Looking For Tips To Increase Sales?

Oh my goodness THANK YOU! I swear, it seems like every single day someone posts a new thread asking "how do I increase my sales?"

This thread is a perfect solution!!!

Thank Sv. Brilliant idea and I have asked Sean to link to it under Post New whatsit

I predict that no one will see this post. Even if it was bright yellow, and blinking and with dancing monkey's around it.

For anyone new that is seeing this thread, look at your work:

do you only have 2 things? Upload more things.
Is it covered in watermarks? Don't do that.
Would you buy or hang your own work in a nice frame? No? It may not sell. Or at least be hard to advertise.
Is the work yours? Great!
Or was it lifted from the net at random? Erase it, it will only get you into trouble down the line. And without a consistent set of styles you won't be recognized down the line.

Selling art isn't a side gig or hustle, it takes a lot of work and effort to do this.


----Mike Savad

Thank you so much, Abbie!

I can't wait to dive into all of the information you've shared.
I appreciate all the work you've done putting this together.

This may give me some ideas for marketing my fiction, too.

Cheers!
Tambra Nicole Kendall

So glad to help. Tambra!

Very helpful post ..
Thank you so much, Abbie!

You're very welcome

My checklist is listed twice. Thank you!! But the most recent version is called "Checklist For Success In Print Sales (version 3)". As the site changes and in order to fit with best practices based on what is said by members and moderators, I last updated it 3 years ago. Not a lot has changed since then. I will eventually do an update and include a link to how to set up the AW using Cloudflare and also mention about the default image order, once that is settled.

https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=4721562

Thank you for putting this list together. A lot to read, but I intend to work through it. There is so much great artwork on FAA that it is daunting to even consider marketing one's own work.

Thanks Abbie...very informative.

Thank you!

Thank YOU Abbie & FAA Fellows...
I want to believe that I know how to market since that's my B.S. Undergrad degree... BS is right, IDK anything in this 21st C economy... So I am going super slow, but this is exactly what I need to study... I don't have a solid base. In grad sch, Digi Publishing I recall Doctorow saying something like you need 1,000 people as a base that will buy anything & everything you do! WOW great formula! I like that. So I need to do something about shaking off my resistance and finding a base audience... Hoping for new inspiration, GJ glorijean

Grazie Abbie, ho ancora tanto da imparare.
...al lavoro 😊

Thanks Abbie! SO much to do!

Thank you. I am new here.

Soy nuevo aquí gracias

Thanks for this thread! I am new here so I have a lot to learn!!

Thank you so much, Abbie!

I shall read through this thread diligently, everyone is looking for the Holy Grail when it comes to sales!

thank you so much

Howdy!
Although I have just joined this community and I am writing to you from Romania, I will read all the articles with interest.
I wish you a creative day!

This is great info. Thanks

Wow, this is a very helpful thread! I will certainly be taking all of these things into consideration. Marketing has not been my strength so I look forward to implementing these tips.

Hi Abbey,

I am new here and just read your post. Thank you for the input, I sure will take it into consideration. I am new in the market as well, so all that I can read about it will help me.

Great list Abbie. Thanks for putting it together. Some of the stuff I've already been asking myself (I know I'm no Ansel Adams, but keep asking myself what I could do better, are there photos I'd cull from my gallery. etc). As time goes by I'll try to read through the links.

As I go through the list of links to check them out, I've found one that don't work for me (don't know why). https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2040787 is one.

Bonjour ,merci beaucoup pour les conseils ,c'est vrai qu'il y a tellement de photographies et de peinture sur le site . Alors si de notre coté nous ne faisons rien , alors rien n'avance ;Cordialement .

Thanks for all these information, it will help everybody to do the best they have

Thanks Adam. I'll sort that out shortly

Thank you so much for the tips to increase sales. I’m a new member specialising in photography and I was struggling with that bit but this thread offers the perfect solutions for sales!!

Thanks for this.

Thank you!

Very helpful
Thank you so much, Abbie!

A Big thing, keep going!

Thank you for the support!

This is great information for new members! Thank you for your discussion, cheers!

Ok. Thanks

Thank you, this came into view at just the right time !

Awesome!

This is very helpful information. Thank you so much!

Thank you

Word of mouth is a great way to increase sales with little cost in my opinion.

Thanks

Thank you, this post was very informative because I just joined today.

Thanks

Hi can you help me do an art exhibit in new York

Good information..Thanks!

Hi it's Daisy, I am new here and looking to shares my artistry.

Hello! Thank you, I'm new here so this is very helpful.

Thank you for sharing! This is very helpful for those not savvy at sales and marketing.

Looking forward to reading this

I've been wondering this literally today. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for all the useful tips!!!

Very useful information thank you!

I am new here. Thank you very much for the post.

Hi all, I've been on Fine Art America for a few years now and I have made about 17 sales in about 5 years. I just bought a premium membership and In going to try to really push and make more sales with this platform so this is a perfect thread for me.

Good luck everyone!

thank you for the tips...

I'm interested in learning how to be more efficient in this I just created my account today.

As always, a great help Abbie!

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The link to the article A Few Reasons Why You May Not Be Selling is broken.

Here is a working link. https://fineartamerica.com/blogs/a-few-reasons-why-you-may-not-be-selling.html

Thank you for the advice

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@Jeremy Lee I have found that twitter and using specific hashtags has gotten a bunch of notice and attention. I started in May and have over 200 followers. I am sure most of them are other artists, and some are bots, but I am getting an average of between two hundred and three hundred clicks a day. It tends to be on the higher side if and when I promote specific items.

Thanks for compiling these resources!

Thank you for this information. It is very helpful. I am new to this community. There are so so many extraordinary artist here. I am just in awe. I really appreciate this helpful advice and information.

This is good advise. Thank you!

Very good and well said. Thank you.

it will be quite interesting and instructive to join some of the marketing lessons.

I will be starting those again soon

Thank you so much Abbie, great tips and advice!

THANK YOU for compiling this...of course, I still have questions! Especially for you that have seen some success in increasing sales. Just a bit about me; I've been an FAA member for years. I've got give or take 1,000 photos posted here. To now, I've had minimal success selling, but like another artist mentioned, I mostly started as a way to archive and share my stuff with the wider public. I'd like to change that. I really LIKE FAA, and since I've been here so long, I'd like to make it work. But I find the site a bit daunting. I enter and occasionally win contests.

So, my questions are these:
1. Bloggers, where do you blog? On FAA? Your own site? Somewhere else? I love writing, so this part of marketing is not daunting; I just want to post where it will have the greatest impact.
2. I need BABY STEPS...where do I start incrementally, with marketing?
3. I don't say a lot in the discussions (this is an exception) because I'm not sure what I'm supposed to say besides "nice work." Do they really help increase sales?

4 The ONLY criticism I can levy against FAA is that since increased sales floats all boats including theirs, I'm not certain why FAA does not have a more comprehensive marketing manual or system for us "connection Luddites. Do they have one I'm missing? (besides this helpful list that is).

awesome

great insights, thanks so much!

I cannot wait to read through these to learn more and finally be able to sell my art.

I really hope I can finally start selling!

Thanks Abbie for all you do! It does not get any better than this.

Thank You for the info

Thanks for this Abbie!

Kevin

Open a new post with your questions. You'll get more eyes and answers

Thanks for all your help Abbie!

I'm all about learning how to increase sales also. I'd love to know some tips.

What great knowledge, can't wait to work my way all the way through this. Thanks for the insight!

Thank you!

Thanks for help :)

hello

hi, im newbie

Nice info. but realistically, FAA is a sea of artwork/photography. Millions upon millions of images for a buyer to look at. So let's not hold our breath for sales here.

Brilliant! Thanks!

Yes Stephen, hence the advice in the threads linked here!

Nice post! As a new member it's good to know I might not get a lot of responses right away.

Great help for just getting started! Thanks!

Social media is going to be my main focus for promotion. Is anyone else advertising only this way?

thank you !

thanks for help

Thanks

great read!!

thanks , it's very helpful

thank you so much

Thank you Abbie for your information and advice, which is very helpful to me as a new person

Note: Opinionated material doesn’t help

This is great info. Thanks

thank you

Very informative thread much needed for me and cooperate in engaging into promoting me …. am a novice in this.

Photography arts don't sell much here in compare to Painting. And wildlife are the worst performers. Nobody wants to hang a print of any animal in their office or home walls. The advent of digital display and easy access to photos from internet have killed fine art photography.

@amazing - Lots of places have wild life, such as every calendar and nat geo. Offices may want animals, veterinarians, taxidermists, hunters, lovers of that animal. It depends how its presented as an image and to whom.

Ask a painter and they will say that photos sell better.

Fine art photos are dead, but there is more competition. You have to figure out how to stand above the rest, which is the hard part. Mostly it depends who you show it too. Like a homesteader might want pictures of moose and squirrel... Or bears.


----Mike Savad

Thank you very much!

Good luck to all. Push now for holiday sales!

Thank you very much! Very informative

So much information! Thank you!

Thank you

I am too years old working as artist but my online marketing might be lacking as I am new to social networking..... Firstly I would prefer to be well known and well appreciated for my talent..

Esse post me ajudou muito, eu sou iniciante em tudo, na arte, nas vendas, na vida. São tantas perguntas sem respostas que me deixam sem saber o que pensar, más vou continuar tentando

Thank you. Useful information

Amazing post!

Thanks! Will be doing my homework :)

Hi,
Will there be an announcement for Thanksgiving promotions and timeline so we can start marketing?
Thank you

Great advice here.

Thanks for the advice when people are new they will ask for help, thanks for helping me, greatly appreciated

Im new to fineartamerica. Lets see where it goes. Thanks for the advice !

Thank You for this! I'm new to fineartamerica and this sure helps a lot!

Thank You Much!

Thank you !

Thank you!

just look closely to the tags and the description

Thank You

giving this website a shot, found this information to be full of insight! Thank You!

Why don’t I get notified when FAA is having sales? I get the weekly email about what pictures have been viewed but never get any notice about sales. Please help.

Our mail is sometimes removed from the ISP side of the site, seen as spam. I use a gmail address and get all mail. Its a good idea to keep it as gmail as customers mail may also vanish. You may get some mail, but like on comcast, they will give it now and then so you never know its a problem until you do know.


----Mike Savad

Great tips, Abby, appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day to outline them.

thanks a lot

Very helpful. Thanks!

You need your own recognizable style and a lot of work.

Thanks for the help

Thanks!

Its very true alot of artists look at the traditional way of selling through the gallery and think online sales is similar but its more like trying to stand out in a 500 000person art fair. We have to utilize other means of standing out and attracting an audience. A successful business man once said to maintain his personal brand he does 12 public talks, 52 interviews, posts 3 times a week and writes 1 book per year.

Thank you for all of your tips! I would use them to increase my sales

Hello, I read this suggestion in the thread Elephant in the room:
"Why not just have a separate free site,put up what YOU think are your ten BEST pieces and see what happens."

Did anyone try it, please? Thank you!

Abbie, please fix the link for A Few Reasons Why You May Not Be Selling in your list above. Thank you.

https://fineartamerica.com/blogs/a-few-reasons-why-you-may-not-be-selling.html

Thanks for the info!

Excellent

Appreciated, this is such a good list!

thank you

I am new here so this was helpful.

Great thread - thank you

I don’t know about the elephant in the room thing. Maybe your Art isn’t that good. That’s not true. It is all about marketing. What is ugly to some may be beautiful to someone else. Nobody’s art is ugly or not good. Everyone is unique in their own way. There are people making billions with just three lines on a canvas.

Excellent. For years I have tried to sell my paintings through Fine Art but I have not been sucessful but this year I tried very hard to publicize my work. Thanks for the ideas of different artist shared.

It was a very nice and very useful introduction. Thank you very much.

Excellent pointers and couldn't agree more on the marketing aspect. As they say, a mediocre product with great marketing will always beats an awesome product without it. That said, I found this platform to be pretty robust although I think the FB integration may not be working any longer as I've heard they keep changing policies on external access, etc. Will have to investigate unless someone here knows otherwise and can advise? Happy New Year and well wishes to all! https://edward-fassio.pixels.com/

Thanks

Thank you for the suggestions, most helpful.

I really appreciate your tips! They are incredibly helpful and I'm sure they will be instrumental in increasing my sales on Fine Art America. Thank you for sharing your expertise with the community.

As a new artist, I am constantly learning and trying to improve my craft. I am so grateful to have access to valuable resources like these tips, which are helping me to navigate the world of fine art sales. While I have a lot to learn, I am excited to continue growing and improving as an artist. Thank you for your guidance and support.

I would like to add some tips I've research on the internet:

1. Make sure to optimize your artist profile and portfolio. Include high-quality images of your work, a professional headshot, and a detailed artist statement.

2. Utilize social media to promote your work. Share your new pieces and updates on your social media accounts, and consider creating a dedicated artist page on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

3. Participate in art fairs and exhibitions. These events can be a great way to get your work in front of new audiences and potentially make sales.

4. Consider offering discounts or promotions to encourage sales. This could include offering a discount to first-time buyers or running a limited-time sale on select pieces.

5. Reach out to potential collectors and galleries directly. This can be a more personal and targeted approach to making sales.

6. Consistently create new work and add it to your portfolio. This helps to keep your portfolio fresh and ensures that you have a range of pieces available for potential buyers to choose from.

7. Use Fine Art America's marketing tools, such as their email list and targeted advertising options, to reach new audiences and promote your work.

Thank you very much

Thanks so much!

Hello Abby,

Thankyou for your post.

Thouht you might like to see this link below

I just saw this today https://fineartamerica.com/announcements/search-engine-sponsorship.html?announcement=true

Its only got Brooklyn Bridge page for sponsorship, when I search to find suitable plages for my own keywords, I cant find the appropriate link in the centre of the page as advised.

Is this something new FineArt America are doing?

Best regards

Peter

Thanks Abbie for the post!

Holy Moly! Thank you!

Abbie, thanks for all the insights!

Very helpful information, thank you for this it really helped put things in perspective.

Thank you.

Thank you!

I have a lot to read I see. Yes, it takes a lot of time, hard work and dedication.
I was gone for two years dealing with cancer in the family. I just started back again. I have to start all over again.

Thank you!

Gems!

Nice

nice topic

Thanks. Great tips

Bonjour où que vous soyez dans le monde et surtout MERCI !!!

Thank you for the tips!!

Thank you so much for this valuable information! I am currently going through the free modules to learn how to market my art.

I am so grateful to Fine Art America for the information you provide and the services you have for the customers to purchase a wide variety of items made from the original art that has been carefully photographed and downloaded.

Put your pixels/FAA site on your business card and attach it to every "real world" image you sell, and hand them out at real world events. I do sell better here at places I've been in the world with my artwork and my business cards. I'd like to see FAA?Pixels attach a sticker with our websites to the back of sold artwork here.

Thanks for the great information.

Problem I have with sending people to my FAA presence is, I have another website that I know if I send them their instead, when the look at my photo they don't get the other "Oh here are other images that have the same search terms. Those I send can to easilly got sucked into all of Fine Art America. There are tens of thousands of amateur photographers that under-price their work for affirmation as it isn't their career. A flooded market with good but not best work at half the price is hard for the souvenir shopper to pass up. Getty Images ruined the stock photo industry from a photographers standpoint the same way, only more insidiously. Oh well, a life of photography I was hoping to have a decent retirement from it, I have failed.

Thanks for the info. I just joined Pixels as a photographer. I'll be reading these articles!

hi i am new here

Daryl, you don't send people to FAA. You send them to a premium site. No other people there

Jenny Armitage, that would be a great idea and probably lead to more sales for the artist and FAA / Pixels

salve

Thank you very much for the advice and tips, this is all new to me so I really appreciate the heads up. It's going to be an interesting learning curve!

yes

All really great advice and tips! Thank you so much to everyone who has put time and effort into helping those like myself who are new here! Appreciate you all.

Max

@mark - were they your images? Usually they erase accounts if the images were taken from other places, copyright issues, or trademark issues. Or if they were returned, you don't get the cash.

There are always bad eggs that will complain about such things, but usually the case is, the images were never theirs to sell. The site isn't a scam. Artists are paid, provided the right amount of alloted time goes by and the items weren't returned. Also if you didn't have your paypal set up, SS number etc, you won't get paid. Or if you don't accept the money in paypal.

----Mike Savad

Also make sure you are logging into the right account, that 4 by your name says there are a few others with your name. And I have seen people make extra accounts then log into the wrong one.


There is a mark bently crabbe here, related?

----Mike Savad

Thanks !

Very helpful, thank you for this!

need help to

Thanks for sharinng information

Thank you very much, I will read everything, sales marketing is really interesting.

New artist to this site. Hoping to begin earning extra revenue and get some much needed feedback on my work

Thanks for the great info

Thank you

I don't have a need to sell. It is nice to have reprints, as for the original work I am most pleased to know the person loves it and will give it a good home.

Hello and thank you. I am new to FAA and will surely find this discussion very helpful.

New here and I’m glad I came across this post. This is really helpful for a lot of people including me, thank you for taking the time to post it.

Hi Abbie, and any others reading! Thank you so much for this discussion post heading, not only am I new to painting but I'm also new to FineArt America! I can't wait to understand this site more, as well as my own art and my own individual self. I'm very confident in my art, of course I can always grow and learn as a painter, honestly my only issue right now is both marketing and increasing sales. Honestly, baby steps are important as well considering that I just created my account around a week ago, so maybe I just need to continue grounding myself in FAA, socializing, and learning about the community that I'm apart of now. But Abbie, again thank you for the post and I can't wait to read your tips. Thank you so much!

Good advice thank you

I'm new here but I look forward to learning your wisdom. Thank you for helping everyone out with your knowledge!

Thanks so much!

Thank you, this is very useful!

Helpful tips!

Thank you, Abbie!

Very hopeful, thank you Abby

Thank you. It was helpful. :)

Thank you so much

Thank you!

Thank you! Very helpful :)

THANK YOU!

Hey Abbie,
I wanted to reach out and thank you for the insightful marketing tips you provided. I appreciate the time and effort you put into sharing your knowledge and expertise with others.
I am grateful for your generosity and support.
Best,
Theo

Great tips!

Thank you for this important hints and tips. I'm new at fineartamerica.com and this does help me to go further with my art sales.

Hi Abbie and everybody else! Im having issues, I don't see any photos when I visit my Shop-page even though I've uploaded several photos and collections!

Hi Martin,

On your Image page I see 17 images -

On your Collections Page I see 4 collections -

On your Shop page I see 2 collections and 17 images -


It takes some time for all images and collections to show everywhere on the site

Thank you it was helpful

Hi I've been out of FAA for about three years for health reasons. I came back the other day and have taken all my art work down and now I'm replacing it all with my new up to date Art Work.
I have just had a friend say " Shaun did you know your work isn't showing in your gallery" I'm not sure what that means as when I uploaded my images I thought that was all I had to do.. Could someone please let me know what I have to do to get my images into my gallery.

Thank you... Regards Shaun.

Hi Shaun,

Welcome back!

You are doing everything right - There are issues with the servers that are being worked on - they effect search and timely posting of uploads.

Your images will take some time to show everywhere on the site.

Here is a post from Abbie:

https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=8257129

Thanks!

thank you for this it is really helpful!

Muito obrigada, vou ler e botar em prática.

...

Very helpful. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Even though I have a degree in marketing, it's always better to keep sharp.

I am new here and very glad that threads like this are available!! thank you and I am excited to start my journey here!

I only list on FineArtAmerica. I don't mess with the other sites mentioned by many and average 350 sales per month. Would suggest that the KEY is number of images online and key words on your image.

Thank you Abby, for this opportunity to help me and others to find better ways for marketing and help increase sales!
I will soon start reading this.

All i know it's not easy

Thanks for the info, I just joined today.

Thanks for sharing all the knowledge and great advice!!

Any tips for a newbie here?regards

Hi,

We have just joined FineArtAmerica community. We would certainly like to learn how we could grow on this platform ?
We are still in the process of uploading our content here. Please visit and share your comments!!

Regards,
Artella Studio

Hey,

We have just joined FineArtAmerica community. We would certainly like to learn how we could grow on this platform ?

Best Regards
Karim Boudaoud

yess

Should I promote your business to get sales?

@Mona, no you are advertising your store.

Thank you!

Really amazing information

Thankyou !!

Thank you, this is most informative. I look forward to putting it into practice.

Thank you for this Abbie!
I am pretty active with promoting my work on my social pages.

This is vaulable information to help drive more sales. I cant wait to check out the features and get selling!

and I didn't even have to buy a self-help book, that's pretty cool. It looks like lots of useful information is all right here. That's good because there is so much garbage on the internet that we have to sort through, I look forward to reading it.

thanx

Hello

I would like to be part of this!

Muchas gracias por tus consejos. Veo que tras publicar tu obra, queda un duro y largo trabajo.

ok

Thanks, this was very helpful, I'm new

Thank you for this list!

thank you for this post! super helpful

Thanks for give me important information

Always make sure your artwork is of the highest technical quality for printing.

Hello, thank you for these tips im a young artist willing to get better at art and make more money. But do you have any suggestions on how to take a clear image of your painting?

Thank you for your words. It will help me a lot.

I’ve been a member for over ten years. Fine Art has sold one (1) piece in that time. I’ve done far better on my own with commissions. Doing specifically what the customer wants. Spent a lot of money on festivals and it was all wasted. Better to get on a “ call for artists” list in your town and state. I’ve had numerous images stolen and offer for sale by a Chinese website. When I wrote on their website that I was selling images for less than the stollen site they disappeared.

Joshuah

Here are some tips for photographing your artwork, or scanning it if that's an option for you. These tips can help you get the best possible image of your work:

Use a camera with at least 10-12 megapixels, and make sure it has a manual focus lens. This will help make sure your image is clear and high quality. The higher the megapixels, the larger the image file will be, which is important if you want to offer large prints.

Put your camera on a tripod if you have one, or use something like a stack of books to keep it steady. This will help prevent blurring or shaky images.

Try to take your photos outside in natural light, and adjust your camera's white balance settings so that the colors in your image look accurate.

When you export your image, try to use the highest possible file size while still keeping it under 25 megabytes.

At our site, we don't crop or change the shape of your images to fit standard sizes. Instead, we allow artists to upload their work as is, so you have the freedom to showcase your art in the way that you want.

I hope this helps, but let me know if you have any other questions or if there's anything else I can help you with!

Best regards,

Hello I'm new here! Thanks so much for all your tips!

I joined FAA in 2019 but started to add my images this year. I only have approximately 60.
I have just opened an Etsy store for my art prints, but so far the views whether there or here are few to none.
I am really trying and hopefully here some of you will take a look at my work and give me some advice.
My work is abstract and all my images are adjusted to the correct pixels.
Thank you so much.

valerie-hartman.pixels.com

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to drop a quick message to express my interest in participating in all the activities related to the sale of paintings and photographs on this forum. I appreciate all the advice that has been shared here so far, and I am eager to learn more about how I can promote my work effectively.

I understand that there are no "magic formulas" for success, but I believe that it's important to try to give your work as much visibility as possible both in o out this web. So, I'm committed to participating in discussions, sharing my work on social media, and attending events whenever possible.

Thank you all for your support, and I look forward to connecting with other artists and enthusiasts in this community.

Best regards,

Thanks!

I am finding it increasingly difficult to sell anything on Fine Art America, despite regularly uploading new work and trying to advertise it on social media etc? My sales have got lower and lower, over the last couple of years, to the point where its only just worth staying on the platform. Maybe I should engage more with other artists on the site, but I'm not sure this would help?

Thank you

John

Sales are down for many people at this time of year and then rise again in the next month or two. It happens every year. Some people get more and some get less

Engaging with artists is a good place to start however

Valerie, just go through the links above. They really can help

THANK YOU!

Thank you very much. It helps me a lot.

Thank you for this

Thanks a bunch

Thanks for the tips!

ohh nice

I am new to this site and am experiencing issues with getting sales as well. I found this through another individual from my home state that was selling his artwork. Even though I have attempted to not watermark my photos, as suggested through the setup process, I am still not getting much traction. What are some tips for how I can at least get some shares on certain things? Thanks!

@stephanie - all I can say is - it takes time. Looking at your images, many are way too small. Even for a card. Actually only some are too small, the 600xwhatever sizes are too small. You want to be more wordy with your descriptions and keywords. Then you have to read through all the links and do them.

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
The importance of Descriptions and Keywords by Mike Savad
here are mine.

You can't upload and wait, you have to promote yourself where ever you can. But it could take months or years to sell things. There is a lot of competition. My general note is, upload things that would catch your eye if you saw it in a group of other images, or that you would buy yourself for your own house.


----Mike Savad

I needed this so much being new to this.

Great info.

Thank you!!

THANK YOU

This is very informative, thanks!

I am uploading for years without any sales and am trying to deactivate the watermark. I just hope it will help!

Thank you, I hope it works.

Thank you

nice Information

I adopted a new style and what yall think?

Thanks for the information! Very helpful and I am excited to boost my sales!

I have a question. I'm trying to market my site like crazy as I need to sell. When entering my site a customer to see how it looks and works, when I click on "Collections," as if to take me to my other collections, instead my click takes me to a gazillion other artworks which are not mine? In that way then, if I'm doing all this marketing to try and sell my products, when you click on collections, my images are lost in the vast array of images none done by me? How do I keep my clients and my products of advertising on my site, otherwise it is a waste of my time to market if my clients or those that have seen my ads then are led off somewhere else not on my site and artwork? Linda.

Hi Linda,

You are clicking on the main collections - that will show all collections on the site -


You want to click on your collections - just under your profile picture -


Plus - Don't Forget

Your Fine Art America site will show all substrates of prints and Home Décor only.
Fineartamerica.com

Your Pixels site will show all substrates of prints and ALL other products.
Pixels.com
This is where you want to send your potential customers if you have not upgraded to premium.


If you have upgraded to Premium your Pixels Premium site will show all substrates of prints and ALL other products.
This will be the site you want to send your potential customers – They will see only your art work with no distractions or links to other artists work.

Your Artist sign-in and password is the same for all three sites.


Note: when you have a question - please post it to one area of the discussion forum - when you post the same question in multiple threads - you are spamming the forum - Thank you

thank you for your content

Hello team,

This was very helpful, thank you!

thanks , this is really precious to me 😉

Thank you for these tips :)

Abbie,

Hello and thank you. I am brand spanking new and I have much work to do.

I just received the prestigious Maxwell Award of Excellence from the Dog Writers Association of America for my short story collection - HOUNDS OF MERCY
(bit.ly/mercyhounds). Can I sell photo images from the book? Also want to change my ID to Michael A. Hoffman so my images don't remain listed along with other Michael Hoffmans who don't post Rhodesian Ridgeback images.

Will 100% give this a read will be really helpful

Great info. Thanks

Thank you Abbie for the great info.

wow that's was very helpful, thank you so much

This was super helpful, thank you Abbie!

Terimakasih pencerahannya, saya akan terus belajar, cara pemasaran sampai berhasil, ternyata kreatif dan bisa membuat karya saja tidak cukup tapi harus bisa belajar manajemen dan pemasaran juga...

Thank you for this awesome thread!

Thanks so much, I am still learning. Very informative :D

Thank you for the information! I am new and will see what happens after following all the steps. Fingers crossed!

Thanks all for great advice ! Thanks Brad for the checklist too.

New here. This information will be very helpful. Thanks!

Thank you for useful information.

Thank you!

Thank you for this awesome thread!

Very good thread.

Thank you for sharing! Also a small advice, I believe many people here use LinkedIn so maybe that's one of platforms where you can create marketing for your art. Or drive people from Instagram :)

Thank you!

Thank you Abbie, these articles will really help me a lot.

Very fruitful. Thanks

Hello, I’m a new follower. People say I do great artwork. I do various projects. How could I get more sales?

Thank you so much Abbie for this information! =)

Thank you! Great advice.

Thank you Abbie for some very good information. As you say marketing is everything. There are so many great artist out there, so its naturally hard to be visable in the mix. But with hard work comes rewards. Keep it going everyone. you will get there eventually:)

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As far as I know, comments give you a sweet feeling inside. But since they are too easy to rig, they don't count for anything as far as I know. There is no point in commenting on work. Getting likes, fav's, featured in groups, I think those help, a bit.

I have never made a single comment, and I only follow my mother and that's it. People comment thinking they will get buyers to click on their name for just being there. Sort of like a friend of a friend of a famous person. Commenting is more or less a waste of time and some people have the comments turned off.


EDIT this was to answer jennifer which she extracted the question, but it still stands, as far as I know comments are for fun.

----Mike Savad

Its making the effort to educate others.Thank You

Thanks for all the great advice!!!

Hello fam,

I am new here and don't know much about this platform, in fact I am not a tech savvy. My husband introduced me with couple of online selling platforms. but still don't know how the whole thing works. So please help with setting up the store and with the sell.

Thanks.

I hope you can help me sell

Thank you

Hello

Following

Thanks Mike for your answer. I think I deleted my question about "do comments help" because I noticed Abbie's comment in the top saying it does help. So I went back to continuing my commenting. The reason I was doing it was because I thought when others comment on my work, it would help in searches not because my comments on others and hoping for someone to visit me bc of my comment. So you don't think comment helps on our own works?

I've been in the habit of participating in comment threads because I want comments on every one of my images I upload for so long it's hard to let go but I really need to find best use of my time for marketing. Really would like to increase sales more. I was hoping to be at an average of 10/sales month by end of this year but still at 6-7 (slower during summer)

Its possible in theory that it might attract google. But I would think that you can then spam your own page with comments and stuff it with keywords. I guess its worth a try but google may ping you on it.

I have the comments on there as I think it might encourage a sale. If they got it then I will too. And I think it helps add a little bit of bulk, but can't say it helps one way or the other. I let comments happen naturally. Marketing should be outside the site, not working the site.


----Mike Savad

Thanks Mike. I've just been questioning it because some of the biggest sellers here don't have many comments on their work I've noticed. It'll be a hard transition for me but maybe I shouldn't worry so much about making sure I have comments on my images. Would save me probably 15 mins a day that I could use to do a blog or marketing video instead as I'm not seeing comments increasing sales but videos and blogs get more attention.

Be sure to put the sale on sales threads, that usually attracts people to post stuff. I also likes seeing congrats on sale as a way to remember that it sold at all.

I never follow people, I don't like images, I don't comment or worry I have comments or not. Its wasted energy. Entering contests help if you have something that fits the theme.

You could make a fake account to add comments if you really think it helps, but I doubt it really helps, if you want more keywords, pad out the descriptions more. If anything a comment is a link out of your site if customer clicked their picture.


----Mike Savad

Thanks Mike.

I'm new here. I like your discussion.

Jerry Saltz - the art critic has some interesting thoughts - tips and perspectives on changes in the whole world and art as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1PImBx_4ZY

Thanks, I'm new to this so any tips and tricks help.

Thanks, I'm new to this so any tips and tricks would help me.

I like to Like other peoples' art, read my comments and thank people for them, then check out their art and find some favorites. I don't feel like it's a waste of energy... I enjoy Art appreciation activities like that. This is why I'm here, to enjoy Art and network with other artists.

Thank you for the tips. New here with classical paintings and drawings. Images coming soon!

I everyone will like to know how to make sales i'm new here hope to hear from someone

Thanks for all tips.

Can we connect the shop with webpage?

Im a new memeber im new to this so im looking fo9to gain audience and sells

Thank you! This is so informative!

Thanks for all the great information!

Abby thank you so much this will definitely help me!!

This is the time for me to really increase my Social Media presence.

Timely post!

To sales

Thank you for all the great information

Thank you so much for this!

The idea of Sponsoring Pages should be added! I stumbled across it, any extra help is beneficial! Very good post.

New member here. I will carefully read everything you posted. Thank you.

Looks like a lot of good info here. Can’t wait to see where we end up!

Hi Abbie, great article! Maybe it's time for me to follow your advice at last and revert my username to my full name instead... Please amend the account url to: "Christina Fairhead" instead.

Many thanks,


C

Grateful for this post. New member and I have been having my struggles that's for sure. I don't have a huge following on social media, so getting my name out there has been difficult.

Hello Abbie,
I just came across this thread. I am a new member (November 23). I will read it all, then read it again and then follow your advise and recommendations. Again thank you. This information should be and stay at the top of the discussion tab.

Thank you for the tips!

I appreciate the website to be able to post our work but, is the cost worth it? Living in a city affords many more options to print locally/high quality for less. Do artists here thrive selling through this site?

@jason - $30 isn't a lot of money, considering what you get. I doubt you could print much of anything for that price, you would have to pay over an over. Yes you can sell here, not everyone does. Many make a lot of money, some make way too much money. It really depends what you put into this site. If you don't put much effort in presenting the work or giving good descriptions, keywords or advertising. Then don't expect much in the way of sales. You have a lot of competition. You started in 2014, why ask this now?


----Mike Savad

Mines more of a Genuine Question, Im new here and wondering, is my end uploading my photos then the company print my photos on the products and ship them or is that something I have to do?

@zak - your responsibility

upload quality images.
Advertise images.

That's it.

The company deals with the printing, money, returns etc,.


----Mike Savad

Happy new year, everybody!

Thanks for the tips, Abby. This is a great site and I am happy to be a part of such a supportive art community. And Happy New Year everyone!

Thank you for all of this wonderful information!

Thank you for posting this

Hi there, I want to spend some money on advertising and I am looking for someone who have the skills or know someone who have the skills to help me, and of course I will pay him/her besides that I will share with him/her some valuable information that will boost their revenue

thank you for your helpful post

Thank you! so helpful

I have been a professional artist for over forty years and I became so used to the gallery scene that I’m trying to shift gears into a new reality. Today’s world is very different. I’m on Facebook, and the rest of the social media platforms, so I decided to join Fine Art America in hope that it might give me more exposure?
Thanks very much! Karen Haughey

Thank you for sharing helpful information!! I am new to FAA and trying to work through my artworks

Great thanks!

This is what I was looking for and I didn't have to search everywhere for it. Thank you.

Thank you so much! I am reigniting my FAA portfolio after a long break and your words of wisdom and great ideas are kind and helpful!

thank you so much!!!!

Thank you for the discussion.

Thank you very much for this post ! I'll follow up the advice I find here

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Hello, I will definitely try to get back to sales since i have had limited sales, just a few things from friends. I don't upload as much material, since time is of the essence. I will start t gradually getting back and hopefully get some sales. Thanks for the tips as always

Good to know. As a new seller I've been curious about this

Thank you for the helpful information.

Very helpful and gives me energy to engage and continue uploaden! Just got a premium membership after a bit of doubting but I think I can make this work!

Thank you for all your helpful information! I have to change some titles on my artwork and upload photos of my paintings. I have more photos to upload too.

Thankyou I'm new here and definitely will give it a try..

Thank you so much!

Thank you for all the info in one place!

This is great info. Thanks

Awesome info! :)

Thank you so much, Abbie!

Thank you very much

Thank you for the useful information!

Interesting, thanks for your insight.

thanks so much!

Thank you for the info!

This was very informative.

Thank you Abbie, for your excellent post. I have favourited this page, so I can peruse the information you have given. Although, I have done Print On Demand before, I think there is always something new I can learn. Especially when it comes to the marketing side of things! So, this information will be very useful. Have a great week! :) Regards Paul

Abbie, thanks for all of the great links to these helpful sales suggestions!

I look forward to implementing many of them since sometimes selling seems to be more difficult than creating.

Thank you so much for posting this! I look forward to going through all of the knowledge and help posted here.

thanks it is helpful i am new and i want to share Uzbekistan art

Although my profile says I am here since 2019, I really started posting my work in 2023. I have had no sales yet. I would like to have at least one, so that I know what my artwork looks like for real. Anyway, my question is, has this post helped some of you getting more sales?
Thank you very much.

@valerie, you answered your own question. You only took it seriously for a year, it takes time to get sales. You have to advertise all the time. Abstract is hard to sell as it blends in with all other abstract, you also need more keywords. Many of the images I clicked on won't print because you enlarged it. I can't point to any one single one because they all seem to have digital issues of enlarging it too much. You can't enlarge them at all. If its digital, start larger. After those are fixed, beef up the descriptions more and add more keywords.


----Mike Savad

Thank you for i have had zero sales this far.

Thanks all for all you input on this topic, im sure i will be looking deeper into your ides for sales...

thanks chris

Mike Savad, Well said.

Thank you, I’ve just joined so lots to learn! I couldn’t get the shopping widget to work on my own website, if there anywhere I can find more info please?

I stumbled upon this thread and tips, looks interesting. Although I do digital marketing, but have not looked into FAA with this perspective. Thanks, would like to get more tips from you

Thank you, Great information.

Thanks for the tips, Abbie! For about a year or two, I have received notifications about visits to my photos. They all seem to be coming from a few people in New York, Cupertino, California (Apple's headquaters), China and other locations. Of course, no attempt to leave me a message is ever included, so I have no way of starting a conversation about my work with them. As many times as this has happened, it's evident there is some interest there, but no way to follow up on it.

Gary Rea

Thanks for the info

@gary, people, bots etc visit, they don't all want to talk. If they wanted to contact you they can. You do need an avatar to be in the search, you must have unique titles or it confuses the system and the people. You must have descriptions if you want to be seen in google.


----Mike Savad

thank you!

Thank you Abbie, this is very helpful!

Let's just say, priceless information and tips! Follow them all, it can be a bit intimidating but it is doable, so thank you Abbie for sharing it.
Mark from OldPhotoGear.com

Yes

I'm new to FAA, I need to read all this and learn, thank you Abbie.

Thank you. I have been member for longtime and do have 80 + paintings and photographs, but haven't been able to sell prints or originals? Is there any secrets or process to make sales? I will review your article and post above to educate myself. Thank you for sharing. Dipali Shah

Thank You Abbie i cant wait to get started to look into the list you gave.I'm new at selling so this list is a huge help to get me started.

Thank you very informative.

Wow... I feel so happy as I could gather some useful information... Thanks for that.

thank you for the information

thank you very much

Thank you for this!

This is a great post, thank you for sharing. I look forward to growing here. :)

I’m new to FAA and look forward to learning more and sharing with others.

Which is a better way to promote— through FAA or the affiliate Pixels.com? Or both?

i need help

@caco - can you be more specific?

Because without images, it will be super hard to sell anything.

----Mike Savad

I am a bit at a loss here. I do promote, I'm active every single day, I have more than 1600 works up in 19 collections (various styles and subjects) but I only ever had 9 sales in two years (last one in January 2024), the highest take $18 (!) What else should I be doing? Anybody else on the same boat?

Thank you!!

Thank you

Thank you. Every helpful

Does anyone actually sell anything here?

Q - Does anyone actually sell anything here?


First of all, I want to say – that is a trifling question – and you are not the only one to ever ask it.

FAA / Pixels have been in business for 18 years – Hundreds of thousands of artists and iconic brands plus millions of images.

If no one was selling they would be out of business in just a few short months.

Lots of members sell some, some members sell lots and the members that struggle to sell need to open the links at the top of this thread to learn how to remedy that.
Most of that information is from artists that do sell on this site.

I must admit – my sales are mediocre compared to the big sellers –

I have two premium memberships and so far, I have had 4,713 sales – so to answer your question – Yes! Members actually sell here. Many members sell much, much more than I do. Much More…

Great tips thank you !

I’m new to selling my photographs. I am an amateur astrophotographer who started taking photos of space a year ago and I’m just now confident enough in my skill level to justify trying to sell my work. So far I have just set up an account and had my friends check it out so I’m. Unsure of what comes next to get new people to check out my photos and hopefully buy some of my work.

Thank you

Definitely gonna save this.

I'm new to this, thanks for the tips!

Thank you for this beyond informative forum.

How much can you sell will depends on several factors such as:
1. Quality of your photos or art
2. Type of your art vs the market demand for such art
3. Your sales & marketing skill
I've been here for about 4 years now. So far I've not sold a single print to a complete stranger. Most of the sales were to friends or acquaintances who got full discount on my commission part. There were few nice friends who refused to take discount. The bottom line is I've not yet break even the FAA membership charges in any of the year till now.

Initially I thought it's my marketing skill that lags significantly. I do post regularly in FB, Twitter, Pinterest and even on LinkedIn. I've an independent website too. Few times advertised in google, and boosted post in FB during the holiday season but they never generated any sale. I do get visitors, sometime more than a thousand a day, but they never end of placing an order. So I started to realize, maybe it's not the no.3 from the list above. Maybe my photos are not good enough to inspire people to hang it in their walls. Or maybe I should find a different marketplace.

Many thanks!

Chuck Garrettson

I'm new to this platform . Trying to figure things out.

Thank you so much

Thanks for the post!!

good things

Great information thank you for this post!!

Great advice here.Thank you. I'll be coming back to it no doubt.

Thank you for the info. Anything here seems to help.

Thanks for the info.

Salve, ho venduto opere originali e copie su altri portali, su questo non sono riuscito a vendere niente fino ad ora, puoi aiutarmi a capire dove è il problema, grazie

Hello, I have been active on this website for several years, only a few scammers contacted me! I don't know, maybe my work is not good. I tried my best during these things, but it didn't help me. Is it possible for someone to guide me? Thank you

Thks for this info!

Thanks, trying to figure all this out to get started.

almost 38 thousand visitors to my work, yet no sales. I wouldn't know how to find out if i had sale though

@john Most are probably bots. Just like a normal store, you get a lot more people passing by the window than going in. And the ones that go in, don't always buy they look around then walk out again...

Go into settings and balance and or sales and its listed there. You'll want more keywords, descriptions, somewhat larger than 1024x1024, and you'll need to advertise to people that are into youngish boys. Set your collections up and sort out all the images you have in them so people don't have to wade through 31 pages of images. Fill in the bio also.

And you'll have to figure out the audience, who is into AI young males. As a side note, be sure to count the fingers before sending them up, some have more than needed giving away its AI. And if the customer see's it, they can also make their own. On the plus side you definitely have a consistent theme.


----Mike Savad

Thank you so much for this. Very helpful.

Thank you, Abbie!

I have a question.... I have my works here already for more than 3 years, at the beginning I held only 25 pieces (what is given for free), than I sold some work, and this is encourage me to buy a wide account... So, I pay for this for two years approximately, but the result is very weak... I'm here from 2021 and had only 4 (!) print sales. If it was for free account, I wouldn't be disappointed, but... to pay and to have such a poor result is rather sad. I have a very big store here, the biggest of all platforms I participate (cause I put here photograph works that I don't put on others), but the result is bad, simply bad. You can say - may be your works aren't good? But for example, on Redbubble (where I entered essentially later that to FFA), I do have sales, not too much, but definitely more than here. And it is a free platform, I don't pay for my store there!

You may say - do something for promote your works, participate forums, discussions etc., but English is not my native language, it's not easy to me to read a lot of text, especially when there is a lot of things that aren't interesting to me, sorry. So, I do what I can - participate contests, but it doesn't work.

I seriously consider to close a payment account, to return to a free one, the thing that stop me - an amount of time I spend to raise such a lot of stuff. By the way, if the site would ask me about it - "if you want to continue to a payment account or not" - I probably would answer that I don't want to continue, but the site simply took the money for the next year.... I think it isn't fare, you must to ask! If there is some button that manage it, please show me where is it, cause if the things will continue as them, I will close a "big" account next time.

Hi Tanya. It does take an awful lot of time (weeks to months) for the uploads to filter through and start appearing in searches and with the algorithm favoring both older stuff and successful sellers --who will always come first in searches--it's just a numbers' game mostly besides having, of course, a large and diverse portfolio. Now, 300 items is not "a lot" by any stretch of the imagination when there exist many hundreds of thousands of artists on the site. I just surpassed 2000 items in my portfolio and have had very sparse and insignificant sales so far. Other portfolios exist with more than 15000 works. Demographics play also a role. $30 annually is not a lot of money for unlimited inventories and the site does not take a "tier fee" unlike Redbubble. If you check their tier fees for standard accounts (anybody who does't sell hundreds every day) you'll see you pay 50%+ for every sale you make! I moved away years ago. Finally, as with any annual subscription you can cancel future payments by removing your credit card straight from your account settings.

I am also looking for tips :)

Tanya....you started your pay account in 2021 and only had 4 print sales since. I noticed you have only 300 images for sale. Considering the small number of works you are offering for sale I would have to say your sales are far above average. There are millions of images for sale on FAA so the fact that you managed to sell 4 out of 300 you have for sale is amazing. If I had similar sales statistics commensurate to the thousands of images I have for sale I'd be able to live solely off my FAA income. Keep adding more work to your account. By the way, I think your paintings are marvelous!

Hi. For all who need more sales, please check earlier replies, there are a lot of great advice on this thread and a few others.

SHORTLY again to those who are very new to how artists can get sales:

Add images daily or weekly. To rise higher in the FAA search, remember favs, comments, contest wins, and sales are very important factors of the 25 which affect your images here on FAA. Views from other member dont matter. Views from outside FAA matters.
So join groups, be active in the promos and you give and gain favs, comments and views. Enter contests. Try to make sales. Focus on getting people come to your page on FAA or Pixels.

To gain sales, you have to do some form of marketing, outside FAA. There are plenty of art shops to buy from, so make yourself visible to the people who love to buy wall art, cards, home decor, puzzles, mugs and other lovely products.

My most sold images are usually my oldest images with the most views from non-FAA members (so there is logic in the tip from FAA that favs, comments, views from outside FAA, and sales matter)
I have sold 400+ products. Sales for me on FAA has been down 2024. That is a something many have said about their art too. So it is a worldwide economic reason, not that our art isnt good anymore :)

Use social media. Let the world see your art. They cant find you among 10 million artists in the world, if you dont make yourself visible.

Share from FAA and the link goes out with the sharing.

Join group promos where we have social media sharing.

Tell your friends and family to support you: view and comment here on FAA. And why not buy something sometimes. :)

If you know how, start a blog. Many are for free or cost only 20 USD or similar per year.

Sales is not easy, for anyone in any industry globally, you have to work hard for it.

ps. The RB facts I read above are not correct, but as we should not discuss other art sales pages here, I dont correct the false information. :)

Work hard and you will get sales!

Nice discussion at various topics

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I have been looking for! God bless!

Where can we join group promos to get our work noticed? Any examples?

@lauren - groups are not the best place to get noticed, you are better off going to facebook or whatever social thing you use. Make sure everything has a good description and lots of related keywords. Like you have a trump image but no keywords anywhere beyond the title. Also add a bio.


----Mike Savad

Thank you for sharing these resources! I’m still trying to figure out how to get an actual sale so I’m looking forward to studying the links and reviewing the advice in the comments. 😅

Thank you for this important information because I am new to this platform , any tips that will help to get some exposure and hopefully generate sales is really appreciated.

Thanks for the information! I'm new here. I'll read everything carefully.
Hugs from Brazil!

I thought I would share some recent adjustments to key words and to default settings that I have made.
My sales had dropped, and I have been reworking my key words to remove "products" that I included and found out that was not a good idea, e.g. metal print, print, coffee mugs, duvet cover, etc.
I also changed my visitor entry page to the "shop" view, and changed my image sort order from set myself to "show the best selling images first".
Suddenly, two sales!

Interesting tip. Thanks a million!

Thank you, I look forward to reading through these tips!

Wow, thanks!

Thank you so much for this post.
I think there is a need for FAA to create more options to share on other social platforms .

I’m definitely looking into this info, thank you so much. It helps others like myself who are doing this for the very first time.

Really apreciate this, thanks

There is a lot to learn on this website. I feel that it is not just about simply selling but also about connecting different artists. It’s a great experience, and I think these tips will make it even better.

grest info

Thank you for this info. I've been on here a few years now. Still learning and adjusting to get higher in the algorithms to be noticed. Slow and steady wins the race, right? LOL

Thanks! This is all great information I will make sure to use!

Thanks