Let Google Sell your Painting for You
I’ve become a little frustrated by the ebay scene as of late. Sure, you can sell your art via ebay, promote them on your blog and let the buyers bid them up. But what if the item doesn’t sell? How will you distinguish your item from the rest out there?
I think this has been one of those ongoing debates in the art 2.0 world for a long time. www.artflock.com offers a great service for selling your art, and that’s what I’d recommend to anyone who wants to sell their work. It’s an amazing service. But for some reason, I think I continually look for something else. For some reason, I still like to be in control of my work, up until the point that someone else has purchased it. It’s a personal preference, and it’s not for everyone.
So I came up with an alternative. I haven’t seen it too much yet, but I think this may be a great way to not only promote your work and sell it, but also still maintain that element of control in your selling.
I have a painting that I’ve listed numerous times and still haven’t sold. I haven’t really promoted it too much, but any service I choose doesn’t usually have that option for a price that I feel is worthwhile on the “per click” basis.
So I’ve turned to Google and decided to try them. Google Base in particular.
Here are some advantages:
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Creating your listing is free
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Your item can be listed up to 31 days at a time
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Images are free to upload
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You can upload up to 15 files totaling 20mbs
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You can utilize the Google adwords service to promote your item
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It’s also easy to use
Here’s my current listing for this painting.
So what online service has worked the best for you and how do you promote your artwork online?
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3 opinions for Let Google Sell your Painting for You
Tatyana
Jul 16, 2007 at 7:59 am
I have 2 questions regarding the subject:
1. How to really make Google SELL art for you? As advised in this post I listed a couple of works on Google Base but with no positive end result so far: the paintings have been on GBase for 3 weeks and they had only 6 impressions so far (the amount of time Google actually showed them). Do you have any advice how to at least increase the visibility?
2. What is so unique about http://www.artflock.com? What do they do better than anyone else? I looked at their site briefly and they seem to offer pretty basic stuff: static display of art works with some information attached. There are sites that offer artists & visitors much more: for example, http://www.capucinesboulevard.com gives and opportunity to download artist’s videos, audio files (artists’ interviews, their favourite music, etc.). And the membership is absolutely free.
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Jul 16, 2007 at 9:09 am
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Chris
Dec 30, 2007 at 1:23 pm
If your artwork is any good at all, why bother with Ebay, where you get rubbish bids from the carboot-sale mentality viewers? I gave it up long ago. I use my own website, which I built myself in the late 1990’s, then built a replacement two years later.
I agree that it is always a good idea to look out for new online opportunities; never wise to put all your eggs in one basket. Since I’m UK-based, I have found most American sites very unproductive for sales. My three sales to USA buyers have been through my own website.
There is no “best” online gallery, however. I would naturally recommend those on which I had successfully sold pictures, and not where I had failed to do so. It is “pot luck” where your buyers happen to be, online.
As for Google, I haven’t tried it……yet. But keeping an open mind, I have earmarked three new places online to investigate, now I will include Google also.
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