Google Base and Selling Art
Tatyana writes in her response to my post “Let Google Sell your art for you“
I have 2 questions regarding the subject:
1. How to really make Google SELL art for you? As advised in this post I listed a couple of works on Google Base but with no positive end result so far: the paintings have been on GBase for 3 weeks and they had only 6 impressions so far (the amount of time Google actually showed them). Do you have any advice how to at least increase the visibility?2. What is so unique about www.artflock.com? What do they do better than anyone else? I looked at their site briefly and they seem to offer pretty basic stuff: static display of art works with some information attached. There are sites that offer artists & visitors much more: for example, www.capucinesboulevard.com gives and opportunity to download artist’s videos, audio files (artists’ interviews, their favourite music, etc.). And the membership is absolutely free.
To answer the first question, I’d say a great start would be to get it listed somewhere, linking it over to your Google base page. A high traffic site would be better of course. But it’s surprising how many people are even selling through a blogger blog. Google Base can take care of the actual transaction for you is all and do it at minimal cost. I did run ads with Google Adwords on my listings there and saw a few more page hits, but no real motivated buyers.
For number 2, Artflock is one of the better selling sites I reviewed. I had a bit of a chance to preview it before it had so many artists. Ed who runs Artflock is a great guy and if you have a great idea to make it better will usually implement it pretty soon after you let him know about it. This kind of response is actually pretty rare with art communities.
As for www.CapucinesBoulevard.com, I hadn’t heard anything about it yet. I’ll have to check into it.
Right now, I am trying to sell through ebay. I think it fits for me right now, as my listing gets some decent traffic and if it sells, sells within 7 days of listing it. If it doesn’t sell, I can relist at half price or take it elsewhere.
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