3 Photography Products to Sell With Low Overhead and High Profit Margins

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Are you always looking for photography products to sell? I know I am. Part of the reason is because of how it works being a professional photographer. You may have only one niche that you specialize in, but you’re always ready to make more money doing photography.

Perhaps your situation is similar to mine in that you have just a small number of genres you prefer, such as landscapes, portraits, and fine art, but someone always asks if you’ll do this or that for them photographically. Such as small product photography, real estate photos, or working an event.

It's okay to step out of your specialty niche and work in another as long as we can do a great job. Sometimes, though, you would like to be able to increase profits easily. That’s when we look for photography products to sell that have a high profit margin and very low overhead.

Let’s look at some ideas and key in on three photography products to sell that are simple for us as well as profitable.

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Photography Products to Sell - Photo Calendars

One of the easiest photography products to sell is photo calendars. You can sell these in a couple of different ways. Fill them with artsy images of your own to sell to anyone or with images of work you did for a specific client to sell to that particular client.

Here is a great video from our friend Mads Peter Iverson with some tips for making epic quality landscape images that you can sell: 

The idea works great as a Christmas season idea for photography products to sell. A good reason for keying in on these products at year-end is the nature of calendars. People tend to think about them when a new year turns over. 

Of course, you could begin a calendar at any month, so you could sell these all year long. The sizes available from Photo Book Press are 11x8.5”, 14x11”, and 12” square. These are printed on paper that can be written on. They're made with spiral binding for convenient monthly changing when hung on a wall.

Photography Products to Sell - Lay Flat Books

Layflat photo books are great photography products to sell since they are so easy to look at. A layflat (or lay flat) photo book is printed with high-quality photo paper, and you can adjust so many variables, such as adding text to images or on the page, how many images and what size fits on each page, how many pages and images to include, and custom covers.

It’s the binding of these books that makes them good photography products to sell. The binding is made so that instead of a bulge in the pages as you open it (which gets worse when viewing pages near the front or back of the photo book), the pages stay completely flat and easy to view.

This makes a layflat photo book work as a coffee table style of book or as a portfolio of our own work or of images made for the client. Filled with images you made for a client, they can use one as their own portfolio for things they do. So a model could use one, as could an architect, a baker, a house painter, and so. 

Filled with our own images, a layflat photo book could be sold in any season of the year. Whatever type of photography we do for work, a layflat photo book can be a great product. Even if we primarily work as a wedding or portrait photographer, our selection of photography products to sell might include our fantastic images of landscapes and seascapes we’ve done for our own pleasure or as stock photography.

Photography Products to Sell - Acrylic Prints

Acrylic photo prints are great as photography products to sell because of how fabulous they look in whatever size you make them. While we probably already have acrylic prints as part of our photography packages we offer to clients of photo work we do for them, they also work awesome when we sell our gorgeous fine art photography as an acrylic print. 

Acrylic prints have a depth and vibrancy that look amazing thanks to Photo Book Press's outstanding quality printing process and many template designs. They come with holes predrilled in the corners for ease of mounting to a wall.

How to Market Photography Products to Sell

So, what’s the best way to market our photography products to sell? The best way is to have examples on hand to show your clients.  

If your method is to sell these products with images you made for your clients, it works well to have some previous work, or a mix of work, already made into a calendar, lay flat photo book, or acrylic print to show so they have an idea of what they can expect. 

The other way is to treat these photography products to sell as inventory. You make them up and keep them ready to sell. This method can work in conjunction with the previously mentioned method, and that gives you the maximum opportunity to make a profit with very low overhead.

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