From the course: Earn Money as a Stock Contributor
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Checking out the competition
From the course: Earn Money as a Stock Contributor
Checking out the competition
- Another good practice that you can do to get familiar with what content is selling, is to check out your competition, in other words, visit some of the popular stock photography websites, and search on the subject that you plan to shoot, look at what results come up high in the search results, don't just put in a bunch of key words, do some vague searches at first, to see what rises to the top based on popularity, then do some specific searches that might give you some ideas or inspiration for your own shoot. What you're gonna find when you check out the competition, is that visual searching can be quite useful, you could actually drag one of your photos in, and show what pops up on a lot of websites. You could also do searches for tags and key words, so you see what pops up when you search for a particular topic. I suggest looking at multiple websites to see what's selling, and that you do searches on similar subjects to see what pops up or what trends emerge. Let's do a sample…
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