Promotion Ideas For Selling Photos

Wow - So much to talk about! Here’s a topic I was “talking” to a friend about on Yahoo Messenger a couple days ago.

Ping has a couple great photos up on one of those “stock photo” sites. She was all excited - she’d just sold a copy of one of her photos. (Well - the site sold it for her. She just uploaded her photos.) Check out Ping’s photos here.

After I’d looked at all two of her photos, she started telling me about a cousin in New Zealand who’s quite a photography buff. Cuz Fotog! I commented that all she really needs to do now is promote her photos like crazy. And she asked - how could she do that? After looking at her cousin’s photos, the conversation changed to what this BUSY person in New Zealand could do to promote his stuff.

Well, now. That’s an interesting question. Let me give 5 or 10 quick ideas…

• Put links to your photos into your Yahoo Messenger, Facebook, Direct Matches, gmail status, on your Facebook “what are you doing now”, mention it in twitter, etc.
• Send an email to 100 friends and ask them what they think of your photo. (Some of those people will send your photo link to other people…people you do NOT know.)
• Get on your Internet Radio Show and talk about your photos.
• Put up a lens about your photos on Squidoo.
• Create a snazzy music video of your photos. (I create these for people - it’s a paid service. Read on for Why It’s a GREAT Idea.)
• Place sexy photo video, with rocking music and YOUR photo URL up on YouTube.
• Put your YouTube video in a Video Squeeze Box and have it pop up on your Blog.
• Or maybe you NEED a blog. Write to HelpfulGeek@GeekyMarketers.com if you would like a blog created for you.
• Find 8 or 20 or 75 Facebook applications where you can have other people vote on your photos. Link them over to your photo collection.
• Use your photo in your profile, and join some forums or comment on some blogs.
• Use your photo in your profile when you join MyBlogLog and list your blog.

Well, those were my quick ideas. The one I hope some people will like is creating the Music Video out of photos so you have a jazzy, snazzy, sexy video to add to YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, your blog, your video squeeze popup box and so many other places.

Cheers,

Tim

The Helpful Geek

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