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Martin Newman

9 Years Ago

Help Please

Hi Guys

Can any one provide any tips on how to sell or promote on fine art America, I seem to get little exposure and no sales I do better on other sites such as society6 and redbubble

Thanks for your advice all

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

there are many marketing threads already open. mostly join twitter, get as many followers as you can, tweet with good hash tags. join facebook, do the same thing. make blogs, websites etc. you've only been here for a month, that's a short amount of time. most of my new things take a few months before they sell. your bio shouldn't have that your a beginner, just tell people what you specialize in.

you don't really have descriptions. tell the viewers why they should buy this image. give it a good description of why you took it, who it would be for. because otherwise they may be scratching their head. locations are a good idea, but knowing why you shot it is more important, it helps you with google as well.

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you'll have to watch the quality of your images, like this one - it's too blurry up close, it probably won't print, and a buyer will see it's not that sharp as well.

you only belong to one group, so you will get little internal traffic. be sure to enter every contest here for exposure, doesn't matter if you win or not. even being in the forum helps.

---Mike Savad

 

Rich Franco

9 Years Ago

Martin,

As Mike mentioned, you've been here less than a month and very few images. The images you do have seem to me, to be dark and you might have a bright monitor or you might just like dark images. Many of your images are probably more "snapshots" than art and that is one reason for your lack of attention here. Not to mention there are thousands of professional photographers here,that you are competing with.

Having dark or blurry images,just to have "inventory" doesn't help you and can in fact hurt your sales,so keep that in mind.

Now, keywords! The only way people will see you,other than you directing them,friends,family, is through searches so ALL your keywords are very important and should be exact,example: the first image you have is the "Wasp Pollenating", which is actually a Honeybee,not a wasp. So here's what happens, anyone actually looking for an image of a wasp,will see your honeybee and not buy it, but more importantly, anyone looking for a honeybee image won't ever see your image,since the keyword "honeybee" isn't in your list of keywords! Further, it seems that you can spell "pollenating" as you did and also "pollinating", with an "i", so that should be added also. The name of the flower will help too.

Hope this helps,good luck!

Rich

 

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