This guide walks you through the Market Intelligence tool and how it can be used to search for and find your insights about the art market.
Who can use this feature?
To find out if this feature is included in your plan please visit this page or get in touch with our team on hello@artlogic.net to request further information.
If you signed up to Artlogic before July 2023 you can visit this page to view our previous plans. Should you have further questions please contact our Support team on support@artlogic.net.
What is Market Intelligence?
Market Intelligence allows you to record your knowledge and insights about the art market. It gives you the ability to log your knowledge of art market activity (inbound sales, potential sales and/or buying opportunities).
The feature includes two related sections in your Artlogic database:
- Market Intelligence - Database > Marketing > Market Intelligence
- Researched Artworks - Database > Artworks > Views > Researched Artworks
Market Intelligence
Start recording information
Go to Marketing > Market Intelligence > click New record at the bottom left of the page. This will open up the edit screen, where you will find the following options.
Contact(s)
- Select an existing contact record from the Add contact/s field.
- Or create a new contact by selecting New contact record.
Type
Select the Type for this Market Intelligence record. Type is the nature of the relationship between the selected contact(s) and the selected artwork(s). For example, a contact: 'Is interested in', 'Owns', 'Offered to us', etc.
Date
Select the date that you learned about this information.
Artist/Artwork(s)
You can select either one artist or artworks you wish to record this information about.
- Select an artist record from the Add Artist/works field.
- Or turn on the switch Add individual artworks to select existing artworks from the Add Artist/works field.
- You can also create new artwork records clicking on New artwork record.
In order to not overwhelm your Main inventory with these new artwork entries, all artworks created in Market Intelligence have the checkbox Market intelligence only ticked by default, which will add them to the Researched artworks section.
Importance
Set the level of importance for this Market Intelligence record.
Sales consultant
The person who sourced the information or in charge of the relationship.
Notes
Add general notes about your intelligence. You are able to add more notes in the future. You are also able to add notes to individual artworks by selecting Add notes to individual works.
Searching Market Intelligence
Browse your knowledge base
Marketing > Market Intelligence
You are able to search through your Market Intelligence by clicking Find at the bottom and choose either Artworks or Contacts. You are also able to perform an Advanced search or filtered search on your Market Intelligence to narrow your found records.