Fine and contemporary art sites.

gm66 · October 12, 2016, 09:45:10 AM

Potential client who sells all sorts of art online, anyone know how competitive this market is?

A cursory inspection implies that it's medium-compoetition but i have no experience of art galleries.

Cheers, Gary.

Mackin USA · October 12, 2016, 11:21:29 AM

VERY competitive is my experience.

nffc · October 12, 2016, 12:46:04 PM

Original art or prints?

gm66 · October 12, 2016, 02:37:35 PM

Thanks Mackin.

Quote from: nffc on October 12, 2016, 12:46:04 PM
Original art or prints?

Original oils.

littleman · October 12, 2016, 04:26:37 PM

Its a tough space because there thousands of artists selling their stuff online and then you have many art retailers who are pushing their prints too. If the artist doesn't have her/his own brand then you are stuck fighting against tens of thousands of other art sellers for generic keywords. In the PPC space I have to bid very low on terms to make any profit and sales trickle on very slowly. The click to sales ratio is horrible.

gm66 · October 13, 2016, 10:35:04 AM

Thanks LM.

Mackin USA · October 13, 2016, 10:46:56 AM

I tried for 3 years and did even worse @ galleries.

gm66 · October 13, 2016, 12:43:29 PM

Oh man, not good

littleman · October 13, 2016, 02:25:37 PM

Nice stuff Mr. Mackin.

gm66 · October 14, 2016, 09:17:53 AM

Quote from: Mackin USA on October 13, 2016, 10:46:56 AM
I tried for 3 years and did even worse @ galleries.

Wow that's lovely work, i didn't click on it before.

buckworks · October 14, 2016, 03:06:04 PM

Some visually attractive banners to circulate on the content network could do a lot to get the artist's name out there.

Bid modestly, target carefully and let things run for a while.

gm66 · October 17, 2016, 08:01:35 AM

Thanks Buck.

simplytheresa · November 22, 2016, 06:02:52 PM

Curious how this ended up going, or even if it did since you mentioned it was a prospective client.