New Online Store

Yes, I have tried this in the past but I think I finally found a really simple and fast online store for photographers who may not need a fancy custom store.

The store comes from Image Kind, which appears to be the same company that owns CafePress.

Setup is easy. You can login with your Flickr account and you can import your images directly from Flickr.

They have pricing options from free to under $99 a year. You pick your pricing and markup for the items you sell.

So go ahead and check out my store. And of course buy something:

http://rhmimages.imagekind.com/store/

That didn't last long

Less then a week ago I created a webstore at Photoshelter and I have already deleted the page.

I spent a long time setting it up but closed the page for a few reasons.

1) After about a week I basically had Zero visitors, even after advertising the page to current followers.
2) I already have 500px to sell large canvas prints
3) I got a call from my credit card company that someone was using my credit card number without authorization to shop at Starbucks. That credit card has only been used in a couple of places in the past month and one of them was at Photoshelter.  I am not saying that Photoshelter was hacked, but with the bank sending me a new credit card, I decided to minimize my risk by not leaving the new number on the site for re-billing each month. So to avoid the hassle, I just closed the page.  Maybe I will open it again one day in the future.

Photo Store

I spent some time trying to decide if I wanted to open up an online store. I looked at SmugMug and Photoshelter and after testing both sites, I found that Photoshelter had a better interface and just seemed easier to setup.

So after a few hours I have created a new online store to sell prints.  I will continue to make changes to the layout and see what kind of traffic it generates.

Stop by and make a purchase.

http://store.rhmimages.com