What Sales Most Here?

This may help

https://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=5554391

What really determines what is going to sell is what gets seen by the most number of people.

The worst art on the Internet with a great marketing plan will outsell the best art on the Internet with no or a bad marketing program.

Anything and everything sells here. No one can tell you what sells most because FAA does not disclose that information in any meaningful form.

But why limit yourself? Upload everything you got, let the marketplace decide what they want to buy.

You are competing here with people that have more than 100,000 images in a single gallery.

there is no way what will sell best for you. upload what you have just makes sure it is your very best, or close to it, that you added keywords, descriptions, and advertised it. i think the first problem you will have is your name - if someone type ins amazing action shots in google, they probably won't find you.

post things that you would either buy yourself or would catch your attention or would make others jealous.

while wildlife sells, it often isn't something that goes in a home, and its something nat geo in quality. it has pop and sharpness.

all sorts of things sell but you can't chase them all, choose the things you have around you and make them the best they can be. make it so people know its your work. people often buy styles. like rockwell had a style. but he had all sorts of themes.

people probably won't tell you what sells best though - because if i told you, then everyone would compete in those spots, that would be dumb. everything sells if presented right.


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

>>people probably won't tell you what sells best though - because if i told you, then everyone would compete in those spots, that would be dumb. everything sells if presented right.
Mike Savad: I expected this but thank you for your comment. I agree with every word you said. It's like you gave me a portfolio review without saying that directly.

@David Dehner, Thank you for the link. So this discussion has already had happened there.

" Maybe high volume sellers don't announce their sales.".... the high volume sellers art is automatically featured on the "Recent Sales" page....nobody can "opt out" of that... and the low volume sellers are on those pages too....

https://fineartamerica.com/recentprintsales.html

https://fineartamerica.com/announcementrecentsale.html?announcement=true

the thing is, if i told you baseball sold really well, and my best things was baseball related, there will be like a 100 other people adding baseball things.

when i first started here i too, tried to game the system, looking for a pattern of what sells. but there is no pattern. and even if you see that a dozen doves sold to a magician (you won't know who the buyer is, but that would be funny), you making doves won't help you because you are further back in the search.

customers look for quality work, you need to give them that, along with keywords that match the image so they can find it. if you have 10 things that look the same, find the best of those things and show only that one.

things that are hard to sell:

animals, flowers, abstract, and oddly new york. its mostly because everyone else has some. and usually the best ones survive. these things do sell, but because there is a lot of competition, getting in front is very hard. so you do your own thing. if you are an action photographer, i expect to see action shots... things in motion, people playing sports, races etc. and not just a couple of birds in flight or sitting down. you have to live up to your name. at the very least people will expect that.

i would also choose a more dramatic avatar so you don't blend in. a face is best.

but if it must be an animal, then for now it should be this:



of the egrets you have, this one pops out from the rest.

so its not always a downright refusal of what sells, its just that no one really knows what sells best. if i said blueprints well, or license plate maps sell well, or movie posters sell well - will that help you? maybe but even if you got yourself a map or a movie poster, you don't have enough of them to keep people's attention for that long.


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

Here's recent prints.

https://fineartamerica.com/recentprintsales.html

As said, what 'sells' best for one, will not sell well for you.

Just put up your best work, whatever that is

Wildlife does sell. However, it's a very unique buyer who purchases Wildlife Prints / products.

As stated put your best work out there.

Then go find your target market and drive traffic. Just posting an image and waiting for sales will yield no results. You need to market your prints.

For me: Tropical Beaches, British Virgin Islands BVI, Animals, California, Texas & Flowers.

As said in previous comments, what works for me doesn't mean it works for others.

What sells? Art.

Do what you do. Do it very well. Promote it like crazy.

Personally, I have a fascination with bridges and I live at the beach. I sell a lot of bridge images and I sell a lot of beach images. I have a few unique images and I promote them like crazy, One bridge photograph, in particular, has sold 45 times in the six years since I uploaded it here. It has sold three times this month. That is just an example and it is just me. Do your own thing but you've got to promote, promote, promote...

~ Bill
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~ www.BillSwartwout.com

Has the topic of what products sell best on here ? I would think that prints outsold beach towels, shower curtains, etc. I'm I right or wrong ?

I imagine it will be up to the buyer's taste. The words are key in the search engine. A couple of wrong words and they no longer find you

Worrying about such things is what keeps people from selling more than they are, IMHO.

You sell what YOU have and forget what everyone else has or what they are selling. It is not about the art nowhere near as much as it is about the marketing.

Since FAA doesn't provide a lot of data analytics, etc, I try looking at what I have, checking keywords that are appropriate to that image and getting an eye on what others have posted with that keyword or content. The folks who have lots of images for that keyword (probably because they sell) are worth checking out too, since they might be kindred spirits. I also do regular scans of recent sales, if nothing else, because it's interesting to see what is selling today, without specific reference to content.

Don't try and chase what sells. Most of the time it will be too late and the latest greatest moment is past and you will be left chasing your tail. I never concern myself with what sells as that will always change. Keep your art consistent or you will appear to be all over the place.

As some are alluding to do not spin your wheels for nothing.

Focus on doing it your way.

Doing it your way you will spin your wheels a lot, but something(s) will work.

Dave Bridburg
Bridburg.com
Post Modern Gallery

Honestly, seems like some of the images I've sold surprise me. Their good images, but in my opinion some that I sale my not be my best or favorite. Seems like my favorite ones are the ones that haven't sold. Everyone has different tastes and likes so I wouldn't put to much thought into it. Put up what you like and even if you question it (as long as still good quality) put it up.

because there is no way to know what sells best for you, the best thing you can do is upload a bit of everything and experiment. make things in batches and send them. then do another batch till something catches on. try to figure out what it was that they liked about that image and make others like that one. then you'll know what sells best for you. when i upload i send things that i know have a proven track record, or weird items that will attract attention, and others that are pure experiments that may either die then and there. or go on and be my best selling piece. but you may not know until years from now what sells best.


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