We were going to offer a Flickr account for all of our clients to send to friends / family to buy prints online, but I heard about Smugmug.com, and more recently Exposuremanager.com and as we start to do our weddings, I Thought it would be a great way to make a few extra bucks, over Flickr or even just giving the people the CD and letting them go off and do their own thing. We will still give them a CD, but I think if would be an added benifit if we can offer them for sale, at least through a website like that..
Does anyone use those, if so, what is the good / bad of those types of places.
I am wondering if people, or their freinds / family would buy photos from a website for 2-3$ each if they had a CD instead of or in addition to bringing it to walmart since that is not easy with hundreds of files)
CN: would we spend the $$ to get an account, and then no one would use it..

http://uploads.imagekind.com/create/Default.aspx

They seem pretty cool.

Don't count on any sales once you have given out a CD be it with full size processed images or 800 pixel watermarked images. Free is free to people. I do not give out a CD for at least a month after the images have been posted for sale online. Longer if I can stretch it out.

I have used smugmug for a couple years and am happy with their service, but you have to be able to justify the upfront cost. I sold $800 worth of images from one event thru smugmug last year which covers the cost for the year and all the feedback I received was good. Smugmug has some of the best features for this service but is also the highest priced. There are plenty of other cheaper offerings if you don't need all the bells & whistles.

thanks for the feedback. Were figuring people (family and freinds not able to easily get the CD) will buy at least 100$ worth over the year as its not a "money maker" for us.. yet
I doubt we need many bells and whistles, just a place to store the photos online and can make a small profit on them.

we just dont want to deal with prints so if we find we can still book weddings for the price we want, AND can sell prints good, but i dont think we have enough experience to justify higher prices AND no CD.

Another vote for SmugMug though I don't sell any prints through the SM service, I handle all mine outside of it. But the site has worked well for me.