Steve Conan Trustrum
Explorer
No, I'm quite comfortable calling it your mistake.Let's not call it MY mistake. And simply a point you'd like to counter.
I'm not talking about an artist selling stock art instead of singularly. So you've missed a big point I was making.
I'm talking about the influx of NEW artists willing to sell below standard rate or for free/exposure.
They're the ones (like Sony making a special, cheaper TV for Walmart, causing the TV industry to cut rates dramatically) who are potentially hurting the professional artist industry by forcing a drop of the expected price range.
Because you mistakenly think that new artists (or any creative talent or most jobs, for that matter) selling their services at reduced rates to gain market penetration is anything new.
Start by selling cheap, develop your brand, increase price once you have the market's attention is not exactly a new economic model. It's one of the foundations of just about any competitive market.