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Shawn Van Dyke

9 Years Ago

In Need Of Help Please

I am a new FAA member. I do not have a strong social network however I am on Facebook and I am also connected to Twitter. I need your help Marketing my website so others can also see my page. Please advise me how you got yourself started tips and tricks to get me started thank you so much for your help. It is very much appreciated.

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Val Arie

9 Years Ago

Welcome Shawn! You just asked the million dollar question! I can say this... as far as I know there are no tricks but you will find so many tips on how to market your work in these discussion threads. There is tons of information here that will help you. Someone will probably show up with actual links... Also you can search any topic in the discussion thread above. It is good you have FB and Twitter...that's a good start. You are right in thinking you have to market your work for it to be seen by actual customers. faa doesn't market our work that is up to the artist. The best advice I can give is if you love what you do enjoy the ride.

 

Bill Swartwout

9 Years Ago

Do you have a separate Facebook page for your photography? That can be important for gaining "fans" for your page. Those photographers who only use a personal FB page (their "wall") are missing the boat, so to speak. You can use your wall to send or suggest that your "friends" go over and "Like" your photograhy page.

 

Shawn Van Dyke

9 Years Ago

I did create my own Facebook Photography page. I am doing my best. My wife has friends throughout Europe and over 300 friends on Facebook that she asked to explore my page and like. I am having vistaprint make business cards and am going to use those as a form of advertisement.

 

Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

My first suggestion would be that the avatar here at FAA be of the person whose name is under it... and just that person. Potential buyers don't want to see your spouse. You did not specifically ask anyone to critique your work, so I won't go any further than to see check you horizons. Your shots could use some leveling although I do like this one

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Typically, however, you do want larger sizes. Out of all of my sales, I believe two have been of this size or smaller.

 

Edward Fielding

9 Years Ago

I would wait until you've built up a body of work before worrying about networking.

 

Rich Franco

9 Years Ago

Shawn,

Welcome!

What you have so far, 12 images, are mostly snapshots and very hard to market. You seem to have only one keyword and that's "landscape" for every image and there are over 10,000+ images that are here with that keyword.

I would upload better images, if your intent is to sell here.

Many people here treat this as a business and have great images here and spend time keywording and writing good descriptions,which you don't have.

Decide what your purpose is here and then let us know how we can help............

Rich

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

a few of those shots made me sea sick. level horizons are a must for starters. there are quite a few marketing threads, too much to retype here. though it sounds rude to say it, it does come up every day. as others said you need a lot more work, eye catching things. you need larger cleaner images, free of noise. you need descriptions and keywords. like that marina - landscape - was the only word, and there is no land. every one of your keywords is landscape. don't put the orientation. add everything that is in the shot.

so your homework

1. add more work
2. clean up the work you have - straighten things etc
3. add larger punchier work
4. add descriptions and keywords.

from there, then tell people you have a store, a dozen images won't go far.


---Mike Savad

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

oh and while the avatar is trimmed, get something where your not at the gym. something about seeing the backsides of other guys - i don't think is a good selling point.

---Mike Savad

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

Well, I can say that's not true for all of us, Mike. I think it's just fine

 

Richard Rizzo

9 Years Ago

welcome to Faa Shawn.

 

Shawn Van Dyke

9 Years Ago

I am going to leave the avatar for I was at sky harbor international airport going to Hawaii. That picture is properly placed. If it was a gym then I agree with you.

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

the first impression of an artist without seeing the work - is your avatar. at a gym, an air, doesn't matter. i see a light over your head, and backsides. though a selfie at an airport does make more sense. still if you want to market yourself - the first impression is best.

if you were to place an image on the back of a book or something, which one would you choose?

---Mike Savad

 

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