Let me tell you a short story. When I lived in Copenhagen I eventually found a young woman who wanted to sell art and by the time I met her she was fronting for half a dozen painters. After I joined the crew, three or four other photogs also came aboard, so we were eleven. She did her stuff and I watched her do a presentation once and she really reeled them in. The clients all wanted to sleep with her, but she refused. At our first annual meeting on a small island, we all came in our nondescript cars, and Lone arrived in a Jag. That was an eye opener. We all did well, but Lone really made a bundle and she only made 17% from each of us. I tried to bring her to DC, but…no go. The problem I am having is that sales techniques have shifted over time and finding a young sales person who can sell ice to Eskimos appears to no longer exist, although I know it does. I had a friend who grew up with a car salesman Dad, and she could sell anything to anybody, but she recently passed. It needs to be somebody around 30, not 60. If they repped 15 artists, we could all get richer. Perhaps something like “Monocacy-Art” as a handle so to speak. I currently have online art galleries almost all over and printers in the US and Scotland making and delivering art to clients. The Monocacy is a river in MD, technically known as The Scenic Monocacy. The art market hasn’t gone flat, it’s the sales techniques which have not adapted. I have an empty-ish web site which could change its contents. But I need a web designer to do it, as I’m not really a designer. It’s monocacyart.com Using a site which is not new better for some reason. Quarterly dues could be low too, and adjustable to the sales made. We might be able to run it in Cradoc’s Fotobiz. Thoughts? Jan
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