Re: Selling Stock Photography

I have a friend who runs a non-profit horse welfare organization, she told me selling on Zazzle covers all of their overhead and salaries, said they sell hundreds of products each month, but it's taken a couple of years to get to this point.

Other tips she told me, be sure to "favorite" popular shops, that way if someone's at your shop, doesn't buy but clicks through on one of your favorites and buys there you still make a commission so you still make money.

Also there are widgets that promote your products, you get the html code for it and post it on other sites, like your own (or even just links) - and you make a commission when someone clicks through from your site and buys from your shop on top of your royalty, but if someone puts your widget - or links - on their sites they will make the commissions so there's no need to pay them yourself, Zazzle does it.

She convinced me to give it a good go, so I've been designing products with my photography but still need to get my categories organized with icons and all yet - or I'd post a link here!

By the way, I've been lurking for a little while. When I first got into photography I was thinking of stock photography, but it seems like a really underpaid area of photography through the microstock agency sites. I joined the group to learn more about it to see if it would be worth the effort. I more enjoy landscape and night photography with HDR and am learning to do panoramas. But I thought I'd jump in here with the info I've been given on Zazzle since it might help someone else.

Terry in Arizona

--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "steve" <steve5452@...> wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> Has anyone here had any success selling pictures on Zazzle? Either zazzle.com or zazzle.co.uk
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> Cheers
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> Steve
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