Some background on me: I built a niche clothing business before and sold it. I'll admit ... I was a bit lucky with my site taking off, but nevertheless learned a lot of lessons on how to be successful.
... so I gave up on forcing my art to be "fastlane" and have shifted focus to something that has:
I'm still currently validating different ideas, and will officially launch something soon.
But in the meantime: after over a year of creating artwork, I'm now sitting on over 100 scanned images of my paintings. I sell prints of these paintings (which bring in a nice passive income stream) and am happy with that. In fact, I kind of wanted to stop there.
However, it only makes sense to also put my paintings on shirts.
Why?
Well, the main reason ... because it's really easy to do. It takes about 2-3 days to launch a "clothing business" once you have the artwork.
The second reason: because people have been asking for shirts.
And the third reason: because I've done it before and can likely double the passive income from my paintings.
Note: This won't be a lot of money, but will be 99% passive, slowly scalable, and leveraging an asset that already exists.
So if you're artist or a designer, then feel free to follow along. In my next post I'll outline the steps to launching a "clothing business".
The biggest lesson being: Just F*cking start. Put yourself out there. If you don't start with something, then you'll never grow into anything.
So after selling that business, I graduated college, and got into making art (started seriously about 6 months ago). Since then, I've relegated art to a hobby for two reasons:
- There's 300,000 fine artists in the U.S. (supply far outweighs demand ... meaning value created is minimal)
- There's a lack of control (in other businesses you pick up the phone and cold call ... with art you attend events, create great work, slowly build your reputation, and wait for that tipping point)
... so I gave up on forcing my art to be "fastlane" and have shifted focus to something that has:
- A) Less competition; and
- B) Creates more value
I'm still currently validating different ideas, and will officially launch something soon.
But in the meantime: after over a year of creating artwork, I'm now sitting on over 100 scanned images of my paintings. I sell prints of these paintings (which bring in a nice passive income stream) and am happy with that. In fact, I kind of wanted to stop there.
However, it only makes sense to also put my paintings on shirts.
Why?
Well, the main reason ... because it's really easy to do. It takes about 2-3 days to launch a "clothing business" once you have the artwork.
The second reason: because people have been asking for shirts.
And the third reason: because I've done it before and can likely double the passive income from my paintings.
Note: This won't be a lot of money, but will be 99% passive, slowly scalable, and leveraging an asset that already exists.
So if you're artist or a designer, then feel free to follow along. In my next post I'll outline the steps to launching a "clothing business".
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