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10 Reasons Why I Love PhotoShelter!

by Sherri on July 13, 2010

Couple kayaking Utica Reservoir, Alpine County, Northern California.

One of the questions I get asked a lot is “What do you like about your PhotoShelter Website?” Since there is so much interest in this subject, I decided rather than answering everyone individually, that it would be a good subject for a Blog post.

First of all, we don’t really have a PhotoShelter Website, we have our Website integraded with PhotoShelter. That’s how WE do it, but stand alone Websites can also be built in a matter of minutes, with one of several templates they provide.

PhotoShelter offers so many awesome features, but here are a few of my favorites. I’ll be adding to this list in future posts.

Best Bang For Your Buck!

If you are looking for a service for storing images, selling prints, licensing images to name just a few, I believe PhotoShelter is “The Best Bang for Your Buck.” They offer several plans ranging from FREE to $49.99. We currently have the Standard Plan, which costs us $29.99 per month and serves all of our current needs.

Sell Products & License Images

We upload our images to our Photo Archive, which is where all of our online images are stored. Images can be ordered as prints, note cards or licensed for personal use, directly from our photo archive. We don’t offer automated Rights Managed images through PhotoShelter. For Rights-Managed licensing, clients contact us directly for a stock photo quote. After a fee has been determined, we invoice the client. After we receive payment, we set up a Private PhotoShelter Gallery for the client, where they can download their images.

Great SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

PhotoShelter has been working hard to improve their SEO and it and it’s finally paying off. During the last few months, we have been seeing an increased amount of traffic to our Website and we have to give credit to PhotoShelter for some of it!

Easy To Create Galleries

I love how easy it is to create galleries, copy the same images to other galleries and rearrange the images within a gallery however you want. For instance, you can find this image of Auburn, California in our Auburn Gallery. Auburn is located in the California Gold Country, so we copied it into that gallery as well. We even took it one step further for this image. Since it is a landscape image it also went into our Landscape Gallery.

Slide Shows

Slide shows can be created from any gallery with a click of a button. You can group together a selection of images in a gallery, click the slide show button and use it like a portfolio. Here is a slide show I just put together for this post. If you hover over the top of the image, you will see the photo caption. It’s pretty cool!

Free Photography Reports

PhotoShelter provides an incredible amount of marketing tools for the photographer. Their free photography reports (PDF) on blogging, social media, google analytics, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and what photo buyer’s want in photography websites are very informative.

Blog

PhotoShelter also distributes great information via their Blog “A Picture’s Worth.” There you can find a ton of really helpful articles including these:

“Top 10 Ways To Piss Off A Photographer”

“Top 10 Ways To Make A Photographer Fall In Love With You”

“Top 13 Ways To Piss Off A Photo Editor”

Grover was also kind enough to include a mention about my post on “Shooting the Amgen Tour of California” in their weekly Friday Shout-Outs!” Thanks again Grover!

Free Training

If what you have read thus far isn’t enough to convince you to join, maybe this will. PhotoShelter also offers a variety of FREE Webinars and I can tell you from personal experience, they are worth the investment in time. They even welcome suggestions for future Webinars.

Post To Social Networks

The ability to post a gallery of images directly to Facebook, Flickr, SportsShooter and Twitter is a really nice feature. Here is a gallery of images I posted directly from PhotoShelter to Facebook.

Coupons

Everyone is jumping on the “coupon bandwagon” these days including PhotoShelter. They make it really easy to offer discounts on prints and products to your customers. I thought it was so cool, I decided to give it a “test drive.” Check out my “Fans Only 4th of July Coupon Sale”, to see how I incorporated coupons into my marketing plan. I will be using them on a regular basis!

I hope this has shed at least a little bit of light on PhotoShelter. Your comments and questions are certainly welcomed and appreciated as always, so fire away!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit again sometime!

Cheers,

Sherri

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Northern California Travel Guide Cover

by Sherri on June 23, 2010

Kayaking on the North Fork of the American River, near Auburn, California.

We are really excited. We just licensed this photo of the kayaker’s for the cover of a Northern California Travel Guide. When we get our tearsheets (copies of the publication) from the publisher, we will scan the cover and post it here on the blog.

See more of our Northern California photos .

See all of our online photos.

Thank you for visiting. Your comments and questions are very appreciated!

~Sherri

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Print Specials, New Images, Personal Use Licenses & More

by Sherri on November 23, 2009

Oak leaves floating in a puddle. This is one of our most popular nature images and is currently featured in our "Print Specials" gallery.

We have been busy, busy, busy adding new images, galleries, products and more to our Website and we are really excited to announce it to YOU! I’m going to keep it short and give you a quick overview of what we have been up to. I will elaborate on it later.

Print Specials

We have added a new Print Specials Gallery. You can order prints from this gallery at a special 20% off through November. NOTE: We will be adding more images to this gallery after Thanksgiving.

Personal Use Licenses – We were having so many requests for Personal Use Licenses, we decided to add it our product list. These licenses are great for those of you that might want to use our images for your own personal use, at a very affordable price. For examples of allowable uses please refer to our Products & Features page.

New Images

We have added a bunch of new images to our New Images Gallery.

NOTE: All images are available for immediate purchase.

New Business Fan Page

Another way to keep up to date with what’s going on around here is by becoming a Fan of Sherri Meyer Photography.

That’s all for now folks. As mentioned above, we will be adding more images to our Print Specials Gallery after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Thank you for visiting. If you would like to leave a comment, simply click on the “comments” link (add your message in the box) at the bottom of this post.

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What’s Up at SMP?

by Sherri on September 2, 2009

Sierra Sunrise over Utica Reservoir, Alpine County, California.

Sierra Sunrise over Utica Reservoir, Alpine County, California. This was also taken during our recent camping trip.

We’ve been really busy working on a major Website project and I haven’t had a chance to post for a few days. Today, I decided I had to post something no matter what.

Here is an overview of what we are working on:

We are adding a collection of new images to our on-line galleries.
Some of our images are getting moved to our new archive, but they will still be available for purchasing as prints and for licensing.
We are preparing to offer a few new services. I’ll keep those a secret for now.
We will be rescanning some of our slides.
And more…

We hope to have the things mentioned above completed in 3-4 more weeks. After that, we will be concentrating on adding hundreds of new images to our galleries and archive. In the meantime, I hope to get back to posting on this blog a bit more often than I have been!

Thank you for visiting. If you would like to leave a comment, simply click on the “comments” link (add your message in the box) at the bottom of this post.

You can also sign up for a “free” subscription to this Blog. Just look in the upper right hand side of the Blog under “Subscribe to Sherri’s Blog.” Then, either click on the orange button, or enter your email address and click on “subscribe.”

Visit our Stock Photo Website for links to photo galleries.

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2008 Holiday Print Specials

by Sherri on November 14, 2008

Chemung Mine, Bridgeport, California

This holiday season, we are doing something a little different. Starting now and running until the end of December, you can order prints of any photos in our on-line galleries at a special 20% off price. NOTE: The prices you see listed by each photo are the regular prices. The discount will be deducted automatically, during the checkout process.

To take advantage of this “special offer,” please visit our Ordering Information page.

Happy Holidays!

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Baby Boomer Stock Photography Slideshow

by Sherri on September 19, 2008

Baby Boomer Sherri Meyer viewing the spillway at Lake Clementine, Auburn, California (taken by Jeff Meyer).

A few days ago, I was reading Richard Wong’s Photo Blog. He had put together an awesome slideshow, showcasing a selection of his travel images from his PhotoShelter Archive.

I thought that was such a brilliant idea, I decided to create my own slideshow, showcasing some of my favorite “Baby Boomer” images from MY PhotoShelter Archive.

You can view it here: Baby Boomer Stock Photography Slideshow.

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Sherri Meyer Photography Lands on National Television

by Sherri on September 7, 2008

Joe Winkler of “The Boomer Report” interviewing Sherri

When Jeff and I returned from our recent Road Trip, we had a very exciting phone message awaiting. [click to continue…]

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No Power? No Problem!

by Sherri on September 5, 2008

Jeff using a Power Inverter to charge a camera battery.

When we left home for our Northeastern California Road Trip a couple weeks ago, we planned on staying in places with power about half of the time. As it turns out, we were without power the entire trip! [click to continue…]

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Interview with Richard Wong

by Sherri on August 4, 2008

Morning walk in rural Auburn, California

In my recent post “Exciting News,” I mentioned my upcoming interview with Professional Photographer and Writer Richard Wong.

It is now live and you can check it out over at Fieldnotes: The Non-Glamorous Side of Photography.

About the photo: This is another shot taken with my new 12-24mm super wide-angle Tokina lens.

While out for a morning walk recently, I did a little experimenting with my new super wide-angle lens. My goal was to shoot photos using a unique perspective, that would illustrate “walking for fitness.” For this one, I also left plenty of empty space on the left for text. I was very pleased with the results.

Out of the couple of dozen or so frames I took during this shoot, I will probably keep about 25% of them. This one was one of my favorites.

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Exciting News!

by Sherri on July 29, 2008

Sherri Meyer Photography postcard, used for direct mail promotion

I am really excited to announce my upcoming interview next week on Monday August 4th, with Professional Photographer and Writer Richard Wong. You can check it out on his new Blog Fieldnotes: The Non-Glamorous Side of Photography.

Richard has developed one of the best Photography Business Blogs on the Internet. Included on his Blog is information about the photography industry, marketing and digital imaging workflow tips, photographer resource links and more.

The best part about Richard’s Blog is that you can find just about all the information you need to start a new Photography Business, or build upon an existing one, all in one place!

I hope you find this new “All-in-one” Fieldnotes: The Non-Glamorous Side of Photography Photo Business Blog helpful and you will let as many other photographer’s know about it as possible.

Happy Reading,

Sherri

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