Reply To: its america land of the free?

[JCFindley]

You can email me if you want to show me your work behind the scenes and I will give you an honest opinion but the fact that you have sold more than a few to friends indicates to me you have good potential.

I am NOT a fan of Redbubble because of how they do their pricing structure with a % basis. If you price your 8x10ish prints in the 30 range then large prints are in the thousands. If you market price your large works then your 8x10s are around 7 bucks and you get less than a buck.

I am a big fan of pricing within the bell curve right off the bat. You may have simply outstanding work but people see a low price and think something is wrong. That and people that buy a large framed work are going to pay hundreds to have it shipped at my main sales site and hundreds to have it printed matted and framed regardless what the artist charges so the only thing cheap about selling a large print is the profit low priced artists get.  (When I say bell curve I mean somewhere in the area the majority charge)

Business cards are a must. A license may or may not be depending on how you sell. Online, the standard PoD does the selling so you simply get a royalty for them being allowed to sell your images. The right finishing can be had at many PoDs without any effort on your part. Marketing IS up to the individual artist though on most all of them. I have my own URL but it simply links to a PoD site that prints the majority of my sales. (PoD is print on demand btw)

Not sure if you can PM here but feel free to do that if you can and want to discus anything in private.