Does Anyone Do Any Marketing Thru Instagram??

How many sales have you made from marketing on Instagram?

You can follow my exciting exploits at "fieldingedward" on Instagram. When I can get cell service that is.

as far as i know i can only use my phone to use that site. and i have little plans on using a phone to push anything.

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

I show work there, and have gotten thousands of shares on one image. No way to tell if that fuels sales, though.

I am not using instagram but maybe ill try it later now im super busy to making animation but i cant figure out how to show FAA friends it. can i ask you to open my animation threads Dear Abbie ?

IMO - Instagram is more effective in showing the life of the artist - post photos from art shows, behind the scenes, work in process etc. Not so much 'buy me now" direct selling.

Did you do an discussion search, Silvan, there is another thread on this topic?

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2755359

Only been on Instagram for a few months I've gotten many sales. I did a lot of portraits and also sold 1 original painting

No frank. Honestly I'm new to the discussion thing,I'm still learning but I will

I have an instagram account, and like Cynthia said - have no way of knowing if it has led to any sales. IG name: thephotocottage
However, I will say that 3 of my last 5 sales were images that I instagramed, and I do have my link in my profile so that people can click because the comments are not clickable to an outside website, only other users and hashtags. I do post images beyond those that are items for sale on FAA, but I try to post somewhere between a third and a half to promote my FAA artist website/work.

And Mike - not only phones, but ipads too... I use my phone for my personal account but have a work ipad that I do my work IG on.

problem is i don't think you can use a computer to log in. and a phone or what have you is clumsy at best.

@silvan, can you do me a favor and push your avatar down just a bit, so your whole head shows? thanks

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

:D

Thanks for pointing that out @ Mike

better picture, that was driving me crazy.


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

Lol Thanks mike

I post on Instagram because I enjoy sharing my stuff with others and it's a way to get my name out there. I never post an image thinking I am going to sell it. There are better social media platforms out there for that. Bottom line is it's free, easy, and fun. I also really like seeing other peoples work.

Mike - yes you can view your account online

Ok I uninstalled the Android Emulator "Blue Stacks" - it stinks!

I downloaded and installed another one called "Andy" and it works. I can see my phone on my PC. I was able to get images from my Google Photos account on to Instagram. Takes a lot of experimentation with all of these various accounts.

I tried Instagram- I posted photos there for a while. I usually get a handful of likes, and that's about it. By far the majority of my sales here and elsewhere have been found through the site's search engine... I don't have proof that posting to social media has even produced even one sale for me. So now I focus probably 95% on producing new content (photographing/editing/posting) because I believe that building a large portfolio is going to work better than messing around with Facebook/Twitter/Instagram etc.

you can view the account, but last i tried, you still needed a phone capable of text messages which mine can't do (no sim chip) to join. ideally in the long run it probably isn't worth it if i need an emulator. anything extra i have to do, probably isn't worth doing. besides who are customers? teens? do they buy art?


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

More experimenting. This is what I did.

Created the image in Photoshop - 1080 x 1080 which is what Instagram wants.

Save it as a Jpg in my Google Drive folder on the PC.

I have this folder synced with GooglePhoto.

Took a while to show up in GooglePhoto (10 minutes maybe)

Then in "Andy" the emulator I fired up GooglePhoto and shared the image to Instagram.

I suppose I didn't need the emulator, should have been able to use the phone at that point but we don't have any cell coverage at the house.

Teens do grow up. Got to think long term. ;-)

You can also post directly to Instagram from Facebook using your phone. So ,if you upload to Facebook from your PC regularly you'll already have easy access to a collection of images to share.

i dont have a cell phone so i use this bluestacks

http://www.bluestacks.com/

that's how i run my instagram through my laptop by alienware

What OS are you running? On my Win10 machine BlueStacks was wacky - sideways and didn't work right.

Its suppose to be a resource hog too.

I got this one instead - http://www.andyroid.net/

I share to IG from my Flickr account, They make it so easy! I have the Flickr app on my IPhone,

I suppose if you just want to share then easy is the way to go. I'm more interested in posting images with an advertising message.

http://blog.wishpond.com/post/59612395517/52-tips-how-to-market-on-instagram

I'm also a professional SEO, there are opportunities to market your art everywhere, I use Pinterest, Twitter and so on, the best live results I get are from Pinterest and Twitter personally. The Google Bot thing you all see is great if you Google your own name specifically but otherwise it's just a 'crawler' post a few of your pics to Twitter, when Artists and Art Sites follow you, follow them back, add a little courtesy and a "Thank you' works wonders just don't the "R U there", "How R U" stuff.... interact with follows that follow you after you post some art, it's a two-way street but for me Twitter, Pinterest and a few submission runs (use a free Submission service) covers the other holes. Google and Bing submissions because of algorithms is not really prominent now, but word of mouth, interaction with other like-minded people and organizations is the best approach.

You can even set up an artist site on say, Facebook and add a 'Shop now' button via FAA and expand your audience that way too..

R.

I've been thinking of branching out. When I get time, I think I'll tickle that Pinterest thing I have ... images will be loaded up with watermarks, of course ... (ducking from all the coffee cups and dirty socks being thrown my way) ... and ... I'll try that FaceBook / Instagram thing too. As Edward so wisely pointed out, teens do grown up. < ~~ thank heavens.