How Did You Discover Faa?

Search engine, probably Google.

Edit: Like Angel I did extensive research in 2011 but it was 8-10 months later in 2012 that I finally decided to give it a try.

In the middle of 2009 I did extensive research on every major POD. I considered it for about 6 months...looking at forums and artist feedback.

Dec 2009 I joined, paid my $30 and began my adventure here.

Cherie Duran told me an 5 others about it when we were on a now closed

Photography Forum. She just sold her first image and told us and we all joined.

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/cherie-duran.html

Others were on Smug Mug, so I looked, too, but didn't like what I found. So I did a Google search on web sites where I could host and sell and one of them led here.

Well I was looking for a metal print and even though FAA didn't offer them at the time Google pointed me to this site. For years a lot of members of Istock thought we were exclusive for prints there. They never even told us their POD site never got off the ground. Then there was some confusion over which sites we could post on. FAA was one of the approved ones as it has no rights grab so I checked it out and uploaded some images in July 2012.

Someone posted on G+

Marlene Burns - can't remember the site, but I was on it and so was she, and she mentioned something, got me searching, found it, and been here ever since.

I was injured, almost dead broke, and my dog was hungry. I decided that my only option was to try and sell my photographs that I had accumulated over the years . I googled 'sell your photographs", the rest is history. :-)

I was looking for the best platform to start my online storefront, so I started a discussion in a group on Flickr. Most of the photographers suggested FAA though not members themselves. I was considering SmugMug so that I could sync it with the wet photo lab that I use. However, I did an online search and came on the article by our colleague Rick Berk and was sold: http://liphotoguy.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/taking-a-second-look/

through a photography team on etsy that JC and another photographer were on. It was mentioned there so I checked it out.

From a link on Facebook :-)

In 2009 I left Shutterpoint.com for reason of many negative anonymous comments,misunderstanding,rating without merit,and something else I forgot.
I looked at FAA as main POD maybe for thee month. I was sold to easy uploads and especially community treads and free spirit those times.
Never regret and deeply appreciate all works the artists and owner FAA.

From Frank Wilson ( a fellow FAAer and Chico California based artist) through one of his Craig's lists postings. He had one of his paintings on it with a link to FAA. I checked it out and studied FAA for about a week then joined. I didn't bother with the free account I went straight for the permium membership because it had everything I was looking for. That was Jan 2009.

I got an email from FAA (which I'd never heard of) asking me to join.

I was talking to a customer of mine at the camera shop I worked at, telling him how burned out I was getting doing the art fair scene. He mentioned that he had his prints for sale online and told me about FAA. I put up 25 photos and forgot about them. Exactly 1 yr later, I sold a large print and made a great profit. I became a full member and the rest is history.

I am too old and senile to remember back that far ... even though that wasn't that long ago!
Seriously. Now that you ask that question and I think about it, I have no idea. How weird. I know I was fed up with IK at the time. Perhaps I just did a search for other options.
However I found my way to FAA though, I'm glad to be here. It's been the best of all of them!

JC told me I should be making money off of what I was shooting.....I agreed.

Google.

It was actually pixels.com being mentioned on a Youtube video that got me onto this site. I think it was a video by Anthony Morganti

Job hunting while unemployed for the first time in my life! I stumbled upon it the first time, ignored it. 6 months later still no job and I went looking for it.

I was looking for something better than Zazzle, so I started researching all the sites that turned up through google searches. FAA looked like the most promising one so I gave it a go....and I'm still loving it!

Google :)

I discovered one interesting artist and I was wondering where she is selling her art. So I google her name and found some sites. One of the them was Fine Art America.
I asked myself why I couldnt try it out? So I tryed and happy with result. Couldnt say for now what an artist was an inspiration for that time...unfortunately...
But I would say that bring here more than 15 members who followed my way here mostly from Flickr. Some become quiet succesful some not.
Membership I payed on the second day after joining the site.

I also googled a friend of mine to see her new art and the search had much of her work on FAA. I then joined myself.

Several artists at the local art gallery that had joined.

someone on red bubble sent me here, told me they were selling better. and here i am.


---Mike Savad

From someone on Redbubble

I did a google search in early 2009 for POD's.

There was an article in the local newspaper about an artist. He mentioned he had his work on FAA; so I looked into it, and here I am.

I was selling on Etsy and someone mentioned ImageKind for their large sales fulfillment. I looked at IK and started researching PoDs in general and knew off FAA through Nina Stavlund on Facebook. I ended up putting 100 images up on Zazzle, FAA and IK to see which better fit my needs. IK was an abysmal failure. Zazzle produced sales but they were nickel and dime sales and it took a LOT of time producing marketable art for a very low return on the time put in.

I made my first sale here within a month and it was three larger prints for a payout of $450. I had made more sales on Zazzle but made 30 bucks or so. IK was a ghost town. After that, I started uploading the 400 marketable images I already had, I completely ignored Zazzle though I still make a sale now and then there for around 100 bucks a year net and I deleted my IK account. I also shifted away from Etsy as well.

When I was laid off for the third time in four years I decided to treat this like a full time job and see how it went. To parody an old Saturday Night Live skit, FAA been beddy beddy good to me.

OMG, Jeff, I totally forgot about that! I tend to become the chamber of commerce for companies and products I like. In late 2008, I decided t was time to dump my paranoia about the owners of my originals feeling badly about seeing a print available online and I did a lot of research into several venues for online exposure. 2009 was quite the year for me as I began my transition into online original paintings for sale...POD was always and probably will be a pale second, but that's when I found faa in a search.

When I decided to start doing abstracts I went to u tube and watched some artists doing their magic. It took a few months to get brave enough to try FAA but here I am and actually sold a lrg print. I love doing abstracts the freedom, the joy, wish I had found this new love years ago.

I first heard of FAA (and other PODs) through the Shutterstock forums when I was involved in microstock. There are quite a few stock photographers who sell the same images through both channels. I guess it was about a year after I first learned about these other ways to sell that I became fed up with microstock and their constant lowering of commissions while demanding higher quality images that I decided to quit and go to fine art. I believe the subjects I enjoy shooting are more suited to fine art anyway and it was breaking my heart every time I received a few cents or even a few dollars for one of my photos. I deleted all my fine art images from all microstock agencies I was involved in and uploaded them here. First, I looked at and compared FAA to Smugmug and Zenfolio. The things that sold me on FAA were the ability to set my own prices, custom printing at virtually any size without the need to crop into some predetermined standard, and of course, the low annual fee. I'm not getting rich, or even making what would be considered a living, but it's way more than what I made at microstock and immensely more satisfying as well. Thanks FAA!

Saw it on the internet...So I joined. My only objection is that FAA does not promote my work (along with most everyone else) and we then are told we have to bring in our own buyers. lol...
If I had buyers, I would not need FAA.

I googled Art print sale!

Its interesting that it seems like a majority of people didn't find it from any formal advertising and not even that many from an Internet search.

Through a Google search. Three people in one week in October of 2011 told me that I should be selling my photos as note cards, and I finally took the plunge and looked into how a person would do that. That was the first time I'd ever hear of "print on demand," and in looking at the options, FAA looked like the winner to me.

I dabbled a bit with Zazzle after I used them to create my first calendar, but decided they were too much trouble for too little money. I still sometimes use them for my annual calendar, but that's about it (and I've never sold one through Zazzle, I just create and order them there, and sell them in person at art fairs in the fall).

Same here, Crista! For the life of me I can't recall how I found FAA.

Same as you, Adam. I saw the FAA display on the Facebook page of a local photographer whom I'd gotten to know. Even though I've had some of my work on ImageKind for several years I've seen their site decline for quite a while - I decided to "expand" here.

~ Bill
~ USPictures.com

My sister was also working in the photography industry at the time, and a fellow photographer friend of hers brought FAA to her attention. I did my research, liked what I saw, and I've been here ever since.

One of my Flickr contacts had a link to FAA in her profile. I clicked on it and was immediately impressed with what I saw. I'm very happy to be here.

That's easy, Adam! A friend on Facebook posted one of her beautiful pieces w/a link to her FAA gallery, which really impressed me. At the time, my artwork was on a couple of other sites, but I was looking for something better, a more professionally presented & well-managed venue...and, voila, there was FAA! Being a newbie on fb at that time, still building my friend's list [what can I say, I'm a late-bloomer!], just thinking of adding another site to showcase/sell my work was overwhelming. But, I did write 'Join Fine Art America' on my list of 'things-to-do', which I kept/keep right here next to the computer. That meant I saw it everyday, even when I didn't want to! It took a year before I finally slowed down enough to join...and, then, a couple of more months before I became 'active': setting up a premium account, being more social, hosting contests & the like. Now, I'm hooked. Except for a couple of [my] poetry books & a handful of poster-art-for-kids on another site, it's FAA all the way, I'm happy to say!

Found out about FAA from another photographer on Etsy -

Research and more research.

I was referred by my good friend, Parker Cunningham! Check out his amazing work :)

I found out through a FB photography page. One woman signed up and told everyone about it. So I looked into it and didn't hestitate to sign up for a premium account. It will be four years on August 17th.

Best move I ever made.

I google Print on Demand and out of the results, FAA gave the most value...

I haven't regretted it either.

I found it through a FB Photography friend

In late January 2007 I did a Google search for "Fine Art" and came across it - long before it was a POD site.

I got a direct invitation via email from FAA. I was the second artist in Butte County, California to join ... now there are many hundreds. Been a member since October 5, 2007. Premium member right from the start. Best value an artist could ask for.

I need an online gallery for two purposes. 1. As a showcase for my local images as part of my community website at http://www.montereypeninsula.info and 2. to sell them.

After growing disappointed with Shutterfly Pro-Galleries I went to Shutterpoint for quite awhile. But I could only sell downloads there. I looked into Zenfolio, Smugmug, and some similar services but found them either too expensive for me or lacking in some way.

I lost hope for awhile until this spring when I did a search again for selling photos online. I came up with the same old things. Then it hit me to search for sell PRINTS online, and I found a couple of sites that listed several new options. After some investigation FAA looked like the best fit. Now that I've been in it a few months I couldn't be happier. If meets my needs perfectly!

I found out about it from our instructor at our Lightroom 5.0 classes every Monday night here in Clearwater FL. He has over 30K photos in his files and just recently he and his wife started posting quite a number of their works in various groupings. Subject matter ranges far and wide and all have been post processed in Lightroom. Look them up on FAA, he is Jeff Donald and she is Dolores Donald. You'll find great variety and quality that zings! Ken Gosney

A friend of mine recommended this page a few years ago but since I am also on ArtistRising/Art.com and Zazzle, I didn't do anything here. Didn't want to be on too many sites. Then, just very recently a fellow artist mentioned FAA in her art video and I came back here to check it out again and voilą - here I am ... giving it a try.

I also got 'a direct invitation' via email from FAA. In fact, I got many of them.
After checking out how this site is doing in Search Engines, on Google and Google shopper (back then it was called Froogle) I joined and became a paying member right away.

I was trying to sell my work through ImageKind and one day decided to see what people had to say about the quality of the images they printed through there. I did a Google search and found an article where someone was discussing different POD sites and which were the best with the best quality prints. They suggested FAA as the best on the Internet. I decided to give it a try and I started making sales a few months after joining. I even shut down my IK site soon after I started making sales here.

I discovered this place by accident. I was making my own website at the time and wanted to link a POD to it so people can jump from the website to the POD to buy prints through links. The plan was to use Zazzle since I already had one store there. At the time, Zazzle was renovating their website and you couldn't load anything for weeks. I was flustered because I wanted to get things going so bad and didn't want any delays. So I started googling all kinds of words having to do with PODS and somehow this place popped up. The rest is history.

--Roz Barron Abellera

My husband and I found this old ships picture we wanted to print out and have framed so I was looking for a place where I could upload it for printing and came across FAA. That was on March 13 of this year. The rest is history.