Internet today makes possible for many people to be making money online. People can make money by selling their products or offering their services online. Internet is a great place for doing business because you can reach potential customers from all over the world without having to travel to another town or even another country.
Freelance photographers just like many others can sit in front of their computer and begin making money online by doing the thing they love the most, taking photographs and selling them all over the world.
Making money online selling photos today is not too hard as it was before. Quality digital cameras are pretty cheap and there are many place on internet where you can sell your photos.
How to sell photos online?
You can set up your own website or use stock photography websites.
Stock photography sites.
Stock photography websites are great place where you can sell your photos. To start making money off stock photography websites you need to open an account and start uploading your photos. When someone purchases your photo you earn money. Before you upload your photos check their technical requirement and see if your photographs meet their standards. Technical requirements can be for instance the file format of your photos and their size.
Some of the best stock photography websites are:
- iStockPhoto - free to apply as a contributor after which you can start selling your photos. You will have to submit three sample works
- Fotolia earn from 20% to 63% from the sale price of your photographs.
- Shutterstock you can earn fro $0.25 up to $120 per photo.
- Depositphotos - pays commission from 44% to 52%.
- Photocase pays from 40% to 60% commission.
- Photospin - pays 40% commission for your photos and illustrations.
- Imagevortex allows you to set the price for your photographs and receive 70% commission.
Selling photos from your own website
Another way you can sell your photos online is by setting up your own website, online gallery website where you can display your work for visitors to purchase. There are companies that offer solutions for you to set up ypour own photography website.
- Photocrati - is a Wordpress theme that is great for photographers to help them sell their photos online. You will also need your own hosting account
- Smugmug - ets you create your own photo website for $5 to $20 per month. Websites are fully customizable and offer watermarking for privacy prevention.
- Fotomerchant - for a prices starting at $9 per month you can create your own customizable photo website and sell your photographs to visitors as digital downloads or prints delivered to your customers.
- Zenfolio - for a price of $30 per year you can create your own photo gallery online. Zenfolio also offers free trial.
- Digilabs allows you to create your own galleries and integrate them with your own website. You can try for free for 30 days.
- Ifp3 - lets you create your photo portfolio for prices starting at $20 per month. You can also try it free for 10 days.
- Instaproofs - allows you to create your galleries without setup or monthly fee. They receive 15% commission from the sales.
- Shutterfly for a price of $99 or $199 they allow you to create gallery on their site or you can integrate with you own website.
- Photoboxgaleryallows you to create your galleries and sell your photos. They keep 10% commission from the sales.
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