How To Buy & Sell with PODs

How To Make Art is a huge area of discussion, and it only gets bigger when you add in the How To Sell Art Discussion. Inside, outside, all around the town…there are lots of great answers. Some things I make right here in my studio. Some things I create using photographs and POD (Print On Demand) companies. Some items are digital downloads of written or video tutorials or coloring sets that I designed, drew, put together using a synergy of pencils and pens, codes and software programs.

Maintaining a virtual storefront eliminates the dusting and staffing issues as well as concerns for slippage…but there is the still the work of setting up the store in the first place, and cost issues like hosting and purchase of a domain name (URL) for a website. I’m glad to be able to do the work myself.

I sell through my website right here in my own virtual storefront powered by wordpress and woocommerce, a very popular selling platform. I sell on Facebook Groups. I sell through e-Shops like Pixels.

Online Facebook Groups

Creative Connections
I prefer to use my facebook business  page as a way to post individual products, talk about them, and feed traffic back to my online store font here.

There are a great many artist pages and groups for every possible interest on Facebook. I am a member of several and here are two where I sell my components and kits:

Handmade Components Bazaar
One Sweet Bead Market

These groups have Open Wall Days where artists can post up to 6 items and Special Events that showcase individual artists and an unlimited number of items in a 24 hour period.


POD Companies & Storefronts

Pixels
Fine Art America uses this POD company.They do not integrate with Woocommerce at this time. However, code can be placed on a website page to make items available and checkout is done through the pixels site.

 


Amazon

I sell my books through Amazon. My first two books were published through Krause and Northlights/FW Publications.

I learned a lot–and the biggest lesson was that it was time for me to go back to college and get a media graphic design degree, to learn how to do layout and publishing myself.

That is what I did, and I started PolyMarket Press where I publish books for myself and other author/artists using POD services from Lightning Source and marketing with Amazon. There are more books and videos in the production stages now.