Whether you’ve sold hundreds of paintings, or are just starting out with a couple of sales under your belt, it can be really useful to encourage buyers to provide you with some feedback to quote on your website. Image: ‘Another Happy Customer’ by Bayswater Road Sunday Art Exhibition How can testimonials from buyers help with future sales? People who buy [...]

Have you ever been asked to submit an interview for a magazine, blog, or website? If so, chances are you’ll have been asked about your work, inspirations and aspirations, to be featured alongside some examples of your work. If you’re new to ArtWeb, you’ll probably have noticed you have the option to submit a ‘Spotlight’ interview (on upgraded membership only). [...]

With the festive season nearing and potential customers just waiting to discover your art, we thought it might be a good time to go over some of the ways to make the most of your online portfolio or website. In this article we’ll summarise how best to connect with buyers and increase sales, by adding an artist profile,  tagging, pricing, [...]

These days, more and more artists and creative freelancers are working from home studios, often fitting in their practice around other work and life commitments. This requires an incredible amount of self-motivation in order to stay on top of your work, and to keep your practice going. Procrastination is a freelancer’s worst enemy, and unfortunately there have never been so [...]

ArtWeb’s blog series on art and money Hello and welcome back to our Art and Money series! We hope you enjoyed Part 4, in which we focussed on Marketing and Networking. Throughout the series we’ll be looking at some of the issues to do with art and business, including pricing your work, funding options, generating traffic , and maintaining your success. With a [...]

ArtWeb’s blog series on art and money Hello and welcome back to our Art and money series! We hope you enjoyed Part 3, in which we focussed on Funding Options. Throughout the series we’ll be looking at some of the issues to do with art and business, including pricing your work, Turning visitors into buyers, marketing & networking, and maintaining your [...]

ArtWeb’s blog series on art and money Hello! We hope you enjoyed Part 2 in the ‘Art and Money’ series, in which we focussed on Generating Traffic. Over the next few months we’ll be continuing to look at some of the issues to do with selling your work online, including pricing your work, funding options, marketing & networking, and maintaining your success. [...]

ArtWeb’s blog series on art and money Hello! We hope you enjoyed Part 1 in the ‘Art and Money’ series, looking at pricing your artwork. Over the next few months we’ll be looking at some of the issues to do with selling your work online, inlcuding generating traffic to your site, funding options, marketing & networking, and maintaining your success. With a [...]

Pinterest seems to be attracting a lot of attention of late, and seems to be popular with art lovers from all over the world and especially the UK. We’ve already seen some ArtWork on artweb.com get quite a lot of attention on pinterest, have you checked to see if any of your work has been “pinned” yet? You can see [...]

ArtWeb’s blog series on art and money Over the next few months we’ll be looking at some of the issues to do with selling your work online, such as pricing, generating traffic to your site, funding options, marketing & networking, and maintaining your success. With a focus on selling online, we’ll be talking to artists who are successfully selling their work [...]