I am an artist/graphic designer. I know nothing of how to market myself or my work. Where should I start...

I am an artist/graphic designer. I know nothing of how to market myself or my work. Where should I start? How do I learn the essentials of Marketing, specifically for selling my work online?

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Should have went STEM

Here's a few tips:

Look up succesful marketing people in your area. Network with them (find out if there are meetups (meetup.com) or gatherings or straight up contact them then>), say that you're from out of town, and you're new in the industry, trying to launch in another city (that way you're not potential competition and they're more honest) and that you'd like to hear some tips on how they started out. Something along those lines, I can elaborate if needed.

Also, get a website. Make a portfolio. If you can't web design, pay someone to do it. This will be your most important investment. Find someone to do SEO as well. just look up freelance seo online or whatever, and you'll find plenty of sites. Just check the reviews before hand, and if they seem genuine, use that service.

Finding clients will be the hardest part when you start off. But the thing is, you need to make a good first impression, and that comes with the website, and the portfolio. Doesn't matter if you haven't actually made professional projects before, just put all your best 'prototypes' (logos, whatever you do) up.

That will be 10$ for freelance marketing consulting. You can paypal me at [email protected]

should've learned how 2 gremer

Good day sir.

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For you I recommend
Eben Pagan's Self Made Wealth.

artists often have deep emotional scars when it comes to money. This course is in the link as HustleMuscleRehab
Please don't hustle with your emotional emergency brake on as you'll be subconsciously sabotaging yourself.

Then
earn 1k on the Side 2.0
links in the above as 2kSkekels

Ramit cuts through a lot of the BS a budding entrepreneur will face, wastes of time and money. He focuses on customer facing side that gets money coming in.
Ramit himself is an excellent marketer.

almost forgot

The 12 hour summarized version of the above

Creativelive Money and Business Essentials for the Creative
links in the PinchAPooRacingonDesignatedStreets.txt file

if you're a DDL noob use Jdownloader

Not op, but, thanks for this Chinaman.

I've always appreciated your contributions, and I've, on multiple occasions, copypasted your posts to notepad for future reference.

OP here

Thanks very much for this. I will check these out.

>artists often have deep emotional scars when it comes to money

I certainly don't have an "abundance mindset" if thats what you mean. I've been thinking a lot recently about how rich people manage to make money yet how its such a mystery to me

Shoop cum on this bitch and I'll pay you now..

Making lots of money requires taking high risks.
When you start a company by yourself, you're often putting your familys economical life on the line as well. Oh so your business idea didn't work out? Oh right, well, we'll just take your car, and your house, and you still owe us loads!

how will you pay? crypto? paypal?

A website
A social media profile

artist here
if you are not top 20% artist there is no point in freelancing because the top freelancers are already taking all the jobs, unless your rates are low and your work is good, DO freelance

another thing. is to get an art rep, google it.
or get an inhouse job as a graphic designer.
get a portfolio case (those are expensive) and if you don't have an option to do that make a page on artstation or deviantart, you don't even need to setup a website

and most importantly don't wait for work to come, be ready to relocate for a position if its good enough. do a profile in a website that offers ALL jobs and not just graphic design jobs because employers don't actually look up in portfolios they just put adverts out

PayPal

cont.

if you have a portfolio, make sure you have at least 10 works and every work demonstrates a different skill. more than 10 works is too much, keep it clean as possible with no things like sketches, only finished stuff
apply for bunch of positions a day, make sure you have resume and portfolio already good to go before you do that.
top places you can look into are editorials and newpapers, but every major company needs a Graphic design at some point some make sure to check out all openings

How much would you charge for a political cartoon? I'm guessing it would take you an hour tops

STEM is only for people who want to learn it, do you want people who don't give a shit about it building things? Fucks sake.

Pushing people into STEM ensures we will get average or below average people in the field who are only in it for the money. You should want people who know what the fuck they are doing so we don't all die.

I fucking lose my shit whenever someone pulls the STEM meme, because now I see fucking women and people who can't do any fucking math to save their life getting into it for the money. Fuck off.

Gonna throw this job out to any user if no response...taking bids...

Draw hentai and share it on reddit + plug your website with it or whatever. Not even joking, most spur of the moment decisions happen when your horney.

do "paid art trades".

Draw furry porn for commissions, very lucrative market