A quick update to an earlier post on DepositPhotos. As a reminder, they pay you to upload your files at 2c per photo up to $100, they pay for placing a banner on the site (see the one on just below and on the right), they pay a small percentage if someone signs up as a result of clicking on the banner, and finally, my photos have started selling as well – only $3 in February, but it is a new site. Well worth investigating if you are starting up in Stock Photography, and please use this link to register as a photo contributor (or buyer)!!
As a general reminder, using the links/banners on the right if you find this site useful and you want to follow in my footsteps helps me a lot! Thanks!
I’ve now passed the 500 on-line files in several stock sites, and am looking for ways of building up the sales of the files. My most profitable sites so far are Shutterstock, iStockPhoto and Dreamstime (please use the links if you are planning to follow in my footsteps as I get some referral income!!). DepositPhotos (see link on right) is interesting because they pay you to upload files, but has not been a great seller so far.
To try to market these photos to a wider audience, I recently created a Flickr account and uploaded small versions of my photos into that account. The idea is that a stock buyer can see the images, and then go to the stock site to actually buy a reasonably sized version. Hard to tell if it has worked yet, although I have sold at least one file that was checked out on Flickr and then purchased from Dreamstime, so maybe it works! If I can pin down some more evidence I will update the posting.
I’ve been a little slow on getting new products onto Zazzle since the first flush of enthusiasm, but it was always in my mind to use it to show off my best photographs in calendars – these appear to be highly professional designs, and should be attractive to the right audience. My first calendar is one with my best Kauai shots, and within a day of putting it on-line, I was awarded their Best Product Award – a great pat on the back as a newcomer in this field. I’ve pasted in a link to the calendar below – feel free to check it out! All I need to do now is sell one of these fine products!
