Re: another video of Michael Flasch's photos

Charles E Hardwidge wrote:
"philo" <philo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK thanks for the reply here.

Well the stuff on the video is Mike's older stuff...

as I mentioned it was all done by his cousin and Mike really did not have
any input...I think his cousin was simply looking for something to do with
his spare time.

Anyway Mike is now doing photo-montages and he's getting a lot of positive
comments.

My fiancé suggested to him that his prices are more than the market will
bear...so on this last go around he's made some smaller images...
his current exhibit consists of approx 11" X 14" with a price of $400
(framed of course)

Since he's at least got a name locally, he has been getting $800 and up
for his larger pieces...but of course at that price...not too many sales.

Recently the Gallery Grand did a fund raiser and we were pleased that 14
pieces of art sold that evening .

After the show we saw that all sales were of artwork framed well and ready
to go....and all the sales were of art $500 or less...
so we told Mike to keep it all under $500.

Mike, as is the case of most artists does not have good marketing
skills... but my fiancé has a sales background...we we are leaving the
talking to her.

Anyway...we figure other art markets such as Chicago, NY and Los Angeles
may very well be worht looking into.

Engineers can be perfectionist and bad at marketing as well.

A better focus on the product and marketing can help, along with management
and finance. It looks like you're getting a lock on that.

Better to start slowly and end well, eh? :-)



All I can say is one must simply keep trying!
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