Art Marketing, Cara and Christi Style

So Cara and I have been trying to sell art for about 6 years now, the last few of which were in an economic decline. Lucky for us, and due to our continued appearances at many new shows and gaining new fans, our sales have continued to grow, but ever so slowly! We consider ourselves sucessful, but in reality we are barely just so! If it were not for our extemely frugal spending, driving old, junky looking cars, growing much of our own food, going without health insurance and so forth, we would be starving on the streets! So, we have decided that it is time to start maketing! We tend to learn things the hard way, by trial and error, and are always trying to reinvent the wheel! So, some of the information we post here as we discover it will probably be embarassing to us and funny to some of you! We hope this will be helpful to others who are marketing, and entertaining to those who already knew the obvious things that we didn't!