Hello! I Am Newcomer And I Have Not Views

Do you promote and post your work on social media?

1. your sideways. being sideways tells me you don't edit your images
2. you have to advertise.
3. looking at your images, the images are better than how your avatar looks.



content wise, i don't know who your targeting, who your audience is. portraits of people generally look like family shots. your description leads people to the competition and it doesn't help you in any way. people want to know about the image, that's what the box is for. you have a lot of spam in that - pyramids, symbol, lenin, mausoleum, cathedral etc. this is two people in front of an old house.


you have to advertise your work to the people your making this for. waiting for it to happen - won't happen.



some of these don't even have title. which makes it even harder to find you.


this has spam - ice cream, bicycles etc.


anyway


you have to remove the spam words.
you have to advertise to people
you should replace the avatar with a right side up one or people may not click for the reason i assumed.
you want more than 25 pieces.
you want to use the description box to talk about the piece, and not spam another site.
all images should have a real title.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation! Only I did not understand at the expense of my avatar and the you have to advertise to people

Best regards, Inna

when people upload a sideways avatar, the site doesn't flip them automatically. so they usually have work that matches that avatar. in your case your lying down. however your still sideways and that doesn't look professional. people may pass you by if that's the only thing you have to invite people in. also you really shouldn't post other sites in the bio, you'll just send customers to some other store. and since they aren't live links, not only can they not click on them, they won't help you in google either.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Inna,

Very nice work. I enjoyed viewing the work.

You start your prices at $52 per print, but as the sizes get larger you only add a bit more price wise.
I start lower but as the sizes get larger I go much higher in price. Just a reflection on how I see things.
No real comment.

Dave

Inna, I agree, you need to straighten up your avatar.

Your work is excellent and much to serious to use a whimsical avatar, if that was your intent.

And yes, you have to advertise your work outside of FAA.

Read the articles below and pay attention to the 25/75 Rule in the first article.

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

I like the sideways avatar, it's eye catching. It's supposed to be sideways.

Advertising means you have to post your work on the internet (Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Instagram,) and send people to your work here. Fine Art America is a store, but you have to do the marketing. Love your work!

Your work is amazing! So unique! Love your style! I see nothing wrong with your avatar!

my face looks better side, ahah :-)
you are so responsive and came to help, thank you very much! I think I begin to understand their mistakes. sorry for my bad english :-)

Inna, I like your avatar too...BUT the vast majority of buyers looking at your work are NOT artists and may not understand why your picture is sideways. Your work is beautiful and intriguing...don't do anything to put a buyer off and prevent them from looking at all your artwork. Titles and descriptions are more important than one might think. And certainly, as Mike mentioned, keywords have to match the image. If there is no ice cream in the image, then don't use that keyword. Using spam keywords could actually get you in trouble on the site. Plus you want to use the correct keywords for each image if you want buyers to find your images. Also, put your own name in as a keyword for each of your images.

A sideway avatar makes you look unprofessional and that you do not know what you are doing. I strongly suggest changing it

Spam keywords may get you to lose ALL your keywords when we go through them so sort them out now

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Abbie.... I am confused, what are "spam keywords"??

spam keywording is when the key words don't have anything to do with the image... it's used as a technique to get images (or web pages) into searches that aren't relevant.

-Richard Reeve
ReevePhotos.com

Oh... thanks, Richard!

The avatar isn't sideways - its a levitation shot.

Your portraits are brilliantly done - but more geared towards magazine/print ads and such. This site is mostly geared towards wall decor for people's homes, offices, etc. So you may not find people who are looking to put model portraits on their livingroom wall.

Just looks sideways here at first glance I am afraid.

Inna,

People don't see that your avatar is you "floating" and that's not an issue. I looked at all of your images and they are very good, just don't know if they have a market here or not. Good fashion shots and that's who you should market to,especially from your location. Your keywords need to be worked on, if you want to sell prints here. I "liked" the first 7 or so images and none had been liked before, so that's something you need to do, each time you upload a new series of images.

You need to put a small "hip" book together and market the magazine people, either locally or Nationally.

As far as your "art", you need to tell a story with your images, if you want to sell them and you need a lot more. Think Anne Geddes. Each of her images tells a complete story and that's why she sells as she does. You can do the same, I see that in your images. Here's an example:



Hope this helps,

Rich

the levitating one is interesting, but now it blends in. do you have a head shot in portrait?

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Now I see levitation! Way better

Geeze guys get off the avatar - I see terrible avatars all the time on the sales pages. Good grief, that isn't the problem.

Anne Geddes sells squishy cute babies. This woman's model work is crazy good - she should be focused on marketing herself towards licensing for covers, and booking print ad work not attempting to sell one for above someone's couch.

Hopefully by fixing keywords and putting herself out there more she'll get there.

I simply see no need to take the risk of turning some one off.

The whimsical just does not match the art.

I see these kind of avatars all the time here and I never click on them.

But the avatar is no going to make or break the success here. The adverting and promoting will make a difference. That and adding a lot more images.

Heather,

Did you read my post? IF Inna wants to sell here, I gave her some suggestions, but mentioned that her real "art" would be magazines and fashion stuff?

Rich

I'm with Heather and Rich on pretty much everything they said about the work and the avatar, which I did see was a levitation shot...so I 'got' it but that is going to be hard to see on smaller screens, like tablets and cellphones. For the life of me I do not know why someone would buy large art based on what they can see on a cellphone?

Listen to Mike for sure about tagging correctly and better plus no spam words...and give titles to the work for sure. Use social media.

Love your bio, very nicely done imo (in my opinion) and I love the work you have created :o)

thanks for the tips :-) very glad of your help. I have not thousands of photos, as I do the staging and shooting one frame spend a few days. I love photograph Oleg Oprisco and He sells his photos, they are the same as my unformatted

Heather, please do not talk to me like that. Perhaps you did not see the very first avatar but that's okay, we did and that is the one I was responding to. I was quite happy with the second and would have clicked on that one.

Yes, avatars are surprisingly important. Many people see an avatar and respond to that first. I change mine regularly and have made quite a few discoveries about the kind that work and those that do not, to get people to actually click through.

In the first avatar choice I did not want to click through initially. Nor did others. So people told her. That is what people do here...try and help others get buyers to their pages.

Now Inna is hiding her face behind a flower but I'm not going there....much better than the original

Lovely work

avatars are your actual face people relate too and look for. whether your in a forum or another website. the avatar should be the SAME in all of them. this way the buyer knows its you and they can contact you where ever. true many people on the sales page might have a bad one, and a bad one won't break a sale, but it may prevent people from being curious of what's inside of a store.

usually i can tell what kind of work is inside.

if its sideways - more than not they are a painter or an amateur photographer that doesn't know about orientation aware programs.
if its blurry - its always a painter, and they have work that matches - pretty much every time.

your own face is a measure of your quality. if you don't take the time to make that look nice, then your other work may be bad. something eye catching is what you want, but enough to want to click on it. and since this thread is about views, it only makes sense.

so far i've seen the sideways version, and was expecting junk work, so i was surprised about that.
then the magic trick, which was better, but not eye catching.
now we have the flower in the face, which is cute, but i'd rather the flower be next to her.

in the end it really comes down to what the work is about, who its for in the end, and marketing skills.

for me i change them monthly as the holidays approach. hard to know if buyers understand i do this or not. everything but the mustache changes. i use them like google graphics, hoping they will come back to see who i am now.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

my avatar sideways specially intentionally! indeed, I better get back your avatar, which is the same at all sites. In my professionalism no doubt. check my site https://500px.com/imperfectionist
, I have more than 23,000 FOLLOWERS. I am Newcomer in FAA, but i am not Newcomer in photo. I am grateful for the advice and the name tags

keep in mind that new buyers won't know how many followers you have or care. can you just turn that avatar right side up and be done with it?


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Of course I can do it, but I like the sideways , I express my view on the world and creativity

ok fine. you asked how to get more views, and if you want to argue it, i don't care. you can see our views on the topic. how many followers you have on another site doesn't mean you'll get the same response here. if you want people to click on you and see you as a professional i suggest you take my advice. if not. well, i don't care either way.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Thank you for your opinion

Inna,

Make sure that you start to direct those "followers" to your FAA site, if that's what this is all about. Work on the keywords. On the "albino" image, you come up around 340 or so on the search and you need to get much closer to the front, most think, the first 3 pages to be seen and then sell stuff. My search was "albino" and then I filtered it to "photography" and 718 images came up. Might be a better search, bu you get the idea,

Rich

p.s don't worry about the avatar, some are fixated on that and plays a small role in the buyers decision.

I don't think Inna's avatar is a problem because she's beautiful no matter whether she's vertical or horizontal but I do think that avatars matter when it comes to viewers' perceptions. If I saw a piece of art and liked it BEFORE I see the avatar representing it, then no, it wouldn't matter what the avatar looks like. But if I saw someone's ugly or grotesque (IMO) avatar before I see their art, I wouldn't bother to click to see the art behind it because I'm already turned off. The exception to that is of course, Mike. It's always a treat to see whatever God-awful thing he comes up with each month but then he IS exceptional.

Inna,

I like your style. Sideways or not.

Dave

The best advice came from Rich: Let your followers know that your photographs are available on FAA.

Colin Utz
http://colinutzphotography.com

Inna, Im quite agree with Heather about magazines and maybe fashion industry. Your art photography perfectly suits to 500px, where truly huge amount of the talented photographers and your art is very specific - maybe you need to look for the way to get money to license photos or to sell on the special sites for limited edition prints.

As already said before - here on FAA mostly art which suitable for the home decor/interior design, really know so few example when customers buying photography or other people for their homes. Im actually a creator and curator of the Gallery Russian Artists New Wave and I clearly let my artists/photographers to know that in the gallery we need the art for the interiors.

If you really want to sell here and get much more views follow previous 2 great advises - to advertise outside (like crazy) for the first time to get followers/viewers/potential buyers and also as Colin said put for example link to your FAA store to your 23 thousands followers on 500 px.
Good luck!

Jenny Rainbow Fine ArtPhotography http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jenny-rainbow.html
Curator of the Gallery Russian Artists New Wave http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/russian-artists.html

Love your work, but the sideways avatar looks amateurish. I've seen this thread since you posted it a day ago, but I never wanted to click on it because it just looked like another newbie who needed help (nothing wrong with that, of course). Sorry, I know we've said enough about the avatar but ... that's how I see it.

I see photos in fashion magazines that I'd die to own, but I can never find prints. Thank you for offering your amazing images, and please keep shooting. I'll be watching for more!

how about a compromise and make it more creative. put it upside down, but have your hair also in that hanging position. then it may make others curious enough to click because it shows a certain creative element.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Agree, or maybe even at an angle. The way it is, it just looks like a mistake that you can't fix or haven't gotten around to correcting.

Jenny Rainbow, what special sites for limited edition prints? sorry for my bad english.I feel stupid because I can not properly express the idea in English:-)

Inna you can try Saatchi, Artfinder for example. But limited signed editions you have to arrange the printing and delivery of your art prints to the customers on your own.
If you want you can write me private message- I speak russian, but in the inner messges use latin transcription for russian letters oterwise it will be coding.

sorry for my bad english.I feel stupid because I can not properly express the idea in English:-)

Inna, first of all, welcome and you have an excellent style! And secondly, please do not apologize or feel bad. I think most of us would be in the same situation if we were asked to communicate in Russian :). And thirdly, your avatar is an expression of yourself. It represents you as an individual with an insight into your style/creativity. If people are not inclined to click on your avatar, it is their loss, unfortunately, for you have beautiful work! And last but not the least, take whatever is said on these forums with a grain of salt (including what I've said!). No one, absolutely no one can dictate to you how your avatar should be, compromise or not.

One of the key factors to increasing sales/getting viewers is to promote your work on avenues outside of Fine Art America (FAA). Keep doing that diligently and you will gain a good fan following within and outside of FAA with the customers coming mostly from outside FAA.

Best of luck!

Nice work and you can levitate... That's a plus!

Your work ius excellent. Your avatar screams new to the field. If I had run across bit anywhere other than the forums, I would have kept on moving and not looked at your portfolio.

Enough about the avatar.
Social media is the answer and lots of it-lots of interaction with other artists too must surely help.
Have you considered a blog?
Am also new here-by the way but aware of the fact we have to bring the customers here and not sit back and wait for them to come
Great work by the way

this avator ok ? :-)

Inna,

I'd probably crop this in, from the left side, then down and up, just above the knee,

Don't worry about your avatar, that won't turn people off, they are here to look at art, not avatars,

Rich