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July 27, 2007


Marketable Photography Guide

Don't you want to sell more images on ShutterPoint? Our Marketable Photography E-book will unquestionably help you achieve this goal!

As many of you already know, ShutterPoint released the Marketable Photography E-book in the spring of this year. The e-book is a 95-page PDF document that consists of two parts. The first part talks about what makes photography marketable and discusses ways of improving the marketability factor of images. The second part is a showcase of many of ShutterPoint's images that sold within last year. In addition, you will find published interviews with our best-selling photographers throughout the e-book.

Here's a sneak-peak:



Please download the Marketable Photography E-book now! The e-book is only available to our current members.


New Form of Payouts

In response to our members' request, we have added MoneyBookers as an additional form of payment on ShutterPoint. MoneyBookers is a well-established electronic payments service for businesses and individuals and it is based in the United Kingdom. MoneyBookers is very popular in Europe and/or countries PayPal does not support or supports partially. Please visit www.moneybookers.com and decide if this service will be right for you for receiving payments from us.


Affiliate Program

Promote ShutterPoint and earn money! Tell your fellow photographers about ShutterPoint.com and receive 10% of the value of storage they acquire. In addition, if your referrals lead to any photo sales, you make 2% of the sale price. It's true, you can refer your own images to buyers and get 2% in addition to the regular 85% payout!

Suggestions for non-intrusive promotion:
  • Mention ShutterPoint.com in your blog
  • Include a link under your name in your standard e-mail signature
  • Refer to ShutterPoint.com in your commonly used forums or message boards
  • If you communicate with some of your current clients, encourage them to buy images through the link you provide
Make sure the link you provide to others contains the correct code, so that you get rewards for referrals. Go to the Affiliate Program page to obtain your referral link and more information about our affiliate program.


Improve Your Images Today

We strongly encourage our members to constantly strive for photography skill improvement. One of the ways to do this is to use the "How Can I Improve This Photo" Forums category. Many times even a high-rated, high-viewed image can use some improvements. If you uploaded an image to your account and you are not certain of its marketable value or you simply look for ideas to make it better, you can post a special thread in this category by using the link on the page where you image is shown full size.

You will find many other useful resources for improving your photography in our Learning section.