Marketing Art Online

How to Use Pinterest Rich Pins: What Marketers Need to Know

June 3, 2013 by owfotografik 0 Comments

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/rich-pins-on-pinterest/

By Kristi Hines
Published June 3, 2013

“Do you use Pinterest for your business?

Have you heard about Pinterest Rich Pins and how they can help your marketing?

In today’s post, I’ll show you how businesses can get more from Pinterest Rich Pins.

Get to Know the New Pins

Pinterest is continuously expanding their functionality for businesses, from creating business accounts to marketing materials to help businesses get more from Pinterest.

The latest additions to Pinterest are the introduction of rich pins to include more information about pinned images and the integration of the Pin It button with mobile apps.

There are three types of pins that now allow you to share more information: products, recipes, and movies. The additional information for pins in these categories is provided by specific websites.

For example, major brands whose product pins have extended information include Anthropologie, Home Depot, Nordstrom, Overstock, REI, Sephora, Sony, Target and Walmart.”

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Linking FAA Uploads & Posts to Social Meida

June 3, 2013 by owfotografik 4 Comments

Hi Omaste, maybe you can weigh in on this.
When I first created my FAA account, I made the rookie mistake of linking my FB account to FAA and they flooded my FB timeline with all my uploads. I was immediately called on the carpet by friends and Photographers who follow my page. So I killed that and I broke the “automatic connection.
Now I only publish to my wall once every ten or more uploads (no more gnashing of teeth is heard) The one thing I don’t want to do is annoy potential customers by constantly bombarding their news updates with “Jeff uploaded another 10 images”.
I agree with them. as I saw a week later three “friends” on FB start up and the uploads were flying everywhere. Annoying as hell…

Now I just went to a gentlemans G+ link and all it was, was announcement after announcement of a new image on FAA… Nothing about the photographer… it sounded desperate to me and that I found a media channel outlet… BORING!
One thing I do know is that our customers want to get a feel for the photographer and create a connection. When all I see is “buy my print”,”buy my print”,”buy my print”,”buy my print” etc then I head for the hill or at least the next page. What is there to interest me to get me to look at the persons artwork?
Maybe I shouldn’t say anything so I don’t have to compete with these people but since we’re supposed to be helping each other out… I thought it would help to mention this. It does no good to fire and forget your announcements because the louder you yell, the less they listen… Oh if I’m wrong let me know, I’m not perfect and my sales are not what I base this on. I base it on what I believe the very successful do to get found and sell.

Posted by : Jeff Folger

Art Sales Websites, Fine Art America, General Advice, Promoting Your Work, Promotion Fatigue Syndrome

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Descriptions on FAA & Other Sites

June 3, 2013 by owfotografik 0 Comments

Hello everyone,
I frequently come across images posted on FAA that only have the word None in the image’s description tag and many go do not even have a title. My tip is to fill in these tags and to give it some thought first because doing this properly will help to get you listed on various Search Engines and can even entice viewers there to at least take a peek at your work. Try and describe the image, the technique(s) used, colors, theme, reason for this work, etc. Also include your keywords, as well as who it might be suitable for. It is also a good idea to include your formatting and/or suggestions as to where it might be hung. You can always go back and change what you have written. I update my tags by adding that an image is being featured or when I find a better keyword.

Posted by : Andrew Govan Dantzler

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Andrew Govan Dantzler, FAA, Search Engine, Search engine optimization, Web search engine

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Selling FAA work on Amazon

June 3, 2013 by owfotografik 0 Comments

I know that if you have a Premium FAA account, you can contact FAA Support to have FAA manually linked to Amazon.com

Posted by : Chalet Roome-Rigdon

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Amazon.com, Chalet Roome-Rigdon, FAA

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Debra Forand, Google+

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Blogging, Omaste Witkowski

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Business, Omaste Witkowski, Tools

General Advice, Promoting Your Work, Social Media Websites

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FAA & Posting to Google+

June 3, 2013 by owfotografik 0 Comments

‘d like to share what I’ve been doing over on Google+ and I’d be interested to hear what you do there.

At least once a day, often 2 or 3 times during the day I will post a piece from my FAA portfolio. I post a good sized watermarked image for visual impact with a link to that piece on my Artist Website. I try to say something about it. Then I post links to all the daily photography and art themes which that particular image is suitable for. This increases your audience and sometimes the theme page will do a feature widening the audience further.

To find all the daily themes see the link below. All you need to do is copy and paste the string of links and when you post, the links become live.

http://www.gplusphotopages.com/posting_to_themes.php