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<p>You might look into http://www.photoshelter.com</p>

<p>You might take a look at http://photoshelter.com<br>

For about $30/month it has extensive features, including a shopping cart for stock photos, which includes an automatic price calculator with which users can price the cost of licensing a photo right there online, You can change the prices for each photo individually, plus you can sell prints, etc with a shopping cart as well.</p>

<p>Worth a look....<br>

Bruce</p>

<p>You might try foliosnap.com . They have an easy to put together website service, with gallerys, and a paypal shopping cart. the shopping cart offers you 9 different sales options per image. Prices begin at about $24/month, no set fees, cancel at anytime.<br>

I'm using it for my site, without the shopping cart option, but will soon be adding that. Their service is designed specifically for photographers that wish to display and sell their work online. They host your domain name at no additional cost. You can check them out at http://www.foliosnap.com/?refid=woodenboatpictures . Full disclosure, I earn credit for a free month if you use this link, and become a customer, but i still highly reccomend them, without this little bonus.<br>

Bruce</p>

<p>Hi David,<br>

I found the site was slow to load, each image and each page were both slow....don't know if you can make a generalzation about it, just my experience. You might want to add some descriptive meta tags, especially on your home page, to help the search engines recognize you. You really don't have anything of value to help you talk to the search engines, as most stop crawling when they come upon a javasript. Like your pics!<br>

Bruce</p>

<p>Thank you all very much for taking your time to look at the site , and share your thoughts.....it's very much appreciated!<br>

Kate, I know what you mean about having only one gallery, but more are coming in the very near future (and i like your site very much too!)<br>

Phil, I know what you are saying and I'm not in the least offended. Those reflections are real, though the saturation has been boosted quite a bit for stylistic reasons.<br>

Michael, I'm with you on the exciting the site to purchase prints. It's a temporary situation, while i finish negotiations with a local printer who will provide one-off prints, which I will be able to sell with a shopping cart from within the site.</p>

<p>Bruce</p>

<p>Hi All,<br>

I just went live with a website that I have developed, and I am seeking your thoughts, ideas, concerns about it.<br>

My goals in the development have been;<br>

* Quick Loading<br>

* Simple <br>

* Attractive<br>

* Easy To Navigate<br>

* Easy to Be Able to Purchase Prints<br>

* Search Engine Friendly<br>

* Look Ma, No Flash<br>

The site, as it is, is to serve as the foundation for further development. Much more to go from here....<br>

Thank you for taking the time to take a look at the site, and offer your insights!<br>

<a href="http://wooden-boat-pictures.com/">http://wooden-boat-pictures.com/</a></p>

<p>Bruce</p>

<p>Photoshop Elements DOES have a pretty good RAW image editor, and I'm having alot of fun playing with Topaz plugins for a great variety of painting effects.<br>

Have fun!</p>

<p>Just checked their Google page rank, and they have a 6 rating, which is fairly decent, and 610 incoming links. Those number seem pretty good to me. Seems like they get good/appropriate traffic for your needs, with no cost to you, other than the reciprocal link.<br>

Bruce</p>

Hi Mitchell,

 

I like your site's look and feel, but it is totally slanted towords presentation, and not sales.

 

Try looking at your site through the eyes of a potential buyer.

 

Any time a potential buyer has to wander away from a photo, and wonder about how to make a purchase, that sale is essentially lost. As are future sales, as it is not likely that that buyer will return and give you a second chance, no matter how much they like your work. A buyer needs two things in order to make a purchase.....it needs to be EASY, and they need to be INFORMED, and those two things need to be embedded in each photo you offer for purchase.

 

Try looking at smugmug.com, etc for an idea of how this works. Their entire existence is based on online sales of photos/art. Their success is based on making sales easy and informed for a potential buyer. It's not cheating to learn from the experts! lol

 

You might want to use an outside resource such as smugmug.com, or imagekind.com to manage your sales/fullfillment, or if you want to do it yourself. There are some third party programs that provide shopping carts, etc. There is a thread right next to this one in the forum entitled "Website Direct Selling" that has some good information.

 

Best of luck!

Bruce

I have a Canon 710, and it has been amazing. It has IS, shoots movies, great zoom, and the IQ is far better than I had imagined possible in a PS camera. You can probably find one for a little more than $200. Highly reccomended!

If you are getting site visitors that arrive at your site, looking for what you are selling, you can consider your site

doing well if you convert 1/2 of one percent of your visitors into sales. You can shape this number up or down

depending on how well you target market yourself with search engine search terms and relevance. The narrower

you can shape your search terms, the higher the visitor/customer ratio.

 

For instance you may get a ton of visitors to your site under the search term "sports photographer". But if you live

in Fiji, you probably won't be able to convert many of those visitors to a sale. But if you list "Fiji sports

photographer, south pacific sports photographs", etc, as your search engine keywords, the visitor/sales ratio

increases dramticaly.

 

One might think that the shear volume of visitors, will transfer into more customers. But that is only true if you are

making money from something like Google advertising from your site, not from marketing your own products or

services. I guess the best way to say it, is we need to focus on the quality of the visitor, not the quantity. It gets

very frustrating when you can bring in alot of visitors, but not have many people purchase what we're selling.