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.
> What is offered to photographers is currently under review <
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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