We have found that art Galleries prefer local art. Something recognizable. We're looking too.

I have sold a few at different festivals here is Corpus. I haven't found another website or store yet.

Hey guys,
Thanks for the updates. I just found another site pretty much like FAA. It's called redbubble.com. They allow unlimited uploads and also do t-shirts if you're into that. I haven't submitted anything yet, but probably will today. Let me know if you like these guys.
Thanks,
Brian

Do you have to pay to join that one?

You don't pay a thing. I just uploaded a few pics there. They allow 60 MB files! There prices are much cheaper also.

I'm on Redbubble... but so far I prefer this site. Redbubble is cheaper (and free to sell on), you set the % of commission you want. I prefer here where you set the dollar amount you'd like out of a particular image/size. I wish there was a happy medium between the two, as I do like Redbubble's website more, and I think my website there looks a little more professional. http://heather626.redbubble.com/

Thanks Heather. That is a much better looking site compared to FAA. How do you select themes with redbubble?

When you build your site (stupid easy) you can select the colors and such - pretty basic.

Has any one used zazzle? It seems like another popular site. Thanks

Yes, I've used zazzle. Sold a few T-shirts.

Great advice Heather. Your site on redbubble looks great. I just joined a few days ago but can't figure how to interact and upload photos into groups on there. Do you happen to know how? I'm sure it's super simple maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough.

Redbubble is a bit hard to figure out. To add photos click on "my bubble" in the upper right corner. Then on the left you will see an "art" tab. Click on that and you should be able to load from there. You can load a 60 MB file, but their servers are much slower than FAA's so be prepared to wait.

I just came across finerworks.com.

Has anyone used alamy.com? It looks like istockphoto, but without all the hoops to jump through. They pay 60% commissions!

I have a few photos on alamy but it's through a stock agency called Stock Connections. Each agency takes a bite of the proceeds when you sell something so the photogaphy often ends up with 35% or less of the sales price. Also, stock agencies often charge a fee to do their own keywording of images and may limit submissions to "concept" images. I have about 200 on SC's website (a lot fewer on alamy) but haven't added any in a few years. Don't have to pay any fees now and get a sale every now and then.

Hi. When using multiple sites, do you upload the same image across all the sites or do you have different images depending on the site? And if you do upload a same image on different sites do you try to get the pricing to line up? Thanks

I provided images on a DVD to Stock Connections, with which I have a contract. Stock Connections edited and keyworded the images and provided some or all of them to other stock portals, including Alamy. So I don't upload images to any stock agency website. The other portals have the same images that are included on SC's website. I believe Alamy has posted all 200+ images while other portals, such as Jupiter, have taken only a few (or more). SC sets the prices and the other portals follow suit.

I have a few thousand images on Alamy and they make regular sales, though prices have been dropping a lot in last couple of years (same for a lot of stock sites). Also have some non travel related material on some other specialist agencies.

@Corinne If an agency wants exclusive rights to license your images you cant upload them to other agencies, if they are non exclusive you can. For art sites you can normally submit the same images to several. Probably a good idea to keep pricing in line (especially for sites in the same country with same delivery costs), otherwise you may find all you sales come from the site where your work is cheapest....!

I sell at the local farmers and craft market. The key is to have a range of prices from cards to large prints.

I sell my art on Zazzle and doing really well here is my site:

http://www.zazzle.com/ziggysofi

I also sell on Shutterstock, fotolia, 123rf, deposit photo and dreamstime. The best is Zazzle for me , and shutterstock, They are quite strict on the quality of photography though. Lots of work to get in.

See: http://www.oypo.nl/Default.asp?taal=en

Would share my joy with you as today one of my works featured here on the front page of the group has been SOLD!
Thank you, Brian, for the great opportunity!




Have a great week for all!

I am on Imagekind as well as Deviantart. Though Deviantart is more of a community to get really good feed back, not so much for sales. But on Imagekind I get way more page views than on FAA. So the traffic makes it worth it. Both of those are free as well.

I'm on Zazzle since 18 months and it has been paying much better than FAA for the same amount of visitor.
Zazzle is completely free, no limit of what soever.

http://www.zazzle.com/raftman

Thanks Guillaume,
That is good to know.

I have also used deviant art in the past, I def like this site better. Craft Fairs have also been a small section of my recent focus, esp because I love finding them while I'm traveling :)

redbubble is a pain to use, you can't change prices globally, it's disorganized and in order to do a tshirt you need a separate PNG file in a certain spot in a certain size. i do make some money there, but it's not that impressive, i've made way more here. and while a tricky to use - zazzle is another place i'm on.


---Mike Savad

oh and my site http://www.zazzle.com/suburbanscenes*/

---Mike Savad

Thanks for your feedback everyone.

Yes, thank you everyone for sharing your sources. I've heard so much about zazzle that as soon as I finish my website I'm
going to make a store :) Regarding Red Bubble - about a year ago there was a HUGE outcry against the PRO HITLER tee shirts they were selling. I searched them myself and sure enough it was not a rumor. Artists left in droves and landed at Blue Canvas. They "suspended" our accounts (locked us out) and never gave us back our artwork. Just an FYI....

i had no idea about that. i know there were some neat artists there and then stopped for some reason posting.


i never had a problem with bubble, other than organizing, communicating, getting steady sales, an active forum that doesn't just talk about pinterest, and really fussy groups. beyond that they seem to be ok. they don't constantly run sales every day like other places.

---Mike Savad

is bluecanvas any good?

if it weren't for redbubble though, i never would have heard about this site.

---Mike Savad