I was very busy with my websites and my work to update my blog.
Here a new idea: to offer curated images sets, could it be inspiring?
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/ (https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/)
enjoy!
Quote from: gameover on March 24, 2026, 20:27
I was very busy with my websites and my work to update my blog.
Here a new idea: to offer curated images sets, could it be inspiring?
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/ (https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/)
enjoy!
great idea
I've been doing something similar, creating 'galleries' that i list on etsy, but also include in my blogs
eg https://cascoly-images.com/here-be-dragons-global-sightings/
I also include links to my FAA pixels site to sell individual images & physical products
however, it still requires getting folk to your site in the first place, which for me remains the hardest part of selling direct
Quote from: cascoly on April 08, 2026, 21:54
great idea
I've been doing something similar, creating 'galleries' that i list on etsy, but also include in my blogs
eg https://cascoly-images.com/here-be-dragons-global-sightings/
I also include links to my FAA pixels site to sell individual images & physical products
however, it still requires getting folk to your site in the first place, which for me remains the hardest part of selling direct
Hi Steve,
I think this could work for you.
Super great images! I envy your travels :D
Yes, the problem is always to get visitors. Try Pinterest, with some tricks you can have a good feedback. But before, ask your preferred AI how to manage your boards. It helps ;)
From my experience and clients, curated sets are a good idea - you're not just selling images, but offering a ready concept, which attracts more attention. The hard part is traffic. Without visitors, even great collections won't sell. Pinterest and SEO can help, but they need consistency.
Yes, a very interesting approach and I hope it works out for you. I've struggled over the years selling stock on my own sites and never thought about bundles at the time, but I migrated to selling prints from my own site about 5 years ago and I think that is working both in terms of the prints sold, but also the number of people that just come to my site to read the articles. I get around 100-150 visitors a day, which is not massive, but it shows there is some interest. I think some of them go on to at least look at the prints on Etsy or FAA, but, more importantly, the links are helping Google index my prints a little higher and my articles usually get a pretty high ranking in search results. For instance, I'm the first image and the 4th article in an incognito Google search for "Austin skyline" which is a pretty wide search term. All I need to do now is persuade the people in Austin Texas to buy prints for their wall!
It takes effort, but I think it is worthwhile.
Steve
https://www.backyardimage.com/ (https://www.backyardimage.com/)
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Quote from: cascoly on April 08, 2026, 21:54
great idea
I've been doing something similar, creating 'galleries' that i list on etsy, but also include in my blogs
eg https://cascoly-images.com/here-be-dragons-global-sightings/
I also include links to my FAA pixels site to sell individual images & physical products
however, it still requires getting folk to your site in the first place, which for me remains the hardest part of selling direct
Hi Steve,
I think this could work for you.
Super great images! I envy your travels :D
Yes, the problem is always to get visitors. Try Pinterest, with some tricks you can have a good feedback. But before, ask your preferred AI how to manage your boards. It helps ;)
thanks - i'd considered pinterest, but never followed up - getting AI help may be just what i need
i'm currently working on a travelogue book on Greece for Kindle that will be about 50 pp and 50+ pix which will be royalty free for buyers
Quote from: cascoly on April 14, 2026, 23:36
Quote from: gameover on April 14, 2026, 09:45
Quote from: cascoly on April 08, 2026, 21:54
great idea
I've been doing something similar, creating 'galleries' that i list on etsy, but also include in my blogs
eg https://cascoly-images.com/here-be-dragons-global-sightings/
I also include links to my FAA pixels site to sell individual images & physical products
however, it still requires getting folk to your site in the first place, which for me remains the hardest part of selling direct
Hi Steve,
I think this could work for you.
Super great images! I envy your travels :D
Yes, the problem is always to get visitors. Try Pinterest, with some tricks you can have a good feedback. But before, ask your preferred AI how to manage your boards. It helps ;)
thanks - i'd considered pinterest, but never followed up - getting AI help may be just what i need
i'm currently working on a travelogue book on Greece for Kindle that will be about 50 pp and 50+ pix which will be royalty free for buyers
I was never a fan of Pinterest too, but now just implementing a couple of AI suggestions I'm seeing back an immediate popularity. Incredible.
By the way, I find great your idea of "travelogue books", clever to publicize your travels 👍
for those of you using Pinterest, have you read the TOS? I spent a bunch of time a while ago trying to put links to somewhere to buy my images that others had posted there. That was an epic fail, so I tried to take the pics down, that failed too, so I gave up.
At the time pinning something on Pinterest required claiming you had the rights to do so and gave that right to Pinterest to do whatever they wanted with it. Also you accepted any risk. Basically the site ran on stolen images and pushing the risk onto whoever pinned them.
Quote from: pancaketom on April 16, 2026, 00:19
for those of you using Pinterest, have you read the TOS? I spent a bunch of time a while ago trying to put links to somewhere to buy my images that others had posted there. That was an epic fail, so I tried to take the pics down, that failed too, so I gave up.
At the time pinning something on Pinterest required claiming you had the rights to do so and gave that right to Pinterest to do whatever they wanted with it. Also you accepted any risk. Basically the site ran on stolen images and pushing the risk onto whoever pinned them.
I think the use should be different: you don't have to load the "true" images you are selling. The final goal should be to get visitors to your website. Let arouse curiosity and interest. Put your imagination at work :)
Quote from: pancaketom on April 16, 2026, 00:19
That was an epic fail, so I tried to take the pics down, that failed too, so I gave up.
I took down hundreds of my stolen images from Pinterest, it was super easy. Just curious why it hasn't worked for you.
This was years ago. As I recall they just ignored me. I spent much more time trying to link the posted images to somewhere they could be bought, I didn't spend much time on the takedown attempts.
Quote from: gameover on March 24, 2026, 20:27
I was very busy with my websites and my work to update my blog.
Here a new idea: to offer curated images sets, could it be inspiring?
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/ (https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/)
enjoy!
I've been doing some research on how to improve my store, and according to the marketing research out there, bundles and sets can add up to 20% to 40% to sales if done properly. Together with a couple of lead magnets (freebies**) they should be placed prominently in your store. The freebies then should link to your bundles.
** For photo stores they may include things like background textures. Offer a small free set of 3–5 images that represent your style. These build trust instantly because people can use your work.
Quote from: AM24 on April 21, 2026, 22:29
Quote from: gameover on March 24, 2026, 20:27
I was very busy with my websites and my work to update my blog.
Here a new idea: to offer curated images sets, could it be inspiring?
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/ (https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/)
enjoy!
I've been doing some research on how to improve my store, and according to the marketing research out there, bundles and sets can add up to 20% to 40% to sales if done properly. Together with a couple of lead magnets (freebies**) they should be placed prominently in your store. The freebies then should link to your bundles.
** For photo stores they may include things like background textures. Offer a small free set of 3–5 images that represent your style. These build trust instantly because people can use your work.
Thank you for the hint!
It is a very good idea. I have it done yet in my other website https://antikstock.com (https://antikstock.com) where I have some free samples and the free image of the day on the start page.
I keep transforming all my sites in curated packs. In a second time I'll move to spread the news. Anyway I have really a great amount of steady visits, still I presume most of them are bots.
Quote from: gameover on April 23, 2026, 13:40
Quote from: AM24 on April 21, 2026, 22:29
Quote from: gameover on March 24, 2026, 20:27
I was very busy with my websites and my work to update my blog.
Here a new idea: to offer curated images sets, could it be inspiring?
https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/ (https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/the-cafe-library-open-at-night/)
enjoy!
I've been doing some research on how to improve my store, and according to the marketing research out there, bundles and sets can add up to 20% to 40% to sales if done properly. Together with a couple of lead magnets (freebies**) they should be placed prominently in your store. The freebies then should link to your bundles.
** For photo stores they may include things like background textures. Offer a small free set of 3–5 images that represent your style. These build trust instantly because people can use your work.
Thank you for the hint!
It is a very good idea. I have it done yet in my other website https://antikstock.com (https://antikstock.com) where I have some free samples and the free image of the day on the start page.
I keep transforming all my sites in curated packs. In a second time I'll move to spread the news. Anyway I have really a great amount of steady visits, still I presume most of them are bots.
Thanks! I also like your idea of using AI for Pinterest promotion. For the past year I have been using Instagram to build up my following and sell my books, and had a good sales conversion rate (traffic to sales), but that has slowed down now. So, I will focus on Pinterest now. AI does come up with a lot of new ideas.
I spent an afternoon on AI learning how to use Pinterest & getting workflow and SEO details
Hopefully, this is helpful for others:
Average Conversion Rates by Channel
The average conversion rate for social media marketing campaigns can vary significantly depending on the platform and industry. For photography sales, Facebook ads have an average conversion rate of about 9% on their ads, while Instagram ads and organic posts have conversion rates of 18% and 14%, respectively. These figures highlight the importance of targeting the right audience and using effective ad placements to maximize conversion rates.
https://wifitalents.com/social-media-conversion-rate-statistics/
Quote from: cascoly on April 23, 2026, 19:58
I spent an afternoon on AI learning how to use Pinterest & getting workflow and SEO details
Was it helpful? Or too soon to tell?
Quote from: AM24 on April 23, 2026, 20:02
Quote from: cascoly on April 23, 2026, 19:58
I spent an afternoon on AI learning how to use Pinterest & getting workflow and SEO details
Was it helpful? Or too soon to tell?
was really helpful in describing how to proceed - i've got my workflow list to get pinterest setup & templates to post -- the first few will take some time but afterwards it's given me a streamlined process - it combines working with FAA, Pinterest, canva and my photo archives and providing SEO text. It analyzed my website and picked three areas that have the best niches to start with - setting up 3-4 top level boards & several secondary boards. (fine art travel pix )
at each step it offered several ways to proceed but then was able to provide summaries of all we discussed
mostly though, i've been working on (learning) a PowerPoint show for our independent senior living association partly with a view to gaining signups for my fall tours. also preparing my next travel newsletter for those tours
otherwise pretty boring.
Quote from: cascoly on April 23, 2026, 23:18
Quote from: AM24 on April 23, 2026, 20:02
Quote from: cascoly on April 23, 2026, 19:58
I spent an afternoon on AI learning how to use Pinterest & getting workflow and SEO details
Was it helpful? Or too soon to tell?
was really helpful in describing how to proceed - i've got my workflow list to get pinterest setup & templates to post -- the first few will take some time but afterwards it's given me a streamlined process - it combines working with FAA, Pinterest, canva and my photo archives and providing SEO text. It analyzed my website and picked three areas that have the best niches to start with - setting up 3-4 top level boards & several secondary boards. (fine art travel pix )
at each step it offered several ways to proceed but then was able to provide summaries of all we discussed
mostly though, i've been working on (learning) a PowerPoint show for our independent senior living association partly with a view to gaining signups for my fall tours. also preparing my next travel newsletter for those tours
otherwise pretty boring.
Wow. That's fantastic. Looks like you're going to be very busy. (Keep us updated if you have the time.)
Good luck with the tours.
Quote from: AM24 on April 23, 2026, 23:54
Quote from: cascoly on April 23, 2026, 23:18
Quote from: AM24 on April 23, 2026, 20:02
Quote from: cascoly on April 23, 2026, 19:58
I spent an afternoon on AI learning how to use Pinterest & getting workflow and SEO details
Was it helpful? Or too soon to tell?
was really helpful in describing how to proceed - i've got my workflow list to get pinterest setup & templates to post -- the first few will take some time but afterwards it's given me a streamlined process - it combines working with FAA, Pinterest, canva and my photo archives and providing SEO text. It analyzed my website and picked three areas that have the best niches to start with - setting up 3-4 top level boards & several secondary boards. (fine art travel pix )
at each step it offered several ways to proceed but then was able to provide summaries of all we discussed
mostly though, i've been working on (learning) a PowerPoint show for our independent senior living association partly with a view to gaining signups for my fall tours. also preparing my next travel newsletter for those tours
otherwise pretty boring.
Wow. That's fantastic. Looks like you're going to be very busy. (Keep us updated if you have the time.)
Good luck with the tours.
Instagram and Facebook are "flows", Pinterest - with the correct advice to use it - remains.
Quote from: gameover on April 24, 2026, 11:05
Instagram and Facebook are "flows", Pinterest - with the correct advice to use it - remains.
Yes. Good Point. That's one of the advantages of Pinterest. Instagram and FB posts are short-lived, while Pinterest pins can keep driving traffic for a long time. I found this:
https://michellehummel.ceo/what-is-the-lifespan-of-a-social-media-post/
"The average half-life duration for Facebook posts is 105 minutes.
The average half-life duration for Instagram posts is 1,200 minutes (20 hours).
The average half-life duration for Pinterest posts is 164,270 minutes (3.75 months)."
Quote from: AM24 on April 24, 2026, 12:26
Quote from: gameover on April 24, 2026, 11:05
Instagram and Facebook are "flows", Pinterest - with the correct advice to use it - remains.
Yes. Good Point. That's one of the advantages of Pinterest. Instagram and FB posts are short-lived, while Pinterest pins can keep driving traffic for a long time. I found this:
https://michellehummel.ceo/what-is-the-lifespan-of-a-social-media-post/
"The average half-life duration for Facebook posts is 105 minutes.
The average half-life duration for Instagram posts is 1,200 minutes (20 hours).
The average half-life duration for Pinterest posts is 164,270 minutes (3.75 months)."
Thank you very much :) Interesting, I read it just now.
It confirms what we knew. What the most of articles avoid to tell you is
how to do it. Planning with AI could be a good chance.
To take also in account: the article is 2 years old. In internet it is a lot. For instance all the SEO plugins are now quite useless, the search with AI is different now and evolving swiftly.
Quote from: AM24 on April 23, 2026, 23:54
Quote from: cascoly on April 23, 2026, 23:18
Quote from: AM24 on April 23, 2026, 20:02
Quote from: cascoly on April 23, 2026, 19:58
I spent an afternoon on AI learning how to use Pinterest & getting workflow and SEO details
Was it helpful? Or too soon to tell?
was really helpful in describing how to proceed - i've got my workflow list to get pinterest setup & templates to post -- the first few will take some time but afterwards it's given me a streamlined process - it combines working with FAA, Pinterest, canva and my photo archives and providing SEO text. It analyzed my website and picked three areas that have the best niches to start with - setting up 3-4 top level boards & several secondary boards. (fine art travel pix )
at each step it offered several ways to proceed but then was able to provide summaries of all we discussed
mostly though, i've been working on (learning) a PowerPoint show for our independent senior living association partly with a view to gaining signups for my fall tours. also preparing my next travel newsletter for those tours
otherwise pretty boring.
Wow. That's fantastic. Looks like you're going to be very busy. (Keep us updated if you have the time.)
Good luck with the tours.
yes, i'm keeping a log of my pinterest journey
seems a lot of folk have been worried about safety (even before trump's causing a fuel price increase) - what most people dont realize is the 3 of our 4 destinations (greece, bulgaria, uzbekistan) have level 1 security alerts by US (lowest) & turkey is level 2 like most of europe
Planning Your Travel | Travel.State.gov
Just to add my 2 cents: last year I used to get around 100k impressions per month on my Pinterest content and daily clicks to website and I haven't made a single sale from a Pinterest lead, at least as far as I know. It might work for your niche (my Pinterest content is about art prints), but for me it was a waste of time, so I stopped posting to Pinterest a few months ago.
Quote from: mike123 on April 25, 2026, 09:57
Just to add my 2 cents: last year I used to get around 100k impressions per month on my Pinterest content and daily clicks to website and I haven't made a single sale from a Pinterest lead, at least as far as I know. It might work for your niche (my Pinterest content is about art prints), but for me it was a waste of time, so I stopped posting to Pinterest a few months ago.
Thanks Mike for your feedback. That's really interesting. Wow. 100k impressions/month is a lot! Plus, daily traffic to your site. Your pins must have been very good. But you are saying, they were basically tire-kickers?
Did any other social media work for you?
My experience with Pinterest is very limited. But I liked what @gameover said above, about designing a free campaign using AI. Instagram was successful for me, but now I want to focus specifically on Pinterest, and see if that works for me as well.
All I have been doing at the moment, is updating my site and writing some more blog posts and promoting those on Pinterest as a start. Most of the blog posts are subjects that I have chosen myself, but I also asked AI what to write about - and chose one of those topics. Interestingly, it was the blog subject that AI suggested that is outperforming all the others on Pinterest. Its still early days, but that's the one that is getting the most views and click-throughs.
When you guys say you are using AI to help you with pinterest and blog/website, what sort of AI generator are you using for this?
Quote from: LizC on April 25, 2026, 23:43
When you guys say you are using AI to help you with pinterest and blog/website, what sort of AI generator are you using for this?
I just use CoPilot. But I am not a big user and don't know any other sites. Others here may have better recommendations.
CoPilot is free and its been very helpful so far. I used to sell Canva Pinterest Pin template bundles on Etsy a few years back (back in my design days), so I already had a lot of templates of my own. But AI can be helpful for feedback on creating pins if you need help. I asked it to review my store, and it made the suggestion to add another page, called Start Here, where to send traffic, where it takes the visitor on a journey through my products - free Lead Magnets, Bundles and books. I already had my freebies and bundles, but it can help you with that too, if you need it. My store was getting very messy and difficult to navigate, so I thought that was a good idea. I liked that its all linked together now and becomes a logical 'journey'.
https://payhip.com/MillefloreImages/shop-adez
I've been writing my own copy for my websites for some time now, but AI can give you some good tips and suggestions for improvement.
This morning I started designing pins - as per AI's suggestion - to promote my Lead Magnets and link them to the Start Here page. Its just a test for now, but it will be interesting to see how that goes.
Quote from: LizC on April 25, 2026, 23:43
When you guys say you are using AI to help you with pinterest and blog/website, what sort of AI generator are you using for this?
i've used chatgpt over the last 3 years for various tasks, so i'm comfortable. i wrote a 45 page ebook travelogue over 2 afternoons - just need to add pictures that will be royalty free to buyers. i've upgraded to the pro version (about $15 a month to get extended sessions & features)
still digesting its pinterest responses but currently working with it on a PowerPoint presentation for May 6 on lesser-known sites in Turkey. currently have 750 images selected that i have to reduce drastically. (and i also need to learn PP in next few days)
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Quote from: mike123 on April 25, 2026, 09:57
Just to add my 2 cents: last year I used to get around 100k impressions per month on my Pinterest content and daily clicks to website and I haven't made a single sale from a Pinterest lead, at least as far as I know. It might work for your niche (my Pinterest content is about art prints), but for me it was a waste of time, so I stopped posting to Pinterest a few months ago.
Thanks Mike for your feedback. That's really interesting. Wow. 100k impressions/month is a lot! Plus, daily traffic to your site. Your pins must have been very good. But you are saying, they were basically tire-kickers?
Did any other social media work for you?
I think people were mostly clicking on my Pinterest pins because they liked the images, not because they had any real intention to buy. So even though I was getting plenty of impressions and traffic, none of it was turning into anything meaningful.
At one point I even experimented with affiliate links on my pins, hoping to at least monetize the traffic somehow, but it didn't generate a single sale.
Social media is a bit different. Occasionally someone buys a print because they liked a photo, but it happens very rarely.
From my experience, you need to be visible where people are actively searching with buying intent. For art prints, that's usually platforms like Google or AI platforms like ChatGPT. People hardly go to social media looking to buy art, and in my case they weren't really using Pinterest for that either.
That said, I think in case of Pinterest this depends on the niche, so your experience could be completely different.
Quote from: mike123 on April 26, 2026, 08:18
Quote from: AM24 on April 25, 2026, 18:23
Quote from: mike123 on April 25, 2026, 09:57
Just to add my 2 cents: last year I used to get around 100k impressions per month on my Pinterest content and daily clicks to website and I haven't made a single sale from a Pinterest lead, at least as far as I know. It might work for your niche (my Pinterest content is about art prints), but for me it was a waste of time, so I stopped posting to Pinterest a few months ago.
Thanks Mike for your feedback. That's really interesting. Wow. 100k impressions/month is a lot! Plus, daily traffic to your site. Your pins must have been very good. But you are saying, they were basically tire-kickers?
Did any other social media work for you?
I think people were mostly clicking on my Pinterest pins because they liked the images, not because they had any real intention to buy. So even though I was getting plenty of impressions and traffic, none of it was turning into anything meaningful.
At one point I even experimented with affiliate links on my pins, hoping to at least monetize the traffic somehow, but it didn't generate a single sale.
Social media is a bit different. Occasionally someone buys a print because they liked a photo, but it happens very rarely.
From my experience, you need to be visible where people are actively searching with buying intent. For art prints, that's usually platforms like Google or AI platforms like ChatGPT. People hardly go to social media looking to buy art, and in my case they weren't really using Pinterest for that either.
That said, I think in case of Pinterest this depends on the niche, so your experience could be completely different.
Hi Mike,
thanks for sharing your two cents :D
I think you point out where the problem lies, not only to get more visits to the website, but mainly to get the "right" ones, the people interested to buy.
I have begun to use GPT to coordinate my efforts in this context, and I think I'm learning a lot. If nothing else it's a quite interesting (and entertaining) experience.
Hey AM24, just want to say your payhip shop looks fantastic!! I signed up with payhip a while back to sell clipart bunndles and possibly downloadable art prints but haven't done much with it.
Quote from: LizC on April 27, 2026, 15:58
Hey AM24, just want to say your payhip shop looks fantastic!! I signed up with payhip a while back to sell clipart bunndles and possibly downloadable art prints but haven't done much with it.
Thanks Liz :)
The trick is to just let it develop gradually - or at least that's what I did. I have been playing around with it for over a year now.
At first I only used Payhip purely to list my products, which I linked my main website to. It was a much cheaper (ie FREE!) and easier solution to paying a lot more to upgrade my website to include a store. But gradually I started looking at all the Payhip features and started turning it all into a comprehensive website on its own. I also found that it was much easier to design than my official website.
Here's their help page if you need it: https://help.payhip.com/category/44-customization
And please ask me any questions if you need more help.
cheers,
Annie
@LizC
Here's some design tips:
1. On every page that you add, add a Header to make it look more professional and to add some tag lines and promotion. I used 'Image with Text' with the text over 2 photos. But you can use any one of the others if you like. Use this consistently throughout the site. I found it makes a big difference to the look and feel of the whole site.
2. The second section of each page should further promote the products on that page. I added either a 'Slider List' or an 'Image with Text' section.
3. The third section should be your product list or more promotion that you want visitors to know before they get to the products.
4. To break up the look of the blank pages of each section, find or create a suitable background photo to add to that section (go to 'Advanced' at the bottom of the section and add the background there). I've done that twice on my home page - to add more interest and to improve the overall aesthetics.
https://payhip.com/MillefloreImages
5. Don't forget to add sections to link and promote other products throughout the site using the Featured Products, Collections and Blogs sections.
6. Use the 'Testimonials' and 'About Me' sections throughout the site to add more credibility to your products.
7. If you add a new page, you then need to go to 'Navigation Links' to add it there as well - so that it appears at the top.
Its kind of like when you buy a new Smart TV with a remote with 1,000 buttons. Once you know what button to press, the rest is easy. All the sections are well designed, well formatted and easy to use.
Hope that helps :-)
Quote from: AM24 on April 27, 2026, 18:57
@LizC
Here's some design tips:
1. On every page that you add, add a Header to make it look more professional and to add some tag lines and promotion. I used 'Image with Text' with the text over 2 photos. But you can use any one of the others if you like. Use this consistently throughout the site. I found it makes a big difference to the look and feel of the whole site.
2. The second section of each page should further promote the products on that page. I added either a 'Slider List' or an 'Image with Text' section.
3. The third section should be your product list or more promotion that you want visitors to know before they get to the products.
4. To break up the look of the blank pages of each section, find or create a suitable background photo to add to that section (go to 'Advanced' at the bottom of the section and add the background there). I've done that twice on my home page - to add more interest and to improve the overall aesthetics.
https://payhip.com/MillefloreImages
5. Don't forget to add sections to link and promote other products throughout the site using the Featured Products, Collections and Blogs sections.
6. Use the 'Testimonials' and 'About Me' sections throughout the site to add more credibility to your products.
7. If you add a new page, you then need to go to 'Navigation Links' to add it there as well - so that it appears at the top.
Its kind of like when you buy a new Smart TV with a remote with 1,000 buttons. Once you know what button to press, the rest is easy. All the sections are well designed, well formatted and easy to use.
Hope that helps :-)
That is really a nice way to break things down.
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Quote from: AM24 on April 27, 2026, 18:57
@LizC
Here's some design tips:
1. On every page that you add, add a Header to make it look more professional and to add some tag lines and promotion. I used 'Image with Text' with the text over 2 photos. But you can use any one of the others if you like. Use this consistently throughout the site. I found it makes a big difference to the look and feel of the whole site.
2. The second section of each page should further promote the products on that page. I added either a 'Slider List' or an 'Image with Text' section.
3. The third section should be your product list or more promotion that you want visitors to know before they get to the products.
4. To break up the look of the blank pages of each section, find or create a suitable background photo to add to that section (go to 'Advanced' at the bottom of the section and add the background there). I've done that twice on my home page - to add more interest and to improve the overall aesthetics.
https://payhip.com/MillefloreImages
5. Don't forget to add sections to link and promote other products throughout the site using the Featured Products, Collections and Blogs sections.
6. Use the 'Testimonials' and 'About Me' sections throughout the site to add more credibility to your products.
7. If you add a new page, you then need to go to 'Navigation Links' to add it there as well - so that it appears at the top.
Its kind of like when you buy a new Smart TV with a remote with 1,000 buttons. Once you know what button to press, the rest is easy. All the sections are well designed, well formatted and easy to use.
Hope that helps :-)
That is really a nice way to break things down.
Thanks Pete!
I forgot to say above, to add lots of photos and less text. People remember visuals long after they have forgotten the text, if they read it at all. Use short but punchy tag lines with a little bit of sub-text throughout the site on headers and section headings. People tend to only read longer text when they are almost committed to buy. So just put that on the actual listing.
Tag line examples (for vintage illustrations, for example): "Where history becomes art", "Authentic Vintage Prints, Restored With Care", "Vintage Graphics for Your Modern Projects", "Timeless Illustrations for Modern Creators."
Thanks for the tips. I have a question about connecting Paypal, does Payhip get access to your Paypal account in that it can withdraw money from it?
Quote from: LizC on April 28, 2026, 23:52
Thanks for the tips. I have a question about connecting Paypal, does Payhip get access to your Paypal account in that it can withdraw money from it?
When you make a sale, your payment (sale$$ less 5%) will be instantly credited to your PayPal account - no waiting period. I am not sure what you mean, Liz, about Payhip withdrawing money from it? The 5% that they take out of sales is all the fees they make. Nothing else - no upfront fees like Etsy, eBay, Shopify, etc.
"No Monthly Fees: Only charges transaction fees, making it cost-effective for high-volume sellers.
Payhip also handles VAT compliance automatically, ensuring that all transactions are compliant with local regulations."
When I wanted to link my paypal account I was asked for my paypal login details, so that made me wary, other places like microstock or POD sites just need your paypal email address to pay you.
Quote from: LizC on April 29, 2026, 05:09
When I wanted to link my paypal account I was asked for my paypal login details, so that made me wary, other places like microstock or POD sites just need your paypal email address to pay you.
Mmmm thats interesting.
This is what Payhip says:
https://help.payhip.com/article/64-connecting-your-paypal-account#4
Liz, I only had to give my email address and nothing else, so I am not sure what's going on?? I did check them out before I started and they are a British firm with a high rating on TrustPilot.
This may be your problem:
"You only provide your PayPal email, not your password
The actual login and authorization happen on PayPal's secure site, not on Payhip."
Liz, I don't want to take @gameover's thread onto another tangent, so I suggest you should write to Payhip if you cannot solve it.
Okay, thanks