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WHY BECOME A PHOTO BUYER MEMBER?

If you want to buy pictures, hire a professional photographer or a model, photo-direct.net can help photo buyers to save time and money by quickly find the "just right" Pictures, Photographers, or Models at much lower prices than traditional means could ever offer!

photo-direct.net takes the pain out of buying photography or hiring photographers!

As a Photo Buyer you can list your company for free on our web site, but most importantly we enable you to be more efficient when searching and buying photography. 

Below are features and functions that are free to Photo Buyers:

 1) When buying pictures, hiring photographers or models, Photo Buyers can use the industry’s most comprehensive, sophisticated, and flexible database and search engine, which combines parametric and text search capabilities, to quickly find the "just right" pictures, photographers or models.

 2) A Photo Buyer can also search and buy Breaking News pictures, just minutes after they have been taken by amateur or professional photographers across the world.

 3) Photo Buyers can check traveling photographers' itineraries and save extra money by piggybacking on a Photographer's upcoming trip.

 5) Photo Buyers can find out photographers' upcoming shooting assignments that may require special setup, authorizations, logistics support, etc. and save money by piggybacking on their shooting assignments.

 6) A Photo Buyer can view photographer or model profiles and their pictures, read , post comments or rate them.

 7) A Photo Buyer can store any stock pictures they like in his Stock Photos Folder (lightbox) for future reference.

 8) A Photo Buyer can keep photographers or models in his Photographers Folder or Models Folder for future reference.

 9) A Photo Buyer can contact instantly and directly a photographer or model by simply clicking on

10) A Photo Buyer can read Classified Ads to learn about exhibitions, fashion shows, courses, contests, photographic workshops/excursions, New Product Announcement/ Promotion, new store openings, etc.

11) A Photo Buyer can participate in any of our discussion Forums, in particular the one dedicated to photo buyers like you.

12) A Photo Buyer can save money with group discounts and special deals on insurance premiums, airfares, equipment purchases, etc., when they become available.

In today's hyper-competitive and fast-paced world, photo buyers need to find the "just right" resources (stock photos, photographers or models) at the best price as quick as possible. photo-direct.net’s comprehensive, sophisticated, and user-friendly Internet-based system can make it happen.

photo-direct.net offers photo buyers a very quick and effective way of finding the "just right" pictures, photographers, or models, not only in your area, but anywhere else in the world. Moreover, photo buyers will save money by dealing direct with photographers or models. Photo buyers will save precious time by not having to evaluate filing cabinets full of unsolicited submissions, and photo buyers can avoid having to explain their decision to each photographer whose unsolicited submission the photo buyers have rejected.

This is a fast and low-cost way for photo buyers to get the "just right" resources to increase the readership of their publications or the turnout at a promotional event, with measurable benefits, which translate into increased revenues and profits. We make you look good, your company more successful, and your customers more happy.

As we all know, the more photographer members we have, the move choices photography buyers will have. We would very much appreciate it if you would suggest to photographers you deal with to become photographer members of photo-direct.net.

As a Photo Buyer member you are entitled to the following additional services:

1) If a Photo Buyer member doesn’t find the "just right" picture in our stock photo database, he can place his own Photo Want ads, inviting photographers to send in submissions.

2) If a Photo Buyer member wants to hire a professional photographer for a specific job, he can use photo-direct.net's parametric search engine to find the right one or simply place a Shooting Assignment ad inviting photographers to contact the photo buyer to propose their services.  

3) If a Photo Buyer member wants to hire models for a shoot or special event he can use photo-direct.net's parametric search engine to find the right one or simply place a Modeling Contract ad inviting models to contact the photo buyer.

4) A Photo Buyer member can sell or promote his/her company's products and services by placing Classified Ads.

5) A Photo Buyer member can view statistics on how many times each one of his Photo Want, Shooting Assignment, or Classified ads has been viewed or stored in members' Advertisements Folders.

6) A Photo Buyer member can access sample legal documents submitted by other members in the Legal Resource Center.

To Sign Up click HERE

Membership is currently FREE

When looking to buy a stock picture, amongst other selection criteria, you can specify one or more photography categories.

WARNING

photo-direct.net does not allow any of the following content to be published on our site:

• Content of a pornographic or sexually explicit nature.
• Content of an illegal nature (including stolen copyrighted material).
• Content that could be reasonably considered as slanderous or libelous.

photo-direct.net members posting any of the above content in their environment will be given a 48 hour grace period to take corrective action. If no corrective action is taken within the given grace period, the member account will be automatically cancelled without appeal or refund of any subscription fees paid.

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