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 09/28/2009 12:52:56 PM · #1
I have recently had occasion to be asked by various people how they can buy prints from me online.

I do some event photography and I'd like to:

A. Provide a reasonable & quality print available relatively easily.

B. Make a couple bucks doing it. NOT looking to get rich, but a dollar here, a dollar there adds up over time.

I don't have a website, and though that's always an option, when it comes to setting up web sites.......I'm a heck of a British car mechanic.
 09/28/2009 02:05:39 PM · #2
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I have recently had occasion to be asked by various people how they can buy prints from me online.

I do some event photography and I'd like to:

A. Provide a reasonable & quality print available relatively easily.

B. Make a couple bucks doing it. NOT looking to get rich, but a dollar here, a dollar there adds up over time.

I don't have a website, and though that's always an option, when it comes to setting up web sites.......I'm a heck of a British car mechanic.


Would you consider something like my site?

Link
 09/28/2009 02:08:49 PM · #3
I think there have been at least five threads on this/similar topic in the past two months or so ...

Here's one ...

Check out these search results

Message edited by author 2009-09-28 14:10:09.
 09/28/2009 03:25:59 PM · #4
Thanks, guys.....

I just blew through on my way out....I'll check out the details later.

I'm looking basically to upload files and have the rest of it pretty much taken care of from there.

I really don't have the facilities for the prininting & shipping.
 09/28/2009 03:28:59 PM · #5
You can always use your built-in site here. :-)
 09/29/2009 12:35:29 PM · #6
Originally posted by GeneralE:
You can always use your built-in site here. :-)

Okay.....I'm a maroon.....I didn't even think of that.

Can I actually make a buck or two? Are they reasonable? Is there a limit to how many I can put up for sale?

I should look.....

I have a few people that are dead serious about buying some images.....I think.

How cheap can I seel prints and still make both DPC and I some money?

I got hooked up with some Civil War reenactors over the weekend and I'd like to provide images reasonably enough to generate traffic.

Message edited by author 2009-09-29 12:42:12.
 09/29/2009 02:21:55 PM · #7
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
You can always use your built-in site here. :-)

Okay.....I'm a maroon.....I didn't even think of that.

Can I actually make a buck or two? Are they reasonable? Is there a limit to how many I can put up for sale?

I should look.....

I have a few people that are dead serious about buying some images.....I think.

How cheap can I seel prints and still make both DPC and I some money?

I got hooked up with some Civil War reenactors over the weekend and I'd like to provide images reasonably enough to generate traffic.


You don't look maroon. ;oP

Maybe a little blue, but not maroon.
 09/29/2009 03:11:50 PM · #8
The print quality from DPC prints in awesome. I've made a couple of hundred dollars on the few images I have up there.

I usually use the money to buy prints for myself at cost.

They have the "cost" pricing there when you get an image approved. You set the price after that. Anything over cost, you split with DPC prints.

You do have to have them approved for quality before you can sell them to the public. You can upload without approval if you just want to order prints for yourself.
 09/29/2009 05:21:13 PM · #9
Originally posted by scarbrd:
You do have to have them approved for quality before you can sell them to the public. You can upload without approval if you just want to order prints for yourself.

This is important -- if you want the client to be able to order the image directly, you will need to have the images approved, and anyone can order them; you will need to set a price, preferably above the base price.

If you do this, you split the mark-up above the base price with DPC either 50/50, or 75/25 if people follow your link and place the order. If someone else refers someone to the site (through their personalized gallery link) and they happen to wander over to your gallery and buy something, I would get a 25% referral commission.

If you want to order them yourself -- you can have them drop-shipped to the customer if you don't want to check them out and re-ship -- you can just leave them at the base price, and do not need to have them approved. The customer would have to order from you and you'd have to place the order, and bill your customer.

Two final notes: you'll need a different size/aspect ratio for different-sized prints, and the print images themselves (big files) do not count against your portfolio quota, only the "placeholder" images which link to the prints do, and they can be smaller and lower-quality (i.e. like a challenge entry!).
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