hey what's going on youtube it's your
boy rico and i'm back with another video
today i'm gonna tell you how to sell art
prints on
etsy so whether you've never touched an
art program in your life or you are
artist or graphic designer
by the end of this you're gonna know
exactly what you need to do it
and how to start doing it so like always
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so i'm sure you've seen those people on
etsy selling art prints and they
probably making the killing right
and there's a couple of ways you can go
about doing this now you can do it
yourself at home with printers or
you can have another company print them
for you which will probably result
in more overhead costs but it would be a
less of a headache so doing it this way
is technically print on demand and i
have another video that covers that
so i'mma primarily detail
how to sell art prints on etsy from home
okay
it's the most resourceful way so let's
cover
what you're gonna need right
number one art that's right that's the
first thing you need right
if you're an artist or a graphic
designer this part ain't really for you
if you're not a graphic designer then
you in the right place
the very first thing you're gonna need
is art there's royalty free options like
pixels where you can download things
like landscapes or beach photos
which sell like crazy on etsy you can do
quotes
abstract art they're the leaders as far
as who's selling art on etsy okay
and if you want me to make a video about
how to make some
pretty letter op you know quotes or
stuff like that
let me know in the comments and you know
i got you
you can do what i recommend and that's
pay
an amazing instagram artist to make you
a custom design
however it's not mandatory to start
doing it but remember
custom art always sells the best all
right so
the number two thing you're gonna need
is a printer printing high quality
artwork is very important when you're
doing this right
so while a basic inkjet printer like
this could work
once i started getting my money up i
went and got a
epson printer which i'm about to show
y'all it's a tad bit expensive
but it can print 13 by 19 to the border
and that gives you a leg up on other
sellers who can with a normal printer
who probably can only sell
eight and a half by 11 so or 11
by 17 so while we're talking about
printers paper
paper is another thing that is vital i
used to use the epson
fine art paper that's on amazon
sometimes matte sometimes glossy but
remember
that ink is always going to be a cost
all right quality ink is going to be
what you need i always use the ink that
was recommended for my printer
and i recommend you do the same although
you don't have to okay
now hopefully my graphic designers and
my artist hopefully y'all fall asleep on
me
right because you're going to need a
scanner
right you need to scan those designs in
and it's going to be your best friend
especially if you're not a digital
artist so
it would help to learn some basic
photoshop editing skills
so that you can make minor adjustments
that would make up for the quality
of your scan okay now let's jump into an
aspect of how to sell
prints on etsy okay and i wanted to
frame it like this
simply because it's more of a whole
thing all right
and that's shipping thing like i said
it's an
entity within itself and that's why i
framed it this way so
shipping art prints can get real
expensive i'm talking
crazy expensive for absolutely no reason
and
that's because the the post office is
going to suggest
certain packaging and stuff like that to
where there's just cheaper options and
so
i'm gonna give you those okay the number
one thing with shipping that you're
gonna need
is mailers all right i got this 25 pack
of mailers from amazon for 14 bucks
for my prints that were eight and a half
by eleven they come in
all shapes and sizes though what's
important about the mailers is though
you need the ones with sort of the
sticky inside and not just
crazy sticky but you need it to stick on
the inside so there's no bending
all right the number two things is tubes
if for some reason you get a bigger
printer
and you need to ship posters you know
the tubes from amazon that
that i used to use they're pretty good
they're nice they're secure and they're
cheaper than the tubes that the post
office would give you
all right nice sharp scissors
is another thing to cut shipping labels
tape and etc
sharp precise cuts add to the overall
cleanliness of your whole package and
your whole look and when we're selling
art to people we want it to look like it
came out of an art gallery okay
so that's something you definitely need
it makes a difference in presentation
number four you need a scale to weigh
your items okay
you have to weigh items in the container
when you're shipping when you're sending
it through usps
so you need a scale to do that all right
label paper
because you need to print labels duh and
on this last section what i want to do
is talk about just some things that you
can do
to sort of stand out and give that clean
gallery feel okay so outside of the
obvious you know your nice product
images
great descriptions on sc there's a few
ways that i stood out
from the rest and made a lot of sales
okay and made sure a person who bought
from me once
will always buy again so the number one
way
focus on presentation all right go the
extra mile make it look
better by any little way you can all
right buy
plastic inserts to put the art prints in
right then you insert that into the
envelope you know and when you get that
when you open that
that feels like you're opening some
pretty expensive
pretty good art okay print on or
buy custom stickers to add to your
packaging
you know got print one of the places
that i use
it makes people just respect your entire
brand bro and
just makes it look more valuable okay
add
an insert to it all right it can be a
little note
thanking the buyer for appreciation
maybe tell a background story about the
art piece that the person just bought
even if you some even if it's something
that you just made up
all right just keeping it real with you
which i'm always doing this
channel another thing i did was
i printed out a little certificate of
authenticity right
with my autograph on it and of course
right i'm a nobody designer
and my autograph isn't worth anything
but
that person like my design enough to buy
it so i'm gonna go the extra mile
to make the person respect but respect
my brand a little more and make them
feel like they got something right so
also another thing that you can do is
offer
frames with prints all right you can buy
frames on amazon
of course that's going to change the way
they're shipped and you're going to have
to probably get
either those little boxes that they fit
in or even
boxes from the post office because when
you get to when you get to actual boxes
then that's when honestly the post
office might be your best bet it just
depends so
those are just a few tips i had those
are just a few ways i had on how to sell
art prints on etsy
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so everybody up man get out there it's
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you right here watching this video who
doesn't know nothing about
art or anything like that even you can
take all of what i said today
hop on etsy and make you some money so
it was real with y'all tonight man i'ma
go ahead and sign out it's your boy man
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