Sell Pictures

If you want to make money selling pictures, be prepared to spend a lot of time and energy promoting yourself.

Even if you don’t do stock photography and deal exclusively in commissioned shoots (portrait, weddings, special events, corporate, etc.) the best way to convince a potential customer to select you is to show off your talent and style with a few well-chosen pictures from previous contracts. So why not show them?

Changes in the stock photography industry are making it more and more difficult for stock photographers and freelance photographers to do business. Strategies you relied on in the past to market stock pictures are becoming less and less effective. What is a stock photographer to do?

We all know that for you to make money, the following three conditions must be met:

1)  Have talent and a good library of saleable stock pictures (you provide this through your hard work, years of experience, and talent).

2)  Make your work and talent known to as many photo buyers as possible (this is our job, with our Internet-based marketplace and its comprehensive, sophisticated, and user-friendly search engine and our proactive and constant marketing efforts to make this site known around the world, any potential customer in the world seeking a particular picture, a picture category, or a photographer, can easily and quickly pinpoint what he/she is looking for).

3)  Good Timing (once again, this is our job. Because your stock pictures placed on photo-direct.net site are searchable and viewable 24 hours a day by any potential photo buyer in the world, you will always have a chance of being selected and immediately contacted when someone searches our data bank).

Would you agree that your time and hard-earned money are too precious to waste in the preparation, mailing, and follow-up on the dozens, if not hundreds, of unsolicited submissions you have to do in order to get, if you are lucky, a few sales? And we haven't even factored in your natural dislike of having to be a salesman instead of a photographer with photo buyers. Relying on a stock photo agency is costly, and having your own Web site to promote your work is not very effective either, because you still have to promote yourself, which brinks you back to square one.

So what is the solution? You can now rely on photo-direct.net to publish and promote your talents, services and stock pictures to literally millions of potential photo buyers around the world to see and evaluate—24/7/365! We enjoy economy of scale as we are marketing hundreds of members, not just one, which is by itself a compelling reason for a Photo Buyer to visit and search this site, knowing that each search he does will comb through hundreds of potential matches instead of spending days hopping between a few dozen individual photographer Web sites. Once again, we are talking economy of scale here.

Have you just taken some dramatic pictures of a disaster scene or of a Breaking News event that you want to sell? Do you want to sell them quickly and at the highest possible price? Do you realize that a typical Breaking News picture has a lifespan of less than a day, if not a few hours? If you answer YES to anyone of these questions, you must know who to contact and be able to act fast, as the value of pictures you just took is fading by the minute. An easier and more effective way is to post your pictures in photo-direct.net’s special Breaking News pictures category to reach all potential customers for this type of pictures in an instant, no matter where they are physically located. The picture buyers will contact you directly and you will be able to pick and choose to maximize your revenues rather than hastily striking an unfavorable deal with the first buyer who makes an offer.

If you are a photographer it is because you understand the POWER OF IMAGE, and you well know a picture is worth a thousand words. Even though photo-direct.net is designed from the ground up to use the most comprehensive, sophisticated, and user-friendly search engine available today for this type of business, nothing beats posting some great pictures to display your talents for potential photo buyers around the world to see. This site is not merely a place to display your portfolio, it has the capability to be your electronic photography library where you can store your most salable stock pictures for potential buyers to search and easily find.

You may already be listed on a photographer site that displays stock pictures and pedigrees of other photographers just like you, but merely publishing your profile and stock pictures on a Web site and hoping that customers eventually find you is wishful thinking at best: you need good traffic on the site and a sophisticated yet easy to use search engine for photo buyers to pinpoint the stock pictures or photographer they are looking for. Can you image a potential buyer having to flip through hundreds of stock pictures or photographer profiles in a random or quasi-random order, and then trying to decide which one to pick? Time is money, and everybody has to be more productive nowadays. photo-direct.net not only enables a person looking for a specific type of picture or photographer to quickly narrow down the selection process to a few that really meet the selection criteria, but we also constantly and actively promote our Web site to build up traffic and generate sales for you. Any person in the world looking for stock photography or photographers can visit our Web site and search our database—you or your pictures could be chosen!

photo-direct.net can also be a valuable conduit entice visitors to click the hyperlink to your personal Web site for a more personal touch.

Best of all, photo-direct.net does not take any commission when you sell your stock pictures or services thanks to our Web site.

Other unique features and benefits of photo-direct.net are access to Photo Want ads, Shooting Assignment ads, Hit-Count statistics, Rating System, and Visitor Comments:

-    You can be pro-active and let potential customers know that of your upcoming travel itineraries and upcoming shooting assignments.

-    You have full access to Photo Want and Shooting Assignment ads posted by photo buyers around the world.

-    You can place your own Model Wanted ads for models to contact you directly or search for the "just right" one at photo-direct.net.

-   Get statistics and instant feedback from potential customers and the public in general; you are no longer in the dark. At any given time, you can find out how many times your profile and each one of your photographs have been selected in searches, how many times they have actually been viewed, and how may times they have been put in visitor folders (lightboxes), which most likely means that you have a serious chance of being contacted.

-   Potential customers and visitors who look at your pictures can rate them on a scale between 1 and 5. You are the only person who can read the calculated Rating Average of your photographs and to know how many ratings each received.

-   While viewing your pictures, potential customers and visitors can post their comments directly on our site for others to read .

We believe that these are very important tools, which provide you with marketing intelligence that should dramatically increase your chances of making more money. Thanks to the Rating scores, Comments and Hit-Count statistics, you now have the information you need to better position your services and better select which stock pictures to post on photo-direct.net for maximum payback.

Photo-direct.net takes the pain out of selling your work!

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At this point, if you are still not convinced that making the decision to join photo-direct.net  is going to be one of the better decisions in your life, you have to ask yourself "What else do I want?" Please send an email to marketing@photo-direct.net to let us know.

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