It is not often that I write a heading like this! But I was reading the Washington Post today with an article about a world first at West Virginia University in Morgantown where they did an experiment on a long term opioid drug addict who was pretty much going to die in the near future from an overdose or similar accident. They inserted some probes deep into his brain and implanted a small computer in his chest that (if I...
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...
As you have probably surmised from my other posts, I have been putting a lot more effort into social media recently to try to boost some print sales and stock has been just “ticking over”. I have added a few images as I have taken them, but, to be honest, not very many! I will continue to write these posts, but if you feel that the value is no longer there, feel free to cancel your membership. If you don’t...
Sorry, Alex for stealing your approach, but everything about May seemed to be more of the same. Just look at the columns for May in the graph: This May’s results of $2759 was almost the same as the previous 4 years of earnings. In May 2018 I had 10,000 images on Deposit Photos, this May I had 16800 – same earnings from a 60% increase in assets. No wonder there isn’t the same enthusiasm for stock photography as there was...
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 was looking back at some of the ideas I promoted earlier this year to see how they had performed. The new tax date in the US (which I wrote about the day after the announcement) was an easy one to create and has made me $80 so far with hopefully more to come via Getty/iStock. Not a phenomenal sum, but perhaps that is how stock photography is these days – easy to produce ideas that get picked up and...
Welcome to the April edition of “how much can you earn from stock photography”! As the title perhaps gives a clue, I’ll start with the headlines – not as much as previous months or years…. I ended the month with $2613 after a much healthier $3300 result in March. As the graph below shows, this was well below my April numbers for the past 3 years as well. Not good news, but, still, a tidy sum of money bearing in...
