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Hi Aj, welcome to FAA.
Someone will be by and post links to your questions.

Welcome aboard, AJ! The premium membership does give you some awesome promotional tools to work with, along with your own artist website where potential customers won't be distracted by other artists work. The ability to offer more than 25 images for sale with the premium membership also increases your earning potential.

It's well worth the price. Especially if you have more than 25 images to offer.

Hello All- I am new to this site as well. I too am curious if the Premium Membership generates more exposure.

Welcome to FAA, Lucy!

The fact of the matter is premium membership or not, it's you the artist that generate your own exposure. You have to constantly produce new work, and market yourself tirelessly both online and in the brick and mortar world.

you can sell more than 25 things, and you get your own private space and you can sell on amazon. there are a few other perks, but you still have to advertise yourself.


---Mike Savad

First let me address premium membership and exposure.

As said above, the site won't market you so that is up to the artist. What the premium membership does is allow you more than 25 images for sale. I have almost 1600 myself and the ability to cover a wide variety of subjects and places in and of itself does increase exposure. Secondly, the premium membership allows your work to be seen on Amazon. Then there is the sales widget you can place on your website and of course the artist website that is included so when you do market yourself you send them to YOUR site and not somewhere they can wander off and see all the other beautiful work on here.

Beyond that, here are some helpful links.

As an artist, half of the work is marketing yourself.

Here are some good links to discussions in our forum and elsewhere about marketing your work

http://1stangel.co.uk/downloads/ Dan Turner's 7 Keys To Selling Art Online
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=720538 The Art Of Social-network Marketing Available Online For Free
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=908258 How to critique and edit your own work for better sales
http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica/2011/07/12/tagging-or-keywords-and-descriptions Tagging, or Keywords and Descriptions
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=377664 Marketing Yourself
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=431967 Innovative Marketing for Artists - Challenge!
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=420132 Niche Marketing?
http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica/2011/07/11/how-do-i-launch-a-local-art-show How Do I Launch A Local Art Show??
http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica/2011/06/23/press-releases PRESS RELEASES what are they and how to use them
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=432109 YOUR Print Quality - Please Read
http://www.fineartamerica.com/newsletters/order-fulfillment-partner.html One of the newsletters with some good info on

Be sure to stay active on Fine Art America: join discussion, contests, etc.

We have an entire Marketing section for you to utilise to help sell your work. Try using those tools to help you.

But the best place to start is telling your friends and family.




MEMBER WRITTEN TUTORIALS

http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica


PHOTOGRAPHING IMAGES

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=432109 YOUR Print Quality - Please Read
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=284083 How to Photograph Your Art
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=199853 How to photograph your Artwork at Home
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=200640 How I Photograph Art...
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=371117 Let’s Talk Photography
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=102801 Photographing paintings
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=917008 Rich's Tutorial On Copying Artwork
http://rolfbertramdotcom.zenfolio.com/p545849061/e13632899 Tips & Tricks for advanced painting photography

FUN and EDUCATION

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=155502 WHAT IS threads - Index A series of threads explaining different genres
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=303835 How to Debate
http://1stangel.co.uk/blog/how-to-critique-someones-work How To Critique Someones Work
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=803037 How to ASK for a critique

Thanks for the plethora of information; it is greatly appreciated :D

Welcome aboard!