When I come across something great, I like to share it. I recently discovered Fine Art America, an internet art print marketing, social networking and sales site that I find really amazing and wanted all GMG painters and photographers to know about. Every creative person who has any interest in exposing and selling their work needs to have an internet presence as part of their marketing effort. Many artists I know do not have a website, or have a website which is not properly Search Engine Optimized, so no one finds it. Fine Art America not only allows you to have a web presence, but gives you an impressive array of tools and muscle to make it possible for your work to actually be found on the web and not just sucked into the huge vacuum of the internet.
For free you can upload up to 25 of your images (up to 25M each – the larger the better as it allows you to offer larger good quality print sizes). For $30/year (with a 90 day free trial), you can have a premium customized website and upload as many images as you want into an unlimited number of galleries, directly connected to FAA’s millions of visitors each month. You can also connect it to your own existing website, especially if you have an e-commerce site, to drive more traffic to it.
You determine what you want to make on the sale of your images. When you receive an order for one of your prints on your website, FAA takes care of everything for you, including: printing, framing, matting, packaging, insuring, shipping, collecting payments from your buyers, and sending your profits to you each month via PayPal or check. It’s a no brainer, so check it out. I feel strongly enough about FAA that I have become an Affiliate, so if you do sign up for an account with them through this link, you’ll help yourself and me too. http://artistwebsites.com/?affiliateid=G8661
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
Good Morning Gloucester 
This looks really interesting. Thanks for posting the link!
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I’ve been using Fine Art America to produce and market prints of my paintings for almost two years now. It’s everything you say it is and I am very pleased. They just sold another yesterday.
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Thanks for the feedback Bill. I am extremely impressed by all they do to help artists market and sell their work in the POD market, and I’m glad to hear you’ve had good success with them.
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I just signed up for a trial period…
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Great Ft. Matthew! You have some great photos. Just take a little time to think of and put in good tags for your photos when you upload them – things that people would use to search for and come up with your images. And take time to go through all the “behind the scenes” things. And check the Activity link. I had a bunch of comments I didn’t know were there because I hadn’t clicked on it. There are also some great groups you can join. It is an amazingly interactive community.
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Thanks, EJ ~ another great find ~ and sharing with us ~ namaste, Carol ^_^
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EJ,
I should have mentioned that it was my cousin, Larry Dahlmer who put me onto Fine Art America and he uses them for his prints too.
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I forgot Larry was your cousin, but I did just find him, Deb Clark and a number of other Gloucester and Rockport artists on Fine Art America yesterday, as well as finding your work which is beautiful. I can’t remember who it was that mentioned FAA, but it was someone at the Cape Ann Painters and Photographers group this past meeting, so it seems to be more known about than I knew.
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Thanks EJ. I’ll check it out. Great information!
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You’re a treasure!
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Thank you for the post EJ! I forgot that I signed up, duh! no wonder i keep getting email from them. will definitely go back to the site. and upload some work.
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Thanks EJ, just joined…see you on the 4th…hugs
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