Comments on: Choosing Your Photo Sales Channels

By: Yanik's Photo School

Yanik's Photo School — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:25:13 +0000

I started Yanik's Photo School in April as a way to give back. It's a one-man show for now but I plan on adding more guest posts in 2009.

You can't do it for the money, at least not when you start off. You need to be passionate about both photography and teaching.

I love what I do and what keeps me going are the comments I receive from my readers.

By: Phil Wessells

Phil Wessells — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:19:57 +0000

Under the philosophy of market and sell in all place, you should try QOOP.com, too, for selling your photos. We do much of the photo production for flickr, Photobucket and others. Now on QOOP.com you can load your images and create listings for all types of prints, framed prints, calendars, posters, stock downloads (coming soon) and more. The site is free to list your images as well.

By: James

James — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:43:44 +0000

You can also submit your work to wallblank.com - a pretty cool new startup offering limited edition prints daily.

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:41:26 +0000

I've been with iStock for nearly 7 years now, have been exclusive since they started the program and tried some of the other sites out there and took the images down after going exclusive. Why, well there's one main reason I took them down that I'll touch on in a minute. To be honest though, it's a royal pain to upload the same photo to site after site after site and deal with different interfaces, keywords, etc. etc. Staying with one was easier for me.

The main reason - dealing with thiefs. If you find one of your images used improperly that you have uploaded as stock on 5 different sites, good luck figuring out who the thief bought it from in the first place.