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Seminars and Workshops

"...you dramatically improved our sales during a recession, how can we ever say thanks enough?"
( response from a recent client - Gallery owner.)

"...I really feel like I have the "tools" I was missing, to go out and sell my art now, Thank you so much!"
(response after a recent lecture I gave to an Artist and Artisan group on shows and promotions)

"...I used what you told me to do to sell my art, and OH MY GOSH, IT WORKED! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
(response from an artist and art show participant)

Thank you, fellow artists, for taking time to visit the www.riki-arts.com & H.W. Mangold Galleries web site.

To further support the Art community and as a supplement to my lectures, seminars and upcoming book on the nuts and bolts of consistently selling your own art , I am in the process of creating a free access "Sales and Promotions for Artists" section in this site that will give you monthly articles on:

• selling and promoting your art,
• creating art,
• artist oriented art links.
• Postings of all my;
  lectures,
  seminars,
  book signings as well as my art exhibitions and receptions
• art gallery events and Silicon Valley art organization events, and shows

(Please sign our guest book for notification of events) Guest Book

so forgive us if this area is rough around the edges, it is under construction and is currently being filled with exciting new art info and articles.

NEWS:
Look for the first in a series "how to" books just for artists selling and presenting their own work - "How to sell your OWN Art" series
Just for artists: A guide to successful selling at shows, fairs and open studio.
Release Date : 2005

Upcoming Seminars Lectures and Workshops:

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING A WORKSHOP on this or other related topics Please sign our guest book, and add a note as to your area of interest... Guest Book -

Events can book up quickly, and those artists who have expressed interest, are always the first to notified. There is no charge, or commitment, for joining the invitation list for my lectures and workshops, we just want to give you, the artists who are motivated enough to seek us out, the first opportunities to join us for these unique and inspirational events.

If you want more info please send an email to arthelp@riki-arts.com. Every artist is important, and it may take a few days, but I promise to answer your message personally.

These events are for you, so if there is a topic you would like to see addressed, please share it with us! It may wind up in my book or in a Workshop. We are stronger together!

About Riki ...
Riki is a professional artist whose work is featured in prominent galleries around the Bay Area. She is the owner of H.W. Mangold Galleries, fine art publishing, and is a writer and motivational speaker, specializing in training people how to sell art.

Riki has over 20 years of experience in successfully selling and promoting the creations of some of the most important period and contemporary artists and artisans of the 19th and 20th century. Having been, for all intensive purposes, raised in the back of an antique, jewelry, and Fine Art Gallery, she went on to a successful career working as a Gallery Sales Manager, Art Consultant, and Sales Trainer in some of the most prestigious retail art environments on west coast; from art fairs, to top of the line antique shows, to what was once the largest contemporary Art Gallery chain in the United States.

Riki Nelson has represented and promoted mediums that range from original fine art oil paintings, to sculpture, craft, jewelry, contemporary art glass, and period antiques as well as limited edition reproductions.

When she began selling her art and promoting her own art career, she found herself inundated by requests from artists seeking help with their own art careers.

Because of Riki's unique background as an Art Gallery sales trainer and sales manager , promotions manager and art consultant, AND a professional artist ...

She now has art selling techniques, and an effective method for sharing and teaching those techniques with other artists, down to a science.

Riki's information packed, insightful and motivational lectures, workshops, seminars, and private consulting services are getting rave reviews from artists of all backgrounds. She is also in the process of creating, by request, a comprehensive book on the subject of artists selling and presenting their own work.

"...Unlike other consultants in my field, who offer mostly the same solution for every artist and art seller, I will help you to discover and maximize what makes you and your business special and unique, as your creativity is often your greatest, and most overlooked, strength. I can then help you to integrate these attributes into proven methods of marketing your business and art, and/or train you and your staff in advanced communication skills, selling skills, and promotion techniques.

Whether you are a gallery owner who wishes to improve your promotional abilities and your staff's selling skills, or you are an Artist trying to market yourself and your work, the skills you will learn here will be invaluable to you "

Offered here are; lectures, workshops & sales training modules, and private by-the-hour consulting for ; artists groups, individual artists, co-op galleries, and privately owned fine art galleries.

Examples of topics include:
Shows and Promotional events
Developing and Working a Client base
Spectacular Sales techniques - the Zen of asking the client to buy.
Creative Power - your hidden assets as a selling artist
Sales is not a four letter word - How to close art sales
And other related topics.

"...One of the most over looked keys to success in any art business is the fine tuning and enhancement of your existing attributes - as one client put it, '...The devil's in the details...' ".

If you're not sure where to start, Give me a call or send me an email, remember, when it comes to promoting and selling your own art, you are only doing it wrong, if you are not doing at all.

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If you have a Gallery - I can come in as consultant and do a custom analysis training program for you, or, we can begin with one of several introduction packages that address the most commonly under utilized selling and marketing tools:

"For Galleries: Cultivating Clients and \Working the Floor":

• Turning a qualified "looker" into a valued client
  
• How to most effectively "work the floor"
  
• Getting "client cards" and "wish lists" from potential and existing clients, and how to utilize these lists and cards.
  
• Creating and closing sales

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3 Day Intensive, focusing on "Working , Developing, and expanding a client base", and "How to Successfully use the Telephone to Close Sales" and "How to Maximize Promotions" (amount of material covered will vary depending time spent on individual topics)

• We will cover the details of how to use the phone,
  
• How to put together custom mailers,
  
• The steps to putting together a "sale" from phone calls and photos
  
• Steps to making the most of promotions -
  1. shows,
  2. mail campaigns,
  3. new releases etc.

I can be contacted by email at mail@riki-arts.com
or call 408 353 5344 and leave a voice mail and the best time to call.
( This initial phone consultation is free)