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Brasilnut:
Hey all,

I just put together a blog post about my experiences so far with FAA. Any comments and tips would be appreciated, especially since I haven't got any downloads with them (yet).

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2017/06/27/opportunities-outside-of-microstock-uploading-to-print-on-demand-agencies/

Thanks

Alex

ShadySue:
Just to let you know that many of the 'vistors' are actually bots- like you, I have lots of visits from e.g. Syracuse and Epsom. In my case more from Sunnyvale and Beverley Hills, but bots just the same.

The buying base there is heavily US-concentrated. Although US images are a small part of my port there, most of my not many sales there have been of US images, or subjects which are very well known to US tourists (landmarks/highly recogniseable wildlife). Photos aren't necessarily their most sought-after medium. Regularly check what's been selling.

There are promoted artists there who have been head-hunted, it's very difficult to get visibility/traction. There have been strong rumours for years of pay for positioning, I have no idea the truth of that. There are a lot of quite 'irregular' goings-on there - some of what they say can't be taken as truth, shall we say; and their forum can be pretty toxic.

I've only had one sale there this year, not quite made my 'subscription fee'.

Pauws99:
I've dabbled in Zazzle....really because it makes a change but sales pretty hopeless...at least its free.

stockastic:
I've been on FAA for about 5 years.  I sell a couple of sizeable prints every month, sometimes more. 

I'd like to see more discussion of FAA here, because the FAA forum admins won't allow any critical posts on their forum. 

FAA has good points and bad.  The big positives are: you set your own markup, and they have a keyword search function which can bring you some sales even if you have no marketing.

The big negatives are: their search ranking is heavily weighted by previous sales; the site looks clunky and hasn't been updated in years; and the page coding seems to ignore current SEO principles, so your images probably aren't well represented on Google.

steheap:

--- Quote ---I've been on FAA for about 5 years.  I sell a couple of sizeable prints every month, sometimes more.
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How many images do you have on there, if you don't mind me asking? Is there any pattern to the ones that sell - specific locations, or types of image. I've often looked at their page of recent sales but it is hard to draw any conclusions from that. I did use it once to check if my pricing was out of line with the ones that sold and I came up with my current pricing strategy as a result of that analysis: http://www.backyardsilver.com/2015/12/fine-art-america-trying-new-pricing/

Steve

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