> On Jun 2, 2015, at 2:41 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know that a few people on this list have had smugmug pages. I expect that > some others have had pages on other similar sites. Has anyone had the > experience of one of those websites bringing in more money than they cost to > be a member of? > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est)
It has always been my working assumption that no website (except just possibly one of the old-style stock agencies) is going to sell your photos. That is to say, they provide a place for you to stash your photos, they provide an e-commerce infrastructure. But you need to do stuff to get your name out there and to make the website known and to get people interested enough to go look and then to click on the BUY NOW! button. I have my photos on Zenfolio which has very flexible customizable look-and-feel for your pages, customizable e-commerce price lists and product lists, etc. I have never sold anything from there but I make no effort to market and so virtually nobody knows about the stash of wonderfulness they could be paying top dollar for. I think some sites do some promotion of member pages, but suspect it is a chicken-and-egg issue; you probably need to be getting lots of hits and some sales before they will bother to include you in their to-be-promoted list. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
