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Written by Greg Madisson
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
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Word Count: 735 Media selling for newbies. How to earn when you are clever.
Greg's small business success story.
Although this article is not about photographing, let me introduce myself.
My name is Greg Madisson and I am a well-known photographer from Southern Spain.
Luckily we live in the 21st century when a person who produces something is able
to sell that easily. I am talking about photobanks and photo-auctions; there are
tons of them and a photographer, especially a talented one, is able to earn some
money.
As for me, I always hated being dependable on somebody's will and I always
dreamt to open my own business. Even working with a famous photobank I felt I do not have my own business!
So I started thinking. What can I really do? The decision was -- to open my own
website. I had a blog at Myspace.com already where I posted my photos (their
smallest versions mostly) and I knew something about running a website. That
would be a piece of cake I imagined.
I am good at design so I made the presentation of the simple website myself and
my younger brother helped me with moving that to html. The next thing was
registering a domain name and purchasing hosting for my knew marketplace. That
was really less than $15, I was inspired!
What to do next? I found a problem. How to sell full versions of my photos?
Which payment way to choose? How to program or at least setup all huge solutions
on my small website? I was frustrated. Will my poor business die before being
born?..
It will not I said and started searching! I found a couple of companies who
could help but their rates were terrible. One imagined I would be happy to give
them 60% of my earnings! Ha! No way! Another one wanted a serious setup fee,
which was no good for me.
The third found company was Ubscribe.com (http://www.ubscribe.com/). They had
their system in beta-mode (and still have now as I know) and first I was
worried. They promised to help me for free and their rate was really good. But I
have nothing to lose!
Their manager Andre was helping me by phone when I had any questions and I am
really grateful to him for his help, I really had tons of stupid questions!
Their technicians even cleared up html on my page and helped me setup everything
on their side and even on mine! I felt lucky. That was totally free.
The last thing I had to worry about was promoting my website (a professional
photographer homepage). I have just put address of my page to all photobanks I
worked with -- to my signature, to my personal details, etc. That worked, I had
20-30 visitors a day and even got first 2 sales! Andre from Ubscribe.com
contacted me personally with a congratulation. Oh how happy I was! Whoa, it
goes!
Next part was ordering links to my page at different companies. Adbrite.com
helped me much with that -- they allow to do this easily.
What do I have now? I popular website which I plan to make a photobank to help
young talented people follow my steps. When I have a new photo, I create a new
service and a billing routine at Ubscribe.com (which is less than a minute),
upload my photo and I am almost over. After that I press a button and here I
have a new page generated -- I add that to my site and my photo is ready for new
customers!
I believe everyone who owns any media materials (music, video, text, any
services) or wishes to sell in the Internet, can follow my steps and use my
experience to succeed.
I will have one more article soon, about promoting in the Internet for newbies.
Of course, if I got responses from you, my readers, about this one. And if you
like it!
That's it I think. If you guys have any questions to me about this article or
whatever else,
please contact me by email:
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Thank you for your time.
Greg.
P.S.: Special Thanks to
- Ubscribe.com (http://www.ubscribe.com/
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- Especially to Andre, you helped me really and I appreciate this, man!
- Adbrite.com (http://www.adbrite.com/)
- Shutterstock.com (http://www.shutterstock.com/)
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