Selling My Work Online

<p>Up until recently I have been pleased to just sell directly to my clients but more and more clients want to view their photos online AND buy them that way. I have a PayPal account and without a L-O-T or work, I'd like to be able to sell my photos and/or packages online.<br>

Can someone or many suggest some ways in which to do this? BTW, if I can do it myself without having to use an outside website, I am very web design savy and host several websites using M$ Front Page as my publishing software and thus any way to get my photos into some kind of data base and/or on a page with selling capabilities will be great! However, whichever works, is easier, is fast, and is fun and useful IS the way I will choose even if I have to pay a monthly fee . . that is . . so long as it isn't too expensive :o)<br>

Thanks in advance for those who respond.</p>

<p>I use this: <br>

http://gallery.menalto.com</p>

<p>you can try exposuremanager.com</p>

<p>Alec, that menalto, is it database driven or do you do it on your pc and then it writes HTML that gets published? That is, does one have to install an ap up on the server and/or .php/mysql or some other methodology?</p>

<p>That ExposureManager looked sweet BUT the FREE Trial didn't work, wanted a credit card and a product selected which wouldn't exactly be free :o(</p>

 

<p>Roger, I'm in a web revamp right now. I have done quite a bit of selling over the web (mostly people who know me). I decided to take a different approach as well. I'm using Wordpress as the sales site, and probably going to be using one of the PayPal cart plugins. That would be a pretty cheap alternative. My cost is zero because my hosting company has the tool to run it all.</p>

<p>Wordpress? That's a hosting site or a shopping cart? PayPal has a cart other than the standard one than the regular simple (hard to use) one?</p>

<p>@Roger, Gallery, and Gallery2 are database-driven photo galleries that require mysql running on the server. Many ISPs have easy installations for mysql and even for gallery/gallery2.</p>

<p><Chas></p>

 

<p>I downloaded G2 and started reading the instructions and while my server certainly handles all the goodie requirements, I'm not sure I'm Php/MySql savy enough to handle it. Also, I didn't quickly see an option for selling pictures. I did see both photos and videos which would certainly serve our needs BUT I didn't see an option while quickly scanning the info for the opportunity to sell via PayPal checkout or at least assemble an order and email it to me wherein I could send a PayPal invoice.<br>

Any thoughts? Do you have this already working? Thanks to all who are responding as this is something I need badly. I have three clients bugging me to death about it :o(</p>

<p>Switch your web hosting to Marathon Press. As a customer, you'll get discount on their products and you can host images for FREE and sell them with NO commission....-Aimee</p>

<p>Thanks Aimee. I checked there at Marathon and looks like the package with a cart would be upwards of a G note and that's pretty pricey in my business world. Looks like they might be nice but at the moment we'll probably just go with ifp3 at about 20/mo until we figure out how to make that Gallery2 thing work. After all we have our own servers located in "The Planet Data Center" in Dallas and host about 200 "other" sites so we ought to be able to figure this out eventually. Just not up on Php/MySql personally. Oh well, here goes.<br>

On a positive note the ifp3 package is pretty inclusive and quite accomodating for the moment I just don't like to "pay" for hosting when we are a hosting company if you will? :o)</p>

<p>Try Zenfolio!</p>

<p>OK. Checking that Zenfolio site out. I like the 100 a year plan so far :o)</p>

<p>a wesite is the <em>great way</em> </p>

<p><em>www.perupassport.com<br /> </em> </p>