[TheForge] RE: making a living

[Mike Linn]

I have a friend (Dan T. knows him) who does ALOT of copper work. He also 
has a BA.. His advice to me was to price your work in the normal fashion of 
time/materials plus your markup, this dictates your "wholesale" price. If 
your working a show yourself then you mark up that "wholesale"  by the same 
amount that the gallery would mark it up. Think of it as paying yourself 
for the marketing time and effort. Your wholesale price pays you for your 
metalworking efforts and the mark-up is for the other activities.

mike

At 11:14 AM 7/14/02 -0700, you wrote:
>No, it's not as
>much $ as retail, but I know what it takes to maintain a retail presence and
>I just can't manage it at this time. Would be fun in the future, maybe!
>My 2 cents (that's a penny wholesale, and you got it for nothing)
>Andy G.
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