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Ashish Nautiyal

8 Years Ago

Help

How much time did it take to sell my work. What minimum time did it takes . and where my paintings are located if I click on paintings on homepage can't find mine .. How to get at top of the page .. Pls I want real help pls just don't copy links just help me in short and real answer ... Thanks

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Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

there is no minimum and there is no guaranty anything you make will sell.

your work will be at the top when you sell a lot of it. there are no other real answers it takes more than a few months, you have to advertise everywhere, and create images others want to have. i think you should increase your prices at the very least the originals. some of the images look dark in color, like it wasn't shot right.


selling is hard to do, it takes a long time to get established.

you'll want to first start by scanning in your work

Art Prints
this is dark, and the name is blurry.

Photography Prints
this has glare and the sizes all seem to vary from image to image.

Sell Art Online
this is never going to print the way its listed, you can't have the wall and the frame in there. you have very few keywords and the description should outline why you made a copy of her.

you have a lot of work, but not a particular style or theme. so it will be hard to spot your work and it will be hard to match things up.


you have galleries, but i don't think all the images are in them, there are no header images for the gallery and people should start there, so they don't have to trip over all the random images.


Art Prints
this is not in focus.

Photography Prints
see the glare? and that its not in focus?

you have to take care of this issue first - on all pieces. scan them in. they may not print it otherwise and people that might see it will leave. that parrot had 6 views, that tells me your uploading and waiting. you have to advertise daily, but first fix the issues.

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
http://www.MikeSavad.com



 

Shirley Sykes Bracken

8 Years Ago

Listen to Mike!!!

 

David Bridburg

8 Years Ago

Ashish,

We all need that help. Most of us are not on the front page. There are plenty of talent people in line with you.

Dave

 

Roy Pedersen

8 Years Ago

Ashish,there is nothing wrong with getting links pointing you to where the help is. That is better than no help at all. There is no point in wasting time writing out an answer if there answer is all ready here
If you go to the top of the page you will a sticky with links to most of the questions people ask.
If you do not find the answer there then please ask and someone should be able to help

 

JC Findley

8 Years Ago

Since you don't want a link I will cut and paste....

Why Isnt My Image On The First Page

Let me preface this with the fact that this is from JC the artist NOT JC the moderator.

I bumped this in light of this comment.

"The only hope I can get to sell one piece at this point would be the recent uploads and if they pick the most popular as the recent uploads, then how will anyone sell."

Sean covered this subject on the email you probably got and hopefully read. If not, you can read it here in chapter 2, though I would recommend reading it all.

There are many ways to sell but if you think you can rely on the search to get started think again.

http://fineartamerica.com/why-every-artist-and-photographer-in-the-world-should-be-selling-on-fineartamerica.html

OK, now that the formalities are out of the way lets get to the meat of the subject. First of all, you do NOT pay FAA to market for you. They will not help individual artists. They don't help the top sellers, they do not help newbs. They DO give you myriad marketing tools to help yourself but using them is up to us.

Now to the subject line. To be honest, my art is generally on the front page in most sandboxes I play in. (read searches)

So why in the world am I on page one whereas new people here are not? Is it because I paid 30/year? No. Is it because I am established in the good ole boy network? No. Is it because I am the chosen one? No. It is because I sell and I sell well here. How I started selling here is summed up here, but there are certainly MANY more ways to do it. . http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=970972

The reality is that FAA's search looks at a lot of factors, I am not privy to all that but I know some are votes, favorites, key word relevance, and group features. BTW, keyword relevance does not mean FAA checks every keyword against the image but rather how the artist types it in. All other things being equal, a search for "Tall ships" will show images that have "tall ships" as a single keyword phrase in front of those with tall and ship as separate keywords. Other factors MAY include contest wins, views, comments and who knows what else. But the sales on an image AND the sales by a specific artist in general are more heavily weighted.

Oh, that is not fair many will say and then add there is no way to get seen unless you already have sales and you cannot get sales unless you are seen. It seems like a catch 22 and maybe it is, yet many people brake that barrier every day. It is not limited to FAA but is that way in the business world and it is especially that way in other artistic endeavors. Lets look at a few.

Say you are a writer. First of all, just try and get published without an agent and conversely try and get an agent without being published. Yet, there seem to be new authors with brand new books year in and year out. So, lets say you do manage to be published and Barnes and Noble orders ten thousand books. Do you think that you will be in the front of the store in your own display the first day your book is released? NO! you will not be there because Tom Clancy, or Patricia Cornwell or Nora Roberts or some other top seller has a new book out and THEY will be there. Is that fair though, I mean their new books just came out as well and haven't sold a single copy yet either? It may or may not be fair but it IS the way business works.

Using that same example, there are still ways to sell your book though. OK, so you are not on display in the front of the store but you are IN the store. Whereas Tom Clancy is going to sell books because he is Tom Clancy YOU need to hit the street. You need to do book signings. You need to talk about your book on your blog. You need to go to your local bookstore and point out that you will provide the display to go up front and it would look good to have a local writer seen right as people walk in. Your publisher is NOT going to spend money pushing an unknown writer. Your agent is probably too busy to do it. It is up to you. But, if you push that book and it is good and people like it and tell their friends about it you may sell more and more of them. Eventually, if you sell enough, you are up front when you come out with a new one, but it isn't easy. Marketing isn't fun to some artists but it is as important if not more important than creating the art to begin with.

Didn't like the book selling example? Insert music industry. Do you think your garage band's new release will be easily found just browsing on Itunes or be in front of the new Aerosmith CD in Best Buy? No, it will not.

Now, I often read that the search here shows the same images again and again for the same search. I watch them closely and that is not quite true but for the sake or argument lets say it is. I hear people say that it makes FAA look stagnant and potential clients will get bored. Bull pucky. WE may look at a particular search often but clients do not. They do not come here to oh and ah at the work; they come here to buy. What that means is they do a search, they find what they want and they either buy it or they want to think about it a bit and come back and buy it later. Guess what, if your search changed on a regular basis when they do come back, they would not be able to find that image they wanted to buy. (Yes, they could bookmark it but I never do as I know what I searched for and just do the search again and purchase when ready to buy. I would bet others do this too.) Consistency is a sellers friend! Just think about how irritated you got the last time your grocery store remodeled. Seriously, if they switched things up every week would you continue to shop there or do you WANT to know that the product you wanted will be in the same place on your next trip?

So, easy, you want to show up in the first page, sell, and sell hard!

(Again, JC the artist here, NOT JC the moderator.)

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

i never understood why everyone thinks they are entitled to a custom answer. i can post a dozen links and there will be yet another person asking that same question, without reading a thing. like all you have to do is whisper whisper whisper and with those words in your keywords - you will sell constantly.


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

 

Ashish Nautiyal

8 Years Ago

Thanks a lot I will try to improve myself

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

start with the scanning of your work, then move on from there.


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

 

James B Toy

8 Years Ago

One other thing I noticed is that you have priced some of your original paintings at only $30, which is less than most of your print prices. Your originals are worth more than any print. A lot more. Price them accordingly.

 

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