Serious About Selling Photography Online?
Discover How You Can Sell Stock Photos AND Grow A Viable Photography Business ...
Do you want to grow your stock photography business but wonder if it's really worth the effort? Do the low prices & high commissions of the discount photo superstores have you thinking it's just not worth it?
Well There Is A Better Way! GlobalEye offers a plug-and-play system for selling photography online without all the pitfalls of traditional stock. We handle all the technical headaches, internet marketing and search engine optimization. You just add your photos
We put you in total control of your images and your business. We show you how to get fair and reasonable prices, and we never put our hand out for a commission on your photo sales.
GlobalEye is a Proven Option for Establishing, Managing
& Growing a Lucrative Business Selling Photographs Online
There's no doubt at all that Stock Photography is an online business these days. Your stock images need to be accessible to photo buyers 24/7 and they expect any serious photographer to offer additional services via a professional internet presence.
But you shouldn't have to give up photography to sell stock photos!
At GlobalEye we give you a complete stock photography business package that you can tailor to your work, your markets and your lifestyle. We take care of the technical and the tedious, so you can get on with making great stock photography.
Let's face it ... you didn't become a photographer so you could spend your time sitting at a computer!
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We give you a ready-made Professional Photography Web Presence Taking care of the technical and the tedious so you can focus on your photography |
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We provide a Ready-Made Audience for your work By marketing our stock library as a whole, generating targeted photo-buyer traffic for everyone |
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We communicate with Your Customers And build relationships so you have a massive pool of potential buyers viewing your stock photos |
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We promote an Identifiable Brand you can build on Lone photographers soon get lost in the massive online-crowd so we provide a virtual signpost to you and your photography. |
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We generate Hands-Free Leads & Sales You only need to deal with buyers when they're ready to buy. (And we charge no commissions!) |
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We offer optional Pro-Active Marketing tools If you're happy to you go hands-on, you don't have to sit-and-wait-and-hope like traditional stock libraries ... you can make sales happen on demand. |
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We build you a Powerful Presence online Using our unique content-based photography marketing model, so the people who need the subjects you shoot can always find you ... even if they've never heard of us! |
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GlobalEye is the proven choice when it comes
to selling photography online
Sold this and 16 other food photos to a small family-owned nearby restaurant for 11x14 inch poster, 3x3 inch newspaper advertisement, menus, and future use on business website. It all began as chef's/owner's favor to me to shoot food/courses and expand my stock collection with subject of my interest that involved set amount of time indoors. The chef/owner let me shoot what and how I wanted, loved the resulting photos, and we began the business relationship. Within two weeks he got the
Posted by Doris Miocinovic
A mining company wanted to use the image for their prospectus and web page. They asked for unlimited usage, I ran it through the calculator, it came up with $1000 which they paid, it's all good.
Posted by Chris Brandenburg
This colorful image of a man photographing the beautiful, orange tulips was licensed to The New York Times and featured in the Why We Travel section on September 27, 2009.
Posted by Susan Frost
Licensed this image to Emu Publications as well for a children reading book. Very easy to work with. Deal done within a week.
Posted by Christian Botella
I made this sale purely because I was able to offer my client a Lightbox facility so images could be quickly browsed. The GlobalEye Lightbox facilitated this sale which otherwise I may have missed. The Wet Tropics Management Authority wanted to see what images I had and I simply made a Lightbox for them and a week later they wanted a price for 30 images for educational and promotional use for the organisation. After discussing their budget a settlement of AUD$3,000 was made which we are both
Posted by Steven Nowakowski
Printed the pink plumeria (frangipani) on canvas 24x18 inches (60x45 cm) for an office decoration at a high tech company in Hawaii. The buyer viewed photos online, but all contacts/transactions/delivery were made in person (I live/work in Hawaii, and people here prefer personal contact). I gave my client a discount, and sold the image for US$140 (price calculator quoted US$180). My client is extremely pleased with the result, I was also very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the canvas
Posted by Doris Miocinovic
Sold this photo to Australia Post for a Maxi-Card print run of 10,000 units. Client spotted the image on GlobalEye and we negotiated a price. Deal done within two days and image sent as high res jpeg via email.
Posted by Steven Nowakowski
Last year, I was contacted by graphic artists (3 kms away!) and to cut a long story short, I sold this image to Kleenex for their tissue boxes. As I had no idea how much to charge, I bought FotoQuote software and quoted A$1,750.00 which they paid within four weeks.
Posted by Sheila
Earlier this year I was on the road and received a phone call from EPA asking if I had any National Park images. Being away from my computer I was able to use a Internet Cafe to load up a lightbox of relevent images using GlobalEye. I therefore submitted a portfolio of images to the client via GlobalEye. Ended up licencing 6 images to EPA for a Forest Guide Book with unlimited future print runs. After much negotiating a settlement of AUD $3,050 + GST was achieved. Both parties are happy.
Posted by Steven Nowakowski
Sold this unremarkable image of Lennox Head to the Daily Telegraph in Sydney. It's great that GlobalEye is attracting mainstream media players like News Ltd into the fold. The automated price calculator is a great way to deal with these little sales I think!
Posted by David Hancock
Licensed this image for book, inside full page.
Posted by Tom Samantzis
Sale to Australian Geographic for 2009 Frogs of Australia calendar.
Posted by Alan Henderson
Many More Examples Available In The Photographers Area
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Traditional Hands-Free Stock Photo Sales As soon as you load your photos, they're visible on both our stock library websites, working for you 24-7. We have over 21,000 registered photo buyers and we bring in hundreds more every month! |
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Photo Quote Requests From Motivated Buyers When a buyer finds what they need in the library, they'll contact you directly for a quote. You keep total control of your work and your business and you never pay a cent in commissions. |
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Photo License Requests, Even Easier If you enable our Price Calculator, the Clients will work out the price themselves and simply contact you to arrange payment and delivery. Selling photo stock doesn't get any easier. |
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General Photo Requests When a Client can't find what they want, or has a long list of requirements, or hasn't got time to search themselves, we pass their photo wants on to everyone. If you have something suitable you submit it, and if the Client is interested they've contact you directly. |
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Unlimited Themed Lightboxes These are simply search engine friendly photo sets and they generate a huge amount of direct targeted traffic. Buyers searching for a given subject arrive straight from Google & Yahoo to your photo sets and if they like what they see they contact you direct. |
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Shared Custom Lightboxes Same feature but even more powerful (and lucrative) if you choose to get pro-active. Research a buyer and prepare a custom lightbox specifically for them, then invite them to take a look. If that sounds too simple, it is! These personal invite emails can generate 90% click-through rates and account for some our best multiple-image sales! |
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Front Page Gallery Exhibits These get you home-page exposure on both our websites and allow you to add extended written copy ... which makes them particularly attractive to editorial and feature buyers. They also rank extremely well in the search engines and help get you established as the go-to photographer for your subjects. |
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Your Personal Photo-Buyers List We give you an easy-to use Client Manager that lets you build your Client List from each and every contact ... so you can go back to them over-and-over with new material relevant to their needs. Most stock libraries cannot afford to let you do this, we show you how and encourage it! |
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Personal Photo-Buyers List #2 Even before you shoot the material, go to your Client list with story ideas, travel plans or upcoming local events to see if they're interested? We have photographers in every corner of the world and our buyers are even more diverse, so it makes sense that events in your community could be exotic and interesting to buyers somewhere else! |
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Personal Photo-Buyers #3 As you develop a good working relationship with your personal Clients you can start asking what they'll be needing in the future, and they'll start to come to you as someone they know is able to supply the subjects they need. This is pure gold. Sales on demand from proven buyers! |
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Commissioned Photography Assignments When Clients come looking for someone with your skills & experience in your location, they're usually motivated buyers in a big hurry! Our photographer database is fully optimized and indexed by all the major search engines, and we'll have you listed for your major work categories & locations in no time at all. |
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Events Photography A number of our photographers regularly cover various events and add all the images to Private Lightboxes and pass the link on to the Clients. They then login to review the images and purchase those they want. We have people doing this with sports events, community events & festivals, private parties, nightclubs and more ... all with great results. |
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Portrait Photography Again using the Private Lightboxes we have a number of portrait photographers (people and pets!) who use our lightboxes to share the complete shoot and let their Clients order prints by email or over the phone. The savvy photographers then follow up with the suggestion the Client also shares the link with other family and friends as appropriate! |
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Wedding Photography We have some photographers set up similar lightboxes so wedding guests can order additional prints as well. They set up an empty lightbox before the wedding with a 'coming soon' message, and simply hand out the web address on their business card on the day ... to pick up extra print sales and extra business! |
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Prints & Enlargements Not everyone wants to do this, but we do get a fair number of private buyers coming through the website looking for prints for decor and gifts, so it can be some easy extra sales if you're organized. Some photographers set up a small selection of their most popular images on a fulfillment website and put the same images in a single lightbox ... and then refer any personal shoppers to the lightbox, which is linked to the fulfillment service. |
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Photo Product Sales We also have a few photographers using other web-based services to drop ship photo-products ... gift cards, clothing items, calendars, coffee mugs etc ... they lodge a selection of images with the other website, set up a GlobalEye lightbox of the same images and direct interested visitors to the relevant sites. |
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GlobalEye was the original Co-operative Stock Photography Library, and even today we're still just a bunch of freelance photographers working together to reduce our costs, increase our exposure and sell stock photos.
We came together because we weren't happy with where Stock Photography was headed, and we figured we could do better on our own. 13 years later and our experiment has evolved into an effective and powerful platform for selling photography online that's unlike any other you're going to find.
GlobalEye has registered photo buyers in over 150 countries, constantly looking for quality stock photo images of just about any subject you can imagine. We represent all types of photographers from talented part-timers to 50-year veterans. We have photographers on every continent working in every conceivable field.
No matter where you are in the world or what subjects you like to shoot, if you're a talented and motivated photographer who wants to sell stock photos, we can help you grow and market your photography business.
Interested photographers are invited to register below
1. Register to access the Private Photographers Area.
2. Review the Submission Guidelines and Photographer Information Pack
3. Prepare & Submit a short Photographer Application.
There is no cost or obligation involved. You can review the information at your leisure,
and if it sounds like something you might like to do, you can submit an application so we
can check that you're a good match for us, and we're a good match for you.