I spent the weekend in bed with a fever (and a possible Covid infection for which I just received the results (negative!)) so I had time to think about many things. One was how to leave your stock photo portfolio to your heirs (which I really need to investigate), but I also started thinking about where ideas for stock photos come from – what makes a good stock photo these days? Of course, there are always needs for models doing...
I’m still trying to boost the sales of my Fine Art prints, which is a slow process! As part of that, I’m adding more photography or particularly travel photography related articles to my main photo portfolio site, BackyardImage where I have added a blog area. I also joined a group of bloggers from Fine Art America where we are all writing photography articles aimed more at a general reader, linking actively between each other (using a “Follow” setting on our...
Sorry – another fine art story! I will get back to stock photography soon… I recently produced three articles on Social Media for Photographers, and one of the issues I came across is how to feed the Pinterest beast with new pins showing off the latest images I have uploaded to Fine Art America. I use Tailwind to schedule these pins and that has a free pin creation system but it is limited to 15 pins a month. As I...
Facts help us make decisions, but facts about our aggregate sales on Fine Art America are pretty hard to come by. We get good information on each sale as it happens, you can see a list of all sales in the “Behind the Scenes” area under “Sales”, but how about answering the question – what is my most successful image in terms of print sales? How about which image does best on products other than prints? Where do my sales...
If you are still with me after Part 2 of this series, when I dug deeper into Pinterest in particular, I’m taking a wider view this time with my efforts in trying to boost engagement on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. Pinterest is involved as well for extra measure, plus a dose of Twitter! I decided that I wanted to post just one photo every day with some words about what the photo meant to me, or how I approached the...
My first article covered my understanding of how Fine Art America works internally, and this one will cover the use of social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest to drive traffic and potential buyers of wall art and similar products to that site. If you were uncertain on how best to market your art – this article will provide some illumination! I really started to do this in earnest at the beginning of March and have continued...
I’ve been promising this for a while, but only recently have I been able to sit in a chair long enough to actually put pen to paper due to my strained back. It is surprising how long these apparently simple injuries can take to heal. Of course, playing golf last week may not have been the best idea… Building my Portfolio But back to social media. I have continued to build my portfolio on Fine Art America and now have...
I’m still at this! And I did manage to get one sale this month, although it was only a coffee mug! I explained my plans in a post last month to really boost my presence on the major social media sites. I’ve been keeping this up with daily posts (using Buffer) to Instagram, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter but when I came to Pinterest, I came up against a major issue – I had no idea how that site worked. I...
OK, you have uploaded your best work to your favorite Print on Demand site and are sitting waiting for sales – where are they? How long do you have to wait? I’ve been through those anxious days and although I am far from satisfied in my results, I am starting to see a little progress. My latest sale came last week with a framed 10 x 7.5 inch print of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington DC: I’m following a...
I’ve written about this a few times, the most recent being my attempts to push my images higher up the search order on Fine Art America. I don’t know if that made the difference, but I did sell two images at the end of January. This one as a 72 inch wide print: And then this one as a coffee mug: OK, I thought – that was interesting – perhaps I should continue to add images and do a bit...
