1.What is thecardartists.com? Thecardartists.com is a social networking community for artistsartist's and poet's , that promotes artists and poets.We offer artists potential revenue streams that they can pursue in one place. Artists market their work in the form of e-cards, greeting cards, sales of original work and wholesale opportunities.
Poets can post poems as products that can be sold with any image.Poems and prose can be posted in any language.
Pricing, profit, invoicing with logo and company information are all controlled by the artists. Everything is built around our artists maximizing their profit potential.
Thecardartists is built around a social networking community where artists and writers can market their work, organize friends, families and business contacts in one place. post videos of art openings, poetry readings or insert into you blog.
2.How do you support artists?
We don’t write books on how to market your work or sell your art on the internet. We found more books than actual opportunities. Thecardartists supports artists by providing a no-cost solution too market and profit from art on the internet. Artists make 60% to 75% of all profit !!
3.What makes thecardartists.com different?
You have a chance to make real money!!!
We give artists and writers complete control of everything!
Pricing, profit, branding of your company,invoicing with your logo and company information attached. Everything is built around you maximizing your profit potential.
We're building a social networking community so that you can market your work, organize your friends, families and business contacts all in one place. Customize your url to better promote yourself and your work.
4. How mach can we make?
Artists at thecardartists can expect a profit of $1.32 profit on a card selling for $2.50! Artists and poets set their own prices for each work posted as a product. At Greeting Card Universe.com you make 56¢ a card! Check the facts Q15:
Thecardartists.com charges a set printing fee! Anything over that is paid to the artists and poets.
When artists create e-card groups to distribute and promote their work and charge a subscription fee for membership they receive 75% of the fee! The more people that join to send e-cards the more money you make.
Artists can open their own art gallery to promote selling of their original works. If we process the order then we charge a 2.5% processing fee.
We fill wholesale orders from retailers too! Got a local store who wants to carry your line of greeting cards? Tell them to order online and we’ll fill the order! 100-10000! Compare Cafepress.com or Greeting Card Universe.com
5.What's your quality like?
Thecardartists founders are artists too! So we understand the quality that artists expect in all things. We know what you’re looking for in print quality. We print all greeting cards on heavy 85 lbs card stock. We offer only semi- gloss or matte finish. We offer customers a 100% money back guarantee! With no charge back to the artists, if we send out a product that’s returned because of quality, we eat the cost! Our loss!
6.How long has your site been around ?
We started building thecardartists.com 16 months, but ran into programming problems with the open source model we were using. Other technically issues were overcome and here we are!
7.Does it cost too join? Are there monthly fee’s?
Nothing to Join! No monthly Fees!
8. Who determines the prices for my work? How much can I make as an artists?
At thecardartists.com the artist sets the price for each card! So the amount of profit you make is up to you!
Thecardartists.com charges a set fee of $1.18 per card. So if you charge $3.00 per card you would receive $1.82 profit! Any amount over the set fee of $1.18 is paid to the artists minus PayPal 2.9% transaction fee's that PayPal charges.
The amount of money you make will depend on how much you market your cardartists shop!
9.How much can I make as a Poet?
Thecardartists is one of the few places that offers a poet the opportunity to post work in any language and receive a revenue stream with the added benefit of marketing their name beyond the local media.
Poets can charge a set fee to reprint their poem in a greeting card!
10. Why does the Visual artists have to give up 20% of there profit?
Poems and prose posted in different languages gives the visual artists a better chance of a sale! No other site offers the shopper the choice of a different poem for any one image. This by default allows the buyer a chance to personalize the same card to 10 different people in ten different languages.
The world buys greeting cards why limited ourselvers. By giving the poet a percentage of profit by default opens up a new world of possibilities.
11.What support services do you offer to the artists?
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We handle all printing, packaging and shipping to your customer through the United States Post Office and soon Fedex Ground.
- We provide customer service for your customers.
- We provide your customers with a 100% Money Back Guarantee
- We promote thecardartists.com site through press releases and advertistment.
- We provide the site built around your needs because we’re artists too.
- We provide you with every tool you need to promote and profit from your art .
12. I'm just kinda lost what do I do?
To post your art or poem or prose:
1. Register as a store admin.
2. Follow the instructions for posting a product
3. Look for Product Description: This is a large Text Box. In this box copy and paste your poem or prose and it will be printed inside your card.
You will also see a box for pricing. Enter the amount you would like to charge. Make sure that you choose the correct money symbol.
You may charge whatever price you wish.
13. What about Privacy?
Thecardartists does not share anything with anybody at anytime, period.
Read Privacy Policy
14.What about copyrights?
Licensing Your Content to Thecardartists.com. You will retain ownership of the Content that you upload to the Website. You hereby grant to Thecardartists.com a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, nonexclusive, right and license to use such Content, in all media existing now or created in the future, as Thecardartists.com deems necessary to enable you to use the Create & Buy Service to create, produce and purchase Products. Thecardartists.com may sublicense the rights that you grant it in this Section to a third party subcontractor only for purposes of providing the Thecardartists.com Service, processing your order, and producing and shipping your Products. read more
15. What if I decide to leave thecardartists.com?
Because there are products associated with each account it may take up to 48 hours to delete an account!
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