Microstock Photography Forum - General > Selling Stock Direct

Journey of selling stock images on your own website

(1/3) > >>

ribtoks:
Hi folks

Luisa Fumi (aka gameover) wrote an interesting story about her experience with self-hosting here: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/selling-images-on-your-website/

Please let us know what do you think and maybe you also have a story to share? Will be definitely useful for others!

Cheers,
Taras

Evaristo tenscadisto:

--- Quote from: ribtoks on November 01, 2023, 08:03 ---Hi folks

Luisa Fumi (aka gameover) wrote an interesting story about her experience with self-hosting here: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/selling-images-on-your-website/

Please let us know what do you think and maybe you also have a story to share? Will be definitely useful for others!

Cheers,
Taras

--- End quote ---

Lumi's journey through the various websites that she created to explore self-hosting in the microstock market is very interesting. Thank you for sharing the link.
My case is different.
I only stayed for one (wix) and it works as a kind of presentation of who I am with some promotional videos showing the diversity of work i can do. In the videos I leave a link where you can buy those and other clips or 2d/3d animations. Probably I am even more lazy and prefer not to have to deal with marketing, web design and self hosting. Instead i like invest my time in being creative - after all, it's what I enjoy most.  :)

ribtoks:

--- Quote from: Evaristo tenscadisto on November 01, 2023, 09:25 ---I only stayed for one (wix) and it works as a kind of presentation of who I am with some promotional videos showing the diversity of work i can do. In the videos I leave a link where you can buy those and other clips or 2d/3d animations.

--- End quote ---

Could you share your website? Where those links point to? Microstocks?

Uncle Pete:
"the sales rate is almost negligible" says it all. Plus, $300 a year for hosting?

I recognize Gameovers fine work and the site. She has also left out that the only way to get the free software working was for someone to write special checkout code, to make the site able to make transactions. And then the part about taxes too.

Yes, I'd love to have a self hosted site, even if it doesn't make me wealthy. Just the fact that I can post and offer my images, for download, on my own site, and make something, would be impressive.

I looked into ecommerce solutions, and most (I didn't find one that doesn't but that doesn't mean there isn't something out there) want to host the site and charge a fee on their fast servers. No software exists that would allow people to view, search and process checkout downloads of images, from my self hosted site. They wanted me to pay for storage as well.

K-Tools Photostore was an answer in the past. It's dead now. php changed, the software doesn't work. There's no support, it has been abandoned since about 2017. Too bad, because it actually worked. LISAFX used it for her site, with some modifications.

I'd ask anyone else who's running Woocommerce or Easy Digital Download, for their experiences. I'm sure there are more people who have had success with these. Personally WordPress and me just haven't had a good relationship. They update and the site crashes. I removed all traces from my websites.


Oops I forgot this one:  https://www.cmsaccount.com/ CMSaccount

gameover:

--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on November 01, 2023, 11:34 ---"the sales rate is almost negligible" says it all. Plus, $300 a year for hosting?


--- End quote ---
Hi Uncle Pete!

the point is, through the agencies I sell pretty well; thus my "almost negligible" (compared to that) is enough to pay for the hosting and leaves me something for a cup of coffee too ;-)
Not to mention that my huuuge options come in very handy to develop and test my customers' websites before delivering them, and to host there a few E-mail accounts for friends and relatives.
Thus all in all, though paradoxically, it's still convenient - or at least no waste :-)

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page