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| Review these Frequently Asked Questions
for more information about selling your work
at Arttowngifts.com |
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| We're glad you asked... |
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| What is it
going to cost to exhibit on Arttowngifts.com? |
| Currently we are
waiving the Application Fee. Once we launch the
website, this offer will end and we will charge
new applicants a fee to apply. |
| Regarding your
products, you tell us your wholesale price and
we will set the selling price. We retain the
difference between your wholesale price and the
selling price. You are in control of what you
receive by setting your wholesale price. We cover
the cost of promotion and the website from the
retained amount. Arttowngifts.com contracts for
the shipping and pays the shipper from the amounts
paid by the customer for shipping and our portion
of the difference between your wholesale price
and the selling price. We also handle all aspects
of online customer care giving you more time
to focus on creating instead of selling. Since
we only earn our fee when a sale is made, our
goal is to sell your work.
View
ATG MARKUP in our Participating
Artist Agreement. |
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| Can I promote
my Arttowngifts Studio Site? |
| Yes, we encourage
you to add the website address to all of your printed
materials and press
releases. From time to time we will provide
you with additional printed materials. You can
add announcements to your Studio News page to
tell customers what shows you plan to attend.
You can send emails or post cards to your current
contact list about the site. We will also have
a mailing list where customers can sign up to
be notified when ever you add a new piece to
your Studio. We also provide a mailing list sign
up sheet for you to use at
Art Shows. |
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| Why not just
start my own website and avoid these costs? |
| The secret to
an effective website lies not only in creating
an attractive, workable site but also attracting
the right kind of traffic. To stimulate traffic
that results in sales, Arttowngifts will attract
search engines, spend money on pay-per-clicks
and advertising, utilize other forms of media
to cultivate traffic, and form strategic alliances
with many other groups. By combining efforts
with other artists, you will enjoy a much greater
audience than you could generate on your own.
A greater audience is required in order to experience
significant sales. See the Arttowngifts.com
Difference. |
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| Other websites
offer a free service, why should I use Arttowngifts? |
| The Arttowngifts’ difference
is that we will be spending time and money to
attract customers and showcase your work to a
worldwide audience. Arttowngifts.com. will soon
become known as the best place to find one-of-a-kind
products of all kinds. See the Arttowngifts.com
Difference. |
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| Apply Now |
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| When will you open the site? |
| Our targeted retail
launch date is September
2006. As soon as
we have recruited a significant base of artists,
finished testing the site and completed the site
content, we will open to retail customers. Our
intent is to begin with a broad product offering
with depth within our key categories. By signing
up now, you will be classified as a Founding
Artist for the lifetime of your participation,
which provides you with premium product placement,
prestige and other benefits.
Get in on this ground floor opportunity
to change how art is sold. Apply
Today! |
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| I want to participate
but don't live in a small art town. Does this
matter? |
| Please don't
let your location keep you from applying.
First, don't be mislead by the town names. The
towns mentioned are the main venue but frequently
there are other smaller towns and communities
where the artists make their home. Our goal is
to promote artists in small towns and the towns
themselves, where there are few resources for
promotion and often a shortage of potential customers.
That said, many of our artists do not live within
their respective art towns but are within a reasonable
proximity of one of our featured towns or have
some other relationship with the town. Some sell
their work in these towns or attend art fairs
and other events in the towns. Others grew up
in the town.
Whether you live within proximity of one of our
registered art towns or are within proximity
of an art town that you think should be considered
by us, then we eagerly await your participation! You will have an opportunity to select the town
with which you would like to be associated once
your application has been accepted. |
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| How will
you control the quality of products offered? |
| We will
only seek out artists who are serious about their
work and view it as a profession. We know it
is important to maintain the quality of the Arttowngifts
product lines and have an application review process
in place to insure that we carry products that
will sell and maintain the standard of quality
on our site. See
more About Us. |
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| Can I still sell
my work through Galleries and Art Fairs? |
| Yes, you can still
sell your work any where you like. You only have
to tell us to remove a product if it becomes
unavailable for purchase. You can even add another
way to increase your earnings by sharing your
contact list with Arttowngifts.com. See
our Referral Program. |
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| Apply Now |
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| Do I send
my art pieces to you to sell? |
| No. We sell your
work online using product descriptions and photographs.
Once we have a buyer for you, we will notify
you via e-mail to package the work (we will provide
packing instructions along with Arttowngifts
branded labels) and you send it off to the buyer.
We collect the payment through the website at
the time the order is place. Once the item has
been received by the customer, we send you payment
for the item. We pay the shipper. |
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| Can I sell
all of my different forms of artwork? |
| Yes! Your participation
will enable you to sell all of your work as long
as it meets our quality standards. In fact, we
encourage a variety of different art expressions.
We seek to please all of our customers’ tastes. |
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| Can I Mail My Photos
to You Instead of Submitting them Online? |
Yes! Please enclose
a self-addressed stamped envelop with enough
postage to cover the cost of returning your photos.
Our address is:
912
Alder Street, Sandpoint, ID 83864 |
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| I already have a website. Will Arttowngifts link to my website? |
| Not at this time.
Since we allow artists to sell their work on
their own, you can imagine the problems we would
have if we linked directly to sites where
the work could be sold without helping to pay
the expenses of getting the buyer to the site.
We’d soon be out of business. Instead, we provide
you with a mini-site where you can display all
of your work. You can opt to maintain your own
private website but we will not provide a link
to it. You will, however, be allowed to link
to our site from yours. In return, we offer
an Affiliate Program to reward you for any customers
we receive from your site. See
our Referral Programs. |
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| Apply Now |
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| What if I don’t have a computer? Can I still participate? |
| Computer
access is required for all order notifications,
which are via email, and for order
processing through our web based Artist Intranet
we call Artist's
Dashboard. If you do not have to have
a computer, you will still need to have regular
access to an e-mail program that you check regularly.
You must be able to receive our notification
of a customer’s order and act on it immediately
using our web-based Artist's Dashboard. Many
cell phones offer email and web access. Lastly,
you will need access
to a printer to print the shipping labels we
transmit to you through the web-based Artist’s
Dashboard. If you do not have a printer, you
can access the Internet and print your labels
at a public library, office supply,
quick print shop or even some Internet Cafes.
So yes, with minimal creativity you could participate
without your own computer. And in so doing you
may be able to purchase your own computer in
no time through your increased sales! We even
have a special arrangement with Toshiba for
you to purchase a complete computer system, scanner,
camera and printer at a discount. For more about
your role as an artist, view
What is Expected of An Artist. |
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| Why should I sell online? |
| There has been
and continues to be a dramatic increase in
Internet Shopping due in part to the increasing
availability of broadband Internet connections
which offer much faster page loading. With these
faster connections, downloading high quality
images to display works of art is now main stream.
By tapping into the online retail market, artists
can expose their art to prospective shoppers
world-wide, significantly increasing their chances
of making sales. The challenge becomes how
to tell the world about your site. That is where
Arttowngifts.com can help. By pooling resources
with artists from across the US, we can afford
to promote the site effectively. |
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| Okay, I’m sold. How do I get my work displayed on Arttowngifts.com? |
| Complete
our application
form. We will notify you by return email
of your acceptance and provide detailed instructions
for how to proceed. Apply
Now |
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| Who Pays for Shipping? |
| We maintain accounts
with the shipping companies and prepay the shipping
from the amounts collected from the customer.
In most cases, the buyer is charged a shipping
amount unless we are running a free or discounted
shipping promotion. This Shipping Charge is collected
at the time the order is placed online. The Customer
is also charged for the cost of return shipping
if they decide they do not want to keep a product,
unless they receive the wrong product or the
item was damaged. The only time the seller would
be responsible for shipping is if the piece delivered
was not as described on the site or they provided
inaccurate weight or measurements. |
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| If I list
with you, do I have to sell products? Can I just
have my art on your site in the artist studio
section? |
| No, since the
primary purpose of the site is to make the works
of art available to our retail customers, all
of the products displayed must be available for
sale either as Stock or Custom Order Products.
See Definitions
in the Participating Artist Agreement. |
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Make Arttowngifts work for you,
apply to become a participating artist today! |
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