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Twenty Free WordPress Plugins Every Photographer Needs to Know About
Making your website stand out online is hard work. However, a poorly designed or functioning website can be the difference between making a sale or losing a client. Fortunately, WordPress is our savior. We have thousands of themes to choose from and even more plugins to provide additional functionality. If you’re a photographer, you need plugins that can highlight your work, boost your audience…
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How Photographers Can Use Social Media to Grow Their Business
With all of the social media options available these days, it can be overwhelming to try to figure out which one(s) you should be using. Sometimes, total inaction feels like the best course of action, for risk of investing a lot of time achieving very little. Although the usefulness of any social media platform will…
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How to Name Your Photography Business
When starting a photography business, there are a lot of details to address. People tend to focus their planning on legal and financial matters, often giving company naming less consideration. But this is a mistake, especially since your business name can be the first impression for a potential client. In fact, names are so important…
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How To Successfully Sell Your Photos Online As A Photographer
When it comes to selling photos online, it’s not just about generating passive income; it’s about unlocking the full potential of your website. Many photographers miss out on maximizing their online presence, and simply showcase their portfolio. In this article, we’ll explore how to make your website work harder for you and truly excel in…
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There are better ways to sell pictures online than Getty Images
Getty has developed a new embedding feature that has made 35 million images available for free and photographers are furious. We’ve always kept photographers and their work at the core of our business. We are photographers. Our friends are photographers. We believe photographs, like any art or product, have a value that should not be…
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How To Protect Your Website From Image Theft
For as long as the web has been in existence, image theft has been rampant. It’s so quick and easy to download and copy images from the internet that it doesn’t even occur to most people that they are using someone else’s property without permission. Google Images, photo sharing sites like Flickr and social bookmarking…
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Sell Media 1.6 – Plus an Open Call for Your Feedback.
We keep making Sell Media better. Version 1.6 is ready for download. The most notable new feature of this update is that we added the option to set a given price group as the site default. In less than 11 months, we’ve added over 30 new features and made over 45 smaller tweaks. We are…
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Introducing the Sell Photos Theme for WordPress – Boldly Understated. Simply Selling.
Our new “Sell Photos” theme makes it easy to manage your portfolio, blog and photography store in one central location. The boldly understated design and optional e-commerce integration via our Sell Media plugin makes it an ideal solution for entrepreneurial creatives looking to grow and expand their online business. Don’t feel like reading? Explore the Sell…
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Sell Media Update: Added Infinite Price Group Functionality
Never underestimate the power of creative people. To make setting up the Sell Media plugin fast and simple, we intentionally put a limit on how many size and price combinations that you could add. We should have known that you guys are way too business savvy to have a cap on the way you charge…
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Our Plan to Help Laid Off Chicago Sun-Times Photographers
In case you haven’t heard the news, the Chicago Sun-Times laid off its entire photography staff. The photography staff received no warning of the layoff; they were simply called into the office on May 30 and told that they no longer had jobs. This news hit me personally: I met John White years ago as…
