Author Topic: Photo4me--Good or bad? (Read 5734 times)

oscarcwilliams · « **on:** July 27, 2020, 07:19 »

Photo4me--Good or Bad? Any sales there? Thanks.

steheap · « **Reply #1 on:** July 27, 2020, 09:11 »

I had 2 years with no sales, but then have sold 4 prints in the past 2 months. it always tends to be the same print (of a beach sunset in England) and I think their sales are often very UK based (ie places in the UK)

Steve

oscarcwilliams · « **Reply #2 on:** July 27, 2020, 10:07 »

Thanks Steve for the reply. I love your newsletter and it is truly an inspiration for me--Oscar Williams

steheap · « **Reply #3 on:** July 27, 2020, 14:48 »

Thanks Oscar!

Steve

Gannet77 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 27, 2020, 18:45 »

I've been on there about 4 years - I get maybe 3 or 4 sales a year. As Oscar says, mostly one particular print that sells.

So not a great place for me, but worth the effort; I already have the images, so why not?

ravens · « **Reply #5 on:** July 27, 2020, 22:31 »

Do any other topics than UK places or scenery sell there? Anybody had any other sales?

steheap · « **Reply #6 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:15 »

All of my sales (about 11 so far) have all been of the UK. 9 of them are the same photo of the beach (which I think shows that once you have sold an image it tends to rank higher) and a glance at the new sold images across the site seems to show a preponderance of UK locations:

Steve

ShadySue · « **Reply #7 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:29 »

I put up one (sic, 1) image a few years back, then got swamped with all the 'likes' (I think they called it something else [?]) and discovered that you have to get involved with 'liking' to push your images up the ranking. I couldn't be bothered with playing that game, so never looked at the site again, though that one image is presumably still there.

Do they still do that?

steheap · « **Reply #8 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:39 »

Yes, although each time you get a sale, you tend to get a swarm of (It's exceptional, I Love it) so I think that probably helps with pushing that image higher. They sell a lot of images of old world war 2 fighter planes in the skies. Probably people like those on their wall.

I don't ever go to the site except to look at my occasional sales so it isn't necessary to spend a lot of time liking other images. Although you perhaps need to do that to get started these days?

steve

ShadySue · « **Reply #9 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:50 »

Quote from: steheap on July 28, 2020, 09:39

Yes, although each time you get a sale, you tend to get a swarm of (It's exceptional, I Love it) so I think that probably helps with pushing that image higher. They sell a lot of images of old world war 2 fighter planes in the skies. Probably people like those on their wall.

I don't ever go to the site except to look at my occasional sales so it isn't necessary to spend a lot of time liking other images. Although you perhaps need to do that to get started these days?

steve

Thanks for the info!

ravens · « **Reply #10 on:** July 28, 2020, 13:16 »

Quote from: steheap on July 28, 2020, 09:15

All of my sales (about 11 so far) have all been of the UK. 9 of them are the same photo of the beach (which I think shows that once you have sold an image it tends to rank higher) and a glance at the new sold images across the site seems to show a preponderance of UK locations:

Steve

Thank you very much Steve for the helpful information! I uploaded about 100 images 2 years ago, none of them UK images, no sales... so probably won't upload more.

Hildegarde · « **Reply #11 on:** July 28, 2020, 14:54 »

They reject a lot of my best images as "unsaleable" but they sure sell other places so my portfolio there is left with mostly images I do not think will sell. Never had a sale. Waste of time.

stockastic · « **Reply #12 on:** July 29, 2020, 12:31 »

A few years ago I uploaded a handful of my best. Just recently, I got a sale.

Their 'recently sold' page tells me that what sells there are UK landscapes, landmarks, planes and boats. I don't have any of that. But getting the sale, naturally, has me thinking about uploading more.

trek · « **Reply #13 on:** July 29, 2020, 12:54 »

Their best selling page is very British-centric. Nice stuff. Makes me want to visit.

https://photo4me.com/search/all/all?sortby=top-selling

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