Symzio – a new way to sell direct to buyers

I’ve talked before about my attempts to sell stock photos from my own website and in the summer, I set up my stock agency site using the new Symbiostock plugin, transferring all my old images from the earlier incarnation of this. I have to say that the system is very stable, new capabilities keep being added, and I like the look of the site!

Robin, the developer of the plugin is trying to increase sales by creating a contributor-driven site called Symzio.

In a nutshell, I moved my images and licenses to a one-time use license with simplified pricing a couple of months ago, with a focus on making it easy for a blogger to just license an image for their website for $0.99. This same approach fits in with Symzio where there is one central site that crawls the individual contributor sites, creates thumbnails from each image that I choose to sell via that site, and then makes the whole thing available to buyers. If someone licenses an image, they handle the purchase direct with Symzio and I get 80% of the sale price.

I like the one-time use license (it is working really well on Canva), and so I decided to put all my images into the new agency – this is a simple as setting a flag on my own site. The images are being crawled as I write, and so far I have 1100 out of my 6000 images online in the new Symzio site. You can see my Symzio public profile here.

Will this be successful – too early to tell, but I am certainly fully behind the effort!