I wonder how much per month top artists on Fine Art America makes.

[helloitsme]

I started about 6 months ago there and have zero sales so far.

[sgoodwin4813]

You've answered your own question!

[images]

I started about 6 months ago there and have zero sales so far.

I started 6 years ago and have the same number of sales as you.

[Chichikov]

Fine Art America is a site for "Artists".
Are you an "Artist"?

[Steveball]

18 sales in 5 years so a nice bonus once in a while.

[Zero Talent]

2.2% of my total, in 2017. And I'm not an artist! 

[Uncle Pete]

I started about 6 months ago there and have zero sales so far.

I started 6 years ago and have the same number of sales as you.

I'm doing the same but I didn't pay for display which means I only have 24 somewhat artsy images. I suspect that some of the people there, not those here who work and have made sales, are using FAA as a fulfillment printer for contract work or their own sales. There was one guy who had plenty of sales, dogs, abstract, which were a different dog every time I saw a sale.  So buy one of my works of "Art" and make me wrong.    https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/pete-klinger.html

Now that I look, I could easily move out five, filler near the last, for something a little more likely to hang on a wall someplace. The Buffalo National River is absolutely flat, nothing, no interest, boring.

[Orchidpoet]

I did reasonably well in the first few years. In some lucky days, I could even make over $1000 in a single day. Usually I had sales every month.

However, since it became pixel.com and started to carry products, my sales have gone downhill. Last year, I only made 3 sales. This year, none so far.

I hope it could focus on the fine art side of the business because it was its strength, and not get distracted by products which have not likely been sold in big volume as its owner had hoped, I suspect.

[Painter]

Had several sales the first year, then nothing for two years. Last year one, this year one so far. I have earned more from paintings than from photographs.

[tdezenzio]

I made two sales in March so far this year

[jorgophotography]

I make double on FAA in comparison to Shutterstock per month, admittedly i don't submit anything to SS (or micro) these days. Spend my time working on RM while preparing for the oncoming blockchain stock disruption - creativechain.org | photochain.io | stockblock.io | kodakcoin.com | tge.selfllery.com

[mj007]

This is my first year and maybe last. We will see. Paid my 30 bucks or so to be on site. Have about 1300 hundred images and have made two sells so far. Sells totals 8 bucks to me so far....

[loop]

Four sales in about 4 years with the 25 photos (free plan) . About 200 $, total.

[stockastic]

I used to sell regularly there, a few every month with 500 images.  No more.  They're busy bringing in big corporate sellers like Conde Nast and Getty, and a bit player like myself is buried deep. Their keyword search is a dumpster fire, and the site pushes products like phone cases and shower curtains. 

2 sales so far this year.

Unless you have your own marketing campaign, or a very successful keyword niche, I'd say FAA is just another waste of upload time.

[BaldricksTrousers]

I've been there for a few years and have made enough to cover the cost of membership for the foreseeable future. I went through the whole of 2016 without a sale, then made almost �300 with five sales last year.  Nothing so far this year. I've got nearly 900 images there, including some medium and large format black-and-white film which sometimes sell, so it's a place where I can put some of my more experimental stuff.
Looking back, I see I made almost $600 in 2012, so that was pretty good.

[wordplanet]

I've had around 70 sales since I joined in 2012, some were cards and pillows and the like, but most are still prints. Even with piddly amounts such as $7.00 return on a shower curtain, my return per sale this year is above $100 per, as print sales usually bring in somewhere between $100-300 per sale, so a handful of sales every month or so makes the $30/year worthwhile.

I'm a tiny seller and my stuff is drowned out by the Conde Nasts, etc. so I have no clue what a top artist makes there. I have just over 575 images and get a few sales a month most of the time, but  sometimes it can be very quiet with nothing but maybe a pillow or greeting card. Someone bought three large framed prints of my work on one day about a month ago (I assume it's the same person all three sales were from the same small town), so that was a good day.

My last 11 sales were travel scenics. Travel seems to be my best seller there, the sales preceding those were seasonal greeting cards - New Years in fact, rather than Christmas.  I sell a decent number of black and white prints, although I sell more color.

I wish I knew what the top artists made, but I don't think Vincent Van Gogh is telling.

[Brasilnut]

Finally got my first sale on FAA today...this is after 1 year!

[Zalee]

Finally got my first sale on FAA today...this is after 1 year!

Congratulations! So, is 10 - 15% the normal mark up? I have no idea what to add to their prices.

I've had around 70 sales since I joined in 2012, some were cards and pillows and the like, but most are still prints. Even with piddly amounts such as $7.00 return on a shower curtain, my return per sale this year is above $100 per, as print sales usually bring in somewhere between $100-300 per sale, so a handful of sales every month or so makes the $30/year worthwhile.

$100-300 per sale is fantastic! Your art is obviously beautiful!

[Brasilnut]

Congratulations! So, is 10 - 15% the normal mark up? I have no idea what to add to their prices.

Master Steve has some useful tips on pricing at FAA:

http://www.backyardsilver.com/2013/01/fine-art-america-a-new-way-to-earn-cash-from-digital-photos/

As well as some follow-up articles.

Hope that's helpful.

Alex

[namussi]

I make double on FAA in comparison to Shutterstock per month, admittedly i don't submit anything to SS (or micro) these days. Spend my time working on RM while preparing for the oncoming blockchain stock disruption - creativechain.org | photochain.io | stockblock.io | kodakcoin.com | tge.selfllery.com

You win the "Shoehorn of the Day" award.

[PaulieWalnuts]

I can't find the more recent stats Sean at FAA posted. Here's an article from 2012 with $5M in annual revenue.

"Our best-selling artists are in the range of $5,000 to $10,000 a month. That is a small number of artists."

Their 2017 revenue was $25M so not sure if the top artists are earning 5x 2012 stats.

http://www.sramanamitra.com/2012/03/26/doing-5m-a-year-with-3-employees-fineartamerica-ceo-sean-broihier-part-5/

[BaldricksTrousers]

Their 2017 revenue was $25M so not sure if the top artists are earning 5x 2012 stats.

They won't be. The butter will have become more thinly spread as more people join up. Even so, the best of them might have increased sales significantly over the past six years. The fall-off in earnings between the best seller of all and the tenth best - or even the second-best - is probably huge.

[Zero Talent]

10 sales this year, so far.

[jorgophotography]

I make double on FAA in comparison to Shutterstock per month, admittedly i don't submit anything to SS (or micro) these days. Spend my time working on RM while preparing for the oncoming blockchain stock disruption - creativechain.org | photochain.io | stockblock.io | kodakcoin.com | tge.selfllery.com

You win the "Shoehorn of the Day" award.

My SS earnings are very low, so will have to abdicate that shoehorn your way

[jorgophotography]

Spend my time working on RM while preparing for the oncoming blockchain stock disruption - creativechain.org | photochain.io | stockblock.io | kodakcoin.com | tge.selfllery.com

An article i wrote on this topic
https://medium.com/@CryptoBlockBits/stock-photography-the-blockchain-revolution-7d5e0a7f42d9