{"id":342,"date":"2014-11-10T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zippi.co.uk\/thestudio\/?p=342"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:26:50","slug":"guide-making-money-art-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zippi.co.uk\/thestudio\/guide-making-money-art-online\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to making money from your art online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many budding artists in the UK, selling your art online, on sites like Zippi, offers opportunities that wouldn&#8217;t be available elsewhere. Getting prints and merchandise printed just for you can be prohibitively expensive, as well as potentially leaving you with a huge amount of unsold stock. Selling online means not only do you not have to shoulder that risk, but that you&#8217;re also exposing a whole new audience to yourself and your work.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick guide to making sure that you make the most of these opportunities!<\/p>\n<h2>Original content is best<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although the law can be a bit grey on matters of satire and fair usage, it&#8217;s safe to say that using registered or copyrighted characters in your work is not the way to go. For that reason it&#8217;s always best to create\u00a0your own original art and characters, as there&#8217;s nothing worse than to spend all your time on creating something that will end up\u00a0going to waste.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Let your own network know that you&#8217;re here<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great when new audiences find your work, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that you should neglect your own fan base! If you&#8217;ve got a following on social media, particularly on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, make sure that you cross-post new products to these sites. If there are discount codes available, then it&#8217;s definitely worth making a point of posting these to your own social media sites, as they&#8217;ll encourage sales.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Monitor and evaluate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are there particular designs which are going well? It&#8217;s always worth keeping an eye on the sales you&#8217;ve made and seeing if there are any patterns. If you&#8217;ve got one design that&#8217;s doing really well, you might want to consider doing more like it, pushing variations on social media, or introducing a new product option. This will help you develop your personal brand, and bring in more sales.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Design with the product in mind<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-349 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zippi.co.uk\/thestudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/product-design-phone-covers.jpg\" alt=\"Mobile Phone Cover Back Set With Floral Pattern\" width=\"900\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zippi.co.uk\/thestudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/product-design-phone-covers.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.zippi.co.uk\/thestudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/product-design-phone-covers-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have a very intricate design, it&#8217;s probably best to go on a larger product. Small details on a small product won&#8217;t be seen, and this may well leave your customer unhappy and dissatisfied. Which, when you&#8217;ve put so much work into the design, would be a real shame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Make regular uploads<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fresh content really is important! Artists often develop followings who will make a point of checking back to see what&#8217;s new. If they come back once or twice to find no new updates, they&#8217;ll stop checking very quickly. If you can organise a rolling pattern of new updates, then so much the better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why not join our fellow artists earning money from their art on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zippi.co.uk\/sell\">Zippi<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many budding artists in the UK, selling your art online, on sites like Zippi, offers opportunities that wouldn&#8217;t be available elsewhere. Getting prints and merchandise printed just for you can be prohibitively expensive, as well as potentially leaving you with a huge amount of unsold stock. 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