Business Stuff – Page 10 – Bill Swartwout Photography

November 12, 2019February 28, 2024

Bill Swartwout Photography at the Imagekind Marketplace

Bill’s photographs are part of one of the world’s fastest-growing art gallery sites.

I’ve been working on revamping my gallery at Imagekind, where I first began selling my photography online 13 years ago. Specializing in wall art, Imagekind produces high quality decor at a competitive pricing structure. Please visit Travel.Imagekind.com to check out my new look.

Imagekind is an online marketplace for independent artists and photographers. Art buyers can discover new art prints and posters from tens of thousands of unique and independent artists from around the world at Imagekind.com, one of the world’s fastest-growing art sites. Offering nearly two million high-quality fine art images, customers can select unframed, framed and canvas wall art prints by color, style, or to match home décor.

From my point of view, Imagekind.com offers independent artists and photographers (like me) the opportunity to display and sell art online with no up-front fees, and the profit from each sale goes directly to the artist (me).

Imagekind’s gallery-quality giclee digital printing is recognized as best-in-class. There are. literally, millions of combinations of artwork, frames, and paper types, and canvasses so you, the customer, can see why Imagekind.com is a one-of-a-kind art destination.

I currently have more than 600 different art photographs available at Imagekind. They are organized into a variety of collections (sub-galleries) to help you narrow your search. If I do not have exactly what you are looking for you can also search among those other thousands of artists to find the wall art of your dreams. Please be sure to visit my gallery at Imagekind. Click: Travel.Imagekind.comm.

June 26, 2018June 20, 2019

Short-term Business Plan for Fine Art Photographs

As a artist, what are you doing to prepare for the Christmas selling season?

That question was proposed on a major art discussion board on the day after the half-way-to-Christmas mark (June 26th). I have been looking ahead to this “season” and have been putting things into place. Here is what I answered…

I will have twice as many items offered for sale in twice as many places as last year. My primary POD (Print On Demand) service is Fine Art America [which is where my USPictures.com domain currently lands] but I have actually been using Imagekind for much longer. I have also been adding inventory to RedBubble and will soon be adding Zenfolio into the mix. All four produce an excellent product and provide a wide array of product offerings for fine art photographs.
I’m also beginning to organize images for my 2019 calendars – the ones for Ocean City, MD and the Indian River Inlet Bridge in Delaware have been popular in the past and I have another (hopefully) “hot” niche for this season, the Wild Ponies of Assateague Island. I would love to offer calendars at FAA but, alas, that is not to be. I use Zazzle for the calendar product line – along with jigsaw puzzles, clocks and ornaments.
I should have at least a dozen more of my more popular images (prints and canvas only) available on Amazon within the next couple of months, bringing my total to 35-40 (or so). Imagekind promotes art pieces that have already proven to sell. I have several pieces that have sold there over the last 11 years.
Continue to create daily Social Media posts on my Facebook Photography page and other Niche Pages. Twitter accounts for my photography and niche areas will have new tweets two or three times a week.
I will also continue AdWords advertising. Continue? Ha! I already am – but didn’t know it – because someone else is paying for the ads. LOL (That will be the topic of another article.)

In summary, I am planning to have a good year.

How about you? What are you planning to do to enhance your holiday sales? (If you comment, please feel free to link to your own art website.)

April 4, 2018January 20, 2022

Reorder Business Checks – Do It Yourself and Save Money

Tax season or not, you may need to reorder checks.

Your art/photography business or organization may very well need new checks. Here’s the place to go: www.BusinessChecksCatalog.com. The major checks printers are all on this one website, making it easy to find what you need. Take advantage of the low prices offered by ordering your own checks – instead of paying the “full retail” prices charged by most banks.