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.

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