I have sold some images through Imagekind off and on since setting up an account there, but really only when I absolutely beg people to go over there. Also, they charge what I think are extremely high prices for shipping, so I really only wanted people to buy from there when they had a coupon for free shipping.
Basically, I have been telling myself to sell prints directly myself for a while now, but kept getting stuck on the cost analysis of drop-shipping from my printer if it was only 1 print being ordered. To be honest, I also get stuck at the idea of shipping the work out myself.
And then, thanks to Twitter, I caught a recommendation from @blurb (who got it through @mlsokoloff) about Fotomoto.com. This is a company that allows you to interface right inside your website. They take a flat cut of the profit with no other membership fees or hidden charges. Their shipping is reasonable. I signed up.
So now, every time I put an image on this site, like this:
If I decide I would rather not sell a particular image, but want to share it here (such as a photo of my family or a photo I want to keep limited), I do some tweaking behind the scenes and no links that say “Buy Print” etc. will appear.
It is simple. It is easy for me and easy for you, and you now have the opportunity to buy prints of my work at VERY reasonable prices. So reasonable, that you should really be buying several for the holidays, don’t you think?
I added a new page (you can see the link across the top there where the “About the Artist” and other information is). It says “More Images for Sale” where I put a few more that I thought people might like. I need feedback there, however. If there are images you haven’t seen on my blog but have seen me post on Flickr and either you wish to buy them or you think others might, please let me know (with urls if possible)!
Many thanks.
P.S. The opening at Sweet Mabel’s was very nice. No sales that night (at least while I was there), but I’ll stop in this week and see how they are doing.
