This may be a stupid question, but I'm starting a startup in the stock photography sector, however the problem is I need photographers before I can start selling images (obviously). However, from my initial enquiries it seems photographers have no interest in joining new libraries and will only submit to established sites that already have lots of images for sale.
So my question is: how can I attract photographers to submit their work to a new site? I was thinking of contacting a few prospects and offering them 100% of the profit from sales for the first year, prizes for the first person to hit 100 sales, 1000 sales and things like that.
Does anyone else have any suggestions?
Thanks!
You and your team handle the categorization and tagging. And/or, the photographer can come back later on her PC and categorize/tag her photos resulting in a higher profit share for anyone licensing that photo.
On most smartphones, sharing/uploading photos via e-mail and applications is intrinsic to the mobile device. Handle uploads via your own mobile application or simply e-mail uploads.