Selling photos online

rbulph

I know that it's incredibly hard to make much money selling photos online (I have some on a microstock website, and earn about £20 a year from that, after quite a lot of effort). Nonetheless I have a lot of photos on a blog style website and, if I could, I'd like to make these available for friends and anyone else interested to buy prints of. I've seen http://www.photobox.co.uk/ and that offers the sort of service I'm looking for. To set this up presumably the procedure would be:

1. I upload larger versions of all the photos on my website to photobox
2. I give each photo on my website a reference which the user can see. This could only be in a tooltip.
3. The purchaser notes the reference of the photo he wants to buy and then goes to photobox to look up the relevant photo. He buys it there. I don't know how easy it would be for him to find it.

It sounds like a lot of hard work for both me and the purchaser. If I could provide a link directly from the photo on my website through to my photo on photobox that would make things a lot easier. But it wouldn't be very easy for me to do because the website just displays the photos in a gallery - there isn't really a space to add a link for each photo.

So any ideas on how to make this all a bit easier or am I just wasting my time?

thriftymomma

Maybe sign up with sites like istockphoto and fotolia?

rbulph

thriftymomma wrote: »

Maybe sign up with sites like istockphoto and fotolia?

Yes, it's fotolia that I've signed up. Reckon I don't even earn the minimum wage for the time it takes me to upload photos.

qw3rt7

Do you maintain your own website? If so PM me the address (as i dont think you are allowed to post it) and ill see how easy it would be to modify. I imagine a simple iframe implementation would do the job.
regards