If I'm selling through online art marketplaces and getting small checks, what should I change?

If you’re relying on third-party online marketplaces and receiving tiny payouts, you’re building on a foundation that will always limit you and can collapse at any time. Shift your focus entirely to building your own direct sales channel: your own website, your own email list, your own marketing. Treat marketplace sales as supplemental income at best, but invest your real effort into the business you own and control. That’s the only way to build consistent, significant income.

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Asked by an artist selling on online art marketplaces · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2020-06-24