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A Lake District based photography brand.
I've spent the last 3 months building out a beta version of a platform I have envisioned for a long time. Tales from the Trees is where my passion for photography meets my digital work skills. For the longest time I have wondered how I can share my photographic work online, and get paid for it. I thought, why not sell digital licensed copies for a small price as device wallpapers. No platform out there, so I created it.
This release is fairly straightforward MVP. v2 will be built on a much faster framework (still using WordPress) supporting physical print orders, which will have a QR code embedded into them allowing any purveyor of the print to find out the story behind it. After that, I have plans for v3 to become a marketplace platform for other Lake District based photographers to sell their images for a monthly subscription price (perhaps two plans, like hobby and professional), and charge a 10-20% platform fee on each sale.
This is my first project where I will have to actively market it, and I have encountered a lot of resistance from online marketplaces like Facebook/Insta and Pinterest, Tiktok etc who do not allow the sale of digital products.
Two things I would love from this community are:
1. Some feedback on the website, the project as a whole.
2. Some advice from anyone who has done this sort of thing before with digital products, what the best way to market this is without being able to advertise on the big platforms and vend through their marketplaces.
The website is https://talesfromthetrees.com
If anyone has anyone questions about it, I'd love to answer them.
EDIT: Brand guidelines for anyone interested.
I've spent the last 3 months building out a beta version of a platform I have envisioned for a long time. Tales from the Trees is where my passion for photography meets my digital work skills. For the longest time I have wondered how I can share my photographic work online, and get paid for it. I thought, why not sell digital licensed copies for a small price as device wallpapers. No platform out there, so I created it.
This release is fairly straightforward MVP. v2 will be built on a much faster framework (still using WordPress) supporting physical print orders, which will have a QR code embedded into them allowing any purveyor of the print to find out the story behind it. After that, I have plans for v3 to become a marketplace platform for other Lake District based photographers to sell their images for a monthly subscription price (perhaps two plans, like hobby and professional), and charge a 10-20% platform fee on each sale.
This is my first project where I will have to actively market it, and I have encountered a lot of resistance from online marketplaces like Facebook/Insta and Pinterest, Tiktok etc who do not allow the sale of digital products.
Two things I would love from this community are:
1. Some feedback on the website, the project as a whole.
2. Some advice from anyone who has done this sort of thing before with digital products, what the best way to market this is without being able to advertise on the big platforms and vend through their marketplaces.
The website is https://talesfromthetrees.com
If anyone has anyone questions about it, I'd love to answer them.
EDIT: Brand guidelines for anyone interested.
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