I still get emails from microstockers looking for work. Many want to know more about how to go about profiting from low cost legal images without waiting for the micro stock site payout. How can you make money? With hard work and open eyes and operable mouse fingers. That being the case, I’ll review some online search tactics to provide opportunistic microstockers with ideas for creating image sale revenue.
The geo site domain name market is heating up as always, and as new domain name owners for predominantly geographical appeal site domain names start mounting their websites and minisites, photography for would-be geo portals like www.TigardHome.com need photos. Banner creation and feature story accents as well as avatars and forum footer images can be made from micro stock image files captured at geographical locations, then vended to the domain name owner whose website bears content of the same locale.
So, you have a digital photo gallery of great optimized photo files with enhancements and resolutions per the microstock standards. But your product isn’t moving. What are your online options? Internet Marketing for Microstock Photographers involved some startegic thinking and a specialized approach to YOUR individual talents and skills. Don’t follow the model from someone else’s career. Use what works for you.
On one of the many domain boards where I do business with domain name owners, I saw a thread where a desperate website owner had shouted out for a .jpg image of a particular thing. Not for this website owner the endless browsing of thousands of images with generously allowed keyword usage. Is there a site online where photographer an link to their own online micro stock picture image galleries where their files can be vended for sale?
Geotagging can net a lot more views and sales for your travel and location specific images. The geographical tag terms and place names can also be about the technical composition of the shot. Putting the right geotags on your images can develop Microsoft photo commerce.