Why is it that some artists seem to make easy money on eBay while others struggle to break even? Seller A and seller B could be selling paintings of the same calibre, however seller A turns a good revenue yr in yr out and has Powerseller status, while seller B struggles to even make a revenue at all. Often it has a lot to do with the appear of their auction listings.

I have been selling my original artwork on eBay for 5 years now and boy was I green when I started off. I didn’t personal a digital camera – I used an normal camera with film … you know that aged things … I would consider pictures of my artwork, then tramp into city, wait 3 days for the film to be created, then scan the prints into my pc. The quality of my pictures had been obviously fairly poor in these days.

I didn’t know anything about HTML, templates, how and when to checklist to get optimum advantage from my auctions. It is a wonder I even got off the ground! But get off the ground I did – though dogged persistence and a willingness to discover, I went from selling paintings for a couple of lbs/bucks, to earning a good complete time residing. These days I am a Powerseller and often get hundreds for my paintings.

So, right here are my top suggestions to make your artwork auctions stand out and promote you from part – time pin money earner to top seller

one Think about KISS …. Maintain It Easy Stupid! A listing that has plenty of various colours, fonts, animated pictures, text in capitals can be very perplexing for the reader. Don’t bombard people with too much info.

2 Be factual in your description. If your item has a fault – checklist it. This way a buyer understands precisely what he/she is getting and there will be no negative feedback later on. I have offered paintings that had repairs where they had had little rips in them. I was honest in the fact that the paintings weren’t ideal, but my purchasers had been completely happy simply because they knew beforehand what they had been purchasing.

three Never be negative. Recently 1 artist who was struggling to sell anything at all (despite becoming a very good artist) complained how eBay just wasn’t operating for him. Following looking at his auctions I could see why! His listings had been fundamental to say the least, but he could have gotten away with that. What was stopping any chance of him selling had been the words at the finish of his auction

“The artist is unwilling to offer this item at a lower beginning cost as to do so would be insulting.”

Possible purchasers might appear at this statement and think “nicely I wouldn’t want to insult anyone” or “nicely if you really feel insulted, why checklist it?” and click on away … to someone else’s paintings. Feedback like this are far too negative.

4 When selling artwork, a picture paints a thousand words, as the saying goes. Attempt to make your pictures as higher quality as feasible. Include side views of your canvasses and possibly a space view. Don’t clutter your listing with pictures of other artwork you have for sale – it is just perplexing. If you have an eBay store, you will get automated ‘cross promotion’ for a number of other products at the finish of your auction anyway.

5 Don’t undersell yourself / under cost your work. Who requires 5 to 10 lbs / bucks as an opening bid cost critically? Only very nicely recognized, nicely established artists with big fan bases can get away with beginning a listing so reduced. Until you are established, don’t danger selling your artwork for pennies. You’ll not even cover your listing fees, never mind make a revenue.

6 Utilise key phrases successfully. I saw a pencil drawing of a mum and baby Koala in a tree listed as “A mother’s Adore Original Pencil Drawing” Sadly, it is very not likely that anyone will lookup “a”, “moms”, or “love”. Well maybe love …. but not in the context of an original drawing of an animal. The seller was wasting a lot of key phrase room there. Better would have been something like “Original Contemporary Drawing Sketch Koala Bear Bears” Does not mean much as a sentence in itself, but it is packed with key phrases, people might use to find that kind of item.

seven Offer excellent customer service. I have always prided myself on the number of positive feedbacks I have attained more than the years. On various eBay IDs I have nicely more than 1000 unique positive feedbacks. This is money in the bank! A happy customer will arrive back again once more and once more, and it is much easier to sell to an existing customer than to acquire a new 1. Maintain your purchasers happy and they will reward you with loyalty and repeat purchases.

eight Have a ‘ME’ web page. With artwork purchasing, people like to know who they are purchasing from. They like to ‘get to know’ the artist. If you can offer a little biography and artists statement on your me web page, your possible buyer can really feel like they already know you. I have a bio, a picture of myself with my artwork and a recent article that appeared in a regional arts and culture journal. This allows purchasers to see a pleasant face – yours – and to really feel like they know a little about you and ‘where you’re at’ prior to they buy.

I hope these suggestions help you a with your eBay artwork career. There is loads more I could add, but eBay is a real learning curve. Often success arrives merely though experience and attempting various factor till you find something that works for you. The over suggestions, however, will get you off to a good begin to turning into a effective eBay artwork seller.

Gail Miller is a expert artist whose wild funky artwork is a visual feast of line, colour and enjoyable. Go to her brand name new up to date website at http://www.gailmiller.com or her eBay store at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/painttillyoufaint