Welcome. Here's my tip sheet of basic FAA things to do. I made it for a friend who had been on for years but never learned the FAA system.
1) Organize your work into galleries such as "Cuteness Personified", "Abstract and Colorful"
and whatever other categories would make viewing more user-friendly and manageable to the customer.
2) Have galleries come up first on your site when people log in so they can see what they want to see. If they go through too many images they don’t want, they will stop before they get to the one that might have made them order.
3) Have a set of generic key words available in Word on desktop to add to all images, such as:
(when art work is uploaded you can add your name and anything that will apply to all as a tag/metatag)
passionate, bright, colorful, vivid, acrylic, home, travel, decorative, your name
trees, flowers,critter.
Copy applicable sets of words from your word doc to make it easier to add these in and add things into the descriptions after things are grouped in galleries..
4) Add wording in all descriptions such as:
‘If you like this image, we invite you to use any of the buttons (i.e. FB, Twitter, and Google+) to share with your friends and family! Please also join our Email List to see newly posted artwork. ‘
You must add descriptions before you join groups.
5) Add at bottom of Bio if not already or add at bottom of each description.
A) This artwork is owned solely by the artist and as such is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws, all rights reserved. This artwork may not be copied, reproduced, manipulated or used in any way without written permission.
B) The Fine Art America watermark will not be present on the purchased image sent to you.
C) list of any other art web sites where your work can be found (see #14)
6) Join appropriate groups such as “female artists”, “art with over 100 views” and groups in which artists with works similar to yours have been featured.
Have a system to keep up with one a month or one a day submission groups.
7) Check your visitor count and submit works with over 100/200/500 visits to the over 100 Views, 200 Club, 500 group, etc
8) Once a work has been featured in one group, submit it to Featured on FAA for additional exposure,
9) Protocol to be nice. When someone gives you a feature, (or fave, tweet, other favor), thank them two ways:
a) in that group’s discussion forum with wording such as “Thank you very much for the honor of the feature of my work on your great looking feature page. Your support and your work for our group are appreciated!!” Don't open a separate discussion if there is already a thank you discussion thread to use. You can include the URL in case anyone looks through the thread. That's just basic manners, doesn't do much for anyone.
b) Preferably- visit their works and give them a comment, and promote (hit the like button on whichever of theirs you like best that day, comment, favorite, social media promotion)
10) Find contests under Community tab. Enter appropriate contests. Follow them on the contests tab * under your profile to know when to vote. When voting begins, vote for your own works, then check other images and vote for at least one or 2 standouts if you have time --up to the vote limit. Usually the contest will be by a group you are a member of, so you need to support fellow group members. Some groups remove people for inactivity or lack of support; just submitting your own stuff isn’t enough.
. (*Once you are logged into your account, simply click on your name at the top of any page to go to your profile page. Once there you will see the following tabs:
Images Galleries Events Blogs Favorites Watch List Groups Press Contests
Once you click on the Contests tab, you will have easy access to all the contests you are participating in at any given time.)
11) Choose works to run on Timed promotion section. Try to always have the max # running.
12) Use the press release button whenever you have an event, win an award, etc
13) check community discussions on Art Promotion and Marketing or other topics of interest for more tips.
14) social networking/other art sites, other FB sites. There are at least 18 decent options to look into and then you have the option to list all that are running under your bio.
That'll keep you busy for a few hours. If something in this list is something you're already doing, pardon me, I didn't have time to review your site. I'm still behind due to family members health, personal business issues, camera problems....