We recently ran a short sneak peek behind the scenes into The Abundant Artist Association. The sneak peek is only the first 7 minutes. The rest of it is me answering specific questions about the Association and about selling art online.
For a full run-down of all features in The Association, please visit our sales page, but below, I’ve broken out a few key sneak-peeks.
The Community Site
We’re using Workplace, a standalone FB app, to run our community site. Here’s a quick screen grab (click to make larger). You can also see a real-time walk through in the video above, at 2:27.
This is the space where we hang out, ask questions, and discuss various topics. It works a lot like Facebook, but there’s no games or distractions from people who are not members of the Association.
The Courses
If you sign up for the full membership or the annual membership, you get access to some or all of our courses. Detailed at 3:54 in the video above, our courses are also detailed below.
How to Sell Your Art Online: the Courses
How to Sell Your Art Online 101: Your Story
HTSYAO 101 is intended for emerging artists who are still trying to figure out how to tell their story, who their target collectors are, and what their niche is in the art world.
Here’s How it Works:
As soon as you join the course, you’ll get a series of video lessons, transcripts, workbooks, and other resources to help you create – and grow – a success online art business.
This program will give you practical advice you can implement immediately, to get your first online art sale in 30 days or less – or if you’re already making sales, this program will help you double your sales in under a month.
Whether you’re just getting started, or you’ve been selling your work for years, you’ll get the exact strategies I’ve used to help hundreds of artists kick-start their online art sales.
Included in this Course:
- Lifetime access to the entire course
- 5 Lesson Modules with videos, transcripts, and workbooks
- Access to bi-monthly live coaching calls, including the opportunity to ask questions in advance.
- A 2-month membership in The Abundant Artist Association, including access to a private online community of association members, monthly challenges, and legal assistance.
- Exclusive bonus content including over 10 hours of recorded video and audio interviews with successful artists, access to an exclusive painting module from Scott Christensen’s best-selling ocean painting video course, access to Melissa Dinwiddie’s Great Clutterbust course, and The Abundant Artist’s printable Art Marketing Checklist.
How to Sell Your Art Online 201: Sales Funnels
HTSYAO 201 is intended for artists who know how to tell a good marketing story and sell their art, who want to learn how to scale their business by building automated sales processes.
Here’s How it Works:
When you join the course, you’ll get a series of video lessons, transcripts, workbooks, and other resources to help you create automated, scalable systems for your art business, so you can start making money consistently and be able to live the life you want.
Need help knowing what to do at each step? There will be a decision tree in the course that will help you decide what to do at each step of your sales funnel. For example, if you have tons of social media followers, but you’re not getting many leads, we’ll help you brainstorm a few ideas to grow your sales leads.
Included in This Course:
- Lifetime access to the entire course
- 4 Lesson Modules with videos, transcripts, and workbooks
- Access to bi-monthly live coaching calls, including the opportunity to ask questions in advance.
- A 2-month membership in The Abundant Artist Association, including access to a private online community of association members, monthly challenges, and legal assistance.
- Exclusive bonuses, including a one-of-a-kind set of pre-written emails for marketing your art, access to Melissa Dinwiddie’s Great Clutterbust course, and The Abundant Artist’s printable Art Marketing Checklist.
How to Sell Your Art Online 301: Media & PR
HTSYAO 301 is intended for artists who are looking for ways to drive lots of traffic to their websites, get more attention for their art, and make more sales.
Here’s How it Works:
When you join the course, you’ll get a series of video lessons, transcripts, workbooks, and other resources to help you create automated, scalable systems for your art business, so you can make more money and have more fun talking to people about your art.
Need help knowing what to do at each step? There will be a decision tree in the course that will help you decide what to do at each step of your sales funnel. For example, if you have tons of social media followers, but you’re not getting many leads, we’ll help you brainstorm a few ideas to grow your sales leads.
Included in this Course:
- Lifetime access to the entire course
- 4 Lesson Modules with videos, transcripts, and workbooks
- Access to bi-monthly live coaching calls, including the opportunity to ask questions in advance.
- A 2-month membership in The Abundant Artist Association, including access to a private online community of association members, monthly challenges, and legal assistance.
- Exclusive bonuses, including pitch templates for media outreach, access to Melissa Dinwiddie’s Great Clutterbust course, and The Abundant Artist’s printable Art Marketing Checklist.
Artist Websites That Sell
Artist Websites that Sell is intended for up-and-coming artists who need an effective and well-designed website that matches their artistic skill and will work to sell their art.
Included in this Course:
- Video modules that will teach you how to fascinate your collectors by creating a unique visual brand that fits you and your work.
- A photography and copywriting crash course on what kinds of photos to get, how to craft your website copy, how to gather testimonials, and legal stuff to include on your site so you are irresistible to your collectors.
- Guides to the best WordPress, Squarespace and Shopify templates for artists and what makes them successful and profitable.
- Exclusive bonus content including 3 example design briefs so you can see what website research and brand design looks like, and a checklist with everything you need to remember to include in your website.
- Access to bi-monthly live coaching calls, including the opportunity to ask questions in advance.
This course is available as either a self-study course or with the addition of 30 minutes of personalized one-on-one coaching at the beginning and the end of the course.
Facebook Marketing for Artists
The content of the course has been refined over four years, and is focused on the questions asked by clients of The Abundant Artist. While we do cover the basics of how to get started, the majority of the course is designed to introduce you to the powerful tools that Facebook makes available – that almost no artists are using.
By the end of the class you’ll be stuffed with ideas on running your own Facebook marketing campaign. You’ll have set up and optimized your own artist’s Facebook page. You’ll be uploading images and updating your status like a pro, you’ll be interacting with your fans and followers, and you will be able to use Facebook’s massive advertising platform to grow your business.
Your Facebook page will be a fun, interactive place for your fans and collectors to hang out. And, most importantly, you’ll be on your way to creating your thriving online art business.
Included in this Course:
- 4 Lesson Modules with videos and full transcripts.
- Exclusive bonus content including more than 50 example posts, ads, and more.
This course is available as either a self-study course or with the addition of an hour-long personalized one-on-one coaching session at the end of the course.
This is Our Best Deal
We are betting the future of TAA on the success of the Association. You can get access to all of these courses, as well as so much much, including our community, health insurance discounts, and monthly challenges.
I am confident that if you give us a shot, you won’t be disappointed.
Ute Bivona says
Dear Cory,
I have watched and followed nearly all you previews, your 8day challenge of the abundant artist, your page on facebook, the amazing amira and I’m really enthousiastic on all the possibilities, but I still have one question. Don’t you think that selling art might also be something local? As I noticed in art interested people in Germany are very very conservative, don’t buy art online, don’t even watch art online but only in classic exhibitions or art shows. Only artists that are showing their art on these platforms are “real” artists… So I’m asking me, if it really would fit to become a member of the TAA association, if it doesn’t fit my needs and the special market in the end, you know.
Ute
cory huff says
Hi Ute, of course the majority of art is still sold in real life. All the members of our program know that. You can use our techniques for online marketing to grow your in-person audience.
In addition, we will also be introducing more trainings for in-person sales. The October challenge will be all about how to sell at art shows.
Janet says
I do a lot of animal portraiture. I’m working on images now for note cards, post cards, etc. You can see my art on my Facebook page at Janet Goldman Merrill. I work slowly and for some reason I am hesitating to join a group like this. Yet it sounds excellent. Can I work at my own speed without being pressured? Support would be great.