Photrade: Make Money Online with Your Photos
Today, I learned about Photrade, a new photography marketplace that’s still in beta. The basic idea is that you upload your photos in the service, then you can sell products based on your photos. These products include: photo prints, apparel, and gift items, as well as digital downloads (stock photo). You can set your own price and they’ll take care of delivering the products to the customer. It also seems like they plan to offer an affiliate programme in the future.
In any case, payments may be: 1) collected in the system and used to buy stuff from the site; 2) donated to your chosen charity; and/or b) sent to you via Paypal (with US$15 minimum payment threshold).
Since it’s still in beta, there are a couple of issues: a) You can only try out the service if you get an invitation; and b) There’s still a few kinks in the system. Plus, I’m not sure yet of its track record when it comes to quality of products, payment systems to photographers, etc.
In any case, I still think it’s a service worth watching. And right now, I have 3 invites available to give away. If you’re interested, leave a comment here answering the question: What kind of camera do you own?
If there are more than 3 folks interested, I’ll raffle off the invites.
NOTE: Thanks to Janette Toral for sending me an invite and telling me about Photrade.
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7 opinions for Photrade: Make Money Online with Your Photos
Jennifer Gniadecki
Jul 2, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Photrade has been great for me. Mostly because it’s the easiest one to upload pictures to. I don’t know what I’m doing with it and would love to see a few posts on how to effectively rock out with Photrade.
Krista Neher
Jul 3, 2008 at 12:03 am
Hi Shai
Thank you so much for writing about photrade!
To answer a few of your questions, first, all of our photos are printed on high quality Kodak paper and fulfilled through EZ prints, a trusted supplier of professional photographers.
Thanks again for covering us, and if you have any questions or comments please let me know!
- Krista
(VP Marketing, Photrade)
Thursday Bram
Jul 3, 2008 at 2:52 am
I’d love to throw my name in for an invite. I shoot with a Canon Rebel — a digital SLR.
Marjorie
Jul 3, 2008 at 3:05 am
Hi, Shai! I hadn’t thought about selling my photographs before, but it’s worth a shot. (Pun totally unintended, but now I’m ROTFL. I’m so easy to please.)
Anyway, I have a Nikon D70. I’d love an invite!
I’d be interested in seeing how different this is from other sites like Shutterfly that offer essentially the same thing.
Cheers,
Marjorie
Julian
Jul 3, 2008 at 6:05 am
Nikon D300. More sites, more income right?
Luis Cruz
Jul 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I’ve been trying to figure out how to get into Photrade, so I’m throwing my hat in this one. I shoot with a Canon 350D.
timsdd
Jul 10, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Just a shout to all the Canon people! :-D
I’ve been on Photrade since Nov. it has grown by leaps and bounds since then…getting better for sure.
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