Wildlife Photographer Job Vacancy

When most people think 'wildlife photography career' they immediately think of selling their images. Yes, this is an option for you and there are a few stock photo sites that you can submit your images to such as

These stock photo sites will pay you between 20 and 60% of the the price upon the sale on your images. But in order to sell, your images must be good quality, well exposed, sharp, high-resolution images.

All the above photo sites are free to join but they do not market your images. You will submit your images and then you will have to wait until they contact you.

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If you would prefer a more proactive stock photo site then you should consider Global Eye because they will market your images and generate sales and leads for you. They do, however, charge a small joining fee BUT you get 100% of the sales price of your image - there is no 50% commission payable on each photo!

If you're still wondering how the business works, what's required and how to get started, get a copy of the free Stock Photography 101 report as it answers all the big questions from photographers looking to get into stock and not quite sure how all the pieces fit together.

And if you're wondering just what your photos are worth, or how you go about determining prices when a client comes knocking on your door, here's a free Stock Price Calculator

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If you go with the free options above you will need to advertise your business and you can do so free at sites such as 

You will obviously need a website and you can create one for free or at a reasonable cost at sites such as

If you want to just own a website and sell a few images in order to make some extra money to supplement your income then selling images to stock sites is for you - but if you want to create a photography business that will allow you to eventually give up your current boring job then read on...

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A wildlife photography career was our dream yet both Jennifer and I used to have nine to five jobs with most of our bosses leaving much to be desired.

A wildlife photography career was our goal as this was our hobby and passion but we were stuck in a corporate world where we got to go to the national parks once a year - on our annual vacation.

In 2005 we realised the power of the world-wide-web and decided to create a web site to see if we could make a wildlife photography career from our hobby.

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We knew nothing about HTML and not much about creating a web site. We hired a designer who created the following web site for us...

• And lastly the designer would take from a few weeks to a month or two to make changes. And then some of the changes were not what we wanted, leading to more waiting - all of this is what drove us mad!

Then in 2008 we heard about Site Build It! or Solo Build It! as they are now called, and how many people were able to give up their day jobs as they were making a good living from the internet. We were skeptical and procrastinated for the whole year.

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We tried to find other ways to build a website but by the end of the year, and after much research, it seemed that SBI! was the way to go for our dream wildlife photography career.

We could create our own website without having to rely on unreliable designers and we did not need to know anything about web design or HTML! And any changes we wanted to our web site could be done in minutes.

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In December 2008 we paid our annual subscription and within a year we had created over 120 pages and our Google PR ranking had jumped from 0 to 3. Within two years our ranking had climbed to 4 and by year five we had a page-rank of 5.

This page ranking (PR) is Google's impression of the site in terms of not only number of visitors but the importance of the information provided and the length of time visitors stay on each page.

The beauty about SBI! is that they have a template that you populate with your information - you then preview the page, click 'analyze', and if it meets the search engine spider and human visitor criteria, you then click 'Build' and viola! - you have a page that is live on the web. You then repeat this with each page and follow their ten-day program to success.

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We are selling our images, the web site is making money for us and we are now able to visit the Kruger Park, Kgalagadi, Etosha the Pilanesberg and any other national park a few times each year. We wish we had started with SBI back in 2005!

SBI! has a good product and we are getting about 250 000 visitors per annum. Back in 2005 our web site cost us about US$500, 00 and we ended up with a 'dead' website. The designer designed the site as best he knew and then left the rest to us - we would need to notify the search engines, market our site to the directories and so forth.

We also looked at converting to a WordPress website but it would cost US$1800, 00 and that does not include maintenance, security etc. We would therefore be looking at US$2000, 00 just for year-one.

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With SBI! our costs are US$299.00 per year and this annual subscription cost has stayed constant for these 5 years and includes all the SEO, maintenance and security stuff that needs to be done regularly!

At the end of the day SBI has a winning product and if you stick to their 'tortoise' formula you can have a successful website business. That's the key - SBI helps and guides you to build a business that makes money and not just build a website.

The winning formula of SBI! is C-T-P-M (create good Content, drive relevant Traffic to your site, Pre-sell the visitors and then Monetize by selling your goods or services). This is where SBI excels as they show you, via 10 steps, exactly what you should do to make a successful on-line business.

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You need to take what you are passionate about - be it wedding photography, sport photography, travelling to certain places, dogs, cats, health, sports, finance or anything else - and then provide information to other people who will benefit from your knowledge.

You may also want to read our interviews with Todd Gustafson, Nigel Dennis and Daryl Balfour who are professional wildlife photographers and they explain to us how they got started.

All of them started their careers before the advent of the internet so had to rely on the quality and uniqueness of their images to win photo competitions or to catch the eye of a publisher so that they could publish their first book or magazine article.

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The one thing the above professional photographers all have in common is that they are prepared to work hard to build their businesses.

Times have changed and their book and photograph sales have decreased but they looked for other income avenues such as photo safaris and creating their own websites where they blog, publish newsletters and market their various products and services.

In addition to a website you should write articles like the ones we write for Ezine@rticles.com and you should write articles for quality websites such as Digital Photography School and for quality magazines such as PhotographyBB.

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If your articles are quality articles (meaning they are original and provide value to the reader) other websites may see them and republish them like our articles on PictureCorrect and onFindTripInfo.com You should also look for opportunities to be interviewed. If you tell exciting stories and show your good images there is a good chance that people will approach you in order to interview you.

You can download a PDF of our most recent interview HERE Remember that your website won't market itself - SBI will let the search engines know about each of your new pages but in addition you need to drive extra visitors to your site and this is accomplished by articles, which also adds to your credibility.

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If you decide to sell eBooks like we do then you must do a press release. We submitted this press release for The Photographer's Guide to Etosha National Park to just four free press release websites and within a few days our search engine hits had gone from just 2 pages to over 10 pages