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Many photographers want a place on the web to share their creative works and even sell prints or photography services. PhotoShelter is one of the best premium website builders out there that is mainly for professional photographers who want a streamlined site to sell services.
You can build an e-commerce store, market your work and sell prints easily using their tools. There are also client management tools and secure transaction options to make it even simpler to run a photography business online.
Why Photographers Use PhotoShelter
For one, it’s used by over 75,000 photographers who run their business online.
They aren’t a small company and provide support in addition to their photo-selling tools. The New York Times also featured PhotoShelter in an article recently, and their services are quite fresh and new for photographers who are just getting online or have owned a photography site for some time.
You don’t have to know any coding to design and build a site on PhotoShelter either. It’s easy to sell and license your work. You can backup all of your files and deliver in a variety of formats. SEO and other marketing tools are also provided.
How It Works
PhotoShelter has three different plans. The most affordable is a $9.99 per month plan.
Each has similar features, but some provide more and cost more for that reason.
Each of the packages provides templates, beam portfolios, customizable designs, storage, your own domain, built-in e-commerce tools, free phone and email support, SEO, social sharing and some other features.
Storage ranges from 10GB at the lowest to 1,000GB. If you’re not sure if PhotoShelter has what you need or don’t know if their templates are the right style, you can check out a free trial and take advantage of all the tools that you want.
Once you select a package, you start building your site.
Benefits of PhotoShelter
You can publish a site within an hour using PhotoShelter and have an easy-to-use store to sell prints or services.
Photographers have full control over the site. You are able to sell prints, packages, downloads, rights-managed stock photos and royalty-free artwork.
You can also provide different payment methods like PayPal, Striple, Authorize.net, and Netbilling.
The storage also uses the cloud, so you can access your content and photographs anywhere that you go. You can protect photographs with professional watermarks as well.
Designing a Photography Site
PhotoShelter provides a variety of template styles that are easy to customize and update. They are responsive and designed professionally.
They place emphasis on visually stunning photographs, which is exactly what photographers need.
If you just wanted to store and share photos in a safe way, this is the best way to do it, but you can also design an e-commerce store for your prints and stock photos using PhotoShelter.
You can set up galleries, watermarks, rights, royalty-free and secure payment methods to ensure that you get paid for your work, and your customers feel safe.
If you are a professional photographer who wants to sell photos and be recognized online, you can start a business today with PhotoShelter.
You get fully functional and streamlined photography site design and e-commerce tools.Â
Published And Created By Christopher Pontine And Cynthia Adams
Image Credit: Photoshelter
