Phototrade - Share Photos and Get Paid
Phototrade (now in beta) is the latest service to help photographers share and monetize their work. They made a big splash at BlogWorld held earlier this month. Right now you can only upload photos from your hard drive. However, Flickr integration is coming soon so you can choose photos to offer for sale from existing Flickr galleries.
Ways to Share Photos on Photrade
- Post and share photos on your blog, website, or MySpace page
- Email photos to family and friends
- Set photos to private to share them only with who you want
- Tag photos to make them easy to search/browse
Ways to Earn Money on Phototrade
- Sale of prints or merchandise
- Sale of digital rights to use your photos
- CPM* revenue from ads on your gallery page
- CPC** revenue from ads in your photo (external sites)
You can set prices individually or choose not to sell any of your photos. Photo products include normal prints, canvas prints, T-shirts, and a 15 oz. mug.
Withdrawl of money earned is via PayPal (US$10 minimum). Also, you can choose to donate the money to your favorite charity. Soon you will be able to use your account balance (revenue you earned from selling prints and advertising) towards purchases on the site.
Any shortcomings? There are quite a few print sizes available but no choices of photo paper or information on the photo paper used. The T-shirts are available in one size only. And, it’s not clear what size you get or what the shirt is made - cotton, polyester, or both? Keep in mind that Photrade is still in beta. I am sure more options and information will be added before the final release.
Photosharing is a crowded space. Phototrade will have to compete with Flickr, Zoomr, SmugMug, CafePress, PBase, Exposure Manager, and many others. They will survive only by doing it better or differentiating themselves. Time will tell how well they do.
*CPM = Cost per thousands impressions
**CPC = Cost per click
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nice review of the site! I have a flickr and a smug but what got me about this was the pay per views/click/etc. Of course they are still trying to find the best method to do that! I’ve enjoyed using the site thus far though
I will check it. I hope it will be interesting and not a site for non photographer.
Hi Robert
Thanks for writing about us!
I appreciate your comments on the photo merchandise information and options. We are currently integrating a new supplier, so we should have better product options on the site. We’ll also make sure to provide more details about all of the prodcut offerings
Thanks again for taking the time to write about us, and please let us know if there is anything else that we can do to improve your photrade experience.
Krista
VP Marketing
Photrade.com
PhoTrade can have a slight problem with tag management in future with people not correctly tagging their pictures. But this is somewhat interesting because you can make money with your photographs . The only problem is that is it still in closed beta?
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