Stock Photography Business

8 Tips For Starting A Successful Stock Photography Business (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own stock photography business? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a stock photography business:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a stock photography business?
-> Pros and cons of a stock photography business

Need inspiration?

-> Other stock photography business success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a stock photography business

Other resources

-> Profitability of a stock photography business

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a stock photography business:

#1: Viktor Hanacek, founder of picjumbo:

We chatted with with Viktor, founder of picjumbo ($10K/month). In our interview, Viktor says:

A brilliant product is useless if no one knows about it.

Additionally:

I consider cash flow monitoring to be extremely important. When you make a lot of money you can overlook it easily. Now I have spreadsheets for all cash flows, even personal ones, and I know exactly how much money I'll have in my account next month.

Further:

Spend 50% of your time creating content and 50% of your time distributing it.

Also:

Learn to delegate things as soon as you can. I still don't do it and I'm 100% sure it's holding me back the most.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Serban Enache, founder of Free Stock Images :

We chatted with with Serban, founder of Free Stock Images ($0/month). In our interview, Serban says:

We believe in rewarding content creators for their work; it is what keeps them motivated to deliver more and better content.

Additionally:

Innovate, adjust and grow. Improve existing models and add new ones; this industry is dynamic and rapidly changing.

Read the full interview ➜

#3: Serban Enache, founder of Free Stock Images :

We chatted with with Serban, founder of Free Stock Images ($0/month). In our interview, Serban says:

Not hiring talented people soon enough or hiring the wrong people and having to start all over, avoiding making leaps of faith, and being overcautious are some of the things that may change the course of your business for better or worse.

Additionally: