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renewing old post...

I'm working with art.com almost two years. I tried with free account and uploaded allowable 16 images. Just a week ago I checked and found out that now free account can upload up to 50 images.

I think it is not a worst chance to sell some photos or graphic. I sold 156 posters at all. Biggest price was $19, average a few dollars per sell. With "portfolio of 16 images" it's kind of good result. On some microstock agencies you get less with hundred times bigger portfolio. This month I have 3 sells and earned more than on istockphoto with ~500 images...
I red in their forums that some contributors earn a huge amounts every month.

By now I'm uploading full 50 quota and perhaps will upgrade to full membership. Full member can upload up to 2000 images and can possibility to set up Fine Art sells.

art.com has a well known name across the world and is doing a good marketing through his other brands: allposters.com, artists | rising etc. Often I find my posters on ebay by art.com and some other names.

BR,

yeah, I red on forums about no sales from A|R. Mine sales almost all come from art.com and several from allposters.com, no sales from artistrising. But there is no difference for me while images uploaded on AR migrated to art.com.

 I don't know only how they are doing that: are they choosing from your portfolio on AR some images and move them to art.com? Or they are moving automatically to art.com?

A quote from their statement: "We are excited to announce that again, additional selected works by Artist Rising artists are now available for sale on Art.com and Allposters.com!" prompts that not all images are migrating but only some "selected". Though first time my all 16 images were added to art.com.

Gregor,

they have no ref program, only art.com has affiliates for buyers.
You can register here for sell:

http://artist.artistrising.com/Community/ArtistPostLoginPage.aspx

With "only" ~180000 artworks and ~33400 artists in comparison with millions images and hundred thousands photogs on micro, its kind a 'very young agency'...

But the main question is: how much of your works will be migrated to art.com, which is the main seller with a huge net of buyers.

I'm very serious about that and will upgrade to Premium membership.
I just uploaded all my quota of 50 images and emailed them with some questions about membership, payments, migrating to art.com etc...
Will let you know after their answer.

regards.

You are welcome and good luck!

My bestsellers are sunset by ocean, food collage in retro style, space illustration, evening landscape.

You can check all three websites (artistrising.. art.. allposters...) and see freely shown bestsellers from all their collections.

There is a difference between stock and art. If stock image we call "material for product", than artwork is "finished product". Of course, a lot of stock images are already prepared for posters and prints, but be sure to AR upload only finished products without reservation. Some of my micros' bestsellers were rejected because they were "material" only.

Just try freely with 50 selected images you can imagine that someone can print a poster from them and hang on a wall- in a kitchen, bedroom, kids room, office etc. After a while you'll see your reports on traffic and sells and will be more sure what sells.

H
Thank you for tell us about the site

 I have just signed up!

See what happens

all the very best

redfig

4seasons and Adelaide, can we see your portfolio?

I had a quick glance at that site and it nearly brought me to tears. Oh Mary mudder of God the prices for fine art - and exceptionally good stuff it is too - is so off-the-wall that not even the Lord himself would be able to see me without the aid of a pair of binoculars, I'd be so far away from that site.

I have a lot of fine art stuff that I'd neither put there nor anywhere else like it. If you really want to hit rock bottom by all means do so but fine-art photography is the one last bastion of refuge that I will not touch by lowering my pricing.

Case in point I've just recommended to one client that he raise his prices up from €450.00 per print to €1,500.00 pp and he's getting it thankfully. The man is a pure genius but just didn't realise it and pitched his work pitifully low. The same could be said for microstockers but that's a different genre entirely.

Without wanting to sound like a babylonian whore-master, we're talking about 50 limited edition prints at that price, just to clarify.