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Your First Exhibition Space

Your first free exhibition space will probably be your own home enabling possible enquiries from friends, family and relatives. It's also an opportunity to gather objective comments and opinions before expanding your potential sales field.

Your second free exhibition space could be your office, or place of work, thereby expanding potential sales to your colleagues. If space is limited, or discretion is required, you could change an existing reproduction with one of your latest masterpieces - which creates interest, demonstrates your versatility and could be a style or subject that appeals more to an intending purchaser.

Joining an Arts and Crafts Society can be an excellent way of promoting and exposing your work to the general public.

Once you have mastered the various replication techniques, a further income stream can be generated by running courses in creating replica oil paintings. Art shops and art stores, such as Hobbycraft often feature such courses and workshops. The in-store demonstrations not only attract customers, but also pupils who purchase the materials they need from the shop or store hosting the demonstration.

 

The Internet

With the rising popularity of the Internet, it has never been easier for anyone to sell their own products. Quality painting reproductions are always in demand and replica paintings based on the canvas transfer technique are one of the easiest and least expensive way of creating faithful painting reproductions.

Selling by Post

When selling your work on the Internet, it's usual to sell just the replica canvas. This not only saves the time and expense of stretching and framing, but also reduces postage and packing costs, as well as the risk of damage. It is therefore the customer who is responsible for having their replica canvas stretched and framed. Your completed canvases are simply rolled and dispatched in readily available postal tubes.

 

With the Secrets of Faking It, you'll also have a competitive edge for setting up your homebased business, whether in the real world, or the virtual world:

			Knowledge for creating top quality replica oil paintings with the look of originals.
			Orders and commissions can be tailored to the customer's requirements.
			Profit margin of at least 100%.
			No expensive outlay - specialist tools and equipment are not required.
			No expensive overheads - everything can be easily done at home.
			Techniques and materials for creating robust and stable oil painting replicas which will last as long as originals.
			Know-how for complementary skills to further increase income:
			- Canvas stretching in the traditional way using stretcher bars.
			- Picture framing.
			Hints and tips for creating a value-added sales package, to increase customer satisfaction with potential for repeat orders.

 

One method of selling your replica oil paintings is by creating online stores using eBay, Amazon and various Arts and Crafts sites, some of which are listed under Links and Resources.

Having your own web site is ideal for displaying your shop window to the world and enables you to:

Increased exposure of your artwork and services world wide.
Expand your market and customer base.
Promote your business identity.
Reinforce customer confidence.
Enable direct customer enquiries via e-mail.
Add your site link to your eBay store, and other sales sites.
Enables additional free advertising through Froogle.

You will find even better ideas for selling your work in the Secrets of Faking It.