There are so many ways that the gallery – advisor relationship can go wrong. Art advisors can be a valuable partner to both collectors and your gallery business. Approach a working with an art advisor as a gallery partner not a competitor.  Learn how to get a partnership off to the best start.

There is a trick to how you should structure your sales letters to keep the recipient’s attention and best appeal to their emotions.   Here we discuss that structure and the two key elements your gallery’s sales message should focus on. I also give a few other tips to hook your art buyer with your letter and keep them moving through the sales cycle.

Changes are needed to refresh the outdated practices of the current gallery business model. We are in an age where there are significantly more sources to purchase artworks and a decline in art connoisseurship.  Here are few observations of where the gallery sector needs to evolve for the future.

Your art gallery’s insurance is not the place to cut corners. Properly insuring your art gallery business can get complicated depending on your needs.  Here let’s look at some considerations you may want to account for when choosing for your gallery’s insurance. 

Use this spreadsheet to record all your gallery’s cash going out and coming in.  All the formulas are set up for you. This budget template will help you break your expenditures out into specific categories so you can identify opportunities to reallocate funds to better align with your business growth priorities if needed. 

Use this workbook at the end of every quarter to capture your accomplishments and setbacks.  This workbook also provides a simple template for planning the most pressing priorities to keep you on track for realizing your annual goals.