Photopreneur, a blog dedicated to sharing money-making opportunities for photographers on the Web, has released 99 Ways to Make Money with Your Photos. The 340-page print book, which took over a year to produce, is billed as a comprehensive guide to making money with photography for both seasoned professionals looking to reinvent themselves and hobbyists that want to learn the basics of part-time stock production.
99 Ways took over a year to produce. The book is authored by Photopreneur editors—longtime professional photographers, marketing experts and best-selling marketing writers—and draws on interviews with photographers, businesses and buyers.
Seasoned stock shooters will find the first three chapters of the book rather basic, as these offer rudimentary explanations of stock licensing and its prevalent royalty-free and rights-managed models. However, 99 Ways goes on to offer strategies that can augment a traditional stock-licensing business model with new technological marketing tools and lesser known business opportunities.
Some of these include techniques for selling images on eBay, marketing with the iPhone and making money with book-on-demand Web site Blurb. Other chapters focus on niche concepts, such as earning income from real-estate photography—apparently on the rise during the downturn—and teaming up with unusual partners like the homeless. “We have tried to be both creative and pragmatic, practical as well as inventive,” say the book’s authors.
99 Ways, available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle versions, is the first in a series of Photopreneur titles. Upcoming books will cover pet photography, microstock, marketing Photoshop skills and commercial use of Flickr.