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Srinivasan Venkatarajan

9 Years Ago

Reg First Sale

I am just curious to know from artists in Fineartamerica site who are posting Photographs....how long did it take to make the 1st sale in Fineartamerica? What are some of the ways you are drawing buyers to your image? Any tip(s) would be appreciated.

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

this question comes up about once a month and the answers are usually between 2 weeks and never. most avg about a month. to attract attention start with a better bio - saying it's a serious hobby is hardly impressive.

have images others don't have. you have many autumn shots, and mention their town, but it hardly matters where it was shot, it's just a tree, and the type isn't mentioned.

Art Prints
make sure the images are in focus and aren't noisy. besides having issues with printing, a buyer may move onto something in focus.

be sure to give them better names. you named them all the same thing.

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post images you would put on your own wall yourself.

Photography Prints
giant watermark like names are not attractive, and probably won't print. the lighter versions you have above are ok.

Art Prints
that's a really nice shot, but its not in focus and very noisy. it wouldn't print anyway.

to attract attention you need clear images that have intent. people can see right away what the subject is. the images should be the best of the best. once you have that, give it a good title, description and keyword it well - you have about 5 on each image all generic.

after that you have to figure out your audience and find those people on twitter and the like. hashtag it well. the hard part is, if you upload generic thing it will be hard to isolate customers. like i have no idea who likes fall shots. i have a few and only sold a few, it isn't a hot seller because buyers can take those shots themselves.

that's basically all i can say without critiquing anything.


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