I like Floridians too. I used to have many deep pocketed buyers there.
Even though I live near DC, it is not a great art town, but a lawyer town. I agree on TX, one of my best customers used to be a twerp in D-FW.
But if we’re gonna look for a young art hottie to sell art, to mostly men over 40, where will that be?
jan
Yes. CL for the Ivankas and I think the Eastern cities are good but they’re a bit over subscribed... I believe the biggest markets would be the big Texas cities. People with money living in ugly places that seek respite and this leads to a hunger to own art... they’re all over SantaFe. Sadly, I work fairly often in West Texas....Amarillo, Lubbock El Paso and all stops between.. If we’re gonna be selling art, not Craigslist. But if we’re looking for a salesperson -then yeah.
I had in mind a young-ish woman who dresses like a drug salesperson who hits up doctors (same market), or stockbrokers, lawyers, Republican Congressmen, — if we could get Ivanka, she’s be nearly perfect, except of course for her family ties. I also had in mind that the best place to market such a package would be the big East Coast cities of Atlanta, DC, Philly, NYC, Boston and environs.
So that’s two of us, I guess everybody else is on vacation.And they’ve got to sell to decorators.
I want Bob Witkowski in the mix too.
Well I’m in for sure... ads in craigslist? For a salesperson?? Art ads In Facebook?... can one advertise in Instagram? With 10 people we could have a decent budget for someone who could put an initial campaign together...
Perhaps the accumulated interested members of this list could band together outside of RIT and pool our knowledge to attract an art consultant to handle our creations? I would say those who got their acts together enough to put their work in the little books would be a good place to start.
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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