New To Fine Art America

Welcome aboard William! I love your work! Grew up in the Midwest so I have seen a few barns like those. You did a great job of capturing them!

Here's some reading materials for you. The first one with the 24/75 Rule is a good place to start.

Remember, you need to get your works seen outside of FineArtAmerica/Pixles and much better if you only advertise and promote your own ArtistsWebsite with links to your images.

Response to new FAA member looking for advice – 25/75 Rule
Another Response To A New Member Seeking Help
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

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

you'll want to add more keywords than that. many are a bit generic sounding.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Welcome to the FAA William.
Compliments!

Thank you all for the help. It is greatly appreciated!

If I were you William I would not follow anyone's advice but yourself! Look into your heart and there will be the answers, not from aggressive advise givers who's agenda is to promote their style of working. You have to develop a style which is natural and compatible with yourself, not contrived or fake and like the ones always trying to give advise.

i don't see anything related to using a certain style - and why would i want people to use my style? this thread has to do with marketing.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Vincent.... This thread is about marketing tips and the advise was asked for

Please give your advice on marketing without insulting other members or leave the thread

Hi William

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

http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2567813 Checklist For Success In Print Sales.
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?

Lots of reading but worth it :)

Abbie

OK but I have no tips you think are of value.
This guy says he is new. He asked for any tips, not the Snyder & Savaad lecture on how to run an art sales business.

thank you

Vincent

William is here to sell prints. They sell prints....lots of them. Of COURSE they are going to give advice because that is what good sellers tend to do here

If you are not interested in selling prints then you have no place having a go at those who do and who then give help

Nothing wrong with selling prints.

But I thought Fine Art America was open to original art as well as reproduced mass marketed printing.

If not then I am in the wrong place here.

I know no one who would buy a cheap print including me.

they allow you to sell original prints, but this is a print on demand site

in any case i don't see how your remarks fit in.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Welcome to the site William. There are certainly buyers for barn images. The site has a fantastic search function. After you get comfortable navigating the site. Do a search for "barns". Click around see whats selling, recently added ect...

Anyone know what fine art means? Nothing about POD.

this site is a Print On Demand.

it means stuff printed on paper. if your confused, you should probably log into pixels.com.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Now look MS, you have no authority here on FAA at all. Therefore stop the non art talk. This is not a print only site.

i am a MR

the main function of this site is to sell prints. they let you sell originals. but they limit your keywords and i don't think you rank in the search if you sell it only in that form. but i could be wrong on that. it would be kind of unfair if non prints are in there. for the most part this is a POD.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

So much for steaming punks.

ENOUGH

i'm not sure what your trying get into or how it relates to the original topic.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

OK

@abbie we typed at the same time.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Welcome, The cool thing about this site is it is open to all types of artist. You can sell prints if you wish, just concentrate on originals, not worry at all about sales, personal choice is the key here. I think you will like the site, I have since 2007.

"Anyone know what fine art means? Nothing about POD."

As a matter of fact, I do. And I also know that we sell Fine Art Reproductions printed on various media. That is what the main focus is on FineArtAmerica/Pixles and most other POD sites.

Welcome, William. As you have probably noticed, there are several people on the forums who are willing to share their experiences on what has worked for them - very informative.

Of course, sometimes you have to wade through a lot of useless posts to find those gems. You probably noticed that, too.

Anyway, I noticed that you have created galleries, which is a very good idea, but when I looked, there was only the generic FAA icon as the logo image for each gallery. It would be much better to use one of your own images in the gallery for the logo.

This can be done by using the "edit gallery" function.

Good luck to you, sir!

Some people really need to learn to tolerate those who are opinionated. This PC crap is killing me! William, my advice is to look for advice and opinions from those who are the most critical and opinionated. Then make your own decision. The more the better

Thank you everyone! I've read, and used, a lot of the advice given here. It's all been very helpful. Now I've got to start finding some followers.