... drop shipping and marketing as an artist
More than a year now I am active on Redbubble. This platform, which is very suitable for artists to modernize, exploit and / or publicize their work, has more advantages than you think.
The advantages at a glance:
can be combined in any artistic sector
build up passive income
more extensive offer
your designs become more accessible to people with a low budget
drop-shipping
create private collections for fellow artists
cost saving
unbridled creativity
work on your reputation
Can be combined in any artistic sector
Does not matter which techniques you use. Whether or not you have an online shop and or website. Whether you have a youtube channel or not. As an artist you usually do not have the financial resources in abundance. Hence the easy stunts are those that guarantee your success. For example, companies such as redbubble, but also printfull, are ideal to provide you with a tool in the development of your artist's success. Buying an online webshop yourself is a costly joke and can take years to ask for even your first sales. These websites cause a constant flow of visitors, you have to compete with the best, but that makes it as an artist a challenge to remain original or to make your style even more charismatic.
Build passive income
Imagine if that would be possible? Make money while you sleep! Usually the dream of the average gold digger but it is possible! Online companies such as ETSY, REDBUBBLE, PRINTFULL, EBAY ... Cause you to pay for minimal expenses, even for FREE, your work online and earn money during your vacation, sleep or even classic job.
Building up a passive income and preferably even income where the efforts can be kept at a minimum continue to greatly increase the possibility of multi-income support. In this uncertainty times is creating a multi-income is very important and the best is certainly not to lay your eggs in one basket!
More extensive offer
It is always important to get your work out as commercially as possible. That means far from having to start drawing or painting what people want !!! But you can increase your offer by offering your drawings or your work on daily objects and or adjusting your work to more convenient gift options. If you make your graphic work a necessary article instead of a luxury article, then you as an artist have the advantage of being noticed more quickly and of expanding your audience and possibilities. Depositing your sales only to a select audience increases the risk of long-term failure. The man in the street can enjoy your work in a poster or reproduction!
Your designs become more accessible to people with a low budget
Offering redbubble your work does not only make your offer more comprehensive, but also more manageable. A work of art will yield more in the long term than just the sale of your work. Now you can not only sell your artwork but also reproductions, posters, prints, life-style, fashion, consumer goods !! At the end of the ride you always earn more than that single sale. In addition, the lifespan of your work is much longer than just your work itself. A print online can lead to years till lifelong revenue! Your designs become more accessible for people with a low budget You may find it unimportant what the middle class of your work finds but this audience is pretty big. To leave all that public is a shame. Even if only because they take a postcard from your work! A sticker of your work on their lunch box, a cover for their mobile phone. You just want that publicity! That unwittingly puts you in the spotlight even off-line. The only thing you have to invest for is TIME because you have to upload your work on these websites and maintain and follow up the shops that are attached to it. If you want fast success you also have to be active on their platforms.
Dropshipping
Probably many of you have not heard of this yet. Dropshipping is a method where the work is really done for you. For example you have an etsy shop, ebayshop and you want to offer your graphics on products such as posters, cell phone covers etc. This company (printfull) can handle everything for you. You can have products re-positioned by them, you can have the shipment done by them and you get paid on your account by them. It is not even difficult because they have extensive information and videos that explain how you link your shop and how the procedures go.
Create private collections for fellow artists
The nice thing about redbubble is that you can also make private collections to for example provide a colleague designer or fashionista with a logo and / or products. You can indicate this setting on this website so that if you create a work for a client, you can also provide this work on fashion and consumer goods. It makes it possible to earn something extra on a bigger and or easier level. You can also create private collections in this way.
Cost saving
This method of working is cost-effective in so many areas. Not only because you do not have to pay for your own web-shop, no domain name, no web hosting, but also because you do not have to store thousands of copies of your work in your house when you want to offer reproductions to your customers. There are also almost weekly promotions online so you can build up a small stock at a considerable percentage if you want to brighten up your exhibitions with something extra. Everything depends on how much attention you want to give.
Unbridled creativity
Really, a great plus is the unbridled creativity! I have years of work on my hard drive, work that was too good to throw away but for example never had a function. Work that did not yet include a real style or work that have never seen the light of day. The nice thing about redbubble is that you can set up different collections. You place these all separately in folders and your customer can browse through your offer. You can also name different media: paint, photo, different techniques. So you can even start as a photographer with redbubble. If you are already a little more advanced and are able to use a drawing program, you can use photo techniques to produce results such as: starhugs, unique skirt, stripes are fun, dragon claw, feel free to check out the rest of my portfolio. These are some examples of creativity that would otherwise not have had a face. The possibilities that arose as a result made my artistic spirit enormously happy. There is now no reason anymore to NOT be creative.
Working on your reputation
Presenting advertising and / or advertisements today is extremely difficult. I am now really a believer of the FREE way to announce your activities. No support for PAYING traffic. The reason for this is the abuse and often also the low deployment and the high risk that you take at such companies. In addition, even google is fickle in use. The easiest way to come out as a company / artist is to put yourself in the spotlight or simply be able to be online anywhere else. Companies as discussed in this article can be just that step up to come out and support yourself in your fame. It is correct that it makes your online work more comprehensive and that your maintenance of these places requires the necessary priority. That is why it is necessary to select for yourself which places you find important and how much attention you want to give them.
I hope you have had something to add to this article any addition or reservations are always welcome!
