Hello there!
I'm from newbielink:http://www.kumaru.com
[nonactive] and I just read your post.
How do we market your photos?
When you become a full member, you get your own domain name AND your photos are included in the collective stock. The collective stock are all the photos from all the photographers. So, we market Kumaru.com as a landing page. However, at every opportunity we provide a link to your website. Essentially is 2 services in one.
As you said, CJPhoto, there's a 5% credit card charge: that's the cost of our provider. If you want to sell a royalty-free or rights-managed via Kumaru, the minimum price is $4 (your profit would be 0). However, we are not in favor of MicroStock in terms of "MicroPrices" because it is sustainable only for a few photographers. A photo is worth much more than $10-$15. We are in favor of little Stocks (# of photos) however, on Kumaru, you have unlimited storage and bandwidth. and the more photos you upload the better is for you. We let you set your price, your license (RF/RM), and we advertise for the collective stock.
Right now, we are having a promotion: when you upload 1000 high-resolution photos in 21 days, we refund you the fee you paid for your full membership. So with a little work on your part, it's free.
Our aim at Kumaru, is to offer an alternative to traditional agencies that takes 50%-80% in commission and don't let you develop your long-term reputation. With us, as you have your own domain name (it's included in the membership), when you want to become fully independent, you can.
If you have any questions, you can send me an email at: newbielink:mailto:
[email protected] [nonactive]