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...
A few years back I did a presentation on Stock Photography to a camera club in Winchester, VA and put a video of it online. I updated the presentation and had a virtual zoom based session with a Northern Virginia meetup group last week and again, the session was recorded. The whole thing lasted 90 minutes including the questions, and so if you have that much spare time, you can find the video on my YouTube channel. I’ve also been...
I mentioned last month that I was trying to work on developing more traction on my Fine Art Portfolio on Fine Art America. I had around 800 images over there and as I have reported here, have had occasional sales. I tried an experiment to lower my prices, but that did nothing much at all, and so I put them back to more reasonable levels: Then, in early December, I decided to spend time trying to get more traffic to...
I got up this morning to work on my annual report of earnings from stock photography, but found that three of my hard drives were missing in Windows (and the BIOS). Back in March I built a new PC with the latest technology. However, the power supply was still in good shape so I reused that. I had some issues at the time because the new motherboard had two power sockets for the CPU and my power supply only had...
