I Am Determined To Sell Something On Faa

The artwork is not the issue. Promoting and marketing is.

the hard part is finding your customers. figuring out the type of person that would like the work, then promoting to them or getting their attention. like the telescope would be focused on astronomers, astrophysicists, and anyone else into aliens, space and so on. usually focusing images for those people will also help.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Good for you Richie!! That is exactly what I did ... earned my first premium fee through sales here. It really helped me learn the ins and outs of online selling.

Evidently I have no idea how to market myself correctly, but by golly I try my butt off. thousands of tweets and facebook posts, google plus, pinintrest, ect. but nobody biting the bait I put out.

$40,000.00 for an original LOL! Thats awesome. Plug into your local art league. It aint FAA but you should be able to sell through fairs and such while your waiting for FAA traffic to your site to pick up.

From your bio it seems like you would have some great stories for a blog. Develop a following with stories about your work and behind the scenes looks and works in progress. Do some time lapse YouTube vids of your drawings etc.

Tweets, FB etc gets you a few seconds of eyeballs but doesn't sell the work or tell anyone why they should care about it.

Here are 2 documentaries about me and my art. http://ow.ly/BeL71 http://ow.ly/DxK1C and a time lapse http://youtu.be/HgqD7mG4_DQ

Learning never ends. Check out Jeffrey Gitomer @ www.gitomer.com

He's the only one I can think of at the moment...


Peter

Richie, are you exhibiting your awesome work in the real world? Not only will you make more sales that way, but it will also increase your Internet traffic and boost your mailing list.

it's getting harder and harder to sell art consistently, online. More than ten years ago, when I began selling online as a self-representing artist, I was somewhat of a novelty. Now . . . I'm just one of a million. One of a million Tweets, one of a million FB posts, one of a million POD artists, etc.

Online lightning may strike the lucky few, but I'm more and more convinced that building a real world clientèle is the way to go.

Best of luck to you!

Richie,

I have found you dont need to categorize your potential buyers by "type".

I have been at the marketing part of this for about three weeks. I am finding
that simply responding to all communications in a few words goes a long way
with most people. Nothing more is really necessary.

Here is an open invitation to you and anyone else here to join me on Tsu.co.

This simple link is my invitation code. Tsu pays creatives for content. Some of us
early adaptors like Tsu better than Facebook.

https://www.tsu.co/DavidBridburg

This is a short article on ZDNet about Tsu.

http://www.zdnet.com/new-social-network-tsu-shares-ad-revenue-with-content-creators-7000034983/

I hope you join me on Tsu. As I said it is the early days of Tsu. So the communications
are nice and easy for now. A slower pace.

I am also on https://twitter.com/DavidBridburg I now have to respond to some
one to two dozen messages per day. I like it, but it is work.

You do have to bring people to your work. But guess what, they will want to see it. They
will want to follow you. They will message you. They will then buy from you.

Good luck. hope to friend or follow you,

Dave

Tsu sounds interesting but I've got too much invested in Facebook to dilute my efforts. I spend some time every day "Liking" and/or "Replying" to anyone who comments on one of our FB pages. Some days that can be quite a few. For example, if I happen to capture and post a really great sunset on our Ocean City Page it may see 50 comments, 50 Shares and a couple hundred Likes.

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~ Bill
~ US Pictures .com

Richie,

You did make one sale here on FAA.....By me......The ORIGINAL of this marvelous piece:



I treasured the work until Hurricane Sandy took it away from me.

For the rest of you, if you want a visual experience that keeps on giving, may I suggest owning an ink drawing, created by the unique EYE, HAND and MIND of Richie Montgomery.

For myself, I shall in due time replace the irreplaceable.

good luck, I'm trying to do the same.

Good Luck! There is a tremendous amount of different art here on FAA so you "gotta" really work at your own promotion. Sometimes someone finds you and wants your style, so again Good Luck!

Great videos Richie!

Now to get more people to see them.

Richie, it's little consolation - but - you are not alone. (and yes, I've made sales on FAA that cover my accounts)

Richie,

You have star power on Tsu

https://www.tsu.co/DavidBridburg

https://www.tsu.co/RichieMontgomery

Dave

https://www.tsu.co/RichieMontgomery