As Artists we can be islands to ourselves, or we can team up and form alliances that break through the social media fog.
The combined following of even 10 Artists can add up to 100,000-1 Million followers. Through synergistic posting of a collective blog each artist has access to, and with each artist posting the entire collectives work, cross exposure can benefit each of those artists 10 times over.
Optionally said artists can also move all their work through a single retail vendor. Drawing in each others web hits to create even more cross exposure for the entire collective. This has the advantage of also lifting the online retail operations chores off an Artists back freeing up their time for more productivity.
The primary retail hub can list items online and handle the orders. Artists can ship stock to the retailer for direct shipping, or hold items and Drop Ship them out when orders come through.
I have seen others do this already. From Sticker Crews to Designer Toy Customizers to web comic artists. By all means find such a collective, or team up with your associates and start one.
Underground Blend is such a blog and Discordia Culture Shop is such a Retail hub. Most of our partner Artists have ads on our websites and their sites cross back to us, creating yet another level of cross exposure.
Discordia Culture Shop also takes everyone's goods, in hand anyway, out to conventions and other pop-up engagements. Yet another method of public exposure for the entire collective.
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