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« on: May 21, 2015, 00:36 »
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I just got an e-mail from FAA about their new FB shopping cart.

"Fine Art America is pleased to announce the release of our new Facebook app!

With a few simple clicks, you can add a full-featured FAA shopping cart directly to your fan page.   Your Facebook friends and fans can then browse through all of your images and purchase them as framed prints, canvas prints, phone cases, and more... without ever leaving Facebook! "

I can't see how this is good. Personally, I only upload low-rez, 70 dpi, watermarked photos to FB and I don't plan on changing that.
But even for people willing to post hi-rez photos on FB, the FB algorithm still destroys them, so why would buyers buy there?


objowl

« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2015, 02:05 »
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I just got an e-mail from FAA about their new FB shopping cart.

"Fine Art America is pleased to announce the release of our new Facebook app!

With a few simple clicks, you can add a full-featured FAA shopping cart directly to your fan page.   Your Facebook friends and fans can then browse through all of your images and purchase them as framed prints, canvas prints, phone cases, and more... without ever leaving Facebook! "

I can't see how this is good. Personally, I only upload low-rez, 70 dpi, watermarked photos to FB and I don't plan on changing that.
But even for people willing to post hi-rez photos on FB, the FB algorithm still destroys them, so why would buyers buy there?

I think it is a trust thing.  They are not aiming at the stock market with discerning  professional buyers, they are selling to your family and friends, people who like to share in your success, people who buy on impulse, people who trust you.

ShadySue

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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2015, 04:10 »
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I don't have a facebook business page, but I don't see anything about you having to load full rez pics to the new facebook app. I was assuming, but with no way to test it, that it's just like the little thumbs you can have on Twitter, Pinterest etc should you choose, which are direct links to FAA.

BTW, if you read a lot of threads over there, you'll see that as most submitters there are not stock submitters, that sort of issue is of relatively little concern. Check out a lot of other Fine Art galleries and artists: You might be surprised how high res the images can be, on really top names. The Fine Art world is very different from the Stock world.

Also, you don't have to do the Fb thing if you don't want to. They've had various iterations of Fb marketing forever, and I've been opted out, while I ponder whether starting a Fb business page would be worth it. (For me, I suspect not. For those with an existing market, probably.)

« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2015, 17:43 »
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The FB app on FAA links to your FAA images, it doesn't upload hi-res images to FB so no worries there. I've had a few sales that seem to have come through my FB app (the older version) on FAA and while I don't really see it as essential to FAA sales, it's there for my page visitors to explore, and I figure it's not a bad idea for them to have another avenue to access and purchase my work.

They updated the Facebook app recently and the interface looks better than it did in the past.


 

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