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Let me introduce you to a fun way to sell your artwork, or anything else you might want to sell. It is a Facebook application, so you would need a Facebook account.

It is a free program which gives you a storefront and way to sell your items at auction.


I would recommend that you start the bidding at just below what you normally ask for because it is still a new application with a limited amount of participants so far. It is brand new and has grown very rapidly, but it still has some much needed growth going on.




I saw it because a worldwide famous and spectacular artist Simon Bull.  www.bullart.com/ was selling his work there. Again, it is at auction. His top of the line high end items were available to me as a way to make commissions on sales! We just share on Facebook the items we want to help sell, as others can with ours. Our audience grows dramatically.

I have static web sites and I have sold quite a bit at my Zenfolio site shell4art.zenfolio.com I get quite a good take on it too. I have really enjoyed it. BUT I have been using my Facebook account to promote it. I have a shell's photography page on Facebook also which generates more viewers/sales. With BidzZar I am using my Facebook at an even better advantage.

Yes, last week I sold a photo here on deviantART and got a whopping 2cents! Don't get me wrong, I am not a dA Basher. I love dA. I have not always agreed with everything, or how things run, but that happens in any long term relationship. There is so much that I love about dA and not just the wonderful people, but there is much to be said about the interface also. We will save that for another day because I want to talk about BidzZar

I sold this piece for $250.00


This is currently selling for $75.00


I sold my greeting cards for $20.00


Now, the largest image  (24x36) was donated to a charity as a way of helping a friend of mine and I have many coupons at Zenfolio to help causes, but check this out--BidzZar just started making helping causes one of their features! You can't do much better than that for my purposes.

BidzZar is still adding new features and ideas monthly and I am honored to be part of their cornerstone subscribers.

This is a great idea and it is working!



Ways to further get your Art out there.

A fan took a picture of herself with one of her purchases. I was so pleased.


He bought these as Mother's Day gifts.


I contacted my local framers in the Monterey Bay Area and Santa Cruz. We came up with a great deal. I send my clients to them, and they give them a deal! It can also save on shipping if the purchaser wants to pick them up at the local framer. In doing this the framers even gave me a better deal on my framing!



The greeting cards are all suitable for framing. It's great to give the client ideas on how to use your art.


Local shops love to have Gallery Showing, just make a phone call and show them your work. It is quite simple and people really do enjoy it. I have sold quite a bit this way.


My Facebook Ad:

This looks pretty funky because I have no idea how to customize the new layouts. They took all my tools away

Blessings to all.

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2011 Here we are!



UPDATE!!!

GREAT NEWS



PLEASE:  I encourage you: USE your talents to help others.



I am a praying woman and this time last year we were so broke and were struck with many tragedies that I cried out to my God loudly and with passion. I said "I am blessed beyond measure but dear Lord, please let us have enough to still help others!"

We didn't get any "extra" money. I have written about this in detail on my blog. shell4art.blogspot.com

This past holiday season, our church participated in a program called "Adopt-A-Family" and my family volunteered to participate. The way this thing works is: The church donates $100.00 seed money and we were to find a way to invest it to help the money go further. Some people held bake-sales, garage sales etc and we, as a family, decided to make a CD of Christmas music using some very talented local musicians. We recorded most of the project in my living room.

We raised over $2K selling the CD created, to help a needy family in our community. It was such an amazing amount of money that this commitment will now be able to help a number of families.

The music is now available to anyone here: pottershands.com/whatchild/dow… will be doing another Christmas project next year but with more than 3 weeks to sell it

I have a young man in my life right now who doesn't believe in modern day miracles. I said to him, "Look, when anyone gets out of themselves for a moment and helps another it is a miracle! " It took a village of us to make this happen and it was so wonderful to watch the community get involved in helping. This world is not set up for charity, kindness and love. We fight society to even try!


We made so much money that we had some left over after helping three families. God answered my prayers!! I had enough to help more people. We bought blankets and food gift cards with the extra money.



We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas handing out blankets to the homeless and destitute. We all had our own reasons. My 12yr old son says that his heart was broken when he saw a man eating out of the garbage (he was waiting for me during one of my hospital visits.) He says his heart is now warm after delivering blankets and has promised to not let hay fall on the ground, when feeding our horse. The money he saves from wasting hay he wants to put towards a monthly blanket giveaway. We found blankets for $5 and food vouchers for the same. That has become his new project.




My husband and I got Pro-Tools9 (Wheew what a learning curve) and will be making a new jazz/blues project to help our friends who are serving others in Haiti and Cambodia. We will be working hard with Raven's Relief  (International) and Artists4Change  (USA) in this new year. These are charities I started a few years ago. I never thought to use our music to help. I pretty much quit music. Well, I am back and will be doing some stuff with my husband, Taylor Kropp, Orion Wiliams, Kim "Doc" Mompean, and lets not forget the great Phil Keaggy and Troy Luccketta. Who knows who will be involved, but I am certain you will be hearing all about it.

I am loving my life right now. It is everything I ever dreamed of. We have been through hell to get here and I am certain more hard times are ahead, but we do it together, we conquer in love, we be the best we can be and empower others to do the same and we do it all because God gives us the ability, resources, means and desire.

Happy New Year.



One of the amazing new friends I made gave me this lovely flower arrangement. It hangs in my office and brings me great joy!


I have updated some of my Calendars for the year 2011. They make exceptional gifts!

It's a new season. I look forward to what's in store!