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This process of making the web work for your stock photography business can be a long and arduous one. I started my serious efforts eight months ago, and while I have seen results, they aren’t as impressive as I hoped for. But I am not discouraged, far from it. I am more convinced than ever that a strong presence on the Internet is going to be increasingly beneficial and important to all stock shooters.

My goal is to be getting 10,000 to 20,000 visitors a day to my site. Right now I am averaging a tad over 300 a day. That is up from one visitor a week eight months ago, but obviously I have a long, long way to go. But even with just 300 a day I am seeing a benefit. Today I was contacted by an Agency in New Zealand about licensing an image they found on my site. I asked them how they happened to find me. They told me they had searched Getty and Corbis and the “usual places” but couldn’t find the image they wanted. They then did a Google search and found my image.

Since virtually all of my images are handled by various agencies, most of those who find something they are looking for on my site are sent on to the respective agency handling that image, and I don’t know if they make a purchase or not. But I do see that every day numerous visitors do go to an image page and then on to Blend Images, Getty, Corbis, and Kimball Stock. I don’t know what percentage of these visitors’ license stock photos, but some do, and as my traffic increases so will those sales.

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There are a lot of methods that you can use to promote your online business but nothing can be more effective than article marketing. It is considered to be one of the fastest ways to promote companies, products, services, and even people in the world.

All you have to do is to write articles on subjects that are related to your business and add some links that would lead to your blog or website. You then submit these articles to article directories online. People who will end up reading your articles can now be influenced to check out your site and products through your articles. This is why you must write good quality articles that are interesting and offers a bulk of information in order to catch your reader’s attentions and convert them into customers.

One of the best advantages that you can get when you use article marketing is that it is very cost efficient and inexpensive. In fact you do not even need to spend a single cent in order to have this type of exposure online for your business. There are a lot of free article directories that can publish your articles on the web for free. Aside from that you can also put up your own blog or website. This allows you to earn more without spending which is a very good return when it comes to investments.

Through article marketing, you can increase your online presence and make people from all over the world know about your business and the services and products that you provide. Article marketing is one of the best online marketing tools that you can use to have increased brand awareness. The increased exposure will help improve the visibility of your business online. By including your company’s brand, information and other links that lead to your website, you will be having one of the best exposures you can get through these articles.

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One of the most critical initial steps to take as you build your internet marketing business is to brand yourself online. The sooner you begin the better. This is called personal branding. You can build an extensive “brand” over time, but you can begin right now in ten quick and easy ways.

If you are brand new you may wonder why all the fuss. There is one main reason. As people begin to notice you they will want to know the person behind the name.

People will want to know if you are a real person. They will want to know who you really are, what you have done and what you know.

In short they want to know if they can trust you and you can help them.

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