How To Promote Faa On Twitter

You can post photos twitter. Just click on the little camera Icon on the bottom right of the "Compose new Tweet" window.

Jennifer -- I've shared this link in a few threads here, so here it is again. Its not so much that you need to be on Twitter but that you have a presence on as many social media platforms possible ... then you dominate the one where your buyers are not so much followers. Get a book found at your library -- Social BOOM! - by Jeffery Gitomer.

Since I've been doing more and more what this guy says things have been getting better and better for my business:

"What should I tweet, what should I post, how should I link?"

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I just followed you on twitter, Jennifer! Good luck...make sure you use hashtags when possible. (#)

try to always send people to your AW store. remove anything you don't need - the "i uploaded part" you don't need. i place my tags at the end so its easy to read - add #yourname #keyword #personYouWantToAttract #doctor #veterinarian #soldier etc. be sure to find followers for the things you sell. you can only follow 2000 people until the ratio kicks in. so do add too many too fast. many will look at the ratio and i think they look for a balanced ratio - 1000 following you, and your following a 1000 people. you don't want it too unbalanced.


and don't tweet too many at once, many are turned off by that. try to avoid posting images in the stream - a few are ok, but too many and it becomes a facebook gallery. they don't click on the samples.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I just really started using twitter a little over a month ago so take my info with a grain of salt...

To get followers I found pictures people were re-tweeting... and then I followed the re-tweeters... I figured they would be more likely to retweet my posts...

I went from 35 followers on 10/5 to 2200 now... Like Mike said after 2200 ratios kick in.... I can now only follow about 200 more people then I have following me... I unfollow anyone who does not follow me back after a couple days... to track this I use http://unfollowers.com, sort by oldest not following and unfollow them... So everyday I remove 100 people and add 100 people... about 30 to 50 percent of the people I follow follow back... I hope to add about 1000 a month doing this... I also get new followers from people seeing my images and re-tweeting... 20-30 a day so far...

I use google analytics to track activity back to my AW site and any tweet with a link generates 5-10 link clicks... I am new here and still waiting on my first sale through the site... I have sold work outside the site that I print locally.

I followed you... if you want you can follow me here https://twitter.com/buffcleb

Thanks everyone for the advise. With 4 jobs, time is limited, so please bare with me. I think I've followed all of you. I'm hoping to upgrade on FAA this week if I can ever get a break for lunch. I'll post in discussions and will appreciate any feedback on my new photos. Hopefully the AW set up will be quick with my limited time. It'll take me some time to learn how all the hashtags work. Thanks again. The one thing I love about FAA is how the majority of us work together and help each other out.

Hi Jennifer.I'm following you .
Would you please follow me .https://twitter.com/roypedersen

Can someone tell me how to get the hashtags to work on Twitter please?

I followed you Roy on both Twitter and FAA. Thank you. Venetia, I'm still learning the Hashtag thing but I think it's like a link that people can click on and then everything under that link comes up. Correct me if I'm wrong.

for example - #rhino #rhinoceros #tough #animal #yourname

all one word. the hastag serves two purposes

1. its a keyword (use only big things. like don't mention grass unless its all grass.
2. place words that you want people to be attracted too. like this animal might be in an #animalPreserve #hunted or #delicious. it really depends who you are trying to attract. don't do too many and don't place them in the middle of a sentence because it makes it hard to read.

while its ok to follow other artists - we aren't buying from you. you want to try to follow people that may buy from you.

hastags are keywords that allow you to group things up. #ConanObrian - would place only his stuff in a list. and those looking for that tag would see all of them #2012Tsunami or the like would group those up. but the tags are what people use to find you in the search. the text i don't think is seen.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

How do you create a # that links to your name?

Type #jenniferwhite like this...no spaces

Another way to get followers is to check profiles that you like and/or are similar and follow people they are following, Most people will follow back. Make sure to "unfollow" a percentage of people who don't follow back. You have to maintain a ratio or Twitter will 'freeze" your account.

Good info! I have no comment at this time, but I'm flagging this to be followed. I want to come back to it.

Sorry for another question but you said to hash tag my name #jenniferwhite. My twitter page is named after my business Timeless Moments Photography. I'm guessing I can make a tag for that or for my @ name #tmomphotography?

@ will send a message to a person - you don't want that. and if it lines up with someone they can report you as spam. try to break up the line with capital letters #JenniferWhite its easier to read. i would use #TimelessMoments. its easier to read and people won't wonder what the heck Tmom is. you don't want it too long, your trying to attract people with these. the name you add like your own name just groups tweets up and makes it easier to recognize. the tags should be directly related to what your selling.

if its a horse - you would say #horse #horseBreeding #anything equine.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Thanks Mike. Yeah #TMom was the only thing available. All the other options close to TimelessMomentsPhotography was taken or too long. I know, I have a common name.

then TMphotography. the mom thing is confusing.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

The TMphotography had already been taken. That was my 2nd choice.

Twitter is so confusing. It looks like a mess to me. My home page seems full of things from people I'm not even following. It's hard to read, hard to understand. When I follow someone, I get this message from what looks like spam (ex: unfollow, etc). There's been a couple times I tweeted on someone's page to introduce myself and then some other company would favorite it and it would be an ad. Looks like it's full of spam. Going to take some time to get use to.

keep it simple. forget about names, just add your own and the tags you need. you need the tags to make it easier to read. people interested in small dogs would do a search for #SmallDogs (maybe). and yours would come up. people will lock onto what they want to read. its like hearing your name or something your interested in, in a large room with everyone talking.

i only tweet on my own page.

twitter really isn't a place to introduce yourself. its more like a large community board at the local pool, where people place those little tags that you rip off for whatever service they sell. where as the pool itself is facebook, colorful, noisy, and full of feet, food and cats. just post your stuff on the board and leave it like that.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

If you don't tweet on others bd what's the best way to get followers? I only have 9. I've followed others such as interior designers but some aren't following back & I dont want to get ratio to off balance.

you don't need to worry about ratios yet... follow hundreds of people... you will get followers... I look for people who re-tweet

you find people and follow them. your not at a party, your in a candy store gathering your favorite color jelly beans. large name people, interior designers etc probably get spammed by us all the time. if they want it, they will find you.


each image will have its own people. i would look for: hunters, taxidermists, deer lovers, conversationalists, tree huggers, tanners, deer leather people.

follow them all. then when you shoot this up on twitter you would use those same tags #taxidermist #hunter #deermeat #skinner #animal #deer #huntingArt something like that. then the hunters who need decorations for their walls, to compliment the heads, may look for wall art that is deer based, and will looking for HuntingArt which might what they are looking for.

follow some from each one. some will follow some won't. clean up the list using http://manageflitter.com/unfollow - use the free version. its a bit tricky to use now, but it allows you to remove the junk. since you have a ratio.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Thanks guys.

While Mike is right about the hashtags, remember that some groups out there are sort of mutually exclusive. I have quite a few animal rights followers, who wouldn't appreciate the hunter hashtag on one of my wildlife shots. But the hunters are definitely a market. A guy bought a big print of a mountain goat from me once and I found out it was to go on the wall in a local gun store.

true but they wouldn't look at those. you would send them different days. today you send i to hunters and skinners. a month from now you re-tag it - animal lovers, deer huggers, santa pullers etc.

chances are neither one would notice unless they remembered the shot.

animals usually fall into two groups:

1. oh, how cute
2. food, heads, and skin.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

yeah, that would work. Might try it myself. Thanks Mike,

deer have so many uses, especially this time of year. this is really an exercise on how to creatively rip apart an image and find anything or anyone that might make a use of it. like people that raise cows for steak, might want steak images. or farm images. its a creative thinking exercise.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Is it a good idea to use hashtags in keywords on our AWs?

not in keywords. they won't do anything there, won't help you in google. they are only used in social forms - twitter, facebook, google plus. there isn't much point in doing it in the tags. and for all i know will mess up the search.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Thanks Mike. Guess it wouldn't work in descriptions either.

If there were animal rights people following you, I have a couple following me, even if you used hash tags like hunting, and such wouldn't they still see it?

Wrong thread, sorry

When you make a sale, don't use the automated FAA tweet. I just sold something and tweeted this:

Sold a print of my #cowboy to an #artcollector in Surprize, AZ. Help my #artwork be seen & share. http://t.co/h26s8jjmOQ #southwest #western

I delete the via Fine Art America part and the other references to FAA so I have room for my own words and hashtags.

I'm just getting started on Twitter, and I'm an emerging artist, so this is all very helpful to me. Thanks, everyone!

Twitter is confusing - maybe hopelessly confusing for newbies today, because it's like as soon as we turn on the tap, the room is flooded. Twitter (the company) knows this and has been teasing some sort of major change or upgrade that will make it all simpler and easier to understand. I'm sort of waiting for that. But so far it's just vapor.