Three weeks of posting nothing and my inbox got better
Not a strategy thing, I just ran out of steam after the studio flooded and I couldn't get to the good light for a week.
Anyway, three weeks, nothing posted. Two people emailed. One of them had seen a piece at a group show in March and had been sitting on it, and the other found my website through somebody's link roundup. Neither of them mentioned my feed.
Meanwhile the last six months of regular posting got me roughly four DMs, all asking if a print was available and then going quiet when I said the price.
Which is annoying because I actually like posting. I like the mess and the bad lighting and the half-torn paper. It's just strange to have the thing I do for myself be so reliably worse at getting work out than doing nothing at all.
Starting to think the algorithm rewards the version of you that's a shop window, and the people who buy want the version who's in the back room with the fluorescent light on, ignoring them.
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The flood part is miserable, sorry. But the thing about the two emails is that they both came from people who had already seen the work in person or through someone's recommendation, and that is a completely different buyer than someone scrolling at night. I would not read it as posting not working, more that the feed is doing a different job than we want it to. The price-and-then-quiet crowd were never really buying anyway. Keep posting because you like it, that is a good enough reason, just do not expect the cash to come from there. My commissions come almost entirely from people who saw something with their hands on it.