what is your marketing plan?

So you are the owner.
-and entrepreneur.

Where are you from?

Build something great and people will show up. Sorry if that is too vague of an answer, but we've all seen agencies come and go. The ones that are dedicated, study the market and create a great product stick around. The rest close up shop pretty quick.

Off the bat, it looks like a KTools store. That's not a deal breaker by any means (I have a KTools store too), but it does give me a little pause about the level of technical skill and dedication going into the site. Just my two cents. Good luck with your endeavor. It can be a lot of work to run your own site, but it can also be rewarding.

Looks like you are off to a good start for the development. I wish you good luck with your project. One small tip. Don't have as your first tab NEWS. Move it behind Promotion and may call it BLOG.
All General important pages should have a link in the footer (FAQ, Contact, About, ...) create a page just for the PRESS (press kit, press releases, ...) and place that link in the footer. Think about what type of payment you want to accept and how you want to pay the contributor. Different account view for buyers and contributors? How to upload? FTP? What type of model and property release management? Very important that you import system reads the meta data IPTC out of the image files. Most important is Title, Description, and Keywords. No category selection for contributor. Just uplaod and submit, but with the possibility of editing if necessary. A delete function for image. And a function that allows to cancel an account. But I am sure you know all this.

Good luck!

Hi all. My site is ready to start accepting images . I already established licenses and services. Is not complete yet, but one project like this one is never completed , there are some more to do. Is missing me set products and prints .

I set a service to promote in Facebook now. There are one gallery called Web Social .This is the one i want to promote now. Social image sharing is always out of law and out of licenses so i made this very cheap to allow consumers illustrate their pages and share images at an affordable price. I want to promote a Valentines Day banners . Something that a boy or girl can offer to the Facebook page of the loved one expressing their heart .These must be submit to this gallery at 851x315 px to avoid problems in auto crop made by site. You can, if you wish , submit the original file to main galleries after .

Apart that , everyone who want submit here is very welcome now . I have a small port and all like a portrait/wedding niche .... so..diversity is very desire . I need to decor the site with images to, so at least one buyer is there .

Thanks and feel free to contact me .

Wow you are lucky normally new sites and sites owners with no marketing/business plans at all don't get such warm and nice comments here.
Well in this regard good luck from me too!

Well, i don�t know exactly how things work here or in this business but i think this is like another current business. If you have a good product it will sell. I saw agencies in middle tier close doors and i think to my self,  Why? If they have clients and sell something ? Maybe there is many people living of that business , maybe they have mounted structures that can�t support, maybe they have invested in expensive servers with thousands of GB without images to put there ... what is a marketing plan and good publicity ? I bought my studio 5 years ago, the old owner was tiered of loosing  money every month. I don�t one � in publicity and the studio still exists . Simple do a good work to customer and they will sell your product for you...this is my marketing plan. If people trust in me to upload files my site i will do everything to sell the images, i will not give it for free or be the most cheapest and pay assorted and magical commissions, reality is not like that. I have to pay taxes and give legal invoices to companies, pay servers space, commissions and manage the site, so there is not 90% commissions here or even 70% . What exists here is a free will to do something for me that fit others too. If contributors have sales here they will bring more contributors, and happy clients will come back . I will not promise you commissions that i can�t afford in this moment just to get attention and spend money in addwords just to get contributors and curious clients.

I know that this" marketing plan"will take more time to get attention or something close to a real and middle agency but if this grow must grown with confidence and must grow with facts, not with prospection ...

  All of this is the reason i being here. I have a site and i�m proposing myself to do a certain job. To do this job i need some brave people to trust me supplying my agency. I can�t promote a empty site, i can�t make a call to a newspaper promoting my fresh images if editorial section is empty, i can�t present a product that not exist and certainly i can�t buy 5000 copyrights from RM agencies, so , i need some brave agents....

With that text i don�t want people think i will accept all images i receive....no, i will not ! The review process not much different from others . Here i have a concept to follow.

Facebbok banners
well the stock world don�t have to be only for designers or sites owners or press. With growing Facebook pages and users and milions of images watermarked being shared every day i think there is a real market there and free publicity to do.

If you give me 5 banners to valentine day , mothers day, fathers day , more.... banners that people can use to express them selfs with themes like hungry, happiness , love, sadness, esoteric , ..... good and affordable images . Then i promote this in my studio page , in agency page in my personal page , you promote in your page, your friends will see and others too .. if one buy , you attention from thousands .... We cannot complain about illegal sharing if we don�t do anything to make it legal. 1 banner is a 1� gift to offer ... why not, if they copy this or still one image in other place ? And any contributor is a marketing agent in their page too....

I don�t have server space in server now so this allow many images , less space, big audience....

Best of luck to you. Your site look great. Just get rid of black colors around. I am glad to see your passion for doing something good. Keep your interest and efforts focused. There are many people waiting to join your venture. Just show them that you care which I think you did already. So, it is just waiting to roll now.

What kind of background except as a photographer do you have? Business Administration? Marketing? Accounting? What kind of support in these areas do you have?

I was just wondering if you are aware what you are doing and what that potentially means.

For example, as you are living in a EU country, you would need to do VAT taxation for EU member countries, depending where the buyer is living. Yeah, not only for your country but for 27 different countries in 27 different ways. Are you prepared to do that? I somehow doubt that because you are not even publishing your own tax or trade registration information as you would be legally required to do.

International tax legislation is a bitch and I would just advise you to be careful because in the end you will be liable financially.

     I'm  going  to  give  it  a  try.

Just to bring a new feedback.

- Now site is supporting ftp upload with dedicated accounts;
- Contributor agreement and tutorial is setup;
- Site i receiving first uploads , photos, vectors and video footage
- Site is very new with only 3 weeks online, including setup time and domain registration. I am registering 150 views a day. I�m happy with it.

Opinions, good or bad ones, are welcome. Thanks.