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Turns out that selling Print on Demand is tougher than I imagined. It's been 6 months since I've signed up to Fine art America and ane calendar month since signing up to Photo4me. Then far, no sales on either despite loads of views / comments / praise.

A little refresher, Print on Demand (POD) are websites that display your artwork digitally and from which customers tin purchase prints if and when they desire. This is different to licensing since the images are non/should not be used commercially or for re-auction. I wrote about my experiences with POD a few months agone.

The POD site handles all the admin including accepting the payment, making the print, shipping the product and handling any returns/complaints.

Update on Art America / Pixels

If you sign up to the premium subscription on FAA costing $30/year, you get access to your own website on the Pixels platform included, with work duplicated from the FAA portfolio. Until quite recently, I never bothered with Pixels, but some veterans have been pushing me to invest some time developing that part of the website.

Some of the benefits are that:

• The domain name is easier to remember (even an additional pick for bespoke domain). I always felt a little awkward giving abroad Fine Fine art America url to European-based client and now it's a much cleaner-looking alexandre-rotenberg.pixels.com
• The site can be customized to your liking. I've included a blue background to match my logo, equally well every bit nice-looking galleries to guide customers;
• Visitors only encounter your work and none of the other FAA artists;
• Additional products non available on the FAA website, including iPhone cases, dress.

Admin-cease of the Pixels website with a multitude of options

Galleries Galore

I've advisedly curated a dozen or then different galleries, with each gallery having betwixt 15 and 100 images.

In fact, I'm looking to even out the number of images per gallery at nearly thirty, which is tricky since I have a lot more fine fine art images of Italia than I practise of Paris for instance (great excuse to go to Paris). In total, I accept 500 images but looking to cutting down to 300.

Anyway, that's all secondary if I'g non getting viewers and conversions.

Virtually those views

Views are an interesting metric. I've gone alee and deleted nearly a dozen images which had fewer than v views over 3 months suggesting they're no interest and probably won't sell. The ones that are getting lots of views are the following which would make for fantastic prints:

Having a go at Photo4me

Ii months ago I decided to start submitting to Photo4me, a Uk-based POD bureau. They're much smaller than FAA but on the upside in that location's no annual fees. From a buyers' perspective, since many of my contacts are UK-based they're more than interesting since aircraft within the Uk is free.

What I've liked about them so far is that they seem to take technicals and keywording more seriously with a strict QC. The downside is that it'southward not possible to accommodate images into separate galleries.

I'm uploading a few images a week and currently have 136 images. The following are showing up as "most popular":

Interestingly, my top x on Photo4Me don't show up every bit top ten on FAA

Marketing POD – I need a favour!

Unlike stock photography where your work is essentially done after uploading and keywording the image, with POD, it's mainly most your own marketing / give-and-take of rima oris. Which brings me to this mail where I would like your help!

In the spirit of brutal honestism, I sympathize that since this blog'due south audience are composed of stock photographers, I won't get much business concern from y'all guys since you rather print your own images!

Please proceed me in listen if you're looking to offer gifts to friends/family/colleagues. I would greatly appreciate your back up, not but are they beautiful prints, just yous'll be helping me equally I keep working hard to bring you useful and free tips on making coin with your stock photos.

Again my POD links are:

• Photo4me
• Pixels

Cheers in accelerate and until next time.

Alex

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