How to Choose Stock Photography for your Web Site

Written by Kelly Paal


So you’ve decided to takerepparttar plunge. You know that stock photography is an effective tool for your web business, but where do you start and how do you chooserepparttar 132450 stock photo that’s right for you. Here are some tips to get you started so that you are happy with your choice.

1. Decide where you want to purchase your stock photography. There are large agencies and small independent photographers. Whilerepparttar 132451 agencies will have more to chose from and sometimes lower prices an independent photographer will offer more personalized service and opportunities for you to have custom work done, if that is what you need.

2. Don’t go in expecting to find an exact image that is in your head, a large agency or an independent photographer will not haverepparttar 132452 man in a blue suit, holding a cell phone, next torepparttar 132453 white blinds nor will they haverepparttar 132454 beach landscape withrepparttar 132455 green and white striped chair. You need to have a clear idea in your head ofrepparttar 132456 message that you want to convey and search for an image that createsrepparttar 132457 message that you want. (If you want something specific you’ll have to pay for a photography to shoot to your specifications.)

3. Make use of a free comp image to try outrepparttar 132458 image and make sure that it fits with your project or web design. Most stock agencies offer some sort of free comp image for position only so that you can make sure that you like what you’re going to buy. Please use this option, if available, and make sure thatrepparttar 132459 image is going to conveyrepparttar 132460 message that you want it to.

4. Pay for what you need. Don’t pay for a 300 dpi image for a web design, and don’t buy a 72 dpi image for something you intend to print. Make sure thatrepparttar 132461 agency or independent photographer offers at least a printable and a web version of every photo. Buy onlyrepparttar 132462 size image that you need for your job.

Mark P

Written by Five effective ways of making money out of web templates


Five effective ways of making money out of web templates

Web templates arerepparttar in-thing now-a-days and most of them are selling like hot cakes resulting into huge profits for web template providers. You too can cash-in on this web template craze and make money. Discussed in this article are five effective ways of making money out of web templates.

Five effective ways to make money out of web templates

1.) Creating turnkey pages from web templates

Turnkey websites arerepparttar 132449 hottest resource onrepparttar 132450 internet. If you are a web designer, web hosting company or simply own a website you can make good money by creating turnkey websites from readymade web templates.

What are turn key websites?

Turnkey websites are completely functional websites having relevant content, domain names and hosting. Depending onrepparttar 132451 type, turnkey websites can have shopping carts, interactive scripts, graphics forms, forums, live chats etc. All that a buyer needs to do is buyrepparttar 132452 website and he is ready to do business.

What you need to do?

In order to set up a turn key website business, you need to dorepparttar 132453 following;

1) Purchase professional looking web templates with resell rights or join a template membership program

2.) Modifyrepparttar 132454 web templates by adding relevant content, links, images and graphics

3.) Purchase domain names and hosting accounts

4) Hostrepparttar 132455 completed web templates as websites

5) Advertise/promote your websites for sale/rent by SEO and Email marketing

What will be your ROI? You ROI Will surely be very high. This is because ofrepparttar 132456 fact thatrepparttar 132457 retail value of turnkey websites is around $200 - $500 per website and can also go higher based onrepparttar 132458 website quality. You can also go for renting your websites instead of selling them. As you will be purchasing web-templates for a cheaper cost your ROI will be higher. The best way to go about it is by joining membership programs that will give you access to a host of web templates at a low one time cost. Also make sure to host your sites with hosting service providers who offer unlimited domain name hosting. One good example of a turnkey website service is ready-set-web.com. 2.) Joining an affiliate program Affiliate programs are quite popular overrepparttar 132459 net. If you have a well ranking website with a good traffic margin then you can very well join an affiliate program offered by many if not all web template providers. All that you need to do is promote their templates and you can make easy money inrepparttar 132460 form of commissions. What you need to do? In order to join an affiliate program you need to register yourself forrepparttar 132461 program. As soon asrepparttar 132462 registration process is over you will receive a link or banner advert that you can place on your website at strategic places. In case your website visitor clicksrepparttar 132463 banner and makesrepparttar 132464 purchase you get a part ofrepparttar 132465 commission. Commissions can range from 2% to 10% ofrepparttar 132466 actual sales proceeds. Most companies use tracking software programs or individual services like clicksgalore, commission junction etc. for tracking sales.

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