Selling your photography is about 75% marketing and 25% photography.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Halpin" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: photo sales websites
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?
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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
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