[Hidden-tech] artist portfolio website tools?

[Stacy Kontrabecki]

Val:

EmptyEasel.com is somewhat of a "Consumer Reports" and e-zine for 
selling art online. It is not a website development tool.

The other sites are template sites of one type or another that take 
either a small or larger % cut of your sales depending if you utilize 
the free or paid version of their service.

For 2-D visual art, most are associated with a print house that allows 
the customer to immediately purchase reproductions of originals at any 
size, on may mediums - and some will frame and mat the work if the 
customer wants, giving the artists a small cut of the value-added 
products/services sold. The website is responsible for fulfillment on 
these orders, the artist fulfills purchase of original art. The artist 
does not usually need their own online payment merchant account.

Many of these turnkey sites can serve as artist websites or can be 
graphically modified to match an existing site to be used only as an 
ecommerce portal.

I may be doing the Online Selling Opportunities for Artist survey class 
at the Jones library in Amherst sometime this year. I'll keep you posted.

Stacy

Val Nelson wrote:
>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
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> Thanks to all who replied. These are all excellent and thoughtful 
> responses. Wow.
>
> I definitely get that a professional website vs a do-it-yourself 
> template site is in order for anyone who wants to be seriously in 
> business (I wrote a blog post to that effect), but I don't think that 
> is quite the case here, yet.
>
> Nonetheless, all those resources for selling are awesome and I will 
> pass them on.
>
> Stacy, will you be offering your online selling for artists class 
> anytime soon?
>
> Thank you
> Val
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Stacy Kontrabecki 
> <swampdancer at comcast.net <mailto:swampdancer at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>       ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the
>     member's area.
>       ** If you did, we all thank you.
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>     A good online resource is www.emptyeasel.com
>     <http://www.emptyeasel.com/>
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>     I feature the following turnkey websites for visual artist in my
>     Online Selling Opportunities survey class, among others for
>     writers, musicians, etc.:
>
>     www.artfulhome.com <http://www.artfulhome.com/> 	Objects,
>     furniture, lighting, jewelry, glass, wall art
>     www.artwanted.com <http://www.artwanted.com/> 	Originals, digital,
>     repros on: canvas prints, promo type items like at RedBubble, Zazzle
>     www.1000markets.com <http://www.1000markets.com/> 	fine art;
>     artisan jewelry, home, clothing, food
>     www.artfire.com <http://www.artfire.com/> 	fine, handmade, vintage
>     & supplies
>     www.artspan.com <http://www.artspan.com/> 	contemporary art
>     www.discoveredartists.com <http://www.discoveredartists.com/>
>     wall art, photo, art objects
>
>     	
>
>     	
>     www.imagekind.com <http://www.imagekind.com/>
>     prints,frames,canvas, posters, cards on demand
>     www.absolutearts.com <http://www.absolutearts.com/> 	contemporary art
>     www.allposters.com <http://www.allposters.com/> 	fed from
>     www.artistrising.com <http://www.artistrising.com>
>     www.art.com <http://www.art.com/> 	fed from www.artistrising.com
>     <http://www.artistrising.com>
>     www.artistrising.com <http://www.artistrising.com/>
>     photo,paint,digital,mixed, draw, watercolor
>     www.fineartamerica.com <http://www.fineartamerica.com/> 	giclee
>     fine art prints, photo prints, and fine art originals; frames, canvas
>     www.zatista.com <http://www.zatista.com/> 	original wall art
>
>     	
>
>     	
>     www.photoreflect.com <http://www.photoreflect.com/> 	custom(er)
>     photo galleries
>
>     	
>
>     	
>     www.gettyimages.com <http://www.gettyimages.com/> 	license your
>     images, footage, music
>     www.images.com <http://www.images.com/> 	royalty-free photos &
>     illustrations
>     www.istockphoto.com <http://www.istockphoto.com/>
>     photo,illustration,flash,video, audio downloads on demand'
>     www.itunes.com <http://www.itunes.com/> 	music, video
>     www.stockillustrationsource.com
>     <http://www.stockillustrationsource.com/> 	stock & custom
>     illustration & animation
>
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>     Val Nelson wrote:
>>        ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>        ** If you did, we all thank you.
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>>     Hi folks,
>>     I wonder what you would recommend for this. I have an artist
>>     friend who wants to put her own portfolio on the web in a simple,
>>     do-it-yourself low-budget way. She's not looking to pay for a
>>     professionally designed website at this time.
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>>     I have heard of http://www.icompendium.com but are there other
>>     tools for this that you know of? Any you would avoid?
>>
>>     Thanks
>>     Val
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