I think that 75% figure may be too conservative. At least in my case. J Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 3, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? >>> >>> -- >>> 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. -- 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.
