How do buyers find my artwork?
I’ve tried really hard this year to boost my social media efforts to get my prints in front of potential buyers but this analysis suggests it was all for nothing!
Category: “How-to” articles
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Making money from self portraits
Well, not exactly portraits! But I have earned quite a bit over the years using myself as a model. I wrote this as a guest post for the Xpiks blog. Xpiks is a combined keywording, describing, uploading system that combines many features that makes uploading an easier task. You can find the article about “Making money selling photos of yourself” here.
Gaining followers for your blog posts
Finding an audience for fine art photography and prints is never easy. Getting people to subscribe to your work is difficult. What else works?
Boosting blog relevance and ranking
The best way to get a high-ranking blog or website is to write compelling copy and to get good backlinks from other ranking sites. But how?
New activity on Twitter for promoting our portfolios
Earlier in March, I wrote about my current strategy for promoting the sale of prints of my work. Basically, I am trying to draw people who are interested in my photography to my blog on BackyardImage which purely talks about the photographs themselves and the background to them. The images do link through to the site where someone could purchase a print, but I am aiming this site at potential buyers, not other photographers. I also want to directly collect...
Steve Heap talks about Stock Photography
What, again? Yes, I was invited to speak to a gathering of the Shutterbugs Excursion group via Zoom this week and hopefully educated and entertained the 40 or so people present. The plan was to speak for about 45 minutes, but with the questions and the interesting discussions, this extended to almost 100 minutes! If you really want to learn more about Stock Photography (and selling photo prints), you can find the recording of this session in my YouTube channel,...
Boosting Print Sales using Social Media
Way back in September last year, I wrote about my experiences in trying, really hard, to use Social Media to boost my sales of prints on Fine Art America in particular. That post also links back to three earlier articles from when I started this effort at the early part of 2021. Now, after more than a year at this effort, has it been worthwhile? I wish I had a clear answer to that question. I did sell more prints...
Get more backlinks to your website using Podcasts
Many of us have a portfolio site – perhaps selling prints, direct licensing of stock images, or just where we blog or write articles of interest to our friends and followers. Of course, much happens on Facebook and the like, but with their strong focus on earnings, they are reducing the reach of any posts which are not being promoted via their paid advertizing plans. So, we need to try to build an audience around what we do control –...
Boosting fine art print sales on Social Media
After six long months of effort, this article will outline how I went about trying to boost the sales of my “Fine Art” photos as print sales on Fine Art America and how successful I have been at that. I wrote about the plan for using Social Media as a way of driving traffic and buyers to my portfolio back in March, and really put the details into three articles in May. The first one was Using Social Media to...
