Professional Photo Labs are now making it easy to host your images online making you more money.
Selling additional prints using online image hosting is helping photographers make more money from weddings---it's like "magic." Even if you are a "disk only" photographer you too can make $100's more in photo sales. Here is a little known "secret"---30% of brides who purchase "disk only" wedding coverage do order prints and albums anyway costing $100's. That additional revenue could easily be yours just by posting the images on the Internet. Statistics also show that people who have attended a wedding will buy "professional" online prints (especially of themselves) if they are shown where to order, and if the cost is reasonable. You need not miss out on this additional revenue anymore. Even if you do not have the time to post images online, some professional labs will do it for you, some will do it for free. Now, that is an offer you can't refuse.
Not getting the photo sales you want from your internet selling efforts? Read on to find out about these successful techniques to sell photos online.
Determine who your customers are from each session or event. Majority of sales will be from wedding guests wanting pictures of themselves with other relatives and friends. Pictures of themselves with the bride and groom are also especially popular. People who could not attend the wedding will buy too.
For wedding events, it pays to keep things simple: Images that will sell well are the top twenty shots from the wedding. Some ideas: post one each of your best pose of bride and groom, wedding party, bride's family with b/g, groom's family with b/g, overall shot of ceremony, bride and father processional, bride and groom processional, cake with b/g, grandparents, parents and all wedding party girls and guys.
Finish with shots of table groups and groups of guests at wedding. Especially those posed with bride and/or groom. Keep it below 50 images. Do a separate Free posting for the "bride" of your best 250+ shots for an album, etc. Always anticipate the bride buying more than planned, e.g. Thank You & Greeting cards, even a complete set of proofs.
This is a perfect case or example where more is not better. Consider how many seconds it will take to view each image and add up this time. Very few people will sit for hours to see hundreds of pictures. 100 pictures viewed for 6 seconds each is 10 minutes, about tops for any attention span today.
Try to have pictures loaded in an exciting sequence. Goal is to get some sure fire, I am going to buy this picture, images early in the group so that people start to click the buy button.
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