Online Photos
A photo is worth a thousand dollars. This is derived from the age old saying the a picture is worth a thousand words. Though some pictures are worth a thousand dollars, they surface once in a blue moon. But photos are really worth a few dollars depending on their appeal and quality. All one has to do is to locate a location to sell them and also the right people who want them.
As a photographer, over the years, a fair amount of photos should have accumulated. Some may be good, some may be bad; but they are there and are a potential source of income. There are photos sometimes worth a few thousand dollars, but most of them are worth at least a few dollars. Provided one can find the right person to sell them to and the right medium to sell them through. A little time and effort one your part could put in a few dollars into your purse.
Neither age, nor sex, nor background will restrict the sale of photos online. If the photos are in your possession, they can be sold. Don't think that only professionals can sell photos. No one becomes a professional overnight, they gradually evolve into one by dedication and sweat.
Broadly speaking there are about three ways of selling photographs: "Stock Photos", "Products" and "Services".
"Products" and "Services" are indirect ways of marketing photos online. Prints, postcards etc. come under the category of "Products" and Consultancy Services, where expertise is offered constitutes "Services"
The distinction is that the photos are converted into "Products" like post cards, prints etc. and put up for sale on online and offline galleries, gift shops etc., whereas, in 'Services" one acts as a Specialist offering expert advice. As mentioned earlier, "Stock Photos" is the best way to put up your photos for sale. The photos are in your charge, that is to say, they are there in stock ready to be sold. Now these photos can be sold online by two distinct methods. One is to make the buyer come and get them by displaying them online or by sending them to potential purchasers. Both of them are equally good with the exception that the second approach requires more involvement than the first.
Getting the buyer to do the initial approach can be done either giving your photos to stock agencies or microstock sites or by putting them on your own web site. Stock agencies hosts your photos and looks after all the other infrastructural activities such as taking orders, filling them, billing etc. Payment is made on the sales effected and the agency keeps a commission on the deal. Microstock sites operate in a similar way. Putting them on your own web site is a bit more complicated. Either the web site is built from scratch or the services of a photo storefront is employed..
Either way, photos can be sold online. It might just be surprising that what you considered trash might be appealing to someone else. Just as surprisingly, a photo in the caliber of the photo of Phan Thi Kim Phuc might be lying there in some old dusty album.
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Kathy Austin is a writer for an online gallery.Red Bubble enables you to sell photos online, designer t shirts and more.
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