5 ways to SELL your ART!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- We have talked a lot about how to make pottery but in this video we talk about how to SELL it! Everything from your friends and family, to arts and craft shows, to retail, to galleries, and of course ONLINE Etsy, websites, etc.
This is a great beginners guide to start thinking about how you are going to sell all those awesome pots you have been making!
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Thanks Jon for unboxing my mug on your channel. I appreciate your kind comments and your recommendations about consistency while throwing. I've never made more of 20 of anything consistently within a short period of time. Mostly because of space (I'm in a shared studio space and I pay for the space on my shelf) and time to finish off the pots I throw. Whatever I throw, I have to make sure I can make sure I have time to trim and finish it off before I make anything else, or else things tend to dry out/I run out of space on my shelf. However, it's a great challenge and maybe I will throw a large set of pots and recycle the clay afterwards.
Another idea: last year I created a private Facebook page for local customers only. As I unload the kiln, I post pictures. It is amazing. People who are online at that moment start telling me they want the pottery. It’s crazy to try to keep posting pictures as I go back and mark other pottery sold! It sells fast and they pick it up here at my studio. People have to ask to join the page, so I don’t feel like I am bugging non-customers on FB, trying to sell my pottery. I am considering posting a time for the sale instead of just a random 9 PM posting!
I'd love to see a video on how to photograph your pottery, I find I'm not great at photography so it's hard to take really great shots to put on a web page, social media, etc...
Not a professional myself but id say some important things are probably to use a neutral background and good lighting. My artwork always looks more true to life in daylight but totally crummy under yellow lights and usually even LED lighting
I feel your son's critique of that lovely pot is spot on!
i felt the same way
The studio looks great! I really love your wall mural backdrop for your mug display.
To help manage the echo, in addition to the rest of your equipment getting set up, you need some soft things in there to help absorb sound--rugs, curtains, soft chairs, or soft-textured wall/ceiling panels will do the most to get rid of the echo. Generally, spaces with less echo have lots of flat surfaces at irregular angles (trapezoids and pyramids) and/or lots of soft things like carpet and wall and ceiling sound panels. The most echo-y spaces are boxes with hard floors and smooth walls and ceilings, just like your new studio.
Jon can you make a video about tabling/art fair booth? Maybe make a mock up 10’x10’ booth tips on displaying and your set up. What works and doesn’t work
I love your studio Jon. Just so happy for you. Thank you for the tips
Barn Door!!!!! Love the new studio space, love that you include your adorable little in your videos. Great info, look forward to the detailed online video. Minnesota is on my bucket list of places to visit. We live in Alberta, Canada the best place on earth!
Wow the lighting is great! Didn’t hear much echo and when your equipment is in there it will be even better. OH,, and I envy (in a good way) the space you have to move around. White walls! You will know when there dirty but you also know when its clean and there’s no light reflection of color to mess with you. Great idea! One thing that messes with me in creativity is feeling the need to clean up before I start. The smaller the space the harder it is to clean; at least that’s my experience. Can’t wait to see the grand tour. So sorry you don’t feel well. Take a break!
I got my new tool from Old Forge Creations. Can’t wait to give it a try. Thanks for clueing us in on him. Wish he talked about what he was doing but I like his style.
Sharon at MudCreek
Studio is looking great. I am proud to have been a contributor. So looking forward to my 1 of 25 and the accompanying video. Congrats again!
Focusing on retail wholesale at local gift shops coffee houses and shows is more important than doing ‘just’ online because talking in person allows someone to really connect with the maker.
I set myself a goal a few years ago to throw 100 bowls for our local Empty Bowls event. I was successful and my throwing vastly improved. Although, I kept losing track of how many bowls I'd made and I probably ended up with more than 100.
At our college studio is the best time for all new learners because you get free clay and not limit... only for the empty bowls event...
That little boy haha so cute glad you kept his cuteness in the video haha good job.
Swiped up🥳.. glad you got that sorted. Now time for me to sit back and learn how to start selling. Teach me EVERYTHING! (Please!)
Yay for you new studio!!! In the past I started at a monthly open market place, but after 2 years of year round, the heat of the summer, and such got to be too much for wavering sales. So I have a booth at a local mostly handmade gift shop, where I work one day a month to cover my rent, only 10% of the sales goes to the owner, and the rest is mine. I restock monthly to keep it fresh. I take commissions there too. Also do a few arts and crafts fairs in the fall/winter months 2 are indoors. That's a huge help. While not making big money, it pays for my clay and glaze habit, and keeps me as busy as I want to be. I don't really do much online just friends and family by request via FB. The studio is looking awesome! Keep doing what you're doing!!!
Looks like you are in your new studio! Wow! From what I see it is FABULOUS! Congratulations! Great video! Look forward to the next one about selling online! Yay! Rider is adorable!
I know how you can fix the echo. You could use those black foam pads gamers use and like glue or tape it to ur walls or Ceiling I think that it looks cool but just a suggestion
Thank you very much for your positive information!:)
Omg you’re in the studio! I’m so excited!
I think the more items you get in the new studio, the better the echo will get. I've just been selling my pieces through my personal facebook. If someone wants something they see, they just message me. I've been debating whether i should make a facebook or instagram (i dont have instagram) just for my pottery. I don't know why it makes me so nervous to do so. Sooner or later I've got to get that fear out of my head and just do it.
Do you recommend becoming an official business before selling art via social media?
Online pro - you keep a much higher amount of cost. Con - time and energy marketing.
Retail pro - little marketing time and energy. Con - loss of 'branding' control.
Nc point
You’re in your new studio! How exciting. Finally!
Right now I am selling my work at local craft store. I also done some Farmers Market. I would love learn more about selling work online. Can't wait for your next video! :)
Love the new studio Jon. Great information for selling, I'm getting my first Kiln delivered next month, luckily I've got friends that have fired things for me, but I can now start to make more pieces and sell more (with luck) . I have learned so much from you so thanks Jon, wish me luck. P. S. I won't be in competition with you as I'm in the UK. Ha ha. Cheers Bob
I haven't started selling my pottery yet, as I am curently building an inventory. There is an art town near me. I am planning to set up a road side display of my pottery around other road side venders. I am getting together business cards, banners and tables and such. Also, a tax ID number, illegalities and trying to figure out how to take payments...cash, checks or cards. Its all coming together though. Exciting. Thank you for all your suggestions. They are really helpful. ❤
LEGALITIES, lol
I’m so jealous of your new studio!🤪 Love your work👍🏻
ALgira
Hey congratulations your channel will blow in a week buddy🙂
Hi Jon, how much insulation do you have above your head?
I'm lucky I don't have to sell.....I go to a local market once a month and collect donations for HOSPICE.......
Keeps the inventory down when I give pots away when folk donate.
Your energy and enthusiasm along with your ability are a key factor in doing well.
Thanks for sharing!
Love your stuff! Followed you and Pbclay on Etsy. Hope you stock your shop soon.
Ryder is so cute....love his chatter. 💕 thank for the informative video. 👍🇬🇧
Fake enthusiasm for the post🤣 love it. Made me wanna stay and watch the lisppp
Hi, thank you so much. I recently open my small business. Sadly I have made no sales :( . How long would you say the selling and building a customer bases has taken. Secondly, I wanted to do you edit and post all your pieces as well as videos ? Or is it edited by you ?
Ever consider dreading your hair? It looks like it would take well.
new studio lookin good! cant wait for the online one
Congratulations on the new studio!
My favorite way to sell is gallery wholesale. I'd have to adjust my price but he literally buys everything I put in front of him and I walk with a check...
I have a big ? Is hand slaked clay from a river bed worth anything? My old art teacher use to use river bank clay from a local river and used it at the school and I always wondered is it ok to use and sell ?
Jon put the patreon up on the screen, newbies will know where to go
This is beautiful, you have any ideas to share about marketing and branding?
It's easy to sell pot.
Oh wait...
Would this also work for people (like me) that don’t make pottery but paint clay tiles for hanging on the wall?
Do you do any apprenticeships?
Hello Jon you have been visited by the first year Potter comment down if you would like the fellow first years to send you mugs for maybe a shelf in the new studio. Just thought it would be fun.
What is the "kick starter" you keep mentioning?
Nice Barn Doors
Or number 2.
We’re do you get your glazes
I know you posted this comment awhile ago and idk if you still wanted to know but it says it in the video description 😊
Almost 8 billion people
How do we fix the studio echo?
I wish I had an engineer friend to help me....
As soon as you have more stuff in there it should get much better, awesome video as always!
@@Jonthepotter Get your stuff moved in. Add more shelving, bulletin boards for kid art and pegboards for tools. All empty rooms with hard surfaces echo so soften the wall by increasing texture with stuff.
@@Jonthepotter As soon as you get anything softer and just generally more stuff in there, it'll improve. In a music studio, adding a rug and sofas would help, but obviously, nobody wants a clay-coated rug in the muddle of a pottery studio ;)
He said 6 billion world population is 7.8 billion 😂😂😂🌍
jonny ;)
C U T E !! ☺️❤️
Echo not better.
There's a guy down the street that sells pot.
OH POTS! Got it!
Maybe find a new intro song
You forgot ClayshareMarketplace.Com
Carol Thomas link doesn’t work
Love the new studio Jon. Great information for selling, I'm getting my first Kiln delivered next month, luckily I've got friends that have fired things for me, but I can now start to make more pieces and sell more (with luck) . I have learned so much from you so thanks Jon, wish me luck. P. S. I won't be in competition with you as I'm in the UK. Ha ha. Cheers Bob