Sales By Geography

All mine have been to buyers in the US. I have over time tracked the region that the sale shows in on an excel table as well as the region the photo was taken in. It was time consuming to catch up, but now as sales come in I just do it when it happens.

All three of my sales have been in the US. Some of my images might have international appeal, but not most of them.

98% US
1% Candanda
1% other


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

My first sale (the banana leaf) came from the last place I thought it could come: California! A tycoon farmer living in those parts. Not a bot this time.

Here are my more "exotic" exports. I had to go back a few months to find these.

Cambridge, Other (Non US) - United Kingdom.
Wishaw, - United Kingdom
Sala, - Morocco.
Westphal, NS - Canada.
Mandalay, Queensland - Australia.
Dartmouth, NS - Canada.
East Molesey, Surrey - United Kingdom.
Wamberal, NSW - Australia.
Antwerpen, Brasschaat - Belgium.
Sougueur, tiaret - Algeria.

Seem to have a higher than average number of t-shirts sales among these international orders.

Definitively room for growth in the International market.

@Mike Where is Candanda? LOL

that's how they spell it, some of the letters may be silent.


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

eh?

US

Hyperspace...

All of mine have been in the US.

99% USA
1 lg. canvas sold to collector in Singapore

~ Charly

Mostly us. One Hong Kong, 3 cards to the UK and one canvas to Toronto.

To the UK and Germany. I'm german

I do not have an accurate total concerning locations, but my sales including those from other sites I am on came from at least 48 of the 50 states and 12 countries.

Daniel - are your images specific to Brits and Germans? Or do you think they like to buy local?

Randall - what about percentage of US vs outside US?

Carlos - hyperspace isn't a valid mailing address.

Only three non-US:

- a card to Arundel, West Sussex, U.K. (chess)
- an iphone case to Mexico City, Mexico (succulent)
- a print to Regina, SK, Canada (classic car)

I have a few U.K. and Australian on another site.

All of my sales from US it would be exciting to gain World Wide recognition pertaining to outside sales, just as our fellow members from European country's make have gotten sales from the US. Best of success to everyone. The particular sales to foreign were any of them of anything place you may have traveled outside of the US, I was curious. In your travels here in the US it does not surprise me one bit someone in other states purchase a image from a different state. Your masterful gallery and compositions are the key factors of your success!!! I would have to agree images of sorts are regional purchases but its always that one composition that draws eye appeal and sales.

Cheers and Tis The Season Down Yonder In New Orleans, Happy Mardi Gras, Michael Joseph Hoard

I wonder if adding foreign language keywords would increase international sales or do the different regional Fine Art websites automatically translate?

Mine are also mainly in the US. A few from Canada, the UK and Australia. My most surprising one was the sale of a photo of local statue that is well known in Oklahoma to a buyer in Toowoomba, Queensland. I have never sold it to anyone from Oklahoma so far.

Interesting, no sales to Oklahoma. How is the Internet service there?

Some sales can be to home sick transplants. I figure every sale to Florida of a snowy scene is going to a snowbird.

I have lived and worked in Oklahoma. I knew ( but was not a friend of) musician John Cale(Cocaine) who was the lead guitarist for the Leon Russel band.

My conclusion is these folks may not be buying art because they are art!

85% US and 15% international. Did random sampling 2 years back and it's pretty constant.

I meant that I have never sold that particular image to anyone in Oklahoma. It is of the Pioneer Woman Statue and is in a very small town. It is pretty well known in Oklahoma. I have sold a few other images to people in Oklahoma, mainly oil well type images. I did wonder if the Qeensland buyer was perhaps an Oklahoma transplant. I think the internet works fine, even in very rural areas, just do not have a lot of choice of providers.

There were a number of duplicates of the ever popular "Pioneer Woman" which is cast stone sculptures installed along the Sante Fe Trail from Kansas towns to New Mexico.

I was hoping you were going to say it was the "Howe Nissan" sign.

I sold one phone case to NZ, and a pillow case to someone in Queensland. I had another person from Canberra, Australia (my home town) find one of my photos on FAA, but decided the shipping was going to be to much; so she contacted a printer in Sydney who contacted me. She wanted an approx 48" on acrylic (if I remember correctly) print. I should add this print was a from a m4/3 camera - I didn't think they would really print that big, but they were apparently happy with it.

78 % US, 9 % Canada, others to the UK, Australia and South Africa.

Not one of my sold photos shows an image from the US. Most are from worldwide tourist destinations (Madagascar, Patagonia, Salzburg, European castles ...).

' I wonder if adding foreign language keywords would increase international sales ... '

IMO definitely yes. Many customers come through search engines and they type their language. FAA does not translate anything.

Then I guess it's time to check Google translate and add some new keywords! But, do search engines see the keywords? Or, do they only search on the description?

Sounds like a major opportunity to figure out how to sell Internationally.

now if we are talking the other site that starts with the last letter of the alphabet... they translate their site in like 8 languages. in that case i sell a lot to japan, germany and other places that speak a different language. its not good enough to have a site - fineartjapan (if we have that one yet), and not translate the site into that language. then we could appear in google japan.


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

So, it would be best if FAA did a similar site-wide translation. But, how do we suggest that?

Interesting question!

I have been on this site for 3 years and I live in the UK but only 10% of my sales are sold here. I think that was because of high shipping charges and import duty when everything was sent from the USA

76% of my sales are to the USA

6% to Canada

Remaining 8% were to the rest of the world including 15 different countries

According to Alexa.com - this site gets a lot of traffic from India. Anyone ever sell anything to India?


Country Percent of Visitors Rank in Country
United States 43.3% 2,858
India 15.4% 4,508
Mexico 4.1% 2,802
United Kingdom 3.4% 5,293
Canada 2.3% 4,598

Wow, 15.4% I never would have expected. But for India the prices may be too high (FAA, ours AND shipping!).

Gill,
interesting, that You have nearly the same percentages than me.

I've made one sale to India.....the largest print I've ever sold (72 inches) !

Steven,
I sold this to Madison. Was it to You ???

The majority of my sales have been in the US. My 3 international sales have gone to:

Israel
Australia
Belgium

Ed,

Something else that is interesting in this thread....almost no or no painters have answered. Everyone answering is a photographer.
sorry two painters and a sculptor.

I thought painters out sold photographers on FAA.

Dave

Nowhere yet.

Gill - that's fantastic!

David - photographers might be more active on the forum. Who knows.

There are two reasons that FAA might see a lot of traffic from India. First, English is one of the official languages in India. Second, there are quite a few artists from India on FAA.

I just thought of a third. It isn't uncommon for Indians to move back to India after living in the US for awhile. They might be familiar with FAA and choose to buy images that remind them of their time in the US.

Rudi - no it wasn't me. I've sold a number from FAA to Madison area people and I only know one of them (it was our vet, and she made use of the free shipping).

No foreign sales. 1/5 of all of my sales are from Michigan, the rest scattered around the US. I have a lot of shoreline photos of Michigan and most of the Michigan images I've sold are the shorelines around the state. I need to do some more "shoreline hunting" when the weather gets better, but my car is getting older so I don't want to put on too much mileage. Maybe I should go to the shoreline downtown Detroit (about an hour drive from me), and get some Ambassador Bridge photos.

Traffic isn't the same as sales though.

On Alexa the site with an R has a similar traffic pattern:

United States 46.3% 1,027
India 10.5% 2,480
United Kingdom 7.0% 858
Australia 4.2% 647
Canada 2.4% 1,579

India second again.

Site with the Z:

United States 57.6% 683
India 8.1% 2,559
China 4.4% 6,017
Russia 2.1% 5,262
Australia 2.0% 1,507

India again second. More China and Russia there.

Makes you wonder why other European counties don't show up more or our neighbors to the north.

Most of my sales are from the U.S. , and probably 10% are international (Austria, Netherlands, UK, even Kuwait). If to look at the U.S. geography, more than 50% are from the East Coast, and probably others are divided equally 25% all the U.S. from local (West Coast) and others are from the Central.

I've never made a sale to Russia or China; which surprises me as the population is high.. But I do have visitors from these two countries all the time :)

Cheers!
Irina Sztukowski
http://www.artirina.com/

My first 3 sales were from Darwin, Australia. I never got another order from Oz through this site.

A large percentage of my buyers are in the Houston, TX area and they often buy more than one at a time or buy a few over time. The next big area is Louisiana and a distant third is Florida, where I live. The rest are scattered all over.

As for other international sales I had one from Portugal and a few from the UK. I had a big sale to Venezuela once but they apparently changed the shipping to Houston.

95% USA
5% Japan (from my kanji line)

-Nola Lee Kelsey

Japan - that's cool. I don't think I've had a sale from Japan. I do recall one from Moscow.

Has anyone come across an app that would take the spreadsheet download and turn it into a map?

Edward

Here is the breakdown for me.

90% USA
5% Canada
2% United Kingdom
1% Australia
The rest are 1 or 2 sales each from the remaining countries.

I track my sales using Google Maps. It took some time to set up originally, but now it only takes minutes to keep up. Most of my dales are in the US.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zZ1qyoNhmCO4.k2zILlXptPdc&usp=sharing

Thanks Dale, I'll have to try that. I assume you can zoom in on the map?

I see that you can import a spreadsheet file - off to the races....worked!

Workflow:

1. Download sales spreadsheet from Balance (Behind the Scenes)
2. Convert Excel spreadsheet into format Google Drive likes
3. Upload to Google Drive. Delete unwanted columns.
4. Google Maps - import spreadsheet from Google Drive
5. Pick City, State, Country as data points.

Done!

https://plus.google.com/+EdwardFielding/posts/KWLXxMK4La8

This goes back to 2011. 900 data points. I noticed Japan, one in South America, a couple in Northern Africa.

Im in Czech Republic for now (before in Russia) and did not see the change of the geography by my move to other country - its 98 % - USA, 2 % - United Kingdom and other countries.
But my project Russian Artists New Wave - 90 % - United Kingdom, 5% - Australia, 5% - USA.

Mostly USA, especially California
Some Canada
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Windsor, Berkshire UK
Perth, Western Australia (WA)

My sales here have been roughly 98% to the US, the other 2% has been Australia, UK, Europe. I'm in Australia, my main website gets close to equal visits from the US and Australia.

Other sites I have my work on have a much bigger international reach sales wise, so I wonder if using the name Fine Art America (as opposed to Pixels) has anything to do with that?

Mine are all 100% US, which encompasses the phenomenal number of 5 prints, 1 tote, and 1 phone case over a period of 3 years. :)

US first place, England second and a few from assorted countries in the continent of Africa

Great map Edward. I don't know exactly how it helps with marketing and sales, but it's interesting to chart sales locations and what is being sold. I called it Geo-Analytics in a blog post.

Thanks, it was interesting see the sales on the map. With FAA/Pixel now with expanded distribution around the world, time to crank up the International sales. I guess a strong dollar discourages it though.

Maybe some blog posts in Spanish and French might help.