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How Photoconnect helps sell stock photos online

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Photoconnect is a time efficient and cost effective way to give help to professional photographers selling stock photos online. It can also help photographers sell their services - you get the chance to gain assignments and build repeat sales through personal contact.

In contrast to the usual online stock photography agency, your images can be found directly by buyers using popular search engines such as Google. If some of your subject matter is unlikely to achieve this end we will let you know and you can concentrate on uploading those where there are the best chance of making sales.

Many of our photographers' stock photo pages feature on the first page of search engine results for buyers searching for their specialist subject matter, many in first place.

Photographers can opt to have personalised content pages and their own 'photographer's home page' that collates their pages and gets them found by customers seeking photographers for commissions.

If you have confidence in your your ability to deal directly with buyers then selling your stock photography direct is a real option in a world where agencies extract greater and greater commission.

 

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Benefits overview:
  • You get a platform to sell your stock images that is part of a larger catalogue which can be browsed through an index or searched for by keyword.
  • Your photos are the only ones sold in your niche area(s)
  • Each of your images is loaded on a page that is designed to rank highly in searches on the major search engines (follow our keywording advice to maximise the impact).
  • Buyers can find your image from search engines with one click even if they have never heard of you or Photoconnect.
  • You can build personal relationships with buyers for repeat sales from stock or as assignments
  • Use your optional Photoconnect 'photographer's page' as a base to gain assignments
  • You can get contact from buyers to sell them images that are not even available on the site
  • Upload is quick - up to 12 images at a time with IPTC description and keyword information automatically imported from your images into the site. It is quite possible to prepare and upload 100 images in less than half an hour on a broadband line.
  • Your images not only appear to be watermarked (a deterrent to print screen copying and copying from cache) but also are right click copy protected

Next step:

  • Consider your own position:
    • Are you established as a photographer selling images for commission through independent stock outlets?
    • Are your images sold on a rights managed basis?
    • Are you already delivering high resolution images direct to buyers and collecting payments yourself using direct bank transfer, PayPal or other means
    • Are your images IPTC keyworded and already organised according to content using applications such as Lightroom or Aperture
    • Do you have at least 500 quality images in a single general subject area (eg in the travel sector, country, large province, large city)
  • Contact support@photoconnect.net with a link to your images already on sale at online agencies and a link to your own website.

 

 






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or through their other outlets. Photoconnect is based in London, UK. Image files of stock photos
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