A big shoutout for all the art enthusiasts out there!
In this blog, we will discuss the best websites and marketplaces where you can share your catalog and start selling your art.
Whether you love to weave, design some home decor stuff, create designer dresses, or be involved in any artistic creations, you need a place to showcase your stuff. Yes, we all know that social media is one of the best platforms to flaunt your creations, but that’s not it.
When you share your creative ideas on the WhatsApp story, Instagram account, or your Facebook profile, only your friends can see it. If you are socially active, you probably tag people to let friends of your friends check those posts, if you update them under public settings. Still, there is a limitation in the reach. You may share it in some public groups, and that will create awareness among the people available on the network.
Well, flaunting is one thing, and selling is entirely a different game. You flaunt to get praisings, but you promote & market to get sales. Most of the artisans start their journey of business as a part-time activity. You love creating some artwork or paint like professionals out of your interest. There is nothing better than getting monetary benefits out of the same.
You can be hobbyists, a thoughtful artist turning to a professional, wannabe artist, or someone who learned these skills to start your business; one thing is the same, and that’s the need of a platform.
Thanks to this trend of ecommerce, now, we have plenty of platforms available online. Talking about the best ones here:
Etsy
Etsy is a one-stop-shop for all the handcrafted and vintage products. By registering on the platform, you connect to a worldwide community of artisans and creative brains. Since you will be meeting the like minds, the competition will be fierce on the platform. The sales that you will acquire depend on your marketing strategies and your networking skills.
You can shop the craft supplies for your products on Etsy and sell your finished goods on the platform. None of the business registration is mandatory to sell your art via Etsy. You can create your profile and list your products, straightaway. You will be charged the nominal listing fees of few cents for listing monthly. There is no bar for the count of the products that can be listed on your seller profile. You can optimize your profile with the appropriate kind of keywords to leverage the benefits of SEO.
Your seller profile can be on your name or that of your brand. You can update your business teammates’ brief story and the process of product creation along with the proofs of your social presence. It will help you connect with the audience with utter ease and build your brand identity.
Amazon & Amazon Handmade
For registered artisans and handicraft sellers, Amazon is the best place to get started. It would be best if you got GSTin to start selling your products on Amazon. Once you update it and fee your bank details, you can update your catalog. Amazon is running several programs to support artisans and business of handmade products.
You can register under the Amazon Saheli program for women entrepreneurs based in India to get free assistance on cataloging and marketing. The support team will assist you at every step of onboarding and creating your success story. Amazon timely launches campaigns to support handmade businesses like Stand for Handmade, which was conducted recently. Suppose you are locally running your art business, which is based on traditions and your regional value. In that case, you can share that story and register your physical shop under the category of ‘Local Shops on Amazon.’ With this move, you will get a better local reach and serve your customers with premium services under the ‘Prime’ badge.
Hit the jackpot of opportunities with ‘Amazon Handmade’ and access the professional seller account on amazon.com. With this account, you can sell your products in the US and three other countries of your choice from seven countries’ selection window. It’s the best deal to promote your art business across the nations.
eBay
The products that you will be selling via your online store may not fall into the categories provided on the marketplaces. In that case, you are left with no other choice but to select a category that seems near to your product creation, which may not completely justify your product type. It leads to customer returns and rejects cases. eBay lets you create the product categories of your choice. Thus, giving you global exposure to sell your artistic products.
If you are at the initial phase of your business, give it a shot. You will get free 50 listings every month with the applied conditions. This will reduce your upfront cost, and you will be paying commission fees only when you make a sale. Register now with your tax details and benefit from selling on the marketplace with more than 183 million active buyers.
Bonanza
Adding more platforms to sell your products also increases the task of updating the catalog across the platform. It would help if you managed the inventory regularly so that you won’t miss any of the orders. Bonanza addressed this worry of the sellers with its feature of importing catalog. By registering yourself on Bonanza, you can start adding or export them from the existing marketplaces where you are selling. This makes it easier to sell your products and manage inventory across the sales channels.
Bonanza doesn’t charge any listing fees, and the commission fees are almost half of the other marketplaces. This will save you the upfront cost and enhance the profit that you will be getting on every sale you make.
Flipkart
Flipkart is the India based ecommerce marketplace where you can sell your handmade products. Though there ain’t any dedicated campaign for artisans, there are available categories under which you can list your artistic home decor products and apparel.
Flipkart has the restriction of brand approval for each product category under which you are listing your products. You can register your brand under the Trademark act to ease this brand approval process, especially if you are the manufacturer. Contrarily, you can create an approval application on your brand’s letterhead and put it whenever asked.
There is no restriction on the fabrication type of the product. Be sure that you update all the mandatory product details.
In addition to all these marketplaces, you can also sell your products on the local classified listing sites like Olx, business listing sites like Indiamart, reselling platforms like Meesho, and social platforms like Facebook Marketplace. The ease of listing and options to connect with potential customers make these channels more accessible to the merchants irrespective of understanding of technicalities.
Is It The Right Time To Launch Your Art Store?
Designing a store is easy with Builderfly, but bringing the quality traffic that converts is time taking. Since the festive season is approaching, we recommend you register yourself on existing marketplaces, update your catalog and keep designing your web store in the meantime. Registering on existing platforms, you will start getting sales much earlier than that of your own store.
When you are ready with the full-fledged marketing strategies, you can launch your store and promote your products across all the channels. It is definitely the right time to design and launch your store. With Builderfly’s intuitive design editor, it will cost you just 10 minutes to get your site’s basic layout ready. Further, you can customize each of your web pages to add the personal touch and launch your store. We have the user-guide ready to assist you in the store creation and design process for a trouble-free experience. If you need any assistance, you can write to us at support@builderfly.com.
