Monday, November 17, 2008

How to sell photography online

The internet has created millions of ways to profit from home.Everyday people can and do make money working from home selling products and services online.

One way to make money in your spare time is to sell your pictures to buyers looking for stock photography.  No longer is an amateur or hobbyist photographer at a disadvantage in selling pictures.There are many ways you can sell your high quality pictures online, make sure they are crisp, clear and high res.Make sure you use at least 4 megapixels for your photos and touch up the lighting as much as possible. 

Spend a little time finding out what people are buying before submitting work people have no interest in.When you sell what people are searching for, you will sell more and they will come to you again and again. 

There are may ways to sell pictures online.Some of the most popular methods are selling niche CDs, prints and stock or microstock photography.

Usually you are not going to sell just one file or picture but many at a time.Compilations of pictures are usually sold on a CD or even DVD.  And in order to make it worth the buyer's while, the CD has to have enough material in it.You can create a CD with a single focus all about one topic and make it interesting and useful.

Alternatively, instead of selling a file copy, you can sell a print of the picture.Your customers can visit your stock photography portfolio and have a print mailed to them.Use the highest resolution you have to showcase your photos, use thumbnails with links to the big files.

Back in the day before high speed internet connections, only professionals could do stock photography.But now just about anyone including beginner and hobby photographers have ways to submit their pictures and earn money through the sale or download of those photos.Make sure you do some touch up work to each picture before you submit it, make it the best possible.

Get more tips on how to sell stock pictures and where the best places to submit and sell photographs online at how to sell pictures.

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