How to Boost Stock Photo Sales Every Fall
Stock sales tend to pick up every fall. Let’s submit some new photos and ride the income wave.
Stock sales tend to pick up every fall. Let’s submit some new photos and ride the income wave.
No one sees the same view of the world as you. And it’s a good thing, because your unique perspective can help your stock photo sales.
Incorporating copy space into your stock photos is easy to do, and it can definitely help boost your sales.
Lori gives you some simple, inexpensive tools you can use to take studio quality photos right in your own backyard.
Professional photographer Efrain Padro tells us how photo-based stories are especially lucrative. Read on for Efrain’s step-by-step plan on submitting your photo-based article to an editor…
Times change fast. It’s the same with stock photography. What sold five to six years ago isn’t necessarily what still sells today. And, if you try to guess what sells tomorrow… well, you might be wasting your time there, too, says stock photographer Jerry Koch. He believes you should just shoot what’s fun and the money will follow.
What is it about this strange photo of people holding blank puzzle pieces together that makes it sell so well? I asked stock photographer Andrea Gingerich to share her expertise as a stock photo inspector. See what she said, below…
With stock, your creativity is endless. You start by doing one thing and the next thing you know, you’ve got a half-dozen more ideas and you don’t want to stop.
I spent some time this weekend with professional photographer Stacey Blomstrom, running through photo shoot locations here in D.C. for our upcoming stock photography workshop. See what tips she gave us…
When Jerry’s friend first told him about stock photography, he thought his photos were worth a lot more than the small royalty he would collect from microstock sites. Today, he understands that what you lose on the initial sale, you make up for in volume. Jerry’s not a salesman, so he likes that he doesn’t have to do any marketing either. He just shoots, has fun, and collects a check. Check out some of his photos below along with his advice for getting started…