Online marketers (info-preneurs) often talk about just how important it is to find what the market wants, then sell them what they want. In other words, find out what people really want, and then provide the solution. I’ve no doubt that this approach will work just as well with selling stock photography.
Let’s say you’ve created a hundred photos that, although they make great eye candy and tell a unique (photo) story, no stock agency wants. They may have said we have too many of this type of images already, and have their reasons. At this point you can choose to see this as a learning experience and try a new approach, or continue creating similar stock photography that you hope will be accepted, one day.
As a photographer wouldn’t it be great to offer more than just simply selling photographs? In fact why not expand your whole selling photography business model and focus on making your photo business super profitable and lucrative?
Lucrative: (a.) Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.
I can hear you saying… “how can I become more lucrative then?” Well, we’re about to discuss some lucrative ideas but first let’s start with how people see you.
There’s no doubt about it. Selling photographs online is a challenge enough for any enthusiastic photographer, no matter what level of talent or ability they have. And assuming for a minute that you have a small presentable folio of images already, let’s look at some options available to you.
Firstly you could contribute your images to stock photo libraries and micro stock image agencies. This is a great, long term, ‘asset building’ solution, but you may have to wait weeks, if not months… for sales. And there’s no real guarantee of income either. The fact is that the micro stock agency images have very low returns per image, and that means to make it worth your while, you really need to see high numbers of downloads (sales).
Online marketers (info-preneurs) often talk about just how important it is to find what the market wants, then sell them what they want. In other words, find out what people really want, and then provide the solution. I’ve no doubt that this approach will work just as well with selling stock photography.
Let’s say you’ve created a hundred photos that, although they make great eye candy and tell a unique (photo) story, no stock agency wants. They may have said we have too many of this type of images already, and have their reasons. At this point you can choose to see this as a learning experience and try a new approach, or continue creating similar stock photography that you hope will be accepted, one day.
Online marketers (info-preneurs) often talk about just how important it is to find what the market wants, then sell them what they want. In other words, find out what people really want, and then provide the solution. I’ve no doubt that this approach will work just as well with selling stock photography.
Let’s say you’ve created a hundred photos that, although they make great eye candy and tell a unique (photo) story, no stock agency wants. They may have said we have too many of this type of images already, and have their reasons. At this point you can choose to see this as a learning experience and try a new approach, or continue creating similar stock photography that you hope will be accepted, one day.
There’s no doubt about it. Selling photographs online is a challenge enough for any enthusiastic photographer, no matter what level of talent or ability they have. And assuming for a minute that you have a small presentable folio of images already, let’s look at some options available to you.
Firstly you could contribute your images to stock photo libraries and micro stock image agencies. This is a great, long term, ‘asset building’ solution, but you may have to wait weeks, if not months… for sales. And there’s no real guarantee of income either. The fact is that the micro stock agency images have very low returns per image, and that means to make it worth your while, you really need to see high numbers of downloads (sales).
As a photographer wouldn’t it be great to offer more than just simply selling photographs? In fact why not expand your whole selling photography business model and focus on making your photo business super profitable and lucrative?
Lucrative: (a.) Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.
I can hear you saying… “how can I become more lucrative then?” Well, we’re about to discuss some lucrative ideas but first let’s start with how people see you.
There’s no doubt about it. Selling photographs online is a challenge enough for any enthusiastic photographer, no matter what level of talent or ability they have. And assuming for a minute that you have a small presentable folio of images already, let’s look at some options available to you.
Firstly you could contribute your images to stock photo libraries and micro stock image agencies. This is a great, long term, ‘asset building’ solution, but you may have to wait weeks, if not months… for sales. And there’s no real guarantee of income either. The fact is that the micro stock agency images have very low returns per image, and that means to make it worth your while, you really need to see high numbers of downloads (sales).
As a photographer wouldn’t it be great to offer more than just simply selling photographs? In fact why not expand your whole selling photography business model and focus on making your photo business super profitable and lucrative?
Lucrative: (a.) Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.
I can hear you saying… “how can I become more lucrative then?” Well, we’re about to discuss some lucrative ideas but first let’s start with how people see you.
There’s no doubt about it. Selling photographs online is a challenge enough for any enthusiastic photographer, no matter what level of talent or ability they have. And assuming for a minute that you have a small presentable folio of images already, let’s look at some options available to you.
Firstly you could contribute your images to stock photo libraries and micro stock image agencies. This is a great, long term, ‘asset building’ solution, but you may have to wait weeks, if not months… for sales. And there’s no real guarantee of income either. The fact is that the micro stock agency images have very low returns per image, and that means to make it worth your while, you really need to see high numbers of downloads (sales).