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.

There’s been an increase in recent orders for scanning of slides of artwork. It seems more and more artists are digitizing their artwork slides, for placement on Web sites, print making etc.

Today I shipped and order of artwork slide scans to Connecticut. While I’m sitting here working on another order of ~250 slides of art, sent from Illinois, I get get a call from Diane, an artist in Virginia, who was recommended to me by another artist. Diane is sending slides of quilts and wearable art.

The artists are coming out of the woodwork to convert slides of their art to digital image files.