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Talking to Photrade a year later

Just over a year ago I interviewed Krista from Photrade and did a review of their service.  Its a great photo hosting place where you can also make money with your pictures.

I just recently caught up with Krista again during blogworld:

Photrade just recently launched a new contest system where you can hold contests for your users. I have a feeling we might see one of these on shoemoney.com soon ;)



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  1. Mark Cuda

    I think Photrade is a great service, and I hope they grow to be a staple in this industry.

  2. NZ Photos

    It looks like lots of people have tried it, and in these comments are saying it’s a great site. So… has anyone actually made money from PhotoTrade?

    • Jacques Snyman

      That’s a very good question. Is there a users blog or forum discussions?

  3. Tamish

    Photrade is a nice way of making money with your pictures.
    I have posted a bunch of them already.

  4. Ari - Laberinto Social

    i’ll look into them

  5. Matt Thompson | Mattheosis.com

    Shoe$,thanks for revisiting Phototrade. Sounds like a fantastic service. I will find a way to start making some money through them. i am amazed at how you have impacted these services, through your recommendations. Are you going to start your own Oprah List?

    Best regards, Matt Thompson | Mattheosis.com
    Original Orthodox Hubby @ Home Dad

  6. Goran Website

    I’ve just checked out photrade, it looks great. I will be using this service a lot, it’s do uniquely structured.

  7. timsdd

    The FF photo finder sounds wicked, that is the first I have heard about that!

    I remember your post least year….I was too late for the invites but I lobbied directly with Krista and Andrew and they obliged :-)

  8. Copywriters Needed- No Experience Required- $200/hr

    That is a cool service..but how is it different from every other picture hosting site? I guess hers would be considered good if it new, as other picture hosting sites are saturated, making it pretty hard for you to make any money off of them.

    • Andrew

      Jeremy,

      Thanks for the great post! Sorry I missed you at BWE. Looking forward to joining your contest,

      Andrew (Photrade.com CEO)

  9. Krista Neher

    Jeremy

    It was awesome to see you at BWE again this year! Thanks to you and your readers for all of the kind words on our site – we have been working hard over this past year. We are really excited about the progress and are looking forward to some sweet contests!
    - Krista

  10. e7lam

    thaaaanks alot its reall nice

  11. Mayank Rocks

    Looking forward to the contests aswell. Nice Interview.

  12. zona0x

    Scott Bourne of ‘This Week In Photography’ (TWIP) lit my path to Photrade. It’s nice to see that you find it a worthwhile site.

  13. Reid

    so hopefully this contest comes around soon!

  14. Consolidation Dettes

    Shoemoney look like a real tv interviewer, relax and calm look like he have extreme confidence! Photrade is nice Good Job, Nice Blog A++

  15. Hanep

    looks great by the way. i just knew the service. thanks – <a href=”http://www.hanep.org.

  16. shifka

    No Posts today as well.

  17. Bryn Youngblut

    Darren Rowse is now on their board, pretty cool.

  18. The Blog Academy [dot com]

    This site sounds great. I’m looking at the competition side of things at the moment and love the monetization aspects.

    Also the posssiblities of the firefox plugin sound awesome. Looking forward to this.

    I’m gunna run a small competition hopefully starting on saturday and if it flops then i’ll give this a go.

    Thanks for the vid shoe

  19. Zurpit

    This looks like a cool idea, looking forward to seeing the contests

  20. Paul

    What are we going to do about our current economy.

    • mrkbsm

      Privatize profits and socialize losses until everything is magically fixed, of course.

  21. ZK@WebTrafficROI

    I am waiting for another contest

  22. ErinK

    Thanks for writing about photrade. Looks great!

  23. meethere

    we want to see another contest :D

  24. how2workonline.com

    I can see they have a few good improvements to the site not bad. I also like that they are trying to do something unique which is always good for original concepts. I will have to wait and see what else they come up with. It looks like to me, they are heading in the right direction.

    • Dick

      Fresh idea is the engine of progress. -)

  25. stop sleep apnea

    Hey Shoe:

    What kind of unique-weird twist will you put in your contest? Whatever it is, I know it will be cool… :)

  26. Patrick

    Nice to see they got funded.

  27. SEI Design Group

    I’ll try it. Maybe this contest will work better than the one I am running now? My current contest is for an iPod Nano and I have hardly any entries!

    • mrkbsm

      ha, I don’t see how mentioning that on a place like shoemoney would possibly get you more entries! (/me runs over to check it out…) :)

  28. Amanda (DrifterMama)

    I need to check them out :)

  29. River Girl

    I talked to them at BlogWorld also and plan to check it out, plus the Beta. Perhaps next contest also.

  30. Internet Cowboy

    Pretty nice tool/service. Will be big. I wonder why nobody else couldn’t figure out to build it yet.

    • SEO next

      The best of things are actually so simple… but people just dont see it happening …
      Appple falling from tree… is it a rocket science ?

      • Internet Cowboy

        Not a rocket science — Newton’s law of gravity. =)

        • SEO next

          Exactly .. but only newton figured it out :P

  31. free directory

    This is Unique concept ..Thats really good idea ..This is first time i saw that …

  32. David

    I haven’t heard of this site before, but seems like I should check it out.

  33. Chris

    I think for a Shoemoney contest you should give away subscriptions to shoemoney tools :)

    • cheap used cars

      lol i am sure he is.

    • Tushar Dhoot

      Yea, he probably will. It’s the most cost effective prize for him since it costs him nothing at all, and most people will probably renew anyways.

  34. Chris

    could be good if it works :)

    • Mayank Rocks

      It should definitely work. I have a feeling.

  35. shifka

    very good idea. i like the idea.

  36. Cheryl W

    Looks like a great idea!

  37. Rekzai

    I wish I could afford a good camera

  38. Zak Show

    They are some bugs in the site, I want to sign up but it keep giving me the wrong or an error page!

  39. Reid

    Awesome, I had never heard of this until I saw this post. I must’ve missed it last year. Anyways thanks for sharing!

  40. Nick Throlson

    nick i have been with photrade for over a year now really likeing the new features

    • Krista Neher

      Nick – thanks for the kind words :)

  41. Steven-Sanders

    Great opportunities to make money with photos. I’ll have to check this out.

    BTW, don’t let you wife see this video. It kind of looked like she was smitten with you. :) You like that word: smitten?

  42. John

    Neato, guess i have another reason or two to log back into the site :)

  43. Borgo7

    I think that I need to read more about this service. It’s the first time that I listen about it! ^^”

  44. andrew

    Looks like an interesting service. Will check them out now!

  45. mrkbsm

    Yup, I remember that post from last year…. still in beta at the time I think. Sounds like they’ve grown up quite a bit since then!

  46. Michael Martine - Remarkablogger

    I missed the first post a year ago, so glad to catch this now. It’s pretty cool how the internet makes it easy to make money from your photography. Love the idea of a “contest engine”!

    • Moneybites

      me too, sounds awesome!

  47. dgvito

    Shoe,

    Thanks for the post, forgot I had an account with Photrade. BTW I won’t mention PicLens (Cooliris.com)anymore as I see you use it in your gallery, LOL. Photrade with a Cooliris plug in that would be PhotoCool.
    Regards,
    David G.

    • Krista Neher

      Hi David

      Great idea!!! We’ll be launching our API over the next few months at which point at cooliris plugin would be great!!
      - Krista (from the video)

  48. SMM Guru

    blog traffic seems to be low latley… As a whole I mean. Looking at Alexa for a lot of big blogs, the amount of traffic seems to be going down steadily.

    • andrew

      Alexa is pretty much BS. Ask Jeremy and see if the traffic is really going down. I’m sure it’s not.

      • SMM Guru

        Obviously you have to take their stats with a grain of salt… But even for shoemoney.com they show a steady decline. (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/shoemoney.com)

        Maby less and less people are using Alex’a whack ass toolbar.

        • Tushar Dhoot

          Check google traffic trends, they’re much more accurate.

      • Internet Cowboy

        Alexa stats are very skewed in certain market niches and, of course, it is not a great tool for the traffic estimation/comparison. Quantcast is much better in that aspect, but still, Alexa toolbar is useful as a rough indicator of the site’s importance. When you stumble upon some website that you never heard of, it’s always helpful to have at least a remote idea of the site’s popularity.

      • mrkbsm

        I’d bet on a decline in Alexa toolbar users.

    • TYCP Entertainment Magazine

      I don’t even bother with Alexa. I find it funny how it will say some of my sites’ traffic dropped, yet, Google Analytics has a different story.

      • SMM Guru

        As I said…. Its for a general idea of whats going on.

        • Tushar Dhoot

          It’s not even that. The idea of using a voluntary toolbar for gauging the popularity of sites is flawed right from the start.

  49. Custom T-Shirts

    Interesting concept… contests always attract a lot of traffic.

    • mrkbsm

      Yup, assuming the prizes are noteworthy! That’s where those Apple products come in…. ;)

    • cheap used cars

      as long as you can get sponsors to provide some sweet prizes you will get some traffic.

      • Tushar Dhoot

        Shoemoney doesn’t need sponsors, lol :lol:

  50. ways to earn online

    I never heard of this. This is a pretty cool concept. Hoping to win one of your contests Shoemoney.

  51. R. Patel

    You interview a lot of people Shoe. Pretty cool.

    • meethere

      not me.. :lol:

      He is enjoying the stuffs.

  52. Bryn Youngblut

    It sounds pretty cool, I got a contest coming up next week or so.

    • R. Patel

      I got a contest going on @ blabweb.com giving away a free blog review, you have to subscribe to my rss feed by email and let me know you have, and your entered!

  53. frogstr

    Looks great. I like the link blocking feature. You can really control what’s going on with the photos!

    • Dick

      I agree that looks very good.

  54. Tushar Dhoot

    That sounds pretty neat. I’m really looking forward to their plugin, it’ll really come in handy.

  55. cheap used cars

    gotta love a shoemoney contest

    • SMM Guru

      I smell more Apple products in the air

      • cheap used cars

        hopefully! i am prayin to win one of those macbooks.

        • Tushar Dhoot

          Who isn’t?

          iSwitched…I’ll get that shirt if I ever win one.

        • Reid

          ha I would get one too! I could use a macbook so badly!

      • Goran Website

        Hehehe! I like your word play on that.

    • Jacques Snyman

      His prizes are always special…..gotta love it, indeed. One day the Macbook Air will come home to roost….

  56. Moneybites

    Wow this site sounds awesome. The link blocking feature is really cool

  57. HSD

    I use their service, the’re actually pretty good.

    • FeedZa

      I wasn’t using their product before I read this post, but I’ve just spent the last 30mins playing. Cool service ;)

    • Krista Neher

      @HSD – I’m glad that you are enjoying it :) Let me know if you have any thoughts/ideas for improvement!

      • Affiliate Famous

        I almost forgot I had signed up for their service about a
        year a go. WOW! Some of my photos have been
        distributed all over the place, it looks like they’ve done
        well.

    • Jacques Snyman

      Thanks to Jeremy, Photrade has been exposed to thousands of new visitors, and hopefully new users. I am a new convert thanks for the tip!

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