Barney Davey

How to Sell Art to Interior Designers: Learn New Ways to Get Your Work into the Interior Design Market and Sell More Art Barney Davey

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-170) and index.; Discover easy ways to locate, approach and sell art to interior designers, corporate art consultants, and other residential and commercial design professionals--Cover. Biographical Note: After retiring from the road, Dick Harrison began helping other artists by creating his Sales Tips for Artists program. It has been formatted as a podcast, on CDs and soon to be in print format. Dick's personal experiences and growing success for 20+ years as an artist's rep provides keen insights on the best way artists can find, approach and get art sold to interior designers. Barney brings his experiences working in a gallery that catered to interior designers. It was located in a design center. He shows artists how to prospect design centers and adds in-depth information on how to create lasting relationships with corporate art buyers. Artists will find a chapter on how to sell art that offers tips and techniques that make the price of the book worthwhile for any artist. Publisher Marketing: Discover new, easy ways to sell art to interior designers. For visual artists, learning how to get their work sold in the design market can either become the focus of how to make a great living as an artist, or they can use the design market as a way to create a secondary source of income. The authors, Dick Harrison and Barney Davey, have extensive backgrounds in selling art, working with designers, gallery experience and advising fine artists on how to make more money and be more profitable. For more than 20 years, Dick made a very comfortable living selling as an artist's rep selling art throughout his home state of Florida. Barney worked for Decor, a magazine for art and picture framing retailers, for nearly 20 years. During that time he was fortunate to work with many of the top selling artists and art print publishers worldwide. Both Dick and Barney are published authors, and art marketing bloggers who have helped thousands of artists learn how to operate their businesses efficiently and get their art sold effectively. This book is a culmination of nearly 50 years of art sales and marketing experience. It is jam-packed with useful information, ideas and advice that any artist can use to become more successful, particularly by selling their work to interior design professionals. Contributor Bio:  Davey, Barney Barney Davey is the president and founder of Bold Star Communications. It is a marketing communications and consulting firm with an emphasis on art marketing. Since 1988, Barney has been intimately involved in the art business. Over the decades Barney has personally consulted with hundreds of the industry's top selling independent artists, photographers and art publishers regarding their art marketing and advertising strategies. Through his blogs, books, workshops and consulting, he has helped thousands of visual artists improve the business side of their art career. In addition to his art marketing consulting, Davey does public speaking, conducts live, and webinar workshops on art and Internet marketing. He is the author and publisher of How to Profit in the Art Print Market 2nd Edition, The Zen of Selling Art, and How to Price Digital Fine Art Prints. Davey also publishes the highly trafficked and well-regarded www. ArtBusinessBlog.com, a business blog for visual artists and photographers. It has had more than 500 art business and art marketing posts published on the site since its inception in 2005. Learn more at www.barneydavey.comContributor Bio:  Harrison, Dick After retiring from the road, Dick Harrison began helping other artists by creating his Sales Tips for Artists program. It has been formatted as a podcast, on CDs and soon to be in print format. Dick's personal experiences and growing success for 20+ years as an artist's rep provides keen insights on the best way artists can find, approach and get art sold to interior designers. Barney brings his experiences working in a gallery that catered to interior designers. It was located in a design center. He shows artists how to prospect design centers and adds in-depth information on how to create lasting relationships with corporate art buyers. Artists will find a chapter on how to sell art that offers tips and techniques that make the price of the book worthwhile for any artist.