SellPhotos.Com: Your Guide to Establishing a Successful Stock Photography Business on the Internet (Paperback)

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Photography is in the midst of a revolution. Rohn Engh shows part-time and professional photographers how to compete with the big agencies by using the Internet--the new frontier of stock photography sales--and by determining how their images, both traditional and digital, are delivered and paid for. A comprehensive guide, sellphotos.com covers everything for photographers from Internet basics and the nature of the stock photography trade to building their own web sites and operating their own business.

About the Author

Rohn Engh is a veteran editorial stock photographer who has sold to national and worldwide markets since 1960. He is founder and publisher of PhotoStockNotes, PHOTOLETTER and PhotoDaily, market letters that post photo editor picture needs. Engh also conducts photo marketing seminars nationwide. He lives in Wisconsin.

Product Details

• Paperback: 276 pages
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898799449
• ISBN-13: 978-0898799446
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #488,773 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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110 of 113 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Buy for Anyone Who Wants to Market Photos, February 21, 2000

By	Billy E. Barnes (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews

Rohn Engh knows more about how to market photography than anyone else in the business. His earlier books on marketing have sold almost 100,000 copies but "sellphotos.com" is his best book yet. I'm a professional photographer with 30 years of experience in photo marketing; I have 125,000 photographs on file, from which I receive a tidy flow of royalties. I know a lot about marketing photos but very little about how to use the Internet to my advantage. Rohn Engh's book spells it out in detail, in English plain enough for anyone to understand. I am a great believer in learning from books instead of from blind trial and error. I have at least $2,500 worth of books how-to books on my shelf and "sellphotos.com" is the best value of any of these books. It's just as valuable to an amateur with 100 photos to sell, as it is to old hands like myself with more than 100,000.

Rohn Engh has some strong (and very informed) opinions about the business of photo marketing. But you don't have to take his word for it. He has talked with a dozen or more leading photographers and/or marketers in the U.S. and Canada, and in "sellphotos.com" he gives you case histories on the secrets of their successes in Internet/Web marketing.

The detail in the book is amazing. The last 46 pages of this 276-page book are worth twice the price of the book. Those final pages contain a wealth of phone numbers, web sites, and Email addresses that help the reader find sources of the software, hardware, and information you need, to get on the web and sell those photos. If you're ready to get out there in the cybermarket place and make some money with your photos, "sellphotos.com" is your road map. If you're not sure whether you're ready, "sellphotos.com" just may inspire you to jump in and get your feet wet, and tell you how to do it with minimum investment.

76 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hands-On Advice for Internet Photomarketing, February 22, 2000

By	Laurence E. Caine (Golden, Colorado) - See all my reviews

Rohn Engh, best selling author of "Sell and Re-Sell Your Photos", has written the first comprehensive guide for the stock photographer desiring to market photos through the Internet. This newly published book will not only help the stock photographer understand what does and does not work with the Internet, but saves time by focusing their efforts for maximum results. The book is highly specific, carefully researched, with countless examples. Many photographers, this reviewer included, have become involved in this industrial transition by purchasing digital equipment, but feel they're making it up as they go. The author's text serves to clarify how to take advantage of this emerging market opportunity, showing how small stock photographers can now compete with the major stock houses, without major capital outlay. I would encourage readers to pursue Sellphotos.com as the first comprehensive work on photomarketing with the Internet, with every bit of the solid advice that has made his first book the recognized "bible" for independent stock photographers since 1981.

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly impressive, August 20, 2000

By	C. Cheh "A Reader" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There are too many business how-to books that offer up a series of snappy tips, but never bother to give you the concrete information you really need. This book truly excels in this department. Every major point that's brought up in this book is followed by a sidebar listing useful, current resources. I am amazed at the wealth of content in here, and feel that the book is actually worth much more than its $18.99 cover price (something I can't say about many books). Unlike the other two reviewers above, I am a novice photographer just getting my feet wet. I feel that Engh's book offers an exceptionally solid, detailed, in-depth, and reality-based road map for setting up a stock photo business on the web.