Best Way To Get The Best Out Of Faa?

Welcome aboard! Great images! Do a lot of marketing and add a lot more images and you should do well!

Selling Guides for New Members -by Floyd Snyder
The 25-75 Rule For New Members
Advertising Your Artist Website
Another Response To A New Member Seeking Help
A Few Reasons Why You May Not Be Selling
Work Smarter Not Harder To Beat The Big Guys
50 Effective Tips to Help You Sell You Art

Thank you Floyd, I'll have a look at your links.
What marketing do you do?
Do you pay to market your images?
Cheers
Paul

everything can sell well if you can sell yourself. nothing and everything sells best. if you chase what you think sells best, you'll never find your place. upload things you like and they may catch on. decorators buy all sorts of topics, and the search sorts by how well you sell. so even if you had the items, you may never be seen. you can sell things off of contests but you have to enter often. your better of advertising your site in general.

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


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

Yes, but I used to own an ad agency so I have spent money advertising. However...

You should not waste money advertsing unless you fully understand the basics of advertising and have a decent budget to spend over sufficient period of time.

The is no need to.

I have seen thousands of dollar totally wasted by members here thinking a $5 ad here or a $25 ad there is going to make them some sort of decent return. It will not accept in a vary rare occasion where a few may get lucky.

Read the articles...

Best of luck to you.

Thank you both. I appreciate your time
Regards
Paul

Hello Paul

Uploading images on Fine Art America is half of the work. The other half is marketing. Fine Art America is a platform for artists and photographers to run their own businesses. The artists that are successful on Fine Art America do outside marketing to promote their work and we offer a handful of different marketing tools to help you e.g. Shopping Cart Widget, Email Campaign, etc. So I would definitely take a look at these features (found 'Behind the Scenes') to help get some sort of marketing plan in action.

Being an active member on Fine Art America is also a plus - we have a very large community of artists and photographers. 'Favouriting' images, leaving comments, participating in discussion forums, etc., are big ways to get your work noticed! I would also look into uploading more images.

We have over 7 million images listed on Fine Art America with any you have loaded, Paul, so if there is no marketing and promotion done on your end, your images will get lost in the mix. If you follow all of these suggestions you will appear higher and more often in the search engine.

We cannot tell why some sell and why some do not so we cannot give that kind of advice. However, here are some great posts on the forum and elsewhere about marketing your work. Please log in to view some of them

https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=4294579 Transparency in Discussions (written by the owner of Pixels/FAA)
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=4503132 A Checklist For Success
https://ourartsmagazine.com/marketing/what-is-marketing-in-reality/2017 What Is Marketing In Reality (opens in different site - Mine)
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=3281102 Marketing Plan
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=3640448 Marketing: Let's see your Pixels Artist Sites!
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2567813 Checklist For Success In Print Sales.
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2220588 Marketing 101 By Mike Savad
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2040787 A Few Reasons Y U May Not Be Selling
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=377664 Marketing Yourself
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=358080 Promoting Your Art
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1601966 Six Month Observation About Marketing
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1192902 Evaluating Your Own Work To Sell
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2201441 Elephant In The Room - Maybe Your Art Just Isnt That Good...
https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2193130 The Formula To Pricing Art?
and https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=4702720 Marketing How To

Lots of reading but worth it.

Abbie
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Artists Community and Technical Support Manager | Shopify/Pixels Representative
"When nothing is going right, go left."

Use Fine Art America if only selling household goods
Use Pixels if you want to sell everything

Thank you very much Abbie, I'll work my way through it, slowly