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print business cards, turning out to be a good earner
litifeta:
I joined http://www.printbusinesscards.com/Community.php?do=JoiningArtistsCommunity&src=litifeta a while ago. My images sat there for ages without a sale. Now I am getting regular sales.
Because the template is so small, you can cut bits and pieces out of your poorest photos and still have something big enough for a business card.
They pay you $5 each sale, and the payment is to PayPal and is immediate.
Check them out.
leaf:
what does regular sales mean?
How many sales from how many images?
thx for the tip
litifeta:
At least one a week from about 80 online I think.
Remember these are tiny images. Tiny tiny compared to what we do elsewhere. No reviewers to deal with, and they pay you $5 straight into PayPal straight away.
litifeta:
Tim informed me some of you had joined.
Good little thing for those pics you cannot sell
http://www.printbusinesscards.com/Community.php?do=JoiningArtistsCommunity&src=litifeta
dbvisualarts:
hello! another printbusinesscards.com contributor here.
i have been with printbusinesscards.com a little over a year i believe. i have over 400 cards on line. http://www.printbusinesscards.com/ordering/Denise-Beverly-Business-Cards.php if you want to check them out. that is not a referral link, litifeta deserves that but you can see what i have done. you can see i am not very fancy with my cards. simple designs, portions of some of my microstock work, ( i am now exclusive with dreamstime but haven't updated my profile yet), backgrounds, logos etc. and i am not even doing this full time, so you can build your portfolio rather quickly. there are photographers, illustrators, painters, vector artists you name it, they are there.
not only have i had good sales there, i have gotten at least 3 custom freelance orders which gave me the experience i needed to approach possible clients in my home town. i have done custom work ranging from a local candle store, to a cruise line in California (through a greeting card site) - all due to my experience doing custom work on PBC (printbusinesscards). i have now launched out and have an exclusive arrangement with a local store for greeting cards and artwork and it all started with one little custom order on PBC.
the cards themselves are very easy to create, a little adjustment at first converting to CMYK and saving them a certain way, but it is simple to learn and there are people willing to help. the set up for adding text to your blank is excellent, there are multiple variations and you can play around until you get one that suits your card. then you can get an instant preview so that if you have need of adjusting your blank at all, delete, adjust,,upload again all in less than 5 minutes. you title, categorize and keyword through a description much like we do in microstock and that begins your journey as a designer of business cards.
i do have to say this as well. i am on a first name basis with all of the admins. i can call and talk to Gayle in the office, and have on several occasions. i find they are easy to get to know and personable, you feel like you are part of a team that wants to work together. i thoroughly enjoy being part of it. i think the cards are actually fun to make, they are excellent quality and the images that you can glean from your microstock work are so numerous, the issues of noise, OOF, bad composition etc are really not an issue there. not to say the images can be bad quality, because they aren't at all. it is just that the venue of business cards affords you a little more leeway and versatility than microstock might. if an image is wrong for the card or text cannot be seen, they will let you know, but that is a very, very rare occurrence, in my experience with them.
last months sales of 8 cards along with a extra use of one image netted me 60.00 which would have been 240 downloads when i was with shutterstock...think about it! those 5.00 payments per card can really add up. also they give you the option of linking to your stock agency if the image you used on the card is available for instance on SS or IS. if someone wants to match their business card to other advertising they can get the image and license it through your stock agencies. the only caveat there being if it is an exclusive image somewhere that would limit you doing so.
there are all levels of sales there, in that some sell less and some sell a great deal more. i am somewhere in the middle i believe. sales have been growing as the site gets more exposure and they are working all the time on ways to promote and get the word out. they have a blog called the art of business cards http://theartofbusinesscards.blogspot.com/ they introduce the new artists and tell some of the news of the site.
if there is anything else you need to know feel free to ask me, as you can tell i am pretty sold on them.
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