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Stock photography care of Lucky Oliver

buy and sell stock photography with lucky oliver

Are you a digital photographer? Like to bring your camera wherever you go and snap like crazy? Why not enter the world of buying and selling your stock photos?

Lucky Oliver is a community of photographers, designers and artists who all buy and sell stock photos. The images and illustrations in Lucky Oliver are high enough quality for both web and print work, and are pretty affordable and starting at only $1.00. For people interested in submitting images to the image portfolio, there is a photographer's guide on what type of images the team is looking to sell. Photographers have to prove themselves to get started in the system by submitting their three best photos. When they are in the system though, royalties can be range from $0.30 to over $12.50 per use.

No more stealing images from Google for projects, this is an affordable way to get the job done without breaking the bank on high priced stock photos.

Filed under: Business, Web services

Open a free store and get stock with Zlio

zlio online shopZlio helps users to start up an online store, quick and easy, and even if you don't have any stock to sell, Zlio can hook you up. Zlio has a stock catalog of thousands of products that you can start selling in your free shop. The US version of this French site launched yesterday, with the French version that launched early last year. When users sign up for stores, they pick their own unique URL, choose site designs from pre-designed templates, and drop in products from the Zlio store to start earning affiliate incomes. Products in your Zlio store can then be tagged and reviewed and descriptions of products can be added in.

Supposedly, after starting a Zlio shop your store will automatically be referenced from the main search engines, attracting visitors without any effort. Good marketing should be dropped into the mix to ensure any success with this kind of shop opening experience.

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software

Flippid hooks up the haves and the have-nots

flippidFlipped is a very unique idea. The site brings users new ways to shop online for all sorts of items. Users post what they want, and sellers bid your price down creating a buyoff, getting you a great deal for the item you want. Buyoffs do have a time limit, at which time the buyer can reject or accept any offer from any seller.

Not only is Flippid a buying site, but sellers can also stop by, register, and post items for free. So how does the site generate income? From sellers, of course. They take a percentage of the sale, when the item is sold. It's a great way to get people to try out the site, and actually see it work for them without dropping listing fees. Fees range from 10 cents for items under $5 to $2 for items selling for over $100.

The service was launched in mid-November, and looks to be slowly drawing a decent crowd and racking up items. Flippid does have a special promotion on now, where they pay all fees until 2007, so it could be worth giving it a shot.

[Via Emily Chang]

Filed under: Audio, Business, Internet, News, Windows, Web services

Napster considers selling itself

Napster considers selling itself

It appears that Napster might be ready to say uncle, ZDNet is reporting. The company has stated they "do not have our heads in the sand regarding an M&A (merger and acquisition) transaction", which is more or less a nice way of saying they just might be licked. Over the march quarter their 512,000 strong subscriber base fell 7 percent as they transitioned to its free website model, but excluding 4,000 university subscriptions, their number of paid subscribers actually grew 26 percent year-over-year.

An analyst from Stifel Nicolaus & Co also cited in ZDNet's article said "Napster's still trying to find a working business model, which is bad from an operating standpoint", also noting that they see an increased likelihood that the company would sell, especially since the possibility came straight down from management.

Either way, things don't sound so good for the renegade-come-legit digital music service. Also of note is their website; it might be the fact that I'm on a Mac, but their site seems dishearteningly bare these days. not even a remnant of the hip Flash site they built when they offered the web-based free model. I guess time will tell what happens to the music libraries of all those subscribing users.

[via iLounge]

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