Thursday, April 15, 2004
Last week I had 1,066 page views on my website, for the first 4 days of this week I've already had 844 page views. The last two days pages views have been over 225. I guess updating the blog regularly and selling on ebay regularly are helping. eBay sales are steady--low but steady.
It's fun/exciting to see the numbers steadily grow. My dream is to make my living selling my photos off the internet, my realistic goal is to make it a good part-time income.
The one thing I find frustrating with selling through the internet is the lack of direct contact with the people buying my photos. I've done a few art shows and I loved watching people respond to my pictures and talking to them about them. I have met some people and talked via email with people, so I get some response on my internet buyers/patrons. Something I really enjoyed with artshows, was being surprised by who bought what picture and for what reason. Some of the hippest looking people bought my more traditional pictures and some of the more "traditional" looking people bought some of my more hipper looking stuff.
Another thing that is nice artshows and a bit dicey with the internet is the presentation and expectation of the work. The artshow, they see it, if they like it they get it and know what they've got. The internet, you've got lame jpeg's representing the work. Which reminds me, that is something I need to work on--good photos of how the picture looks matted and signed.
It's becoming a daily thing tracking down people who are lifting my pics for their websites--I suppose I need to be a bit more diligent in putting my web address on all the pictures, so at least I'll get a plug--because of course no one puts a link back to my site. It's interesting to see the pictures that get lifted, it's kind of a market research thing--if someone's going to take the time to put a picture on their site, they must really like it.
It's fun/exciting to see the numbers steadily grow. My dream is to make my living selling my photos off the internet, my realistic goal is to make it a good part-time income.
The one thing I find frustrating with selling through the internet is the lack of direct contact with the people buying my photos. I've done a few art shows and I loved watching people respond to my pictures and talking to them about them. I have met some people and talked via email with people, so I get some response on my internet buyers/patrons. Something I really enjoyed with artshows, was being surprised by who bought what picture and for what reason. Some of the hippest looking people bought my more traditional pictures and some of the more "traditional" looking people bought some of my more hipper looking stuff.
Another thing that is nice artshows and a bit dicey with the internet is the presentation and expectation of the work. The artshow, they see it, if they like it they get it and know what they've got. The internet, you've got lame jpeg's representing the work. Which reminds me, that is something I need to work on--good photos of how the picture looks matted and signed.
It's becoming a daily thing tracking down people who are lifting my pics for their websites--I suppose I need to be a bit more diligent in putting my web address on all the pictures, so at least I'll get a plug--because of course no one puts a link back to my site. It's interesting to see the pictures that get lifted, it's kind of a market research thing--if someone's going to take the time to put a picture on their site, they must really like it.
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