My First Sale

Well, after 3 months I'm happy to say I got my first sale. It caught me totally by surprise. I was beginning to believe that I had to be more involved with following, commenting, liking, faving others photos in order to promote my work. So maybe this is one of those good news/bad news things. The good news being that I got a sale, the bad news is that I might start thinking that my portfolio is strong enough that I don't need to spend much time promoting myself and ultimately shoot myself in the foot.

I'm wondering whether FAA is a good venue for selling microstock. In looking at the various search functions, I'm not able to see where a potential buyer could come onto FAA and search for images being sold as microstock. Those buyers don't have all the time in the world. So to expect them to come online and open up dozens of potential images looking for the one image that can be purchased as a microstock is not something they're going to want to do. I guess the same goes for Rights Managed photos. Until FAA creates a menu item that allows them to search specifically through the microstock and/or Rights Managed images, it seems like it would be a waste of time to upload images in hoping to get that type of sale. I'd love to hear differently if I'm wrong though!

For now I'll just sit tight and give thought to how I can build a stronger portfolio, perhaps get involved with a few more groups, comment a few more times, etc. and see how things go.