How to sell photography prints on instagram
How I Made $500 on Instagram Selling Photography Prints (2020)
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what's going on everyone thank you so
much for checking out this video so
today I'm gonna go over how I made $500
on Instagram by just selling prints so I
have my notes right here gonna be a
fairly quick video so let's begin
actually before we begin if I can ask
you guys to subscribe like this video
and comment below that would be amazing
and now to the video so I had three
factors to help me sell prints the first
one was the following I have a decent
sized following I believe it's at 1010
thousand right now which if you have a
bigger following is gonna have more eyes
on your work
the second factor for me was engagement
if people are engaging more on your
photo you know it's a good one so if you
get 5 mm lights that means people are
engaging with it and they like that
photo factor 3 is interest if people are
showing interest in a specific photo
commenting saying they love this photo
where can I get a print DMing you hey
can I buy a print of this or even
emailing you you know that that is a
photo that you can sell for example at
the end of the 2019 I took this winter
scene photo of my some town city gazebo
this went pretty big going on news
channels up in Cleveland local stations
as well and this photo gained me that
$500 in that one month I was able to
sell about 15 of these prints just on
Instagram and a local coffee shop
reached out to me to have these in their
store so they even generated more sales
so how did I do all this easy let's
start with the products that I use so
first off I'm using the Canon Pixma Pro
100 printer this thing is totally paid
off so I'm not even adding that into a
factor of cost secondly I'm using the
Canon photo paper plus semi-gloss paper
this is 8 by 10 it is only $18 for 50
sheets thirdly the matting kit this
Manning kit is 11 by 14 and fits the 8
by 10
papers that I have this kit comes with
the border the backing and this really
nice plastic casing for tape I want the
inexpensive route and just got double
sided tape and invisible tape and
optional you can add your business cards
which I have right here and also little
labels with their website and
description of the photo lastly if you
plan on shipping like I do I use the
USPS priority mail box I believe these
are 12 by 15 so these are totally free
you can get as many as you want and
we'll talk a little bit about pricing
here in a little bit so here is the
rundown of the process that I go through
to sell these prints I find out which
photo is getting a lot of engagement so
for example that winter scene photo got
a lot of engagement I got a lot of
comments saying they want to print of
this so I knew this was the one so I
started printing a lot I made all the
mats I had probably about 10 ready to go
and ship my pricing is based on all the
cost factors of the paper the ink and
tape and stuff like that so I came out
to about $40 and if I wanted to ship it
would be $8 and thankfully in the US
where I live I was able to ship these
for under $8 to each state that I was
shipping to so again if I find it that a
photo is getting a lot of engagement I
decide to sell it and then I start to
post on my story probably once a day for
a little bit and saying hey I have these
11 by 14 prints available and here's the
price here's the shipping if you're
available
please DM me once I get an interested
buyer they will DM me I will then ask
for their name their address and how
they want to pay so make sure you have a
lot of payment options I use PayPal
venmo cash app Zelly whatever you want
cash check totally up to you but my
favorite is usually PayPal to protect
myself or venmo and once they have
provided all their
and paid you that's when I go to USPS I
ship it and then I send them their
tracking number so they can track their
prints so I think this process is super
easy not too complicated and all this
stuff just factors in to make this a
really smooth process for the customer
as well and back to the pricing wherever
you live make sure you write down how
much you owe in taxes and your revenue
and expenses and stuff like that so I
hope you guys enjoyed this video if it
helped you out a little bit please leave
a like subscribe comment below any
questions that you may have about this
I'll be happy to answer them of course
this is gonna be different from everyone
from every different account so take
this with a grain of salt and you know
good luck guys don't be afraid to jump
out there and get started with this and
I hope you guys make some money
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