New Member Looking For Advice

I cannot read the profile properly with blue on black, sorry

The logo looks a little warped?

The images are awesome

Here are some great posts on the forum about marketing your work and site

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2220588 Marketing 101 By Mike Savad
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2040787 A Few Reasons Y U May Not Be Selling
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=377664 Marketing Yourself
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=358080 Promoting Your Art
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1601966 Six Month Observation About Marketing
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1192902 Evaluating Your Own Work To Sell
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2201441 Elephant In The Room - Maybe Your Art Just Isnt That Good...
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2193130 The Formula To Pricing Art?

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Yep, resize the logo, and go a little lighter on the colors of your bio text. Me personally, I find the stark black background jarring, but I know there are many who like it just fine.

Abbie gave you a bunch of good reading to start with, also if you search the forums for "marketing" you'll get a zillion results. Remember this place is a platform for you to sell your work, you have to get out there and do the marketing yourself. Send buyers to your site.

Welcome, and best of luck with your work, looking good so far!

John how in h@ll did you get over 900 images up so fast!?

Welcome aboard and best of luck to you.

Here is some good reading for you. At the rate you work should have them read in about 28 seconds! lol



A Few Reasons Why You May Not Be Selling

Work Smarter Not Harder To Beat The Big Guys

50 Effective Tips to Help You Sell You Art

start people in galleries first. your work looks nice, but you should raise your prices.

the hard part about selling your stuff here is for the most part - it looks like stock. and because of that, few livingrooms will get the work. unless there is a theme some place like eggs or breakfast, i can see some of them selling. but it has that stock feel, and because of that i may look off site to see if i can get it cheaper as stock.


i'm not sure how many rooms in a house a egg against white will work in.... the compression on this site doesn't help that background at all btw. nothing you can do about that though. you have very few keywords on this - fresh,oval,ovaloid, breakfast, hard boiled, easter etc are words you should use.

the link you sent with all the links in the bio - is confusing and very hard to read. keep the bio focused to the art you make, not the products you sell.

the biggest issue you have right now - your galleries and your total images do not add up. 950 images vs i think about 200 or less in galleries. which means a buyer would miss most of your work. and they are not going to search (probably not), or wade through the work.


the other thing i'd work on are your titles. they are very generic sounding. though this will break the link, it just sounds too dry and stock like.

beyond that you have to advertise yourself.



Marketing 101 by Mike Savad
Why Your Work May Not Be Selling - By Mike Savad
Evaluating Your Own Work To Sell – By Mike Savad
How To Critique And Edit Your Own Work For Better Sales
---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Assuming you have finished that last reading assignment, here is your next assignment:

Response to new FAA member looking for advice

Another Response To A New Member Seeking Help

Mike, please do not add why YOU feel work will not sell unless it is a technical issue. Nobody here has any idea what a customer would buy or not buy when they see it. I have asked you before.

eg the egg may very well sell for a kitchen, farm shop or even someone with an egg fetish. You have NO way of knowing.

Thank you all for your advice - I will start my reading now!

i have a pretty good way of knowing, i look at a lot of stuff. its hard to know what to say to increase the sales without expressing my view point...

...what's an egg fetish?

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Why does the AW say Fine Art America in the header?

Mr. Williams had his logo there before, maybe he's editing it to fit. Just because FAA hosts the Artist Website page doesn't mean you have to brand it with the FAA logo.

Mine doesn't have it, most don't.
http://cynthia-decker.artistwebsites.com/

I was just updating it to a new style :)

Im not sure I even wanna know what a person with an egg fetish does with eggs. Hopefully just love to eat them and look at them maybe makw egg art