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Marty Malliton

8 Years Ago

To Those Who Sell. What Do You Think Gets Your Photo/painting Sold?

I would be looking for some advice from those of you who have sold your work here. Is it your keywords? Is it your marketing beyond Fine Art America? Whatever constructive advice you can offer would be appreciated.
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Edward Fielding

8 Years Ago

Emotional connection made with the buyer.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

its the art. done.

its all of the above. keywords only attract attention, they have to like your work. it has to be for someone. it has to be something you would be willing to buy and put on your own walls. i would stay away from those large frames though. you have to watch your overlay graphics, the ones i've seen are stretched and may prevent printing. having solid themes and a style usually helps well. i'd keep your links out of the description, it doesn't add anything and its distracting. if anything put in the back.

repeating the same images over and over again in each directory will only tire buyers and they may leave thinking they saw it already.

you have some images that are almost entirely made up of frame.

i can critique it if you want, but you didn't ask for that.

---Mike Savad
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Adam Jewell

8 Years Ago

A Google or FAA search combined with what Edward said. Sometimes if I've met the person and handed out biz cards that helps too.

 

Bradford Martin

8 Years Ago

Before you can make a connection to the buyer they have to see it. I think those that buy my work are searching for art or maybe just information on Google. They end up on FAA and see my work there. Some come in off my social media posts, including Twitter and Youtube. And I guess some just go to FAA and find me while searching or browsing. I think I sold at least one through a contest.

 

Jim Hughes

8 Years Ago

Keywords are the only arrows in my quiver. I've been selling a few every month.

 

Gregory Scott

8 Years Ago

First, it's the image. Second, it's having a market that wants to find your images.
I mostly shoot hummingbirds, and iconic national park scenery. Park Visitors and twitchers/birdwatchers are a built in market. If somebody wants to buy a hummingbird or a scenic view of a beautiful place they've visited, they are my customer base.

There are other popular customer bases out there. Flower is an "impossible" sell. If your artistic interests happen to align with popular niche markets, you will sell some prints. Beyond that, you probably need to concentrate on the first point, the quality of the image, and the second point, by doing marketing that creates a market of your own.

 

Janine Riley

8 Years Ago

You have to get to the heart of what people want. & people want to feel....
If you can provide them with that emotion they wish to entertain - you're sold.

Keywords for quite a few sales, brought in others through personal contacts or FB.

 

Rich Franco

8 Years Ago

Marty,

Obviously, the first factor, is that the image has to be good, at least and if betterer, the betterer the chances it will sell. If the image is unique, great quality and seen by an actual buyer, looking for that image type, it will sell.

The "seen by a buyer" is kinda important too, as mentioned above. Since most buyers come from Google to FAA and not just from FAA alone, anything that you can do, to get Mr. Google's attention will help. Example: FAA only looks at the keywords in your image. Google looks at the title,keywords, description and more, so if your image is a red 1947 Ford Coca Cola Delivery Truck, then those words need to be in at least ALL 3 locations.............1947 Ford Coca Cola Delivery Truck.................do a Google search.............

Rich

 

Marty Malliton

8 Years Ago

Rich, thank you. You say all 3 locations? Google, FAA and?

 

Rich Franco

8 Years Ago

Marty,

Sorry, I meant keywords, title and description. Google uses all that info. Did you happen to do a search on that 1947 truck on Google?

Rich

 

Heather Applegate

8 Years Ago

They liked it and thought it would look good on the wall...
Or do you mean what gets it found?

 

Richard Reeve

8 Years Ago

They buy stuff 'cos they like it or think that someone else would, if they're buying as a gift. That's it. It's usually completely unfathomable...

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

selling something isn't magic. many people hope that all you need is a magic keyword, or a special phrase and you'll be let into the secret world of hot selling. but in reality it takes years of practice, observation into what people like, and constant making of stuff. at the same time you have push your work, get people to know your style. its also important to have colors in the image that will match the furniture. while not always a thing, it makes it easier. keywords will only go so far, it will collect the butterflies that are attracted to the black light at night.

fruit and flowers will attract more. you have to go out and advertise yourself. good work will sell it and advertise itself. if people like it, they may tell others. but in any case, its a long hard journey, and there are no magic words.

otherwise they buy it because they like it. its no different than the stuff you buy.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Kathleen Bishop

8 Years Ago

Impulse purchases, pure and simple.

 

Alfred Ng

8 Years Ago

I spent little time marketing my works have little key words but I spent almost all my time creating things I like. knowing there are people out there like the same. I just sold an original painting to a buyer in Australia after uploaded a few weeks on the web.

 

Monsieur Danl

8 Years Ago

'What Do You Think Gets Your Photo/painting Sold?

My agent.

 

Roy Erickson

8 Years Ago

The buyer 'seeing' it - that sells it.

 

Roger Swezey

8 Years Ago

Almost all the work of mine, that I do sell here on FAA are originals.

And the bulk of those sales came from people looking to see if I still exist,by googling either my name or "Vulture Sculpture"

Never, Never by the FAA search engine.


I do much better on other sites, selling both originals and digital art.

But still, it's nothing near the sales I make selling face to face

 

Marty Malliton

8 Years Ago

Rich, I did do a search of 1947 Ford Coca Cola Delivery Truck and your beautiful art came up first. Your FAA site.
Good work.
Marty

 

Marty Malliton

8 Years Ago

Roger, which other art sales sites do you use?
Marty

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

sadly we can't mention any other sites these days.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Melissa Bittinger

8 Years Ago

that's such a bummer we can't talk about other sites 'cause this is the best forum for artists/photogs I've ever seen...so it would be great if we could. Obviously we're HERE too, not like hoards and droves are going to flock elsewhere, it's called diversifying. You know, like offering different products and having multiple sites, lol.

 

Marty Malliton

8 Years Ago

I certainly appreciate all y'all's responses to my question. I have found them all most helpful.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

can't even use the letters any more. and i'm betting rhyming will be out too. one other site did that. they had a whole team to prevent leaks. they now let you talk about everyone freely, because they don't fear the other sites any more.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Jim Hughes

8 Years Ago

There is a POD sub-forum on www.microstockgroup.com where you can post whatever you want to say about any of them - but it's little used.

 

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