If you want to market your photography business online, there are a few different ways to go about it.
First, you could create your own website or blog and post some of your portfolio there.
Another way is to utilize online photo sharing websites to display your photographs before potential customers.
There are different online photo sharing websites and not all of them allow their photographers to commercially deal with customers.
Photo Shelter is an photography website that allows its users to sell images, fix prices and provide other necessary commercial details while sites like Flickr do not encourage business through their website.
However, both types of websites are useful for a freelance photographer to promote his business by showing off their work.
Benefit of Photo Sharing Sites What is the difference between online photo sharing websites and your own website or blog when it comes to promoting your freelance photography business? Most of the photo websites such as Flickr and Photo Shelter already have a good reputation in the search engines such as Google and Yahoo which makes your account visible to a larger audience.
It will take a lot of time and effort for your blog or website to reach to that level of web traffic.
Using These Sites Effectively There are tags or keywords in all of these websites and you can enter every possible keyword that is related to your image so when someone searches for an image related to your topic, they will find it easily.
Giving proper titles to your images is very important because your images will be listed even in Google searches.
Even though Flickr do not allow direct image sales, you can still find a lot of customers who are willing to give you a new assignment or purchase a high resolution image clicked by you if they are impressed by your published photographs.
If you are looking to profit from your photography online, you need to have your photos seen by as many potential customers as possible.
Often times this means posting your photographs in various places.