Category: “How-to” articles

Why do people buy photographs as wall art? My thoughts on what they buy and why and how to try to boost your own sales of Fine Art.

Getting a buyer to our images on Print on Demand sites is a huge challenge for photographers. My latest thinking suggests that Twitter and Mastodon do work.

Jixipix painting applications are ones that I regularly use in my stock photography and fine art work. 50% sale this week!

I’ve tried really hard this year to boost my social media efforts to get my prints in front of potential buyers but this analysis suggests it was all for nothing!

Well, not exactly portraits! But I have earned quite a bit over the years using myself as a model. I wrote this as a guest post for the Xpiks blog. Xpiks is a combined keywording, describing, uploading system that combines many features that makes uploading an easier task. You can find the article about “Making money selling photos of yourself” here.

Finding an audience for fine art photography and prints is never easy. Getting people to subscribe to your work is difficult. What else works?

The best way to get a high-ranking blog or website is to write compelling copy and to get good backlinks from other ranking sites. But how?

Earlier in March, I wrote about my current strategy for promoting the sale of prints of my work. Basically, I am trying to draw people who are interested in my photography to my blog on BackyardImage which purely talks about the photographs themselves and the background to them. The images do link through to the site where someone could purchase a print, but I am aiming this site at potential buyers, not other photographers. I also want to directly collect...