A little over a month ago I sold two printed copies of one of my favourite shots – the black, young ram, soaring over a flock of white sheep. Funny enough, they sold only two days apart, one was shipped to Germany, the other one to Florida. Those were the first “fine art” print sales I’ve had through my website, and nothing has come through since then.
So it got me thinking (which is, most of the time, a good thing).
Perhaps my photos, which I’ve put up for print sale, weren’t visible enough. And then I found out that some people had actually had a hard time finding the images they wanted to buy (because they’re not included in the gallery portion of my website – my fault entirely), and that’s never good for someone trying to sell products to others.
So that made me remember that I used to mess around with websites. For a living. For at least a decade.
And I started messing around with my website. I ended up mainly changing the front page, so now visitors get a mini-gallery of ten randomly selected images, some of which are clickable, taking the visitor straight to a sales page. Whether or not that will work to increase sales, only time will tell. At least the front page looks better than it did (and that’s a fact, not an opinion).
I also made some changes to the print site, adding a gallery with photos not from Iceland, and I decided to add canvas prints to the mix.
Oh, and here are a few photos that I haven’t shown you before, all of them available in the printshop.
