4 days- 100pics uploaded - 1000 visitors: no sales

pirmin

can you tell me your experience

Thanks
Bye
from Venice Italy

www.angelovianello.com

johng

Some thoughts:

First, most of your galleries still have 'Originals' turned on - so I'm not sure what the incentive is to actually pay for something when it can be had for free. So if your intent is to sell I suggest you turn off originals.

Second thought is - who is your market? And how are you marketing to them?

Tons of people view photos on the web but most aren't interesting in buying someone else's work. I haven't run across too many people that are very successful with random drop-in business for print sales. So who is your market? Or are you just relying on tags to bring searches to your site?

thehikingdude

One other thing, the couple of prints that I looked at are marked at Smugmug cost so you wouldn't know if those were sold or not.

KMCC

Your photographs are very good. But very good photographs will not sell all by themselves.

Who are you trying to sell to and where is your market located? How are you communicating with your potential customers to let them know that your photographs are available?

My experience has been that my sales are directly proportional to the effort that I put into making sure that people who would be interested in seeing (and hopefully, buying) them know how to find them.

Hand out business cards. Send e-mails with links to your galleries. And anything else that markets your product.

pirmin

still no sells
Thanks for help.

I'm going to send e-mail, subscribe to US photographic forums, and conctact friends.

Any suggestion is welcome!!

i will update you if there is any successful turnround.

You know that i'm italian, so i hope my english is not too bad

Bye
www.angelovianello.com

dogwood

One other comment-- your photos are very nice but you might consider a watermark. Yeah, watermarks are ugly but right now, I can grab anything on your site in less than a second and it's plenty good enough (and clean with no watermark) to use on the web.

Again, I know watermarks are distracting and ugly, but they also help generate more sales in my personal experience.

Markjay

I agree and...
I agree completely with dogwood and:

watermarking your images shows the potential viewer that.....

1. you take your business seriously enough to protect your images
2. you are not completely naive to thieves

Besides, any image buyer who has been on any of the stock or mini stock sites is quite aware and accustomed to seeing watermarks on images.

Last: professional photographers who want their images / site to be seen and noticed, go out of their way to advertise their product to potential buyers... you can not rely on them coming to YOU. It is imperitive you get your message out the them first!



I wish you success

dogwood wrote:

One other comment-- your photos are very nice but you might consider a watermark. Yeah, watermarks are ugly but right now, I can grab anything on your site in less than a second and it's plenty good enough (and clean with no watermark) to use on the web.

Again, I know watermarks are distracting and ugly, but they also help generate more sales in my personal experience.