I have been looking at adding ShutterPoint to my ranking and listing sections. Has anyone had any experiences there? Sales?

Never even heard of it!

colleen wrote:

Never even heard of it!

Shutterpoint - perhaps I am thinking of the wrong place (there is a shutter???? something) but, is that the one that you are required to pay for space?

I tend to stay away from pay sites. If I want to pay to sell my images I can do it from my own website

And perhaps it's not the place I'm thinking of, in which case I haven't been there either.

I am mostly trying to stay away from places that sell images for $1 or $2 (though I've signed up on MicroStock Photo just recently) and am concentrating on places that have a minimum price of $5 or $10 per image. Initially I'd think the sales will certainly be slower.


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Hmm.. Didn't realize they make you pay to store your photos. I think I'll make a rule that to be listed you can't charge photographers to sell their images.

Does anyone sell here? Is this model popular?

What do you think?

They charge a 15% commission to the photographer, though the photographer sells their work directly and sets their price. You also pay them up front for the privilege of getting the storage space for your pics.

http://www.shutterpoint.com/Home-Photographer.cfm

I know two photogs who are signed up their, but are finding it very slow - a couple of sales in the past 8 months for each of them. It's almost a matter of doing your own advertising in order to get people to your images. They do tell you they promote your images, but i don't expect it would be much.


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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be
and you will help them become what they are capable
of becoming.
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