Fine Art America/Pixels now offers New York Magazine Wall Art
I have relied on the professional quality of Fine Art America / Pixels for many years as my primary production company for my photography wall art and decor items. Their servers also host my primary online gallery. They just announce this exciting news…
New York Magazine has selected Pixels to power their new e-commerce website and sell canvas prints, framed prints, metal prints, and wood prints of their iconic magazine covers!
Click the display below to shop 50+ covers from New York Magazine’s portfolio.
Bill Swartwout Photography and USPictures are one in the same.
So why the different domain names you ask? One is so much easier to say, to spell and to incorporate into a logo for advertising. US Pictures is also appropriate because Bill has traveled through most of the states in the United States – 48 of the 50, to be exact – and has photographs available from many of those travels. The only caveat is that he has also traveled to 20+ different countries in Central America, Europe, North America and South America. Photographs from those areas are included in his “wanderlust” mix.
Over the years, Bill Swartwout Photography has worked with many (too many) of the art/product fulfillment companies out there – and has eliminated most of them. Some are fast, some are high quality and some are cheap. Just remember that you cannot have all three of those qualities from the same source. Our main focus is having high quality products delivered to your door that you will be pleased to hang on your walls. Here is the rundown of product fulfillment companies with which we are associated. These companies handle the sales, production and delivery process and, in reality, license Bill Swartwout’s work to use on their products.
Bill has worked to hard over the years to trust his work to just any production company but he is also one who believes it is not safe to keep all of your eggs in the same basket, so to speak. The best situation is to work with only the “best baskets” out there. Here is the rundown of product fulfillment companies with which we are associated. These companies handle the sales, production and delivery process and, in reality, license Bill Swartwout’s work to use on their products.
Fine Art America / Pixels – The Fine Art America “family” is the largest single Print On Demand (POD) art company in the world. They produce great quality art – we have seen only four returns out of the last 500 products delivered. They currently host Bill’s photographs in three configurations. – Link: Fine Art America – Wall art and home decor items. – Link: Pixels – Wall art, home decor and ancillary products, such as puzzles and face masks – Private Label Link: Bill Swartwout Photography – Offers all of the products on a stand-alone website.
Pictorem – Pictorem is a Montreal, Canada based company that is smaller in scope than many others but produces a boutique level of high quality wall art on a variety of substrates. Because Pictorem has shipping centers in both the the United States and Canada they currently offer FREE SHIPPING throughout North America with no “duty” charges and a favorable dollar exchange rate. Pictorem currently hosts a very popular gallery for Bill Swartwout Photography. – Link: Bill Swartwout Photography
Zazzle – Zazzle is a multi-faceted POD company that produces a wide variety of products, many of which are based on art by Independent Artists but also working with customer-submitted photos and designs. Bill likes Zazzle for high quality calendars and jigsaw puzzles that incorporate his photographs. – Link: Bill Swartwout Photography – Bill is a “Pro Bronze” Seller with Zazzle.
Imagekind – Imagekind is an older, traditional company producing fine quality wall art by Independent Artists – but only as prints, framed prints and canvas. Bill has been with this company for a decade and a half. They also sponsor some of his popular pieces on Amazon. – Link: Travel at Imagekind
Photograph entitled ” Assawoman Reflections” of a tree at 80th Street in Ocean City, MD on the shore of the Assawoman Bay.
Not for the faint of heart but a good source of sales data.
A recent post on the Fine Art America forum/discussion group gave me reason to take another look at the data available for people with an art business at FineArtAmerica/Pixels. It was suggested that having more sales data in the on-board analytics would be helpful in marketing one’s art. The following is what I had responded but, later on, realized it may reach a larger audience here…
“There is a work-around for obtaining some of that information – but it does take some effort. The “Export to Excel” feature, available on the “Balance” page in Behind the Scenes (the user administration interface) provides info for:
Date (Transaction) – Date (Reporting) – Pay Period – Description Image ID – Order ID – Artwork Name – Artist Name Buyer City – Buyer State – Buyer Country Deposit – Withdrawal – Balance
The caveat is that one must have an understanding of spreadsheets to be able to manipulate and interpret that data. My knowledge is meager, at best.
Having that info available in Analytics would be helpful to many of you with numerous sales. With my dozen or so sales a month average, I pretty much have – in my head – what has been selling the best.
With that said, here is a very basic example: a “sort” on Column D, Description, gathers all of my titles into groups. I can refine that sort by date – but, keeping it simple, I see that my best selling image of all time is this: https://bill.pixels.com/featured/indian-river-inlet-bridge-twilight-bill-swartwout-photography.html – with dozens of sales. I can look at smaller “groupings” in that column and see that seven (7) of those sales were puzzles (5 – 500 Pieces and 2 – 1000 Pieces). I can also see that four of them were sold with a Discount Code, what that code was and the amount discounted. I can also see the sizes of prints that sold and the variety of other products (face masks, beach towels, etc.) on which this image was sold. It is also interesting that with only one exception, all of my sales over the last 7+ years were within the United States (we can see City, State and Country, but no buyer-specific detail).
I can also see that in 7+ years here I have had four “Cancelled From Order Prior to Shipment” and two “Returned for Refund Within 30 Days.” What is good to see here is that there is no pattern – not like I might have a bad image that was returned multiple times. Of the two that were returned one has been sold (and NOT returned) several times.
What I cannot see, and would love to know, is which platform made the sale – My Premium Site, my profile at Fine Art America or my profile at Pixels.
I added later to say: “BTW – in my example above – about the Export to Excel feature. I do not have the actual “Microsoft Excel” software. I use the FREE Apache Open Office version and it works just fine. It costs nothing, other than some time, to do this.
The down side is that it takes a bit of work on the part of the artist to obtain those extra metrics. I don’t believe the online FAA Analytics screen is meant to do all of that.”
