So you are selling prints (and perhaps notecards) of your beautiful photographs at Art Shows, Craft Fairs, and Holiday Bazaars.
Perhaps you want something new and different to have at your booth.
Perhaps you have (or are thinking of having) a web-based gallery.
You want everyone to be able to have something with your work… or you want money.
They are all valid reasons to look at Selling Out. That is, “Selling outside the box” or “not the way we’ve always done it“.
We have put together these notes from our research and experience with On-Line PODs. That is, companies that will produce something only once they have an order- generally in quantities of one or two at a time. The term POD was first used for books and so it stood for “Print on Demand” -although now “Produce on Demand&” would be more accurate.
Either way, POD generally refers to companies that advertise products and images on the web and produce as needed. For artists, this is a way to have someone else use our images to sell products, and we get some of the money. Sort of like a Royalty or Licensing Agreement, except that we are more involved in the set-up of our “shop” at the POD web-site, rather than just uploading a file as you might to a Stock Agency.
Feel free to browse our various Posts using the Category list to the left. We have:
General Information: A couple of quick introductory posts
POD Firms: Posts that discuss specific firms (CafePress, Zazzle, PrintFection, etc)
Image Files: How to make sure your gorgeous artwork looks it’s best
Products: Reviews of specific products
Marketing: Posts will follow along here.
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