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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...
April comes round and here it is arriving with a very pleasant warm spell, so there have been a few opportunities to get out and about with my camera. As I have written in previous posts I have been very busy on two projects – completing the video of my son’s opera (which had to be done virtually due to the virus) and trying to get some traction on my print sales to build an alternative to stock images. The...
A new month and a new set of earnings. I have been doing this for so long, I could write these on autopilot! However, it looks as though this month is maintaining a more positive direction in terms of earnings with the total ending up (without EyeEM who are late for some reason) at a very pleasing $3274. Well up on January and February and about $110 up on earnings in March 2020. The full historic graph is here: I...
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...
As the month has progressed, I’ve been thinking of what new images I can create and the recent passage of the American Plan Rescue Act of 2021 (the new stimulus package) gave me a few ideas. Yes, I know this is a US thing, but it is something that can be illustrated wherever you live with a little bit of creative Photoshop work. I created a US Treasury check for the first stimulus package last year and the images of...
I’ve achieved something today that I should be proud of, but with all the unease about what Shutterstock are doing for contributors (or should I say doing to them), it all feels just a little jaded. But anyway, here is a snapshot of my contributor page on Shutterstock just now: I have a suspicion that the next $100,000 will take a much longer time that the first!
Looking at my sales in late January and now February, I am just not seeing any trends or directions – images are selling, but they are very random and coming from my entire portfolio, rather than any particular subject or concept. On one level that is good – it shows that I have built a portfolio that has enough different subjects to continue to meet demands, but on the other, it is becoming hard to spot those new opportunities. As...
