How to Sell Your Art Online: Live a Successful Creative Life on Your Own Terms

Many artists suffer from a fear that their art isn’t good enough to sell, or that they won’t be able to sell enough of their art to make a living—ever. This fear is the result of a way of thinking about life and about art—a mindset.

Your inspiration for making your art matters to people. They want to understand where your art came from. You don’t have to come right out and say it, but you can hint at it and lead people down the path that you want them to follow and let them discover it for themselves.

This combination of branding, personality, and association with success creates incredible results.

Cyborg Theory states that because of the way that machines and objects have become a part of our everyday life, we are all cyborgs (part human, part machine).

brands. Don Thompson’s book The $12 Million Stuffed Shark does a great job of detailing how artists like Damien Hirst

Capture the thoughts and emotions around the creation of each piece. Gwenn

Michelle Ward, from WhenIGrowUpCoach.com.

An important sales rule is that people buy things from people that they know, like, and trust. That’s true even of things that they love.

that information wants to be free; that attention equals currency; that ubiquity, not rarity, defines value; and that a truly networked society had to be open and unrestricted.