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5 Steps to Selling Your Photos
We made a quick list to follow if you want to start making an income from your digital photos on the internet. These are the five steps that you need to follow in order to start making profits up to 100.00 dollars a day per stock photo site. That is only the beginning after several months if you are still only making that you have done something wrong.
1st Step Towards Freelance Digital Photography: The Basics
The first step is purchasing the program that will show you how to (and) where to upload your freelance digital photos. We have said it before but the best program out there is
"The C.D. Program", you will read all the technical aspects of the business. If you have already bought this program then your spending is done. (Besides a digital camera and this program) You virtually don't need to buy anything else to start earning profits from your freelance photography. Most importantly you will calculate which digital photos will sell at a higher price (or) be more popular. Using the C.D. Program you will read about how potential buyers will find your freelance work. By choosing certain keywords, your freelance digital photography will be found and will be purchased for a standard rate dependent on your keywords. It sounds confusing but it really isn't. It's just another way of labeling your freelance digital photos in order to get tons of traffic to your work.
2nd Step: Taking Digital Pictures
Now that you know what kinds of freelance photography gets the highest traffic, you will need to take hundreds of photos. Go look at the Stock Photography Portfolio section of this site, if you learned about where to upload, keywords and good photography subjects (Step 1) you are ready to take some profitable digital photos. Taking hundreds of pictures will go by quicker than you think just be creative and keep a consistent schedule of photo taking. Use the tutorials on this site to help with your picture taking, and make sure you edit any digital pictures that need to be focused or fixed.3rd step: Signing up with Stock Photography Sites
If you completed steps 1 and 2 then most of the hard work is taken care of. Start signing up or getting accounts with Stock photography sites (like Fotolia) and upload your freelance work. Getting multiple accounts will earn you more money but can get hard to keep all your accounts updated so be sure your ready for the responsibility. If done properly, you should see people buying your digital photos and earning you more profits.4th step: Building a Website to monopolize your Digital Photos
You could build your own website, you don't have to, but it is another method. Thousands upon thousands of people will find your site on the web and they can purchase your digital photos straight through your site. Don't worry, you won't be doing all the databasing and costumer service stuff, just making the website and taking the digital photos. There are programs that will help you build a site, if you don't know any HTML or CSS. You can take this step if you don't want to worry about stock companies showing your freelance digital photos. You can use this in combination with working with stock sites and drive even more traffic to your specified photos.5th step: Invest Back to Make more Income
So you have now been doing this for some time and you make a steady income a month, and you are ready to grow your business. A good idea is to invest into an advertiser, something like Google's adwords. This easy to use program doesn't cost anything to use the service, but will cost pennies every time your ad gets clicked on. It is a method of turning a profit from all the traffic your freelance digital photography would get. The money you earn would outweigh the few pennies that it would take to drive someone to your site. Once again this is optional, and may not be an investment you want to take if your happy with your current earnings.