Any suggestions for promoting a stock photography site?

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I'm developing a stock photography and print sales website. Would anyone have any suggestions about ways to promote this as a new service? The stock photography would be mostly aimed at designers and publishing but the print sales would be for anyone who would like a photographic print of a specific Irish location or theme.
All ideas and suggestions welcome...
( http://archive.nophotography.com )

leftofcentre

To be honest the name is terrible, very negative. I would call it something like irishstockphotos.com or something like that.

You could send out letters to all the picture desks at newspapers, and also all the art directors at marketing companies.

Also I would look to sell images on the main sites like getty, corbis etc.

As a regular buyer of stock images i only use these big sites as their selection is huge.

The big sites are getting hit hard by www.istockphoto.com thats the only site i use now.

Best of luck.

watersprings

I haven't had a chance to look at your site. But if there is a news element, you could send a letter to the national picture editors and the provincials editors, perhaps offering them a free trial. You could also target web design agencies and graphic designers.

In terms of spreading the word, you could do a press release, targetting the business and techie correspondents and publications.

The best of luck!

failsafe

Google adwords. I presume if people want pictures of ireland they's search for them in google. A few cleverly placed keywords like "dalkey, ireland, etc..." could get you some hits.