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Who do you use to sell your gallery style prints???
Patrick Murphy-Racey, Photographer
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Powell | TN | USA | Posted: 12:34 PM on 10.19.10 |
->> I need to begin selling some of my images and I currently use smugmug.com, which I've been very happy with so far. However, smugmug, makes you list every possible size print and I only want to use a few print sizes with the smallest being 8x10. Looking for an easy interface web-lab that will allow me to list only certain print sizes, and obviously that is connected to a really good lab that will make and ship the prints direct to my customers.
Let me know what you are using and it the limited print size is an option with who you deal with...
thanks in advance! pm-r :) |
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Billy Crowe, Photographer
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Easley | SC | United States | Posted: 1:34 PM on 10.19.10 |
| ->> You can chose what size prints you want to offer with no problems. Just put a price of 0.00 in the sizes you do not want to sell and they will not show up on the list. |
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Eric Isaacs, Photographer, Assistant
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 3:20 PM on 10.19.10 |
->> Personally I am put off when I see smugmug as much as I am by a business that uses a yahoo or hotmail email address as their primary contact. It just seems to lack professionalism.
I highly recommend exposuremanager.com They have been pretty good to me over a number of years. My biggest complaint is their payment system. They claim checks are mailed between the 5th and 10th of each month but they regularly arrive around the 23rd. I wish they would be more up front about that issue but that said, they have never missed a payment and have always been on top of customer service issues.
If you sign up using this link http://www.exposuremanager.com/aff/emiphoto I get a new car or some other perk - I forget what.
They offer a limited free trial and you can certainly choose which products or even add self fulfillment products as well as integrating with your own web site for coherent transitions between your site and the shopping cart.
Good luck.
EMI |
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Michael Ciu, Photographer, Assistant
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Lorain | OH | USA | Posted: 4:28 PM on 10.19.10 |
| ->> What about Photoshelter? Select from several labs or print yourself and ship. Get paid per sale too, don't wait until xxth of the month to get paid. |
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Jason Burfield, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 5:09 PM on 10.19.10 |
->> Pat,
I have not looked at that interface for SmugMug, however, they are EXTREMELY good at what they do and implementing requests.
Have you contacted them? I'd shoot an email over and get some feedback from them.
-- Jason |
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Mike Janes, Photographer
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Attica | NY | USA | Posted: 7:39 PM on 10.19.10 |
| ->> Exposure Manager you can create as many price sheets as you want, I have 4 right now working with different things in each depending on what the event is. Won't do anything else but EM though I'd like them to get some things a bit better, but still they win hands down of every company I've checked. |
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Alexander Pylyshyn, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Newmarket | ON | Canada | Posted: 11:01 PM on 10.19.10 |
->> I've used smugmug for the last year or so, I have to agree their customer service is FANTASTIC but an aura of unprofessionalism remains about their design to me.
As a site to sell gallery style prints, it's fantastic. As a portfolio site, which admittedly is something not asked about in this thread, to me it's unsatisfactory since there is not much customization that can be done about the site design. Everything looks so similar to every other smugmug site out there.
I am probably going to have to hunt down a site designer eventually to get a decent portfolio site up, but smugmug does it's job as an easy interface for clients and customers to see their proofs and purchase prints. |
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