okay hi everyone
and in this video i am going to show you
what i think
is the best and easiest way to sell your
photo prints
online via your own website if you have
it ideally
or via facebook or directly
via the website that we're going to use
as a third-party
seller okay so this
is my website and this is where i sell
my prints now
i've created first of all this landing
page which introduces people to
all of my print products and
down here i've showcased all the
different types of prints that
i can sell
that people can buy my photos on now
this is just a select view
you'll see in a minute where i'm going
to show you where you sell your photos
that there are many more uh product
types available
but this is the main ones i want to
showcase on my site but then people can
still
click through and search for other
product types too
okay so on this page i've showcased all
the different types of prints people can
buy
i've made it very easy for people to
click through and buy a selection
of art prints here so they can then
browse my photos
here directly so if somebody says
is in the market for well i like uh
canvas prints
i'm going to click shop here and then
all of my
photos can be searched my galleries can
all be searched
and the buyer is directly
linked to a canvas version of it
if we go back
if somebody decides they like frame
prints
then again they get taken here
they can choose they can look at
categories
i've created here or they can look at
individual pictures
and they can think oh okay
oh i like this picture they can get here
and they've automatically taken to the
framed print option
and they can then select their frame
type size and various things so
this basically is the product page
and this is where the the customer will
purchase
all of the prints now this is a
third-party website
this is not my website i do not deal
with
any of the sales any of the
manufacturing
and that is why it is so great and that
is why it
is so easy once i've got everything set
up
then the customer can browse choose my
photo choose the product type
and then purchase pay
through this website and this website
the people who run this website will
organize the printing manufacturing
they will ship the product directly to
the customer
i don't know anything until i log on one
day and they tell me i've made a sale
okay it's that easy and you can
integrate this with your own
website so as well as making these
products available
uh people can also browse my galleries
for example
you can look at seascape photo gallery
or directly on my website
again when they come down here i just
give people a gentle reminder here that
these are available to buy as prints
and i've put some of the most popular
print types up here
and then people can browse through my
gallery
they can click a photo they like to get
a bigger one and they have a purchase
button here
if they like this picture they can click
the purchase button and they get taken
directly to the
product page and again for that photo
they can then browse all the different
product types that are available
so there's the wall art ones here but
then you've got home decor
you can buy it as a duvet shower curtain
bags
stationary iphone cases even a beach
towel
even face masks if they want to they can
have it printed on
apparel like men's clothing women's
clothing so
so many different product types
available they can just
choose whatever they want okay so
how have i made this possible
well it's done through what's known as
a pod site you may be familiar with pod
sites pod
stands for print on demand there are
many
different pod sites out there there's uh
fine art america red bubble photo for me
in the uk
um there's many different types i'll put
a list
together in a blog and i'll put a link
to that blog down here in the video
i'm not going to go through each
different type
here because the one i'm going to tell
you about is what i think
is the best one and it's also the
easiest
because you can integrate this into your
own website
and when you link people to the product
page
on your website they
do not see photos from
other photographers and that is a huge
advantage if you go to some of the other
sites you can
you can link people to your photo into a
product page on their site
but people can then still see photos
from other photographers
and of course we don't want that ideally
we want people to buy our photos so if
somebody clicks through to ours
we want them to also if they're not
quite sure about that picture
we want them to be able to like for
example
uh we want them to be able to browse
other
photos from our collection not other
photographers so down here you can see
people have got similar images you can
look at
similar images here and you can also go
up here
you can go click here and then people
then still get
taken to more options but these are all
my photos
they will not see photos from any other
photographers that are selling through
this same site
so that is why this site i think
is the best option okay now the site
let's go back to my main page
the site is called fine art america
and to get this option you need to pay
for the annual subscription
the annual subscription is only thirty
dollars per year
it's nothing and with that what you get
is this your own website
so for me i've got
ianmiddleton.pixels.com
now in here is my own
website for selling all of my products
okay
and that is why this is the best option
as i just showed you we can directly
link
uh people to the this website to buy
we can link people to specific photos
specific product types
and they can also browse other pictures
for that but only pictures of our own
okay so the way that we do that is
simply
go to fineartamerica.com you sign up
you you pay you can have a free option
but it's very limited and
you don't get this website with it
so pay the annual subscription
sign up and then you can start uploading
your own photos
okay and then what happens is
when you upload your photos here all of
your photos
you can put them into collections so you
can create collections
like this and then add photos to
collections to make it easier for people
to browse
people can then browse just your images
alone now all of the images here are
available on the fine art america
website
so not only can you sell them through
your own website or
directly yourself they're also made
available on the fine art america
website so people
browsing that website can also find your
stuff
and buy it but what happens is this is
where
it's so easy your own fine art america
collection
is automatically made available in your
personal pixels.com website
so you don't have to do everything twice
whatever you add to here
will automatically be made available on
here
so as an example i'm going to upload now
a new photo okay so we just simply go to
upload new photo
browse here is the photo i'm going to
upload
so i'm simply going to upload the photo
now
okay now if you've got the uh
metadata already in the photo it will
strip that metadata out and put all your
keywords and everything in for you
which makes everything nice and easy
you can set defaults so i've set a
default because photography
is going to be the only thing i sell
and then down here you can choose if
you've got galleries
already you can tick these to put this
photo
into specific galleries so i'll put
seascapes
slovenia coast okay
and then down here if you belong to some
groups you can add it
this is just if you're selling the
original artwork now
this is the key bit down here all the
different product types you can set your
own markup now your markup is how much
you will make
not how much it's sold for so fine art
america have their set
prices for each product type and size
but you can set how much you want to
make for it
so for a simple print for example
these sizes i can choose how much i want
to make so for a small print
i want 10 these are all in us dollars by
the way
for this size i want 20 if someone wants
to buy a huge
60 inch i want 110 for this
okay same with the greeting cards
throw pillows duvet colors you can set
your markup for
every product type and every size
okay now you can do this
when you upload each photo which is very
time consuming but if you want to set
different prices for different photos
you can do that
or you can set default prices which is
what i have so i have a set of default
prices
and then once i've uploaded a photo
if i want to change if i want to charge
more for a particular photo then i can
just
on this page go through and and change
these prices for that particular image
otherwise the default prices will be
automatically applied
okay so we go down through here these
are
everything here you can choose if you
want to
sell your picture if you want to license
it
you can choose these options now if you
don't want to make it available for
something for a product type for example
if i don't want to sell tote bags then
i just simply erase that
and then leave it blank and then this
product will not be available
so when people look at your photo they
won't have the choice to buy as a tote
bag
because you've left it blank okay i'll
just put that back though i don't mind
but like for here for example royalty
free i don't want to make my photos
available uh under a royalty-free
license
so i've left that blank and that means
that they people will not be able to
purchase
for that same here for rights managed
i've left it blank
i don't want to sell this way through
fine art america i just want to sell
prints
okay these are just some other options
facebook synchronization
okay so you can select you can connect
your personal and your fan page
to facebook and whenever you upload
a photo a new photo it automatically
gets posted to these pages
same with your twitter okay so it's that
easy
so once everything is set up
we click submit and now
the photo is available for sale it's
that simple okay
but if i go over to my pixel site
yeah if i refresh this page
now this photo is also available in my
pixel site
so it's everything is synchronized so
only have to do it once through the fine
art america site
and then everything is available and
then if i want to
link directly to this photo then all i
need to do
is go to the page here highlight
copy this link and then just set the
link
myself here in the photo here
so for example you can see here
if we look down the bottom in the bottom
left corner here you can see the
hyperlink
is set to link directly to
the product page on my pixel site
so it's that easy
okay now what's also really good
here with fine art america if we go to
behind the scenes
i can also yeah if we come
down here marketing the marketing
section
i can set a discount code and that's
really good
because basically i can choose to set a
30
discount a start and
an expiry date and i can choose how many
so i can limit like here i've limited
i've made a hundred available
at 50 and i've made
unlimited number available at a 30
discount and here is the code so then
on my pixels page i can put at the top
here
use this code for a 30 discount and i
can also
on my own website promote this so thirty
percent discount
off all of my print products and you can
change this
at any time
okay so that's really useful
you've got sharing buttons you can add
uh
various things like that email campaigns
all sorts of different things that you
can
you can have at the facebook
applications as well
this is very useful okay
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here we go enabled enabled for
the facebook pages and what i can also
do as you can see here
is i've integrated my shop
into my facebook page here at
earmiddletonphotography.com
we go to shop then people who
browse my facebook page can also click
on the
shop and they can browse all of my
images within my facebook page
and they can choose they can browse it
just like they're on the website
and they can do everything through here
on facebook
so that's another big advantage to using
fine art america
okay so there you have it
yeah an easy way to sell your own photos
online
and as i said the great thing about this
is i
don't have to do any of this
of the shipping i don't have to arrange
the printing i don't have to do anything
everything is done through here i just
get a message when i log in
one day i can just log in and look at my
sales go oh oh
i sold a photo and here's my money and
i'll get that money
with usually in 45 days because what
happens also with fine art america they
offer a 30 day
no quibble money back guarantee on the
prints
so if anybody buys something
when they receive it if they're not
happy with it for whatever reason
they can return it and they can get a
full refund
which is a good thing and it's also an
advantage it's also a good selling point
so
people can know that you know if
if for some reason there's something
wrong or the print doesn't look like we
thought it would
whatever reason we can send it back and
again you don't have to deal with any of
that
that's all done they will ship it back
to fine art america
find out america will process the refund
and you would just be informed that the
the sale was cancelled
it's that simple it's really really easy
and you can just wake up like i do some
mornings and go oh
i sold some photos last night i'm gonna
get some money in 45 days
okay
now you may be asking why do i need my
own website
if i get a website through pixels.com
then why do i need to create my own
website well the simple reason
is your pixels.com website will not
show up in the search engines okay
fine art america have uh their own
collection
they have your site and all of the sales
through the finance america website
and basically the pixels.com is a clone
of your profile on fine art america
and for this reason first of all
sites like google especially they are
not going to index
both pages because they're identical
they're only going to index one page
and they're going to index the fine art
america page
not the pixels.com page okay because
find out america page is a bigger site
with many more options
secondly and i don't know this for sure
but it's probably very likely
that the pixels.com websites these
personal websites
are actually set for search engines not
to follow
okay because uh they don't want
your personal site and your profile
alone showing up in
in search engines they want uh obviously
fine art america trying to sell all
photos not just mine and
so they want the finite america site to
be
showing up in the search engines
predominantly
so your own pixels.com site is not going
to be found through organic searches or
anything
in google or any other search engines
so that's why you need to set up your
own website
and then link people to your pixels.com
for selling so your pixels.com website
is really just for you
for your own marketing for your own
selling and for you to direct customers
directly to
okay that's why you need to have your
own
website to sell this through so there
you have it hope
that's been useful for you now
uh in order to make your own website and
to do this
if you have your own website uh if you
are not sure how to do that then stay
tuned because
i'm gonna soon make a series of videos
about how to make your own website in
wordpress
and how to set all these galleries
and link all this up okay so thanks for
watching
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