Im starting to shuffle through the images of me on my site and I want to sell prints at the bar. I have a friend who is a feature who used to sell them like mad, but Its not easy to contact her these days to ask her how she does it. Any tips?
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Im starting to shuffle through the images of me on my site and I want to sell prints at the bar. I have a friend who is a feature who used to sell them like mad, but Its not easy to contact her these days to ask her how she does it. Any tips?
It all depends on the amount of effort that you want to put into the entire process.
From your website I can see that there's quite a bit of untapped potential. Right now, everything is free. That should be changed. The key to getting the sale of the prints at the bar is to combine multiple offerings in sort of a package deal.
Each print will probably be laminated, but should also include a temporary guest username and password to a "featured" area of your website. Whoever laminates the images can just include a card facing the back of the picture with the login info. You'd have to coordinate this with your webmaster and the pictures in that temporary section must be blazing to "hook" your clients onto your pay-per-view site. The current free gallery would have to be reduced to a "teaser" amount of pics for this to work effectively. A full redesign of the site may also be necessary.
The sales pitch is easy once everything is set up. During or after a dance it can be mentioned in what ever way you wish that your client can "take you home with him". The prints have to be at a relatively good price and should be one of the best in a series that is featured when they input their "free" login info.
Overall you'll have to keep taking a lot of pics to ensure fresh content, but it's a process that works. If getting the prints sold doesn't work out right away, then combine it with a drink special where they buy you a drink and get a pic. Your "regulars" will no doubt become more regular and the "newbies" will get to boast of the "hot chick at the strip club who gave me her pic".
Questions? Let me know.
You could always try selling them and other items either on E-Bay under artistic items or on Naughtybids.
If you do go through with a redesign of your site, be sure to protect your images from being downloaded and saved; similar to how this site protects the images in the Gallery from being saved. Otherwise, your "pay-per-view" content will soon become free content somewhere else on the net.
Also whatever images you do hand out, be sure to keep in mind that those images can be scanned, manipulated and/or re-posted as well.
It's virtually impossible to stop your images from being 'saveable' off your site- having a flash site helps. Anyways, my site's free, and I sell prints all the time at work.
Sometimes I just do 8x10's, sometimes I'll do huge posters with multiple image layouts etc. What I do to get sales is I throw one or two out from stage for free- this gets people wanting. They'll ask for one, and I'll be like 'sure, $10' or whatever I'm charging. They usually have no problem with this, but if they argue, I always have the price printed on the poster with a fake UPC code. For some reason, this convinces them!
You could always try a site like or especially that lets you sell prints from photos you upload. You can set prices, control what's public, what's private... and you don't have to keep any inventory. Not only could you upload your stuff, get prints right from the site then sell them at the bar with a mark-up, but then you could sell them online, too. Good luck!