Strategies to sell my photos online without paying commissions to third parties
How to sell my photos online? This is one of the questions most photographers ask themselves when looking for new lines of business. That is why in today’s article we are going to explain all the options available to you when it comes to selling photos for free (without paying commissions) with us. Thanks to a series of tools that we offer you at Arcadina, selling photos will be much easier. And the good thing about this type of service is that once you start selling downloads or prints, the income comes “automatically“. Without any effort on your part.
When you ask yourself the question “how can I sell my photos?” the big online photo selling platforms may come to mind. And it is possible that in the very short term it is the most convenient way to sell your photos. But is it really the most effective and profitable way for your pocket? We are convinced that it is not. Besides, in case you didn’t know, these platforms can take commissions of up to 80% of the price of each photograph on some occasions. In our opinion, an excessive and exaggerated percentage. After all, the image is yours, don’t you think? Therefore, in this article we are going to explain the possibilities that we offer you in Arcadina so that you can discover how to sell photos for free (without paying commissions to third parties) and that you can keep 100% of the profits.
Boost the sale of photos in your digital business and keep 100% of the profits from your images.
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- How can I sell my images online and keep 100% of the profits?
- At Arcadina we offer you multiple options for the sale of photos without commissions
- Preparing your website for photo sales has never been easier
- Selling my photos online has never been as easy as it is with Arcadina’s web solutions
- Arcadina goes with you
How can I sell my images online and keep 100% of the profits?
Once you have your photography website set up, if you want to go a step further and sell photos online, it is important that you take into account a number of aspects, such as:
- Have a website adapted to sell photographs both publicly and privately.
- Offer customers a range of secure and diverse payment methods for the sale of images.
- When creating very large galleries, make it easy for users to quickly find your images.
- See what kind of images you can offer for sale.
- Create packs, sell complete galleries or implement price scaling to get each customer to buy more images from you.
- And ultimately, to answer the question of how to sell my images through my photography website?
In the following article that we are going to share with you, we will detail some of these aspects in more depth and we will also show you some examples of fellow photographers who have already given an answer to the question: how to sell my photographs?
>> 8 tips to make it easier to sell photos online through your website
At Arcadina we offer you multiple options for the sale of photos without commissions
To sell photos through your digital business and keep 100% of the sales, at Arcadina we offer you a series of tools that will allow you to sell photos for free (without paying commissions) in multiple ways.
In addition to being able to create a website, offer the sale of sessions over the Internet and various other business solutions, another of our tools that will allow you to do business through your website are our Business plans. Thanks to them you will be able to prosper with the sale of images, thanks to the public and private galleries.
Next we are going to see how these 2 powerful tools can help you to answer the question of how to sell my photos? Because the truth is that offering in the same workspace your photography services and the sale of images with download or printed in different formats, will give greater confidence to users who want to use your business area. And another advantage of knowing how to sell my photos online is that visitors who come to buy one of your images will also be able to discover and contract your other photographic services.
Here is a post with several examples of colleagues who have been able to sell images.
>> 5 websites selling photos that work
Now let’s take a closer look at all the options you will have at your disposal to sell images through the private and public galleries of your website.
Private galleries: sale of photographs to clients
Private galleries will give you the option not only to sell photographs through your website, but you will also be able to offer your clients a much more convenient and up-to-date service where, as well as being able to view the photographs of their photo shoot, they will also be able to: download, select and buy images both in digital format and printed in more professional formats such as those we offer at Arcadina Labs.
And thanks to this type of gallery, as well as being able to offer a much more practical service to your clients, you will have more time in your schedule than you used to spend meeting clients to view images.
>> Increase your sales through customer image delivery
Another of the advantages of selling images through your website with the business solutions that we offer at Arcadina is that, in addition to being able to create different types of galleries, you will also have the possibility of offering multiple options to your customers, such as, for example:
- Sale of complete galleries.
- Creation of special packs for your customers.
- Linear pricing or price escalation.
- Sale of extra photographs in a selection gallery.
- Etc.
Public galleries: sell photos for free to the whole world
Another business option that you can promote to sell photos through your website is the online shop. In this space you will be able to offer all visitors the opportunity to buy some of your images both in digital and printed format directly from the web, without the need for them to contact you. This, nowadays where Internet sales are the order of the day, is a very practical and essential service in any business selling images.
The good thing about the online shop is that you will be able to sell downloadable photos both to your clients and to an audience that is not necessarily your client (at the moment) and has not necessarily booked a photo shoot with you through the online shop.
Thanks to the public galleries your visitors will be able to conveniently buy from any type of device both the digital download of your photos and the sale of prints in more professional formats.
If you would like to find out more about this type of information, the following article will give you more ideas on how to sell my images.
>> How do I sell my photographs on my website?
Artificial intelligence: promoting the purchase of images
Another tool that will help you sell downloadable or printed photos is our AI integration where users will be able to search through galleries by selecting a face or text. This tool, when you create a very large gallery of images, is fantastic for customers to be able to locate your photos quickly. And to make the search even more efficient, we have incorporated the option for users to take a selfie or upload a photo of themselves to locate their photos.
In the following article we explain this option in much more detail.
>> Did you know that you can now search for images by selfie? Find out about this new AI feature
Preparing your website for photo sales has never been easier
As you can see, knowing how to sell my photos online through your photography website is going to be all advantages for you. If you are a client of Arcadina and you still do not know well the whole process to promote the sale of images through your business section, below we are going to give you a series of recommendations and basic steps that you can follow:
- Activate your public and private galleries and configure them.
>> First steps to activate your Online Business
- Create your price lists and digital download and print formats.
- Add your means of payment and the costs and shipping method.
>> Client area – Settings: Shipping costs
>> Online Shop & Customer Area – Settings: Shipping methods
- Create a gallery to sell images and assign a price list.
>> Create a digital sales gallery
- Activate the Artificial Intelligence service.
>> Integrations – AI activation in public and private galleries
- Create packs for customers to make larger purchases.
>> Shop and Customer area – Formats – Packs
If you haven’t tried our business solutions yet, we encourage you to do so. They are free for 14 days.
When it comes to further promoting the sale of photographs, social networks play a fundamental role. Nowadays they are the best way to reach your target audience, so don’t miss the great opportunity that this powerful channel offers you and promote the sale of your images through your website through all your (professional) social networks. This way, your visitors and readers will be able to share articles and photos from almost anywhere on your website, even from your public galleries.
You will also be able to create an image gallery with your Instagram photos that will be automatically updated with the latest photos you upload to this social network.
Selling my photos online has never been as easy as it is with Arcadina’s web solutions
More and more photographers want to find a professional solution to the question of how to sell my photos on the web. Because it has become clear to them that sales are on the Internet and the savings they can make in this way compared to photo sales platforms with abusive commissions are enormous.
Moreover, selling photos on your website means that you will be doing it in your environment and under your conditions. Surrounded by your brand and style. Ideal for creating the perfect atmosphere of trust.
If you want to try the business solutions that we offer at Arcadina and that will help you sell your images and keep 100% of the profits, you can now see for yourself how they work and for free for 14 days.
On this occasion, we would like to share with you the experience of photographer Manu Boutureira.
>> Manu Boutureira and his opinion of Arcadina
Do you already know how to sell photos online? We’d love to read your ideas in the comments.
Arcadina goes with you
Fulfil your dreams and develop your professional career with us. We offer you to create a photography website for free for 14 days so you can try our platform without any commitment of permanence.
Arcadina is much more than a website, it is business solutions for photographers.
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