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BabyBoomers2 · 06-22-2010, 12:06 PM

Anyone here sell photo prints on Facebook, MySpace or Twitter?

mathjak107 · 06-22-2010, 12:26 PM

I sell mine on smugmug

RUNYYfan · 06-22-2010, 03:07 PM

Same here. I only sell through SmugMug. I will use Facebook and Twitter to drive business to my site.

mathjak107 · 06-22-2010, 05:17 PM

its so convienient using them.... nothing to do but take the check to the bank ,they handle every aspect of the printing and shipping..

now if i could only sell enough to cover the annual renewal fee ha ha ha

Bydand · 06-22-2010, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by mathjak107

its so convienient using them.... nothing to do but take the check to the bank ,they handle every aspect of the printing and shipping..

now if i could only sell enough to cover the annual renewal fee ha ha ha

The hardest part about SmugMug is figuring out a way to direct buying traffic to your site. At least that is where I have the most difficulty.

mathjak107 · 06-22-2010, 05:50 PM

we do it differently..we shoot alot of car shows so we give out cards directing the owners to our site to buy photos of their cars.

i would do the same with businesses we shoot....

RUNYYfan · 06-22-2010, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mathjak107

we do it differently..we shoot alot of car shows so we give out cards directing the owners to our site to buy photos of their cars.

i would do the same with businesses we shoot....

Same here. With the business cards, I print my own and use an image I've taken of a similar topic as a background on the card. For example, a cheerleader or a running back for sports, a stark street scene for architecture, etc.

One of the other things I did was to post photos from the site to several forums and message boards that are well-viewed. While there is a risk that people may copy the photos, each photo has my watermark embedded on it and the EXIF data remains in tact. What generally happens is the thread is viewed. Each time the photo is loaded from the account, it counts as a view of the photo on SmugMug. The more times photos are viewed, the more Google Analytics recognizes the name and address of the site. Thus, when someone types in my name in Google, the first link that comes up is my photo site.

*shrug*