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9 Years Ago
Join us on Art Buyers and Sellers on Google – 6,600 Members and growing fast https://plus.google.com/communities/102139676976797891899
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Post all your best work - Be sure it has a link to your purchase page . All art is accepted - Paintings, Photographs, Digital, Sculptures.etc.
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9 Years Ago
David do you know if folks see sales happening after posting to these social media groups? Or does anyone mention that?
9 Years Ago
Hi Andee,
A lot of folks are tight-lipped about their sales –
and it is somewhat difficult to tell where sales come from on FAA –
I do know that my sales on FAA the past 12 months have really, really soared -
I just cannot tell if it is from these groups -
9 Years Ago
I hear you on that. Seems like the harder sales are to come the less folks are willing to share. My sales have tanked since Oct 2014 for the most part. I did have my first repeat buyer from a year ago so that is good. Thanks for the invite. I joined the FB one.
9 Years Ago
David, I recently joined your group on Google and have just joined the Facebook group. Thanks for the opportunity.
9 Years Ago
I joined the G+ community some time ago, just joined the Facebook group - thanks for the invite David
9 Years Ago
Thank you Dorothy for joining -
Wow! lots of folks joining from this post - Thank you all -
9 Years Ago
I need them to skyrocket since I have become disabled I need money more than ever now! Thanks again for the invite! I am not as G+ oriented but I may be back later to join that one too.
9 Years Ago
Thanks David, just joined your FB group, and had apparently joined the google+ group a while ago...I'm not very active on G+, and will try to change that a bit.
9 Years Ago
I joined...but please don't be offended if you see that I eventually remove myself. I have been in two other groups like this on FB. I have never received any sales from them myself, and have never heard any feedback showing me that they really work and generate sales. Mainly I just end up seeing lots of other artists' work in my newsfeed. Would love to hear that BUYERS actually join, not just sellers.
9 Years Ago
I have just joined the facebook group. Looking forward to helping make this work for everyone.
9 Years Ago
David, I just went to the Google+ Community page at the link you posted in the OP and that page displays white spaces where images should be, just like on my Google+ page. I joined your community page but I don't think it will help my sales if the images won't display on the page. Do you know of any solutions? My page is showing blank spaces also - https://plus.google.com/116783385382041099763/posts
9 Years Ago
Kathleen, I see the images on your Google+ page as well as on the community page, so I'm guessing this is something local to your computer/browser
9 Years Ago
Really, Priya? That is too weird. I can see the images I posted a long time ago but none of the more recent ones. Same on David's page. Using the latest version of Chrome and Windows 7.
Glenn McCarthy Art and Photography
9 Years Ago
Joined up. Good to see all the familiar faces on there!
Thanks for the invite David!
9 Years Ago
Valerie - I would not be offended - Thank you for joining - It is difficult to tell if you generate sales from a specific social group - but any time your art is out there for folks to see is a good thing.
Diane - Thank you for joining -
Karen - Thank you for joining - I hope we can all help each of our artists get seen -
Beverly - Thank you for joining -
Kathleen - there may have been an issue with Google + - it is working for me at the moment - Thank you for joining -
9 Years Ago
Glenn - Thank you for joining - Yes - Some great artists are joining our ranks - So good to see everyone there -
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9 Years Ago
since last fall hav seen many mentions of sales going down, Have wondered if it was due to falling promotion. Some who come to FAA I imagine are enthusiastic, and do a lot of promotion, The longer they are hear, the "Glow may wear off, and they slack off. BUT that may not be the cause.
Have done a bit of checking, particularly with Twitter, going to many Twitter accounts, to see how many followere they had. What surprised me, is that after one, two, three months the number of followers had not grown much... And though they had x number, when looking through the messages, there were many who did not seem very active. Also, that a lot of their followers who were, were also ARTISTS..... SO EVEN IF SOMEONE MAY HAVE MADE A PURCHASE, they may make only one or two in a lifetime... Personally we have six from one artist, and all the rest we only bought one... The first, was an investment, He was for decades in who's who, as one of the top ten Marine Painters in the world. Since he passed on, his work has soared...
Now, we use twitter a lot, but what we have found is it is necessary to KEEP getting new followerwe, who are not artists. We add over 1000 new ones each week, to each of three accounts. We do that, because we know that at LEAST 5-8% of Followers even thou they are still following us, they go INACTIVE... or are never sending and reading tweets..... SO if wee did not remove the inactive, and add more new ones every month, in about a year we would be lucky to have ANY who were reading our tweets or clicking the links to see our work..... Some say Twitter does not work, agree, if you do not consistently add new followers...
We use Tweet-adder to manage our three Twitter accounts, and in addition to the 1000 we activelly try to get to follow us weekly, 400 or so weekly just follow us due to the high percentage who ReTweet our Images and links... Only about 13-17 a week of those unfollow....
When we want to sell, we have to Promote.... and to a targeted audience who are not artists themselves... We have seen our views steadily increase over the years... Currently we have Total Visitors: 1,787,876 in a couple of years and maybe 3-4 months... OVER 500,000 visits since September 2014.....
Bob Johnston
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9 Years Ago
I just joined your G+ community and will join your facebook soon. Thanks for the invitation, David.
9 Years Ago
Joined both, but I'm a little disturbed by the google+ group.
There seems to be 2 sections dedicated to buyers, but they're inundated by posts from sellers
9 Years Ago
Guess the google+ group won't matter for much longer anyway.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-is-slowly-phasing-out-google-112517429669.html
9 Years Ago
Hi David -
Yes there is - I will need to clarify where to post in the instructions area - Thank you for joining
9 Years Ago
Hi David... long time since we last spoke... how's it going? Just joined the FB group. Any limitations on the posts... that FB wall could end up becoming HUGE with a few hundred artists posting a few hundred images each!! Thoughts? Sorry for inquiring, I haven't surfed the site yet, maybe that information is already noted. Would you know how to link personal FB Photo pages to this group page? I have my Photo Page attached to my personal page (not sure if that was a good idea when I created it a year ago). Take care!
9 Years Ago
Hi Patrick - Great to hear from you -
Yes there is a limit of three posts per day - If things get too crowded I cam make adjustments : )
Whenever you post your name is a link to your FB page.
Have fun with it and welcome
Mystic - So glad you joined us - welcome
9 Years Ago
Wow! - today is the FB groups one week anniversary and we just hit 100 members
The Google+ membership just passed 7,800 members
Everyone is welcome to come join us - - -
9 Years Ago
Hi Andee - No one mentions that - But I have been watching my posts and have seen visits other than bots after posting work -
My sales have increased since using social networking - but - I can not definitively say they were from my posts
Carlin Blahnik CarlinArtWatercolor
9 Years Ago
Joining your groups, thanks for the invite.
I just added a link from FAA image to the g+ page, there is a big space in the post below the image. How do I avoid this?
Now, on to fb to give that a go...
9 Years Ago
Hi Carlin -
Thank you for joining us -
I just took a look at your posts and they look fine - no big spaces
9 Years Ago
I found the group on Google + but how do I join? I'm still a newby at the Google plus.
Edit: I think I'm already there because I'm able to post...do I post to the Artsit Lounge or Post your art Here? Or both?
9 Years Ago
I am going to create my own sellers google+ page too, mostly just to promote the reddit page, so please don`t feel like I am trying to compete with you - I didn`t even know your page existed when I made the reddit page - hopefully we can help each other out :)
9 Years Ago
No problem Shawn - Room for everyone - Place a link here so I can join - Thanks for joining both groups - Dave
9 Years Ago
Here you go! :)
I`m really good at moderating things so I tend to pop things up wherever I can think of it hehe.. did you want to do an exchange? I provide a link to your group on the right and you provide mine on your page?
https://plus.google.com/communities/101418712105374578601
9 Years Ago
er.. how does one edit the community details after they made the page?
nvm found it hehe..
*edit* added you to the links on the page!