1 Image. 45 Mediums. 10% More Every Year. This Is What Print On Demand Can Do To An Art Business
The Art Marketing Podcast
There's a town in Texas called Round Top. Population eighty-seven. One square mile. And in that town, an artist named sold a single painting for $141,500. (We toured his gallery on YouTube — link's right there in his name. Watch it before or after this episode.) That's the headline. Here's the part nobody tells you: he then sold roughly $60,000 more in reproductions of that same image. Same painting. Different mediums, different sizes, different price points. One image, two hundred grand. That is not luck. That is not a once-in-a-lifetime fluke. That is a system. And the same system is what...
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Why Your Website Will Still Be Working in 2055
The Art Marketing Podcast
There's an artist I talk to every Wednesday. Could be 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s. Brilliant. 50 years of work. Galleries gone. No website, no email list, no story they can tell in their sleep — just the same panicked question every week: what do I do on social media? I want to tell you about them before you become one of them. There's still time. That's the whole point of this episode. The macro is brutal — Iran, gas, frozen real estate, no photography demand, AI panic. That panic is real. But on a 30-year horizon? It's noise. The basics in 2013 are the basics in 2026 are the basics in 2055....
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A Greek Warship, a Horse Named Sally, and the Mother's Day Sale You're About to Run
The Art Marketing Podcast
Mother's Day is 18 days out. At the end of the last episode, I promised you a refreshed anatomy of a properly run sale. This is that episode. Two things today: how a properly run sale actually works, and why omnichannel marketing is the whole game — today, 30 years ago, and 25 years from now. The rules are the rules. By the end, you'll have the playbook for Mother's Day and every sale you run for the rest of your life. In this episode: Why attention in 2026 is 15 tiny flashes, not one long read The Trireme: why coordinated oars beat more oars every time The 20+ marketing surfaces you...
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Art-Selling Holidays You're Sitting Out (Mother's Day Is First)
The Art Marketing Podcast
Stop chasing shiny objects. The rules of selling art haven't changed in a century — you've just been ignoring them. In this episode, I break down why artists who follow basic business fundamentals outsell artists who chase every new platform, and I lay out the art-selling holiday calendar you should be following right now. A buddy of mine sold thousands of photo books. Last week he texted me: "Sold two pieces for $65,000." Where did those customers come from? They bought books first. It's not some secret. It's just the rules of business. Nothing new under the sun. In this episode: Why...
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Spring Clean Your Art Business: Cut the Dead Weight, Double the Revenue
The Art Marketing Podcast
Your art business needs a spring cleaning — and not the kind where you reorganize your studio. If the only thing you sell is wall art at $500+, you're leaving most of your potential customers on the table. This episode breaks down how to restructure your product lineup, why low-ticket items are your secret weapon, and why RIGHT NOW is the moment to act. In this episode: Why a $2,000 Facebook ad campaign got zero purchases (and what it teaches you about your lineup) The price ladder framework: three tiers every artist needs How selling a $40 phone case leads to a $5,000 original sale...
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The Algorithm Doesn't Care About Your Art. Lets fix that.
The Art Marketing Podcast
Most artists treat social media like a gallery wall. Art, art, art, art. The algorithm doesn't care. It rewards shares, watch time, and laughs. This episode is about charging up your engagement battery with entertaining content so the algorithm actually delivers your art to people who want to see it. In this episode: Why the algorithm ignores your art posts (and what it rewards instead) What a meme actually is — and why artists are already halfway there How a 77-year-old museum curator got 9 million views with Gen Z slang The Marco Rubio couch meme: proof you don't even have to try Free...
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Your Messy Desk Gets More Likes Than Your Masterpiece: The Art Marketing Secret 5 Million People Already Know
The Art Marketing Podcast
You've seen their art — but have you ever seen where they make it? In this episode I break down why showing your creative space is one of the most powerful (and underused) content strategies in art marketing — and I give you the exact prompts, frameworks, and email copy to start doing it today. When we launched a "Where I Create" community inside Art Helper, something unexpected happened. Artists started sharing their real creative spaces — messy desks, kitchen tables, garage studios — and the stories came flooding out. It was the easiest on-ramp to storytelling I've ever seen. In this...
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The Artist's Guide to Instagram Live (Even If You Hate Being on Camera)
The Art Marketing Podcast
In a world where AI can fake everything, going live is the one thing you can't fake. And almost nobody's doing it. 100 million people watch Instagram Live every day, but the biggest studies in the industry don't even bother tracking it because so few creators use it. That's a massive opportunity hiding in plain sight. In this episode, I break down why Instagram Live is the most underutilized marketing tool for artists, how to get started with just your phone, and the advanced tools that let you level up when you're ready. In this episode: Why Live is the ultimate "proof of real" in the AI age...
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How to Know What Will Sell Before You Create It
The Art Marketing Podcast
Chris Rock performs 50 times in a room of 50 people before he ever steps on a Netflix stage. What if you applied that same system to your art business? Most artists post their work and hope someone buys it. That's like walking on stage at the Apollo with untested material. In this episode, I break down exactly how the best stand-up comedians in the world test, iterate, and refine their material — and how that same system tells you what will sell before you even create it. Plus a 10-week challenge to put it all into practice. In this episode: How Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, and Kevin Hart...
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The Coffee Shop Test: Why Your Social Media Is Failing
The Art Marketing Podcast
If you sat down with a stranger at a coffee shop, you'd never just say "art, art, buy my art" for 30 minutes. So why is that your entire social media strategy? In this episode, Patrick breaks down why most artists and photographers are failing on social media — and it has nothing to do with the algorithm. It's because you're one-dimensional. All art, no human. In 2026, AI can fake everything on a screen. The only thing it can't fake is you. Your story, your scars, your weird hobbies, your real life. That's the competitive advantage now. In this episode: The coffee shop test — would you...
info_outlineNorthern California oil painter Terry Sauve joins the Art Marketing Podcast to share how she's crushing it in what many are calling a tough economic year. Terry breaks down her path to a record-breaking $276,000 in
sales — including $28,000 from her website alone and $23,000 in print sales. She talks about starting over at 29 after her mom said "I always thought you'd be an artist," training at the Academy of Art in San Francisco
with masters like Brian Blood and Craig Nelson, and the slow-and-steady grind that replaced her decade-long wait to "be discovered." Terry gets real about selling $25 matted prints that brought tears to collectors'
eyes, saying yes to more shows during uncertain times, and why the path to success isn't a meteoric rise — it's doing "the next right thing" over and over again.
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Links Mentioned
- https://superwhisper.com/ — AI-powered voice-to-text for Mac & iPhone. Offline, private, and works anywhere you type.
- https://willowvoice.com/ — Voice dictation that actually works. Speak naturally, auto-formats text, removes filler words.
- https://www.instagram.com/terry_sauve/ — Follow Terry's luminous landscape paintings
- https://www.terrysauve.com/ — Terry's official website with originals and prints