{"id":772,"date":"2013-09-23T06:51:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T12:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/share.cassity.us\/?p=772"},"modified":"2013-09-23T06:51:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T12:51:05","slug":"the-value-of-original-artworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/the-value-of-original-artworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Artworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set up an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/mattcassity\">etsy shop<\/a> the other day. Several motivations led to this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Very satisfied after buying a drawing off <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/dhFz73sQmn\/\">instagram<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>To make some money. (Goal is $1000.)<\/li>\n<li>To take the idea of selling my art more seriously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.etsystatic.com\/017\/0\/5159705\/il_570xN.503310145_1uck.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I picked my best drawings from the last several years and priced them accordingly. My criteria were time and quality. I&#8217;ve been monitoring the stats. Etsy has their own engine, and I assigned different bitly links to my social media pushes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-lCXsQ29GIlA\/UkA4faSd9MI\/AAAAAAAACl0\/EXDwTKoumRk\/w701-h566-no\/Screen+Shot+2013-09-23+at+8.29.58+AM.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A facebook post got 105 clicks.<\/strong> Then I &#8216;promoted&#8217; it for $7, and it has gotten 2 more clicks since then. I hit the ceiling on views w\/o promoting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A twitter post got 1 click.<\/strong> I&#8217;m done with twitter. Took it off my home screen and bookmarks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An instagram post got 1 click.<\/strong> There&#8217;s not an easy way to click links in instagram, it&#8217;d be a tough conversion to make a sale on mobile for a drawing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A post I made in the comments of a popular blog got 9 clicks.<\/strong> I need to find other appropriate places to get listed. esty is so crowded.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve sold 5 of the lowest-priced drawings to my friends. My next goal is to sell to a stranger. Getting people to spend a little money is hard! It&#8217;s funny how we don&#8217;t blink an eye at dropping $40 on pizza and beer, then wrestle over buying something lasting like art or a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set up an etsy shop the other day. Several motivations led to this: Very satisfied after buying a drawing off instagram. To make some money. (Goal is $1000.) To take the idea of selling my art more seriously. I picked my best drawings from the last several years and priced them accordingly. My criteria &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/the-value-of-original-artworks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Original Artworks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}