I want to sell photos: Hi, I am exploring a possible way to sell my photos. I think that many of my photos are of a high and interesting quality. I am thinking of posting a pdf. page...

twinjoe

Hi, I am exploring a possible way to sell my photos. I think that many of my photos are of a high and interesting quality. I am thinking of posting a pdf. page on FB, with maybe 10-20 photos. My thought is to ask my friends on FB to share my posting with their friends and for their friends to re-share the posting. I feel this has the potential to reach many people and maybe facilitate sales. How about some feedback.

TheDman Loc: USA

PDF probably isn't the way to go. I'd just post some photos and make them public.

ptcanon3ti Loc: NJ

I think, if asked, most photographers would like to sell their photos.

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

What about a dedicated web hosting service that would take care of shipping and management for a cut of the action?
I have no experience with face book.

Photographer Jim Loc: Rio Vista, CA

twinjoe wrote:

Hi, I am exploring a possible way to sell my photos. I think that many of my photos are of a high and interesting quality. I am thinking of posting a pdf. page on FB, with maybe 10-20 photos. My thought is to ask my friends on FB to share my posting with their friends and for their friends to re-share the posting. I feel this has the potential to reach many people and maybe facilitate sales. How about some feedback.

Just a few quick things to consider:

Do you have an eCommerce setup in place to allow you to take payments?

Have you checked FB's Terms of Service to be sure that you can list prices and actually solicit direct sales?

Have you considered that this approach will pretty much have to be a one shot deal? Your friends (those that do help you out) are not apt to be willing to share your "ad" more than once.

My opinion is that FB can serve as a means of supplementing a photographer's web presence, it is not structured well for actual sales.

Thombar Loc: Hominy, OK

twinjoe wrote:

Hi, I am exploring a possible way to sell my photos. I think that many of my photos are of a high and interesting quality. I am thinking of posting a pdf. page on FB, with maybe 10-20 photos. My thought is to ask my friends on FB to share my posting with their friends and for their friends to re-share the posting. I feel this has the potential to reach many people and maybe facilitate sales. How about some feedback.

I'm currently taking a course in Photo Artistry & post processing using "grunge" techniques, with a goal of selling our work. A really great course and well taught and I trust the instructor. One of his lessons mentions several of the social media to use exhibiting our work. He specific mentions FB & Piscas as two that have very little chance of succeeding to sell work. Not that they are bad just not effective given their formats. Two he recommends are Flicker and Behance (An Adobe product) given the best chance of selling your work. Behance is his favorite. You might want to visit all the sites before you settle on FB.

mcveed Loc: Kelowna, British Columbia (between trips)

Are you talking about selling the electronic versions of your photos? Or are you planning to get into printing and framing as well? Have you compared your photos with those available at www.500px.com?

twinjoe

Thanks for the input. my concern is how does one get the eyeballs to see the photos. That was my thought process for using a social network.

Swamp Gator Loc: Coastal South Carolina

twinjoe wrote:

Hi, I am exploring a possible way to sell my photos. I think that many of my photos are of a high and interesting quality. How about some feedback.

Join the approximately 14,723,956 other people with the same thoughts.

billybob40

Of all you hear and see in 2015 this is GOLD in you pocket.
#1 Domain form godaddy.com keep it short and sweet, I just got these two.
www.bbi4p.com and www.BillyBobImages4Print.com
This and 10 other domains of mine go to http://snapshots2010.smugmug.com/
This domain is #1 in google search right now.
#2 Get an account with smugmug.com my account cost me $40. a year. I display and sell my art with them. Its my web host site. Three years ago I was going to have something like smugmug designed for me it would cost me $1,000+ hosting. Also smugmug puts you site in search engines to help you to be seen on the web. Also when you put something on a forum here sign out with you domain it helps in searches.
#3 Get a FREE account with Google.
#4 A free facebook account with you domain.
#5 Take a day a start putting you domain on every FREE search engine you can find the net.
This has worked for me for over 10 years.
Or you can start putting your art on stock sites, some photos go and some do not. Just make it a fun thing. Good Luck Billy Bob
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twinjoe

Thanks for some informative constructive feedback. A breath of fresh air.

GDRoth Loc: Southeast Michigan USA

Show us a couple of examples

MaryAnn Loc: Florida/Massachusetts

twinjoe wrote:

Hi, I am exploring a possible way to sell my photos. I think that many of my photos are of a high and interesting quality. I am thinking of posting a pdf. page on FB, with maybe 10-20 photos. My thought is to ask my friends on FB to share my posting with their friends and for their friends to re-share the posting. I feel this has the potential to reach many people and maybe facilitate sales. How about some feedback.

I use Fine Art America. I have sold a couple of photos on that site. I went to a local print and frame shop that also sold photos and showed them a couple of mine with a local interest and they have sold several of them.

heyjoe Loc: cincinnati ohio

go for it,most people will be negative,they just don't have the drive or nerve to go pro,if you want it,go for it,

anotherview Loc: California

My suggestion, too: Check out www.500px.com. It presents photographs of an international set of photographers. You will see a high-quality collection of photographs at this Web-site. It also has a mechanism in place already for sale of photographs.

mcveed wrote:

Are you talking about selling the electronic versions of your photos? Or are you planning to get into printing and framing as well? Have you compared your photos with those available at www.500px.com?