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David Seelig, Photographer
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Hailey | ID | USA | Posted: 2:18 PM on 03.01.10 |
->> I have had a home made website for some time. I am wondering if those who made the jump to livebooks are getting actual work out of ther investment and are people getting sales from stock put on phtoshelter. I have mroe music shots than anything else for phtoshelter. Teh other question is it just as well to have a phtoshelter website and skip live books altogether. Thanks
David
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Brad Mangin, Photographer
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Pleasanton | CA | USA | Posted: 2:31 PM on 03.01.10 |
->> Hello David. I have both!
I have a portfolio site with liveBooks:
http://www.manginphotography.com
My portfolio site has helped me get many freelance shooting assingments and helped me license stock images.
I also have a newer Wordpress site that I really love using PhotoShelter and Graph Paper Press that promotes my archive:
http://www.manginphotography.net
Yes- I license many photographs (sports) to editorial clients all the time through my archive powered by PhotoShelter. I could not run my business without my sites.
If I were to be in your shoes I might go straight to a Graph Paper Press / PhotoShelter combo site like Jack Gruber has:
http://www.jackgruber.com
Good luck! |
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Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 3:11 PM on 03.01.10 |
->> I really think you need to evaluate your needs as to your market for your work and where you would like to go with it. Both liveBooks and PhotoShelter are superb, I have both, not everyone has need of both.
I have never depended on either to create new work or sales for me, but have used them as a tool for me to create sales or promote myself to get new clients. In that respect, both have been hugely successful for me and have paid for themselves many times over. And I have been a client of both services almost since they started.
The one place where I truly differ is my Blog, linked on my website, which I have now consolidated to the one I maintain on "BodySpace" from BodyBuilding.com. For 3 years it is in the top ten of most popular, now among 500,000 members. And as it is a website with over 250,000 individual visitors per day, the exposure is huge but very unique to my specialty of bodybuilding and fitness.
But the point I am making with that, is that you need to evaluate your need and market first, then apply the best tools for you to get the job done. |
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Mitch Stringer, Photographer
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Baltimore | MD | USA | Posted: 7:48 PM on 03.01.10 |
| ->> Brad, your Word Press site looks teriffic. This is one substantial looking site with a lot of substance. With all the news stories and links it's really a destination site and I imagine a great venue for showcasing your work and generating licensing. Really nice. |
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Brad Mangin, Photographer
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Pleasanton | CA | USA | Posted: 7:58 PM on 03.01.10 |
| ->> Thanks Mitch! The best thing about my site is that google loves it. I have been working hard all Winter producing new content for it- which google likes. This site is doing a great job for me in getting google inside my archive so it can index all my images. I am thrilled with it and can't wait to do daily updates after I shoot ballgames during the regular season. |
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Jack Kurtz, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | United States | Posted: 8:58 PM on 03.01.10 |
->> David,
I have a personal web site (also built with iWeb) and host my archive on PhotoShelter. I put stories and my blog on my personal site with numerous PhotoShelter links and search boxes.
http://www.jackkurtzphotography.com/
iWeb is not ideal; Google seems to have problems indexing pages beyond the home page and I've been told there is a lot of excess code in iWeb pages which makes them slow to load. Also, the textured background you use (and I still use on my blog) is slower to load and a little more distracting than a plain background. If I were starting from scratch I would probably go with either the Wordpress / PhotoShelter web site like Brad or Jack Gruber have or a straight PhotoShelter custom site.
jack |
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