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8 Years Ago
Quick question.... Was wondering if my prices look too high for buyers? Or am I not putting out the right type of art for buyers?
http://adam-norman.artistwebsites.com/
Sample of my art included.
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Glenn McCarthy Art and Photography
8 Years Ago
Can't say Adam. I think you have lots of work to do to compete in this environment at those prices.
I can say that unless you put more effort into keywords and descriptions that you are going to be hard to find by the buying public.
This is a 24 hour work cycle! Have your food catered.
8 Years Ago
In my opinion your prices seem rather low Adam - at leat fir the one I looked at. Good light and happy photo making, Juergen
8 Years Ago
Some seem low and have an inconsistency... Panky, for example.
Similar images should have the same price for the same sizes? I am all for photos having one and illustrations having another but that is not the case here.
You need to drive traffic to your page to get buyers... Mike will be posting some of his articles to this post soon, all are worthwhile so take the time to read them!
8 Years Ago
my views just jumped over 200 just from putting in key words on 12 of my pictures. wow!!!
8 Years Ago
Those would be search engine bots indexing your work so real people can eventually find it.
8 Years Ago
Adam, art is in the eye of the beholder, perfect example Yoko Ono and John Lennon. I certainly would not find a sign up a ladder that simply says YES art,
but apparantly John did LMAO!!
Anyway, I like your stuff, and so will many, you could always experiment with prices, but since you are so new, i would give it some time.
8 Years Ago
Adam,
Welcome,
You have some nice stuff and then not so nice stuff and I would pull ALL the non-graphic stuff off, out of focus, soft, blurry,etc. I don't understand why your graphic images are so small? any of your copies you have, won't get printed, if they sell, since the lighting is poor and you didn't crop out the background,so the printer won't print those either. I would keep your prices on the good stuff high, $32 or so and then up from there.
Only post your strong stuff,never post any weak images, like "bird" because that will keep people from going any further, lot's of very good artists here and buyers won't spend time looking at bad images, hoping to see a few good ones............
Rich
8 Years Ago
For an unknown artist with no name recondition, no following, higher prices will usually equal lower sales unless you are a very skilled at Internet marking and advertising. Add in the factor that you only have 60 some odd images, that too will add up to lower sales vs it you had 250 or 1000. Number of uploads do make a difference. Not to mention that a lot of your images are not salable and should come down. All that considered, I would think that raising price is going to work against you.
But all of that said, no one can put a price on you artwork. Your prices should be based on where you want to go, how you want to get there and where you have been in your art career. Only you can answer those questions.
The best sellers on FAA are usually those that can get the most exposure outside of FAA in front of the greater art buying market. You maybe want to consider what some of the other major art retailers are selling similar kind of work for. Look at Art.com, Prints.com, etc, etc and figure out where you want to be and what price in compared to the overall marketplace.
But personally I would start slow, keep my prices competitive and be more worried about getting your uploads cleaned up and getting a few hundred uploads up. Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint.
The other thing is you should remember that you want to promote your ArtistWebsite, not your gallery on FAA or Pixels, but your ArtistsWebsite. And you will have to promote. FAA is not going to do that for you and you will not be found in the FAA search. The FAA search favors the top sellers and some of them have been selling here for years.
Best of luck to you.
8 Years Ago
I've added some new pics, taken the ones you guys said to take down, and added more key words.... i must admit the river pics look really nice.
8 Years Ago
Adam,
There is a big market for cartoon characters. Search for them in the FAA search function. Get an idea from that search
as to what you might price.
Welcome and good luck,
Dave
8 Years Ago
Sometimes it is better, when you are an unknown, to just cover your costs. Eventually increasing your prices as your work becomes more in demand. If you aren't selling a ton of prints a week, you are not in high demand. And that means your work cannot demand a high price.
8 Years Ago
Dude!
You still have stuff that won't sell on your site, all the photography should probably come down,even the waterfall/river shots, not sharp and blown out a bit. If you NEED to keep the river shots, then fine, that's up to you, but more snapshots than art.
Think about removing these:
Landmark,sand dollars,waterfalls,POW,Fire,petal,stuff,pipes,Mya,Jedi,roses,rose 1, tree,girl,dragon,whip it,superhero, all have issues and the ones where you can see stuff behind the sketch,won't get printed.
Concentrate on your comic book characters, not photography, for now. Keep your prices high on the good stuff that remains, pricing here doesn't affect buyers, as if they were shopping in a store,they see something they like, a few bucks won't keep them from buying this item.
Keep working on your keywords, do some research.look at other artist's work here with the same graphic type images and see what keywords they use. Do a search for "Anime" and see what comes up first and then see what keywords they used!
This is not an easy marketplace, but with hard work, you can sell stuff,
Good Luck,
Rich
8 Years Ago
Is that better? I uploaded some of the pics from the originals by taking new pics of the artwork. let me know. thanks guys/gal for all the help on this. It's good to get great advice!
8 Years Ago
In your piece Green is the new black, which is a green rectangle with minor black shading, that piece will cost me $107.00 dollars before shipping in a 7"x10" frame. Judging by this and from the others on your site, I think you are pricing yourself out of competition. I would drop all images with grid paper lines and binder rings showing.
8 Years Ago
I'm glad someone else said it first, I have to agree with John, the prices seem quite high to me. Also in regards to that black/green image, it appears to be full of compression artifacts, I don't think FAA would print it. If you are going to save as jpg make sure the quality is set to the highest.
Also, "Roses in Bloom" really needs to be removed from the sketchbook so it can be scanned properly. I know it hurts to tear out those sketches from a spiral bound sketchbook but it has to be done to get a good scan.
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8 Years Ago
that piece will cost me $107.00 dollars before shipping in a 7"x10" frame.
Not necessarily a fair judgment on price as the printing and framing is $72 of that. Even if the artist only charged 5 bucks it would be $82.
It is a touch blocky though it may work at the sizes listed.
(Unless of course the price was lowered before I looked.)
8 Years Ago
Adam,
Do you have any photos of you darker...............LOL! Not a good avatar, draw one or get somebody to photograph a better image of you.
If you want to treat this a a business, then start creating on the computer and have high quality images right away. If this is just a hobby then,really who cares. Your choice,
Rich
8 Years Ago
Who knos about the prices. I had a sale today and it is just a few days after huge price drop, maybe just a coincidence, maybe not.. I will probably go lower with bigger prints.
8 Years Ago
Prefer original image. Cropped image looks crammed and chopped. The abundance of background brings the image to the foreground. It looks like you trimmed it just to fit a frame. The amount of yellow hair requires more space.
8 Years Ago
its brighter now, but it doesn't really say who you are. in any case your main goal to clean up your work, and sort them out into categories. not - digital work and photos, and then make the viewer go through them all. create more work, things you would hang on your own wall, then advertise to many people. i wouldn't do anime, besides being copyrighted, there are too many that already make these, and they are animator quality. and those that watch anime, i don't think decorate with it.
---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
Martin,
If you hear a knock on your door, it's the FAA Price Police,which I just notified for abuse of pricing! LOL!
You, of all people shouldn't be LOWERING your prices, your lowest is now $13??? So you make a buck on that sale? You have your 40x print for $107.68, so you'll make about $60 on a 40" print??? My 40" print is $287.37!, so I make $228! When you lower your prices and on images as good as these are, you are doing a disservice to yourself AND other artists! By selling for these ridiculous prices, you are indirectly forcing other artists of your same level of art, to lower their's. "If I can get a Capek for $13, why should I buy from Jo Smo for $35?
Obviously, you can do whatever you want, but as a business decision not good, your work is way too good to be offered at this price.
Adam, Yepper, I like the new avatar, just fine!
Rich
8 Years Ago
Rich: But if itīs something unsellable for some price isnīt lowering prices logical move? It is fantastic that you have buyers who are paying $287, I would really love to have sales like that too, but I havenīt. Second thing is that I am used on microstock prices and I am from a cheap country, so 60 bucks is pretty good price for me. Comparative advantage I guess.
"If I can get a Capek for $13, why should I buy from Jo Smo for $35?" Exactly. I hope that it will help my to get little bit higher in search rank
My plan is to keep it low for few months, then I will delete my worst work. After that I will try to upload some good pictures from a trip which I plan. Together with this I will star slowly increasing my prices.
Thanks for liking my work. Sorry for my English.
8 Years Ago
not really. you selling that piece for chump change may have been a lucky coincidence. my sales just started coming back on all sites.
however if you sell your pieces on here and stock sites, people will buy the cheap stock.and if the work looks like stock people may not want to spend more on it.
never erase the work. it could take years before it's been on there long enough to start selling. as long as you liked it when you made it, and its printable, always keep it up. mostly you want to keep advertising the work and getting your name known.
---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
hey i wanted to ask cuz i'm a newb like everyone says... How do I post my art here without it looking like a url?? Also, is there a place to post "work in progress" or do i have to make a gallery for that? - Adam
8 Years Ago
i would make a folder for a work in progress, but i doubt it will help sales any.
to post the image - on the right you'll see a box near the color squares. under that is the code, select, copy then past the code here, and you have a picture.
---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
Here's a simpler version of how to:
Here's how you add your images to any discussion:
1. Go to your Artist page, and then to Galleries and then to the image you want to include in your thread.
2. In the lower right hand corner of your image, that shows how the art can be ordered, framed,canvas,etc, in the bottom is a box, just under the color pallette, click on that box.
3. With the box now highlighted, do a "CTL C"
4. Return to the discussion thread that you want to add the image to and do a "paste" or a "CTL V"
a href='http://fineartamerica.com/featured/ball-of-light-marco-island-beach-rich-franco.html' size='20'>
5. You're almost there! The image will show up after you hit "submit"
6. Extra credit!!! You can change the size of your image by changing the 2 numbers after the "=" sign, width & height, but do so proportionally so you don't distort the image.
Rich
8 Years Ago
$105 for a phone case? I am getting people telling me that $35 is too expensive and that is only a $5 profit to me. I would drop the prices a bit and see if you get more action.
8 Years Ago
i charge $57 for mine. they sell fine. $105 is way too much.
---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
I get $20 on my phone covers. They sell fine. (Price a good phone case at Wallyworld, $50 is midrange even there.)
Yupp, do NOT delete work, it has to percolate for a while before it starts selling. Don't delete just as it might be ready. Martin, you have nice work. MOST of my sales after the image has been up for over a year. Took at least a year for four of my five best sellers to sell at all. Now they sell on a regular basis. Never delete images!
(I also agree with Rich on the pricing.)
8 Years Ago
Martin, others.
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=a7572880eae6a4cabb14f38fab7db281
It's not about price here, but the image and how unique it is compared to others here. Don't sell your self short and hope "quantity" of sales is the answer. For some here, yes, that is the way to go, but your stuff doesn't fall into that category.
As I've said many times, I'd rather not sell something for $300 than sell it for $30! If artists keep lowering their prices, it's a quick trip to the bottom. Good artists need to maintain a level of value and that helps ALL other artists of that same value and quality. Lowering your prices, hurts other artists at your quality level,
Rich