Uk Faa Members And Your Experience

Stuart, i'm from Wales in the U.K. and most of my sales come from the U.S and Canada. I Have sold a few originals too and apart from one in the U.K. they were also from the states.
Postage would be an issue on the print selling to the u.k. more than originals

I have mainly (only) sold to the USA and Canada so far..

Not from the UK, but I have sold prints through FAA that shipped to the UK and Europe in general. Some even framed when I would expect the buyer to be far more likely to go for the rolled in a tube option to save on shipping weight. But yes, the vast majority so far are to buyers in the US.

It's probably best to have some options that don't require shipping from the US but it doesn't appear to be a complete deal breaker if someone likes a piece.

Andrew, Abbie and Mark, thanks for answering. Also interesting to see you are all a combination of 'paintings' and 'photos' and these sell on both sides of the Atlantic.

Stewart, only sold one card and that was through book face, and that was to ireland

Hi Tony, that's one card more than me! Do you do much in the way of marketing?

Uk based chap here! Joined FAA in February and just now starting to get to grips with this and, own website, and twitter, and zazzle....you get the picture. Marketing has been the biggest learning curve for me and still learning every day.

Really enjoying it on here, and definitely in this for the long run.

Cheers Andy

Greetings from Exeter Stuart! I've not been here very long, about 8 months I think and have made 3 sales - all to the USA. Until FAA starts printing from the UK, or at least somewhere in Europe, I see the market here is mostly to America.
It's still well worth being here for the wonderful community alone.

Hi stewart, I have not realy done much. I post occasionally to face book when I upload a new image. It might get 1 or 2 likes and about 60 views or reach. If I post an image by itself it will get approx 600 reach. Depending on who shares it I have had up to 100 shares on an image(the one that sold as a card) and 9000 reach
I retweet on twitter and sometimes add an image or add a link to here. There are a couple of people on twitter that post maybe 20 tweets that they have uploaded new artwork here, one after the other. I personally dont like that, so I try to keep a mix of retweets , tweeting about stuff I found interesting, and tweeting that I have artwork here.

I try to do things in stages to monitor what happens, rather than doing a whole lot of things together and not knowing what brings what result.

hi to Jan, andy,mark, abbie and andrew too.

Andy - know that feeling! I also have a Zazzle account, but decided to concentrate on FAA first. Just keep,plugging away at the marketing, well that's what I keep telling myself.

Jan - 'hello' , 3 sales in the first 8 months is quite impressive from what I've been reading on here. Mind you, looking at your work, I'm not surprised.

Tony - thanks for the info. I agree about the flooding of sales tweets. I try not to do that too often, or at least space the tweets out a bit. Hopefully all the tweets and posts are like 'planting seeds' and they will grow.

What is your tweet machine name Stuart?

Very disappointing sales-wise but I sell all the time on redbubble however I'm not that surprised for when I search the site for my work on FAA I find that there are only 50 or so of my images available out of a total of 200+ posted and that another artist's work appears on MY sales page!

Not based in the UK, but British and living in the Netherlands:

1) Yes, they are. Probably 90%+ are from the US. Some in Asia. I don't think any from the UK (one from Ireland though) - then again I never saw the UK as being a particularly fruitful location, given size + recession.
2) & 3) See point 1
4) Sales were the only motivator for me joining FAA

Used to have RB and IK accounts. Ditched them both. RedBubble because I can't fathom their logic in not having a bulk price change facility, and their seeming reluctance to implement one. As I change my prices each year and have little interest in spending biggest part of a day updating them, letting them go was an easy choice. As for IK, too expensive given their exposure and what they offer. So now I concentrate my efforts here.

Tony - my Twitter name is artonthehoof

Mike - that sounds a bit odd, and a bit worrying!

David - thanks for the answers. Yep, Im hoping for the US buyers. What is IK?

Cheers

IK - ImageKind.

Thanks David.

Hi,

I joined FAA earlier this year and have had a couple of small sales - one to India and one to the USA. I guess that FAA would do better in the UK with a local (UK) printer, which would reduce postage costs, but that they are not really well known enough over here yet. So far I've done zero marketing as I'm concentrating on uploading my back catalogue of pictures.

Cheers,

Rob.

Hi Rob, that's good to hear about the sales. Yes a UK based FAA would be really helpful. Thanks for commenting.