Art Marketing Podcast: How To Sell Art Online And Generate Consistent Monthly Sales

Coming up on today's Art Marketing Podcast, I'm talking with Kristen Harvey - an artist who went from designing video games for Sega to hand-making greeting cards that essentially run her local Arizona market. Not prints, not originals - greeting cards. She's cellophane-wrapping each one, taking custom orders from shops, running what amounts to a mini factory from her studio. And here's the kicker: she charges $3 wholesale because for her, it's not about the card money - it's advertising. She worked full-time for five to six years while building her art business on farmer's market tables that cost twenty bucks. Now she's teaching sold-out intuitive painting workshops where people aren't learning to paint like her - they're learning to find their own authentic voice. What really got me was her Instagram strategy. She paints at night (because of course she's a night owl) and records it, then people wake up to see what she created while they slept. It's this whole community ritual. But she won't go live because