I have been a member for several years, and early on I had a few sales. It has been almost two years since I've sold anything, but I'm getting a lot of visitors. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anything I can do to boost sales?
You have some really good work that I can see people wanting to buy. One thing I notice is that you have very few key words and brief descriptions. You also need to market your work, finding your audience which are potential buyers. I don't do a lot of marketing myself because at the moment it's just a serious hobby. But I do sell about 3-6 prints a year. Most all of it has been shots of popular WI tourist destinations. I attribute my sales to good use of key words and descriptions. Others who sell a lot will chime in about marketing. Also do a forum search using the word marketing. You'll find a wealth of information.
Sue, actually your visitors are extremely low since you have been here since 2012. You need to boost that up alot. Follow what Chuck says..... keywords and descriptions!!!!! lots of them!
What is "a lot of visitors"? Joined 2012 Followers 10 Visitors 6,369
These are "on life support" numbers.
Consider that since 2012, tens of thousands of new members have joined and uploaded hundreds of thousands of images. Plus some of them are actively promoting their work.
visitors are bots. if you haven't done anything in 2 years, you won't get real views. without critiquing anything specific, the horizons should be straight on water scenes. you need more keywords overall.
you have collections from trips, but the keywords don't outline where it is, what is this we are looking at, etc. some images are a bit soft or noisy. which could turn off buyers and the printer may not print them.
generally when you post pictures, send only your best stuff, things you would buy if you saw them some place, or would take notice. if you glaze over them as you scroll by, so will buyers. your pinterest button is off.
but you have to advertise your store, upload more, add more keywords etc. its a constant thing. and whatever you sold, make more of that.
Uploading images on the site is half of the work. The other half is marketing. the site is a platform for artists and photographers to run their own businesses. The artists that are successful on the site 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 the site 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 the site with any you have loaded, Rachelle and Jason, 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
I am thrilled to be here on Fine Art America. With a little hard work, I am proof that you can make some great sales. Don't know what I would do without FAA!
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I seem to be having a problem in getting notified that I had received replies even though I checked the notify me button. Good news is that I made a sale last month. I didn't get an email notice until today, though. Maybe I need to use my gmail account.
