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Sell Photos Online - Create an Impression 
By: Kathy Austin
One picture is worth a thousand words, so the saying goes. Substituting the word photo for picture and dollars for words what we get is: one photo is worth a thousand dollars. There are of course photos worth such obscene amounts of money but other than that photos are really worth a few dollars provided you can find the right place and the right clientele to sell them to.
Photography is entertaining. Either as a hobbyist or as an amusing pastime, dabbling in photography would have resulted in the accumulation of a sizeable quantity of snapshots. If you get paid for these photographs, then photography becomes even more amusing. And getting paid one can, thanks to the Internet. With a little sweat and little time spent on your part, photos can be sold and in time one could develop into a semi-professional or with more sweat and more time, even a professional.
Selling photos online is something anyone with a lot of photos can do. There is no bar on age, sex, physical ability or background. It is not necessary that you should be a professional. No one starts of as a professional. They get there by dint of hard work and dedication.
Selling "Stock Photos"; offering "Products" derived from photos; providing photography related "Services" are the three general ways by which your photos can be sold profitably online.
"Products" and "Services" are indirect ways of marketing photos online. Prints, postcards etc. come under the category of "Products" and Consultancy Services, where expertise is offered constitutes "Services"
As mentioned earlier, "Stock Photos" is the best way to put up your photos for sale. The photos are in your charge, that is to say, they are there in stock ready to be sold. Now these photos can be sold online by two distinct methods. One is to make the buyer come and get them by displaying them online or by sending them to potential purchasers. Both of them are equally good with the exception that the second approach requires more involvement than the first.
Getting the buyer to do the initial approach can be done either giving your photos to stock agencies or microstock sites or by putting them on your own web site. Stock agencies hosts your photos and looks after all the other infrastructural activities such as taking orders, filling them, billing etc. Payment is made on the sales effected and the agency keeps a commission on the deal. Microstock sites operate in a similar way. Putting them on your own web site is a bit more complicated. Either the web site is built from scratch or the services of a photo storefront is employed..
Either way, photos can be sold online. It might just be surprising that what you considered trash might be appealing to someone else. Just as surprisingly, a photo in the caliber of the photo of Phan Thi Kim Phuc might be lying there in some old dusty album.
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Kathy Austin is a writer for an online gallery.Red Bubble enables you to sell photos online, designer t shirts and more.
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