Sell Photo Online (5 ways to sell your photo)
As a photographer, you can easily earn some extra cash (or even start a new career!) if you know the right places to sell your photos online. Photographers of various skill levels are in high demand for their work, now more than ever. Everyone from large corporations, small and medium size businesses to bloggers, graphic designers, marketers and publishers buy and use photos regularly online.
Now where can you sell your Photos..
1. On Your Own Website
The number one best place to sell photos online is on your own website.
That’s because:
You can set your own prices.
No one else takes a cut.
You have 100% control over how to display your photos.
You can set your own terms and conditions.
In short, YOU’RE in control!
Don’t have a website yet? It’s not hard to start.
The majority of professional photography sites online are created on WordPress.After creating your website, you need to showcase the photos beautifully to attract visitors and convince them to buy your images..
2. Shutterstock
As a photographer, you can earn great money with this marketplace in the long run. According to their site, sellers on Shutterstock have made over $500 million worldwide!
Shutterstock allows you to keep your copyrights protected, so it’s up to you to set the rights on your photos. Shutterstock also gives credit to the image’s owners, which is a major plus that protects your ownership and markets your brand.
Once you become a site contributor, you begin earning money every time someone purchases and downloads your content. As a contributor you can make anywhere from 20% to 30% of whatever your image sells for, which Shutterstock pays out monthly.
3. Alamy
Alami is another a great platform on which to sell stock photos, because it doesn’t have any hard and fast rules.
The site may not have as many buyers as Shutterstock and Adobe Stock, but it’s still a great contender and another great option for revenue. Photographers can upload their photos to Alamy without licensing or any other copyrights issues. To date, Alamy has made $180 million in payouts to photographers.
Alamy’s rates are competitive, too. The marketplace pays photographers 50% of each sale if you exceed the $25,000 limit per year, 40% for each sale if your annual sales are less than $25,000 but higher than $250 and 20% for contributors whose annual sales are under $250, which is higher than some of the other competing platforms.
Give Alamy a try today!
4. Etsy
Etsy is better known as a marketplace to buy and sell unique handmade goods, so you may not think of it when looking for places to sell stock photos. However, Etsy boasts over 30 million users and several different ways to sell your photos through their platform.
The great thing about Etsy is that they have a larger audience than most stock photo sites, and a demographic that is ready to purchase your images. Of course, you can sell digital images on Etsy, but you can also sell prints. So, if you’re looking to expand your photography business even more, Etsy is a great option!
5. Fotomoto
fotomo is not an online marketplace, but rather a widget that integrates with your website to help you sell photos online. After you add it to your site, the Fotomoto manages all the photo selling processes for you.
Like Etsy, Fotomoto allows you to offer digital photos, photo prints and even canvases to your site visitors. And, Fotomoto handles the packaging of your material photos so you don’t have to. It doesn’t get much easier if you plan to sell physical photo prints or canvases!
What’s really great about Fotomoto is that the widget itself is customizable. You can adjust the widget’s settings to display your own branding information, including your logo! That way, customers come to learn your brand and associate it with your images.
Wow thanks for this wonderful idea. Now I know where to make some money 🤑