Artist Site: Society6.com Review
I recently joined Society6 today to give it a try. It is an artist site that touts 'the artist created the design and S6 does the work of printing it and shipping it to you' So the products list is extensive and can be anything from art prints - you pick the size and you can also select if you want it framed, to coffee or travel cups, to t-shirts, tote bags, aprons, etc. There's your Christmas list taken care of! It's an interesting concept.
With that in mind, theoretically if you see an artwork of mine or (horrors!) someone else that you like, and your budget does not allow the purchase of the original painting, you have options to buy something else with a print of the artwork on it. Win-Win in my opinion. (hey that rhymes!
The set up is very easy for the artist and very straightforward. Connect to your Paypal account so you can get paid if something sells (or so you can pay for something you buy) and go down the short check list to get up and running. A short bio is important, an image, things like that and you can start uploading your art images.
Images
Good quality images are always vitally important and should be either PNG, JPG or RBG. Make sure their edges are clean and the quality is crisp and the maximum file size should be 150MB not exceed 400,000,000 pixels.
Some of my art designs uploaded in my Artist Studio
Keywords and Tags
On the internet, keywords are so very, very important. Your tags are your keywords as well as the words in your art title. If you were on Google and trying to find something for your mom for Mother's Day let's say, and you type in a few words to find her a great gift.
If you typed "Mother's Day Gifts" you get 370 million results. Ew, bad, too much like work...
If you know mom would LOVE a tote bag with a "Sunrise at Nags Head North Carolina Tote Bag" printed on it, that tremendously cuts the Google results to 251 thousand results. Still large but look if we do that on the search on Society6.com with a few adjustments...
Using the filters, we can search for specifically tote bags, and use the keywords "Sunrise" or "Nags Head" or "North Carolina" and we can shop the artist made totes available there. Kind of nice to cut out Amazon for a change, right?
As with anything like this, read the help they provide and have a look at the "competition". Don't undersell yourself but see what other people are doing. I'm not convinced fine art should be here as yet, but an artist needs to make a living right? The internet SHOULD be a great resource to connect with art lovers anywhere.
Pricing Merchandise
Society6 has a BASE PRICE - that's their cut. The artist adjusts the percentage to charge on top of that for each or all of his/her products. This is where it gets pretty easy for the artist to adjust. All at once adjustments and/or customize how you want your prices to go on top of their base price. The adjustments auto-adjust so you can see them real-time.
Generally, very easy and decently quick to set up. I already had a PayPal account set up which helped. Editing and adjustments are an easy task too. After that, it is up to you on spreading the word on your S6 shop, but there is plenty of help and suggestions for that too.
My affiliate link is http://society6.com?curator=[donnaliguriaart] which means I get a piece of the pie. Like I said, I am new on the site, so we shall see how it goes. I can update this post if I have additional commentary to add and -I hope- sales to review in my dashboard.
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Question for you: What art sites do you use and has it worked well for you as an artist?
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