I honestly think once you persistently market your business well on social media or selling it through word of mouth, it has to be constant & consistent or else others will never know that you do these kinds of work 🙃
Over saturated market and watch Etsy slam you with listing fees. Some of these You Tubers will make more money from their “How to video” than selling on art platforms
@pet.ersarmstrong He buys arts from artists for display at a good price but only if your art is worth it . He is an artist too so he knows when you put in that effort
I'm so tired of seeing videos like this for artists. The truth is, you're probably NOT gonna make it on this sites... if your art is not professional enough, if you don't have a good following on social media and if you don't promote your products or upload them regularly, you're dead. Also if it works for you, there is no way you will be making $300 every single day (at least not as a beginner) So please stop selling smaller artist fake ideas, you're not helping us to grow our careers.
Agree, and they want editable high resolution PSD file or something. These youtube lame creators are sharing misleading information on how to sell Art.
@@Godisgood137it doesn't work like this. Let me clarify. Do you build muscles if kept doing the exercises the wrong way and without any weights? Guess not, consistency with wrong procedures leads to nowhere.
Unfortunately, you cannot sell something on printful or printify without money on your card for they will charge you for the customer's order first and you will receive the payment later on.
I've been using Printful for years. Orders don't get processed until there's money paid. That's exactly the benefit of print on demand. You are not upfront paying for anything and not holding on to an abundance of product or merchandise that you can't sell. That money comes from the person who purchases your item. If you go to my shop right now and pay for an item that money then is used to process the item. It more so depends on how the payment is made. The only time you would have an issue is if someone weirdly did an electronic check through PayPal or if someone used a credit card through Stripe. Stripe allows you to cash out immediately to your account so that you can cover the charge and process your orders. Just be mindful of bank holidays. It makes sense down the line once you've established your shop to go ahead and put money into your account. That way you don't get caught up with weird charges based around someone maybe paying with an e-check or using their credit card. For the most part you don't really deal with any of that. End of the day it's print on demand so the order is not going to get processed it will be in 'holding' until there's money to cover it. If that's the case then you wait till credit card charge fully goes through and the money is in your account to process the order.
@@CoyoteCrossingSanctuary Why twice? And how is that any worse than the traditional way of buying the prints from your provider, then stocking them at home or at a warehouse, hoping you manage to sell it, and finally getting the selling price from your customer? With PoD you get to buy just the prints you've already sold, waiting for a few days until the money comes your way (and you know it will) can't be that bad.
I can't advise going though a print on demand for art prints. Something like catprint, each print cost you .70 cents. You can order 100 prints for 70 dollars PLUS shipping and you can do as many designs as you want. Selling your own designs and shipping them again is such a larger profit margin than a print on demand. Having prints in your own inventory, like at your home, means you can go to artist alleys or venues to sell. What is a given in either situation is you will have to gain your own audience. 😅 But yeah, Frick print on demands. Extremely wasteful and expensive.
but what if you're not sure whether people will be interested in a motiv or not? Wouldn't it be better to test the waters with print on demand first if you're a beginner?
@pet.ersarmstrong He buys arts from artists for display at a good price but only if your art is worth it . He is an artist too so he knows when you put in that effort
I mean If you don't got the space or a warehouse for it makes sense to use print on demand and when you find out there is enough demand then transition to a method that is better for you. It's better than having hundreds of prints laying around your house and having to do a weekly or bi weekly trip to the post office just to ship them
Also understanding the market is so essential, and especially keeping in mind how marketing and business savvy is how you’ll make money, the art itself is an extremely small factor. I found this book called Artful Ambitions: Your Guide to a Thriving Art Career by Alexander Abbott I think, and it changed so much for me. It’s a tricky market but definitely hackable once you understand it.
Absolutely! Understanding the market dynamics and having a solid grasp of marketing and business strategies are indeed crucial for success in the art world.
Does anybody know what I gotta do with them taxes? Say I sell a couple pieces and end up making like $300 a month-I would need to put some aside and claim it on taxes right? If someone knowledgeable can answer, or point me in the right direction, it would be really helpful.
Hi, i am a photographer/ graphic designer. I am new to all this you are talking about. For the begining, how should I start? How printful work? Does it work in combination to other platform? If yes, what is best combination using printful for beginners to start with?
@@underworld8088it just isn't, loads of people with follows of sub 5k are making livings off their art there is so many ways you can for instance getting into a niche is highly profitable even if that niche isn't massive but the real issue is everyone wants to do the super popular over saturated stuff then complains when they are competing against the people who are established within it
Does it go into public domain or do you maintain copyright till 75 years past your death assuming it is copyrighted by you. I don’t fully understand this I’m sorry 😅
Lol “ that’s it now you just have to get people to your store” OH THANKS BECAUSE THAT’S NOT THE HARDEST PART. Thanks for the tutorial for the brain dead portion.
Aren’t there costs to sell on online shops and you can only put so many sales up at once? I’m trying to work out the cheapest options for designing and selling to get started.
Problem is that printful has long production shipping times that discourage buyers. I've tried Gelato Who has top notch production and shipping times but on the First order printing quality was bad....how can I build a business with these kind of partners?
@@bcfit2 I'm currently trying to market the best I can, and it is still difficult. That said, I do social media content on Pinterest, tiktok, instagram, RU-vid shorts, and sometimes Facebook. I usually gain around 5k-25k views a week across all these platforms...and I still barely get sales. But there is some brand awareness being built. RU-vid shorts seems to produce the highest views right now, but they also have the most shadow banning on videos. I wish I could tell you it's easy but it's a paaaaiiiin. More often than not, I get interested lookers, but they don't actually check out the site. Oh, and I'm also thinking of trying a paid ad and an actual 4 min RU-vid video, also dming/commenting with people on Instagram is something I will try soon
@@dhruvsingh1219 all of my marketing accounts for that business eventually ran into problems and I made some profit but we could not market it well enough to make it worth our while so we cut our losses and I temporarily went into becoming a salesman
Thats a coolt video demonstration about POD. but why nobody explains the difference between PRINTFUL, Printify, etc? what are their differences? I am a beginner and they say that it is difficult for begginers to start with printify because you have to do your own marketing, customer service and the worst of all, the shipping...
I found paintings inside a wall. they're not from 1600's but they're well done and the story behind them is quite a great one.. they're in good shape and now they're in a safe 😅
Etsy recently stopped accepting new sellers. But, if you're really keen on selling on Etsy, another option would be to set up a bank account in a different country that accepts Etsy payments. If you already have an account in such a country, you can try using that.
@@fortencuales I mean, maybe people who use it and claim themselves to be better than others who work in the field they used AI to exploit. But Ai itself is an amazing technology, I've developed simple skills of machine learning that I'm going to use soon
Definitely! You can totally sell drawings on Etsy. It's a fantastic platform for artists to showcase and sell their artwork, including original drawings. 😊
