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New features to build your perfect portfolio website
 
New features to build your perfect portfolio website

New features to build your perfect portfolio website

Our November 09 release saw a slew of new features to help you customise your portfolio and website design. The best thing to do is log in to your account and check out the revised tabs under Website , or if you’ve been sitting on the fence, our free trial is now completely risk free [...]

PhotoMerchant – where we’re up to…

The blog’s been quiet, but things have been non-stop action over at PhotoMerchant since I last posted! So, time for an update…
Thanks to all the readers who agreed to be Alpha testers for PhotoMerchant. Over the last few weeks, our testing team has been working their way through PhotoMerchant’s features and giving us feedback. We’ve [...]

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Creative challenge: dream up the ultimate photography system

I hope by now you’ve all had the chance to read my last long post about PhotoMerchant alpha testing.  We’re still accepting alpha-testers, so if you’re interested, drop me an email.
Since then, we’ve been pretty busy working on the development of PhotoMerchant. The last post gave you a good outline of the features you can [...]

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PhotoMerchant – Calling All Alpha Testers

For the last few weeks, I’ve been giving you some tips on how to get your photography business running in the online world. We’ve covered things like workflow, sales and online websites. But now I want to go one step further than just tips, and give you a sneak peek at the application we’ve been [...]

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Selling Photos Online Part 3 – Creating your website

We’re half-way through our mini-series on how to sell your photos online. In this series, we’re covering:

Planning your site
Content you should consider
Choosing and creating your website’s functionality
Marketing your website
Using the website to increase business and [...]

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Selling photos online Part 2 – Website content

When designing a website for selling your photos, plenty of photographers start in the wrong place. They start by trying to learn how to ‘create’ a website… yes, it’s important, but as I discussed last time, you need to start by understanding your site’s goals first. Now, wait… there’s one more thing you need to [...]

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Selling Photos Online Part 1

Selling photos online might seem like an obvious step for any photographer who is planning to take their business to the web. However, creating a website that showcases your work and makes it easy for customers to purchase prints can be complicated.
This is the first post in a series aimed at helping the photographer who [...]

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How not to sell photos

Sometimes life hinges on the most insignificant things. For example, my life could’ve been very different but for one sturdy lunchbox.
When I was 9 years old, I was run over by a bus. While playing around with the other kids at the bus-stop, I slipped and fell under the wheels of the school bus as [...]

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What is the real cost of your photography workflow?

The workflow, presentation and sales methods and practices are an integral part of any photography business. However, they can also be costly.
In the last post, I raised the issue of the ‘real cost’ of photography.
As a youthful photography enthusiast, I thought professional photography was a pretty lucrative business. My contacts on photography business forums were [...]

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