SmugMug and Loxley Colour launch groundbreaking online ecommerce solution for Europe’s photographers
“This alliance is exactly what the photo-industry has spent years waiting for. It is a perfect solution for photographers who want to showcase and sell their work hassle-free” – Trevor Yerbury.
Professional and serious amateur photographers across Europe are set to benefit from a groundbreaking new business link between international photo-website leader SmugMug and pioneering Glasgow-based prolab Loxley Colour.
The new deal offers a turnkey online business solution, enabling photographers at all skill levels to easily and cost-effectively showcase and profit from their work.
Chris MacAskill, Co-founder and president of Smugmug said “Most photographers want to focus on their creativity. They are mainly time-poor and have little interest in the challenges of setting up and managing their online presence, or fulfilling orders for high quality prints. But they still want to capitalise on their creativity -and that is where SmugMug and Loxley Colour enter the frame. We have created a seamless solution whereby photographers, across the full range of photo-disciplines, can easily showcase, market, sell and deliver their work to their clients.”
Multi-award-winning Scottish portrait photographer Trevor Yerbury added This alliance is exactly what the industry has been waiting for. Photographers need to concentrate on what they do best – capturing great moments. This new commercial partnership between two internationally acclaimed players means we can now simply upload our images; add our price lists and let SmugMug and Loxley Colour do the rest. We can still use our own custom domain, watermarks and logos. Plus, we can control the look and the feel of our website and Loxley then handles all the output requirements. It’s a perfect fit all round.
SmugMug Pro subscriptions start from around £13 a month or £94 a year -and the new service guarantees zero ads and spam, 365 days, a year customer support, easy SEO and site stats and unlimited photo and video uploads.
Said Ian Loxley, managing director at Loxley Colour, “This partnership means that photographers will never again have to manually take and fulfil orders for high-quality prints. This new ecommerce solution gives customers the ability to sell prints and digital downloads for their photo and video inventories.”
