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Art Workshops can be more lucrative than you think. Not only will you be teaching your students great things about art and how much art benefits them, but you have great access to offer your art students other things as well. They come expecting to learn about art and they leave with an armful of your art pieces, products, and books.
When people attend such things as workshops, they rarely go expecting only to learn something and walk away otherwise empty handed. As an entrepreneur, tapping into that expectancy is not only business-wise, but an acceptable practice that any smart business person utilizes. Offering supplemental materials or materials that establish your expertise are lucrative additions that no person in their right mind would pass.
As an artist, you would have pieces of artwork that your students would be interested in buying. Starting an art workshop from a business standpoint doesn’t necessarily mean that you are an established or world-renown artist, but it would make sense that you know enough about art to be able to produce a few pieces of art on your own. The common practice is to offer prints of your pieces. They can be purchased at reasonable rates and your art students would feel proud to display the art of their “teacher” on their wall.
In your art workshop center, display your artwork in different places around the studio. Make it known that they are available for purchase. A small tag in the bottom right-hand corner with the title and a suggested purchase price is classy and not pushy at all. When people feel pushed is when they start to back away from a purchase. But, displaying one of your pieces in such a manner will generate a good bit of sales.
Also, your products should be on the market too. No, you don’t have to have your own line of art products, even though it is more prestigious and not at all hard to accomplish. That’s a different article for a different day. But, you would really only need to back a brand of art that you happen to offer in your store. Your art students will have several reasons for buying from you. It is more convenient and your art students would feel compelled to buy from you rather than enter another art store for their supplies before attending your workshop.
I did mention that you could offer books. While it’s lucrative to offer art books that others have written, it is very prestigious to be able to offer a book you have written. Write a book, you say. I can’t write a book, you say. Well, that’s not that difficult either. Ghostwriters are all over the place. That’s what they do. They write books for others who get the copyright and full marketing freedom. Having a book of your own with your name on it makes you look like an even more expert artist.
When you let your mind explore the many avenues business can go, you will be able to come up with all sorts of ideas for how to make a first impression into a lucrative opportunity that keeps giving. We run art workshops to teach people the benefits of art and give them an outlet for their creative side. But, we are also business people. Not taking advantage of the opportunity we have been given just doesn’t make much business sense.
About the Author:
An internationally known artist as well as a mother of six, Rivky Shimon founded Rivky’s Art Workshop in New York. Rivky’s step-by-step method for teaching children how to create and enjoy art has earned high praise from students, teachers and parents alike. Through her new training series, Rivky plans to teach artists from across the country how to duplicate her success. Not only to ensure that art education remains a vital part of every child’s life, but also to enforce the reality that "The Rivky Method" tm works the same magic for adults as well.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com - Art Entrepreneurship: Making Every Chance Count
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