9 Years Ago

Search Colour Filters

Search Colour Filters - please note, I started a new thread because I didn't want to hijack John's thread

How buyers find art - one artist's journey into the unknown workings of a search filter

1 - search by key word, ie - Ballet shoes
Result - 1224 images, one collection with 37 image (none of them in Blue - next) - not going through 1224 image - narrow search...

2 - search by colour filter - Blue - start in the middle work towards left (primary)
Result
first colour hit - nothing, blank, same collection - next
Second hit - one of my images shows up - placement four - not the image I'm looking for
Third hit - same image shows up - placement six - keep going
Page four - a different image of mine shows up - not primarly a blue image
Page five - my Just do it poster shows up - multicoloured - has the blue image in the poster but I'm looking for the actual blue image not there
Page seven - my backstage ballet dancer shows up - not the image I'm looking for but it's blue

Nowhere does the Just do it print in blue come up under that blue coloured filter
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/just-do-it-blue-barbara-st-jean.html

3 - frustration setting in - I go back to the image (above) in my portfolio - click on the first colour filter - type in ballet shoes in the search and my image comes up last... same collection shows on top (why)
I go into colour filters and look for the default colour - the colour is not here - it's not listed - can't find it

Summary
A. I did not assign that colour to my image, the system did it automatically.
B. A blue image of ballet shoes should not be that hard to find
C. Shopper left the building

Logical fix - All images that are in any shade of Blue should show up if a single "Blue" colour filter is picked using the tags (Ballet, shoes) - smart Idea - Put them in a collection of Ballet shoes - Blue
Let the system do it automatically based on the tags and if a automatically assigned colour filter is in the blue spectrum - anywhere in the blue spectrum - put it in the ballet shoe- blue collection please. How hard is that...

I know top sellers should come up in the searches close to the top, yes I agree, but if the shopper is looking for a specific subject in a specific colour (blue) please make it easier to find.

I have no intentions promoting this site if all I am is a needle in a haystack of fig leaves...

No disrespect intended - these are only my personal findings and they are not the view of this station - news at six...

Thanks, Barbara

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

also try refreshing the page a few times. i found that many of the images changed, not only the artists images, but the artists themselves.

though i still wonder how many use that color feature.

---Mike Savad
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Barbara St Jean

9 Years Ago

@ Mike - "though i still wonder how many use that color feature"

All interior designer shop by colour, they have a palette for the room they are designing and the art must match.

They pick a theme, ie, ballet shoes and then a colour ie blue... if they get frustrated they leave and buy somewhere else.

Interior designers have bought my art directly through me for going on 30 years... my sales on this site are pitiful in comparison and it's not because I don't market myself, I DO MARKET and have a degree in Business, I am not ill prepared for the on-line market.

Many interior designers refuse to use FAA for order fulfillment because of the search issues. Sean can argue marketing all he wants, if the problem is not fix, that market segment will continue to shop elsewhere. Simple, that's why sale have drop for some of the best sellers....and the artists like myself who got in later in the game (on FAA) don't stand a chance regardless of how much promoting they do... unless they hold the buyer's hand and walk them through the process. My time is better spent else where, because if I can't blanket market and get any concrete results then why would I continue to do it.

Order fulfillment businesses are a dime a dozen... ever town has one and shipping is less, no duties... the list goes on.

I want to use FAA, I would love it if it work as intended. I could reach a market demographics that I can't reach in Canada, but first my buyers need to be able to find the art they are looking for. And my buyer are designers.

My two cents...IMO only

Barbara

Barbara St Jean

9 Years Ago

Hope your feeling better soon Mike!!

Cheers, Barbara

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

yeah me too.... i have to stop looking up symptoms online, each one says to go to a hospital and thinks its the worst possible thing. on the plus side i don't have to call in sick. on the minus side i still have to make things. though be it more slowly.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Barbara St Jean

9 Years Ago

That on-line doctoring thing...can be scary. Who would have thought those symptoms could mean so many different things.

On the plus side, yes you don't have call in sick, but us self employed don't get sick days either. Try to take it easy, obviously your need rest. Your creativity will be there just the same when you feel better, at least that's the way it works with me. Have a nice cup of tea and a nap.

Cheers, Barbara

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