Author Topic: Where do you sell photos for big money? (Read 12487 times)

roede-orm · « **Reply #25 on:** July 07, 2013, 05:38 »

I would recommend local agencies too. You will not have so many sales, but sometimes a breathtaking high revenue. I sold some pictures this way and I'm sure, that these pics never would made this money in any of the big microstock-agencies over years.

RedPixel · « **Reply #26 on:** July 12, 2013, 18:36 »

One thing we've done successfully is to have our own stock photo website - so we're controlling the prices, photos, etc. - and then use the sites mentioned in this thread as "alternative sales channels" (similar to an online retail store that also sells their products through Amazon). Post a few photos on the sites, and in some cases a buyer who likes the photos they find on the more popular sites, will check out your stock photo website for additional photos.

Note, this isn't easily done, and we've had a lot of help from SEO professionals on our site, and photos - so after calculating those costs in you may find the route above isn't feasible (but figured it was worth mentioning).

Good luck!

Ron · « **Reply #27 on:** July 12, 2013, 18:47 »

I am starting to see these SEO professionals as ambulance chasers. If Leo can create a simple WP theme like Symbiostock with such good SEO, then I wonder what these SEO professionals do.

danienel · « **Reply #28 on:** July 23, 2013, 03:50 »

I supply about 14 microstock agencies and 1 RM agency in South Africa, who are the master delegates for Getty for Africa/Middle East, so I have my images on Getty too. My portfolio is small on there, as they are very particular about what they want etc, and I sell about an image a month, mostly for editorial, but what I make on that one image is normally more than what I do on DT per month. Another thing is that the submission process is so so laborious!! DVD's, spreadsheets, documents etc etc etc. What stops me is the hassle sometimes.

EmberMike · « **Reply #29 on:** July 23, 2013, 11:25 »

Symbiostock.

tickstock · « **Reply #30 on:** July 23, 2013, 11:29 »

EmberMike · « **Reply #31 on:** July 23, 2013, 11:37 »

Quote from: tickstock on July 23, 2013, 11:29

Quote from: EmberMike on July 23, 2013, 11:25

Symbiostock.
How come your vectors are only $10 then?

Why does my pricing matter? You can set your own pricing at Symbiostock. The OP was asking for suggestions on where to sell for higher prices. You can sell for whatever price you want with a Symbiostock site.

Click · « **Reply #32 on:** October 02, 2013, 15:47 »

I started out doing istock and shutterstock but I feel like those sites are so over saturated that I would make like one sale a month. I tend to like the smaller sites, they do more targeted marketing which still draws in a lot of people but you dont have the intense competition.

I'm just going to mention these guys because I told them I would since they have been awesome to me, they give you 50% and even though they are small I am getting more traffic there than I was on istock and shutterstock. They are called www.Stockopus.com [nofollow]

Great guys, small, but then again I kind of like that. Plus 50%! Who wants to make just pennies off of a sale?

Cheers

Ed · « **Reply #33 on:** October 02, 2013, 19:22 »

Getting "big money" in stock is like winning the lottery....and a $196 license on Alamy is NOT big money.

Your best bets are commissioned work, prints, or fine art. If you can tap into that market, you have a good chance. A couple of years ago I would have said you could do the same shooting weddings but these days even that area of photography has gone to hell because of so many people willing to shoot a wedding for $350 and then turning over a DVD of images to the bride and groom.

Xanox · « **Reply #34 on:** October 02, 2013, 23:28 »

the big money is only in art galleries and scandalistic/paparazzi stuff.

and by the way, the only ones doing billions with photography are Canon and Nikon !

08stock08 · « **Reply #35 on:** October 08, 2013, 12:51 »

Quote from: Click on October 02, 2013, 15:47

I'm just going to mention these guys because I told them I would since they have been awesome to me, they give you 50% and even though they are small I am getting more traffic there than I was on istock and shutterstock. They are called www.Stockopus.com
Great guys, small, but then again I kind of like that. Plus 50%! Who wants to make just pennies off of a sale?
Cheers

Somebody mentioned stockopus here. I was almost ready to submit some images there but Alexa data does not support going there. I checked site, I do not know whether buyers are coming there. It seems new site. It was registered in April this year. Sounds like another small site which will struggle to survive. I do not have better data to support my judgement about stockopus for now. I would certainly love to upload there if I see some ray of better things.

heywoody · « **Reply #36 on:** October 08, 2013, 15:17 »

Quote from: Click on October 02, 2013, 15:47

I started out doing istock and shutterstock but I feel like those sites are so over saturated that I would make like one sale a month. I tend to like the smaller sites, they do more targeted marketing which still draws in a lot of people but you dont have the intense competition.

I'm just going to mention these guys because I told them I would since they have been awesome to me, they give you 50% and even though they are small I am getting more traffic there than I was on istock and shutterstock. They are called www.Stockopus.com

Great guys, small, but then again I kind of like that. Plus 50%! Who wants to make just pennies off of a sale?

Cheers

50% / higher prices maybe. More traffic than IS / SS doesn't really compute. In fact one sale a month on these sites with more than a single digit port size would be pretty rare I'd imagine?

08stock08 · « **Reply #37 on:** October 09, 2013, 10:24 »

Quote from: heywoody on October 08, 2013, 15:17

50% / higher prices maybe. More traffic than IS / SS doesn't really compute. In fact one sale a month on these sites with more than a single digit port size would be pretty rare I'd imagine?

Difficult to draw the conclusions whether it would make sense to go with stockopus or something like that. I trust data always. If there is no data to support belief, it is certainly no-go area.

fritz · « **Reply #38 on:** October 09, 2013, 19:09 »

Can someone tell me how much money is big money?

Ed · « **Reply #39 on:** October 10, 2013, 20:23 »

Quote from: fritz on October 09, 2013, 19:09

Can someone tell me how much money is big money?

Big money is hard to come by. Some recent (within the last couple of years) examples in the Stock Photography World....

Do you recognize this poster???

The shards of glass in this poster are from an image that was licensed from Alamy. It is a composite....the shards of glass were created from three people shooting a television with shotguns. If memory serves me correctly, the gross license to the photographer was $7,000 ($3,500 net).

About a year ago, a contributor to AGE Fotostock licensed an image of a neat stack of sweaters of different colors. If memory serves me correctly, the gross license was $5,500.

There is another thread about Image Brief - take a look at what their briefs pay. They want the best of the best.

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