Jim’s Slide Scanning Business Blog

To promote sales of my existing stock photography, I’ve begun uploading photos to www.DigitalRailroad.net. The method of promoting sales there is a two-fold approach. First, the uploaded images go into professional looking pages, organized by category. I can then promote sales of these images myself, by contacting by contacting related magazine publishers, etc.

The second way my stock photo sales are promoted is via the MarketPlace at Digital Railroad. A large pool of image buyers use the Digital Railroad Marketplace to acquire stock photography.

Most of my New England Stock Photos archive is set up as “rights managed” sales.

So, how many photos have I sold via DRR? As of 2/5/07, Zero! I’m not discouraged though. I just started uploading there in December and my collection there is small. I’m continually adding new work there as time allows.

In addition to my popular slide scanning services, I get lots of calls about the photos I’ve published on the Web. Yesterday I got a call from a woman in England looking to buy 2 prints of images she found on my Anna Maria Island page. Look for 3 of my photographs in the November 07 issue of Coastal Living Magazine, in the article about Nahant, Massachusetts. Last spring, New Hampshire magazine bought rights to several of my images for their article on the New Hampshire seacoast.