A Tidal Wave of Online Art Sales

May 30, 2020June 24, 2020

A Tidal Wave of Online Art Sales

Recently I spoke with a lady that felt like she had been hit by a tidal wave in the past few weeks. Her normal printer still had not re-opened and she had a backlog of hundreds of orders from her Shopify site to fulfill. Some printers she had contacted said they had a 3 to 4-week turnaround time on average right now, not including shipping and others could not give her a definite answer as to when they could start. I told her we ourselves as a printer of fine art were quite a bit busier than normal but since these were relatively simple orders to process, we should still be able to get them all out quicker then some of the others.

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

Poll Results: Best Way to Advertise Art

Over the past two decades I have had a front row seat when it comes to observing how people promote and sell their artwork. I have also said that when it comes to promoting your artwork, you are also promoting yourself as an artist. Interesting to me is how the methods have changed. Today, in 2020 the top method was not even in existence 20 years ago and barely there almost 10 years ago when it first started.

March 24, 2020March 26, 2020

10 Tips for Selling Prints on Etsy

In the past 6 years, the number of Etsy store owners that have come to FinerWorks to fulfill their print orders have steadily increased. In recent weeks this number has increase dramatically, with many of the artists that have used us for their regular art show prints, asking questions about selling on Etsy.

March 24, 2020March 26, 2020

Diary of an Etsy Shop: How to Tell your Customer “No”

One of the perks of using FinerWorks for my print order-fulfillment is that I practically have zero overhead. Print-on-demand fulfillment means that I can sell something online without having to keep a physical inventory of products on hand.

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020

How Artists Can Treat the Crisis

We have been asked how we think the news of viruses and possible recession will affect our customers and how it has impacted FinerWorks when it comes to the fulfillment of your prints. Sometimes some of the staff may need to take an extra day off here and there to take care of their kids due to the extended “spring break”. Nothing much has required major changes in FinerWorks’ operations that would affect the ability to produce and ship your prints.

March 13, 2020May 12, 2020

Designing Your Print for Selling

Are you thinking about how to best prepare your prints for being successfully sold? You might be surprised at how often enough consideration is not given or maybe you have not thought much about this yet. Either way, below are some tips to help your prints sell more successfully that you may or may not have thought about.

February 25, 2020February 25, 2020

Selling Custom Frames & Mats on Etsy or Shopify

Join the growing number of users submitting their orders through our Shopify app and Etsy app who are selling custom made frames as standalone products. If you are selling prints, especially ones with odd sizes, you might be missing up a golden opportunity to sell your buyers a frame later on.

February 24, 2020February 25, 2020

3 Reminders if Connecting Etsy or Shopify

Shopify is by far the biggest platform integrated with FinerWorks so that artists and photographers able to submit their orders from their web site sales. Etsy follows second. Here a few reminders to those that might have run into problems and not sure why.

October 24, 2019October 30, 2019

Etsy Order Integration: Everything you need to know to get started

The Easy Guide to Importing Etsy Orders for Fulfillment If you sell on Etsy and need a quick and simply way to submit your fine art print orders for fulfillment, you may want to consider importing orders instead of entering them manually. For someone who has never imported their orders to FinerWorks, this can seem …

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October 13, 2019October 15, 2019

Make Your Print Mock-ups Stand Out with Paper Texture

Do you sell fine art prints on one of our textured papers or canvas? If so, this Freebie might be right up your alley. Good product shots are imperative to selling art-prints online. But there is a LOT of competition out there for the likes of us. If you do a bit of browsing on Etsy or Amazon Handmade, its plain to see that for art-print sellers, professional looking mock-ups are easy to come by, paid for or not.