How to sell my photos online? This is a question that we know many photographers ask themselves. That’s why in today’s article we are going to explain all the options you have available when selling photos for free (without paying commissions) with us.
Thanks to a series of tools that we offer you at Arcadina, such as: your photography website, public and private galleries and social networks. Selling photos will be much easier for you. 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.
The moment you ask yourself the question “how can I sell my photographs?” the big online photo sales platforms may come to mind. And it is possible that in the very short term this is the most convenient way to do it. But is it really the most effective and profitable way for your pocket? We are convinced that it is not.
In case you didn’t know, these platforms can sometimes take up to 80% of the price of each photograph in commissions. In our opinion, an excessive and exaggerated percentage. At the end of the day, the image is yours, don’t you think?
Therefore, in this article we are going to explain the possibilities we offer you at Arcadina so that you can discover how to sell photos for free (without paying commissions to third parties) and keep 100% of the profits.
Learn how to offer the sale of photos in your digital business and keep 100% of the profits from your images.
When it comes to taking the plunge and selling photos through your photography website, it is important that you take into account a number of aspects, for example:
Have a website adapted to sell photographs.
Offer customers a range of secure and diverse payment methods for the sale of images.
See what kind of images you can offer for sale.
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 each of these aspects 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?
Discover all the options for selling photos with Arcadina
To sell photos through your digital business, with us you will have at your disposal a series of tools that will allow you to sell photos for free (without paying commissions) in multiple ways.
Two of the business solutions that we offer you in Arcadina (in all our Business plans), which will help you with the sale of images, are the public and private galleries (what used to be the online shop and the customer area). Let’s see how these 2 powerful tools can help you answer your question: how to sell my photos?
The truth is that offering your photography services and the sale of downloadable or printed images in different formats in the same workspace 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 some of your images, will also be able to discover (and hire) your other photographic services.
Here is a post with several examples of colleagues who have been able to sell images.
Let’s take a closer look at all the options you will have at your disposal to sell images through private and public galleries.
Private galleries for the sale of photographs to customers
In this part of your online business, you will be able to sell photographs with download and sell prints in professional formats (Arcadina Labs) to your customers. You will also be able to create all kinds of galleries: selection, sample, download, sale or multiple galleries to create different projects for your customers and always leave the door open to increase sales.
The private client area, as well as being useful for you to send your clients the images of their photo sessions, will be a very convenient and practical extra service for them.
Thanks to this private space available on your website, your clients will be able to select, download, buy digital images and/or prints in professional formats without having to come to your photo studio.
Public galleries to sell photos for free to the whole world
In this other section of your website, you will be able to sell photos, products and services to all types of public (customers and non-customers) both with the option of digital download and printed in all types of formats.
This type of business consists of selling downloadable photos to an audience that is not necessarily your client (for the moment) or has not necessarily booked a photo session with you through the online shop.
Thanks to the public galleries your visitors will be able to buy from any type of device the digital download of your photos as well as the sale of prints in more professional formats.
You can also use the online shop to offer your photography services for sale. This way, visitors will be able to buy one of your sessions automatically.
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.
As you can see, knowing how to sell my photos online through your photography website will 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.
When it comes to advertising your photography services or 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 yourself through all your (professional) social networks.
In the case of your website with Arcadina, you can create galleries with Instagram images and give your visitors and readers the opportunity to share articles and photos from almost anywhere on your website, even from your public galleries.
Selling photographs online has never been as easy as it is with Arcadina’s web solutions
More and more photographers want to give an answer to the question: how can I sell my photos on the web? Because they have seen clearly 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.
Besides, selling photos on your website means that you will be doing it in your own environment. Surrounded by your brand and style. Ideal for creating the perfect atmosphere of trust.
On this occasion, we would like to share with you the experience of photographer Manu Boutureira.
Fulfil your dreams and develop your professional career with us. We offer you to create a photography website for free for 14 days so that you can try our platform without any commitment of permanence.
Arcadina is much more than a website, it is business solutions for photographers.
If you have any queries, our Customer Service Team is always ready to help you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We listen to you.
