Do You Advertise Phone Cases On Your Website?

nope.
no umbrellas or coasters either.

I mention it on my 'News' page and provide an example.

Hum where can one get an umbrella?

Yup, and google tells me that link gets clicked quite often:

http://about.me/FrankJCasella Scroll down to the links.

nope. i have them on other sites, plus i can position them where i want, and they are customizable. i just push the prints here.

---Mike Savad

Yes, I do. :-)

http://www.art166.net/phone-cases.html

I've sold one phone case, which was purchased by a visitor to my website. The 'Phone Cases' page is my third most visited; right after 'Home' and 'About Me' I need a plan to turn those Lookie-Lous into buyers!.

Edit -- Thanks, Frank; I'll add a separate phone case link to my About.me and blog.

Umbrellas would be cool! :-)

Crista, how about a second site featuring your art products? I'm working on one for my Zazzle merchandise.

No, not at all. Never have, or will. I target a more affluent clientele (many many repeat clients) I'm sure they would see it as tacky

I'm with Thomas on this one. It depends on what kind of market you're catering to.

One of my most affluent, repeat, local clients recently ordered two prints (one to keep, one to gift). At the same time, she treated herself to one of my wilder phone case, saying she'd "never pick up the wrong phone from the conference room table, again."

Hopefully, her fellow executives and board members will want a piece of that action! :-)

Only just developed my site with more to come, but yes I do

Prints of Italy Store

One sale of a fine art print - $60 - $100

20 sales of a phone case - $5 x 20 = $100

200 sales of a microstock image - .50 x 200 = $100

Sales of a licensed coffee mug - .05 x 2000 = $100

i would advertise the case more if - i had it on my FAA site. which i don't. i don't bother doing the pixel site because it's not recognized by any search, and no one goes to my artist site anyway. ed charge more for the phone cases, i do sell them at the price i charge, it would only take me about 3-4 sales to make that same money. but without being able to see them all side by side like i can with zazzle, it makes it much harder to sell them.

---Mike Savad

I just can't image spending more $15 on a cell phone case myself. Of course my teenager had no problem spending the equivalent of 20 percent of the cost on his Chromebook on some custom skins for it.

Phone cases are hot, right now. If a phone case page entices a visitor to click in, there's the chance they'll flip through some other pages, too -- or, at the very least, they'll begin to notice and remember my name. (Which is, of course, highly visible on every page.)

In the time it's taken to sell one phone case, I've sold a number of prints, both online and in the real world. No way to be sure whether any of those print buyers saw my phone case page first, but that's a possibility . . . and I'm all about exploring the possibilities.

My website stats are showing a visitor pattern of:

Home page
About Me page
Phone Case page
Various art pages
Video page
Misc. pages

So, after seeing examples of my art on the Home and About Me pages, (my Home page opens with a slideshow) they're bee-lining to the phone cases before viewing the general art galleries . . . even if they then purchase a print instead of a phone case.

Maybe they'll come back and buy phone cases around the holidays. Maybe they never will buy a phone case. Whatever, if they want to see them, I'd be crazy not to make them available. I'll be expanding the eye-candy on my phone case page, very soon, and posting a corresponding blog post and vid. The goal of that is not to make $10 selling a phone case (though $10 is always welcome); it's simply to catch attention.

This is especially important to me, as my demographic encompasses teens to retirees. My sole phone case buyer, so far, is female, nearing retirement age. Along with her print purchases, she unexpectedly chose this wild case --

http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=c765fbda0dadadbda744a20942c42589

Whether she's in a boardroom or on a cruise, people will notice every time that phone is in her hand. How could that possibly be a negative?

Anything that brings eyes to my site, and helps keep them there an extra minute or two, is a plus. IMO, that's Marketing 101. ;-)

Mike ~ You can see all of mine side-by-side ;)

Prints of Italy Phone Cases [click on iPhone or Galaxy Cases]


Ed ~ Apple sells plain jane microfiber cases for $29. Imagine how many iPhone users have them? People will pay more for art on the cell phone cases and stand out from the crowd. :)

the money i charge, i would never buy myself. i spent $40 on a case, but only because it protects the phone. otterbox, is expensive and not that pretty. but others do want a statement.

if i sell a case i advertise that. but i don't go out of my way.

---Mike Savad

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