Glazing: Not Only Glass in the Frame
Why custom framing smokes ready made frames. Working at a few custom frame shops, I have often heard the gasp statement of “the frame is more than the art”.
Read More... Poll Results: Best Way for Artists to Sell Prints
Last year (2020) we first sent out this survey because a lot of artists, wonder what the best way is to sell their prints. This year (2021) we wanted to see if there was much of a change in the answers we received.
Read More...How to Charge More for Prints
Increasing the value can help you charge more for your prints. Doing so requires finding ways to make your print worth more and creating an emotional attachment to the buyer with the print.
Read More...Etsy’s New Tracking Requirement
If you are an Etsy seller and having FinerWorks fulfill you orders, make sure you are aware of some changes that started up a few days ago on the Etsy platform. Starting August 11, 2021, Etsy implemented a policy that requires its sellers to provide shipment tracking information for any U.S.
Read More...What to Charge Your Customers for Shipping
Many of our customers who have us fulfill and drop ship orders to their customers have at some point had decide how they were going to go about determining what to charge their customers for shipping.
Read More...Using Social Media to Promote Your Art
We had a fun time learning about using the various social media platforms. Melissa Hernandez, FinerWorks own social media marketing specialist discusses how artists and photographers can use social media to boost their sales and promote their artwork.
Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...10 Tips for Selling Art or Photo Prints on Etsy
A lot of artists and photographers have come FinerWorks to fulfill their print orders. In some cases, it is because of dissatisfaction with their existing fulfillment provider, and in other situations, it is due to a growing demand for their prints which become more time-consuming for the artists to fulfill.
Read More...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.
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