How to sell photo prints online
Make PASSIVE INCOME Selling PRINTS as a Photographer
print sales have been a huge part of my
business the past two to three years and
something that has been passive kind of
rolling in on the side in 2018 I grossed
almost 11,000 in print sales and took
home a little over 7,000 and in 2019 I
grossed almost 9,000 and took home about
5500 and since this has been such a
successful part of passive income in my
business I want to grow it and nurture
it and make it better so I'm gonna be
switching systems and someone's gonna
help me figure all that out because she
has a lot of experience it's my friend
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what is up family and friends Eric here
without a mic stand because I forgot to
bring the metal converter to put it on a
mic stand so I'm gonna be holding my
microphone we are at Tova studios my
friend Alicia is here with me this is
her studio and today we're gonna be
talking about how I'm switching from
pixie set to pick time and the reason I
asked Alicia to come is because she
switched to pick time two years ago two
years ago and I'm in the process of
doing it and we wanted to share why it's
a good decision full transparency this
video is sponsored by pic time but I've
been thinking about switching to pic
time for the past year and a half
because of people like Alicia seeing
their galleries seeing how beautiful
they are and the integration of sales
has made me go I want to do that we're
good I was like Forrest Gump Jenn night
we're just gonna dive into three reasons
why it's a good idea to switch over to
pick time and if you're unfamiliar with
what galleries are or sending-off
galleries to clients this is an amazing
way for you to deliver your photos in a
seamless way in a beautiful way in a
professional way so if you're just doing
it through Google Drive or Dropbox or
whatever
quit that right now the first reason why
I wanted to switch to pic time is just
because I think it is absolutely
beautiful gorgeous and that experience
for the client where they are seeing
their photos in such a beautiful way
such a seamless way can really lead to
just their enjoyment of the experience
of recalling all the images from their
day from their shoot as well as wanting
to purchase prints from that check out
this gorgeous gallery just everything
from the landing page to the way the
squirrels work the way you can integrate
a slideshow into your gallery
I love the way that they break up
different parts of the day you can
control all of this and as always the
shot page is always visible and seen
here
also things like downloads sharing
photos favorites it's all very user
friendly and all goes into the
aesthetics of why I love quicktime so
much you can
also customize your galleries if you
want bigger photo smaller photos
everything is just super customizable
and can work within your brand here's a
recent Chicago wedding I did which I
kind of like I thought it looked real
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so good and this is really not that
different than pixie set as far as
customization the thing I love about it
is that it is minimalist and beautiful
and I just think it's a way better
viewing experience print sales I made a
decent bit of money on pixie set doing
that but that was a lot of strategy by
me to do it and so what's so cool about
pic time is there is sales integration
and there is automation that you can do
through the platform that can get you
twice to three times so however many
more sales as opposed are you doing it
yourself so could you just touch on that
real quick yeah this is the shop page
that's easily integrated right through
the gallery this is what clients see
when they are thinking about ordering
prints or albums or calendars so
everything which I really love is
integrated right from the gallery and
that's what's different here you have
their images on the products and there's
something psychological about that that
makes them want to purchase it more
what's really also cool is they've had
such a cool marketing tool for you to
use and what's helped me a lot in past
use is something that's called the
abandoned cart method that's just
basically an automated tool for when
people have items in their cart and they
forget about them pick time sends out an
email just reminding them that they have
things in their cart and that's how I
make the big monies that's crazy
it's crazy seeing the percentage is
almost 50% of your sales are because of
the abandoned cart yeah that's something
again I'm excited to have to set up
these automation so that when I'm
sleeping and somebody decided to put
something in their cart and not checkout
that they're gonna get an email later
that says hey would you like to actually
purchase this now yep so there's all
sorts of things that you could set up
for yourself to be integrated and
automated that go out to your clients
and can make you more money while you
sleep basically passive this one's brand
new to brand new apps that picked I'm
collaborated with Sam heard on one is
the gallery to backup system where you
can send out automated emails to your
clients letting them know the status of
your gallery that you've downloaded all
the photos that you've backed them up
that you're halfway done with your
gallery and when the gallery is close to
completion which just gives the client a
better service knowing when they're
going to be getting their gallery and
getting all their images plus it just
gets them really
about when that time comes leading them
to want to order more prints and
interact with the gallery even more
because they've been anticipating it and
number two the existing gallery back up
this one is so cool because it affords
you the opportunity to make even more
passive income whenever an existing
gallery is set for expiration you can
have an automated email sent out to your
clients that asks them if they'd like to
keep their gallery live you can set
whatever price you want that to be the
recommended amount is just five dollars
a month and over time if you're shooting
for years and years you can have people
paying five dollars a month to keep
their gallery live which is another form
of passive income another stream plus if
your clients galleries are existing over
time indefinitely they might be ordering
more prints throughout the years which
means even more passive income as I
mentioned earlier in this video I was
already planning on switching over to
pick time and I hope that their
sponsorship of this video is proof
enough to show you that they care about
supporting artists the foundation of
their business is based on seeing you as
the photographer make more money outside
of just shooting and delivering and so
if any or all of this interests you and
you want to try out pick time for
yourself there is a link in my
description and if you use the code all
caps eric floberg you will get a free
bonus month added to your first plan I
know a lot of people are gonna say this
isn't passive income and the truth about
passive income is that it's never truly
passive there's always some sort of work
you need to do on the front end or some
sort of financial investment that you
need to make to get the ball running to
earn that passive income now in our
circumstance Alicia and I are full-time
photographers we're contracted to shoot
and deliver digital images to our
clients and that's how we make our money
so anything on top of that feels like
passive income for us especially if it's
not in our control to sell and it's just
automated by some sort of system like
pic time and if our clients are going to
buy prints anyways why wouldn't we want
to have them buy them from us and
support us they already care for us and
like what we did for them since we gave
them great service so why wouldn't we
want to push them in that direction and
that's why serving your clients is so
important because even if you give them
an amazing experience on their wedding
day you can supplement that even more by
providing them a gallery and viewing
experience that's second and not even
with a crazy strange year like 2020 I
plan on making tons of passive income
with pic time still because the
integration of their apps and getting
creative with how I can automate my
messages to clients
I still can make money in this time and
since picked I'm migrated all of my
existing galleries over I can now make
them live again and open up print sales
to all of my former clients from the
years past plus I can prompt them with
the existing gallery back up and see if
they want to do the monthly subscription
for keeping their gallery live which
again is more passive income for my
business and I started selling prints it
was a game changer for me because I had
more expendable income
I spent some of that income on actually
going out to Malibu with my friends
amber and David for their one-year
anniversary and instead of taking money
for that shoot I actually broke even and
now it's one of my biggest portfolio
pieces do not underestimate the ability
for you to make extra income on top of
the services you already offer because
that income can then supplement you do
all the creative things that you want to
do and grow your business in the most
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