Are you good at painting (or maybe you paint yourself) and decided to help poor artists earn a little extra money by opening a salon? Leave this idea for the time being. The works of unrecognized geniuses at all times diverged poorly, especially if they ask for a price comparable to the auction one.
Instructions
Step 1
Research the demand in your city for art products, particularly paintings. Calculate the approximate cost of paintings based not on their artistic value, but on the possibility of selling them later. In addition, find out what paintings are most often ordered from artists by eminent and not so townspeople.
Step 2
Register an individual entrepreneur (this is quite enough to open an art salon), get an extract from USRIP and Roskomstat codes. Register KKM.
Step 3
Come up with a name for your salon. If you are going to devote your time and money to local authors, the name should be associated with your city. If you are going to do custom work, come up with a catchy, but not devoid of sophistication, name.
Step 4
Find a room for your future salon. It must be located in the city center on the first floor of a historic building. As a last resort, rent a space in a shopping center, but also on the ground floor and with an outdoor display case to showcase your work. The main thing is that it has compartments for the showroom, office and possibly for a gift shop that will help you survive in difficult times of formation. Design the room appropriately. Get all the necessary opinions from the sanitary and fire services.
Step 5
If you're looking to fill low-cost orders with a large format printer, buy or rent one. Do not forget about a sufficient supply of consumables. However, if the works of artists will be of interest to buyers, you can also start accepting orders for original works.
Step 6
Sign contracts with private entrepreneurs and handicraft factories for the supply of souvenirs. Usually, the owners of art salons are well acquainted with private traders who do not want to advertise their activities in the tax office. Document their work, as well as the work of local artists, taking your legal interest for the services of an intermediary.
Step 7
Hire salespeople who are not only good at painting, but who really know how to trade. Be sure to conclude an agreement with the security. After all, who knows, maybe you have in your gallery the works of the second Picasso.
Step 8
Be sure to arrange a lavish salon opening ceremony. If you are almost the first swallow of this type of entrepreneurship in your city, then it is very possible that the mayor himself will honor this event with his presence. And there, profitable orders are just a stone's throw away. If you are going to be crowded in a number of similar shops, then do not skimp and spend wisely on advertising the salon on the Internet and on television, selecting the best works of local artists and setting prices for orders within reasonable limits.
