nor stay in business either.Being a professional artist is absolutely no different.An artist who can't afford to frame paintings cannot be a professional artist.Instead spend time raising finance from which to launch a sustained career.The odds are stacked against success.Of all paintings painted, most are NEVER sold!This doesn't mean you can't make it.It does mean you must well organised and clear headed about what you do.You will battle against many alternatives someone can spend $ you want.It's a tough world out there!You need determination, courage, persistence, imagination, planning, help.The good news is it can be done.There are artists who earn a living, and you can join them - it won't be easy!There are advantages in using eBay at the start of a career.The main one is you can learn to sell while still learning other career aspects.EBay provides you with all the easy-to-use tools you need to get started.If necessary create experimental studies especially to sell on eBay.You can list your items for auction and start selling right away.You have to learn two things - how eBay works AND how to sell on eBay.Use this knowledge to sell off eBay and also sell actual art works on eBay.It's much better than a website.An extra $1,000 a month beats a long-shot any day of the week!EBay changes how it works from time to time.In this book I provide the best advice that I had at the time of writing (2010).Almost surely there will have been changes since.But it is likely these have been designed to make the system easier to use.So it's important to ensure you're following eBay's official seller regulations.Then you can stay on their good side.EBay is great if you don't have much money to spend up front.It only costs a dollar or two to set up a regular eBay auction listing.You can get a steady, reliable source of income.Using eBay is great if you want to start making money RIGHT AWAY!Get your items listed on eBay and start making money TODAY, if you want.You won't make a million dollars overnight.But you can achieve a dependable stream of income in a very short time.As a way of learning to sell it's hard to beat.That's why eBay has a lot going for it for the new professional artist.But eventually it is just another way to sell what you do.Then choose from your own gallery, a commission based career, or eBay.Many artists try to learn how to sell but don't actually sell anything.That's impossible so if a selling price remained at $5 it could be worthwhile.But of course an important part of selling is to be able to raise your price.You can only learn this from a low starting base.Professional artists must start selling artworks somewhere.EBay provides the perfect place to learn sales and marketing strategies.As your prices are still low you can't lose much while you learn.EBay is the answer to many people's prayers - low cost and quick return.Begin a career, learn to paint, increase productivity, actually sell, all at once.You can even use eBay to develop a "regular" online business.It lets you grow an opt-in list of people before a website is even running!There's a chance to grow an opt-in list you can sell other products to.In addition eBay is an excellent place to do valuable market research.Then you know what your potential buyers are buying and why!Drive thousands of interested buyers to your site the day you launch it!These are people you've found on the world's largest marketplace.That means they're enthusiastic online shoppers!They're exactly the kind of people you want to introduce your works to.