hey guys justin bryant here from
self-made success.com in this video I'm
going to show you 10 ways to make money
online selling your photos and you don't
need to be a professional to do it you
can even sell photos straight from your
smartphone that you might have taken on
vacation or on a day with your friends
with family or whatever it is that you
do and you have all these photos on your
phone you can sell them if you're
professional and you do a lot of
photography you can sell them on many of
these sites and apps and even if you're
an amateur and say you're more of a
hobbyist and you do this kind of as a
hobby you can sell your photos as well
so no matter what skill level you are
what kind of equipment you have you can
sell your photos using these ten
different ways and you using many of
them at the same time in many cases so
the first one I would recommend you
check out is shutterstock Shutterstock
is one of the biggest image sites in the
entire world as far as stock photography
vectors videos things like that this is
what their website kind of looks like
and you know you can find just about any
image you could possibly think of on
here they pay pretty well you can make
around probably twenty to thirty percent
Commission's or royalties from the sale
of your photos and this really can add
up especially when you are cranking out
a lot of photos and if the more you sell
of course the more you make but
considering how much traffic their
website gets as well is another big
reason why you should check out
Shutterstock maybe their royalties
aren't as good as you might want maybe
you want 50 percent or more but with the
amount of traffic they have and still a
decent royalty
it's definitely going to be one of the
better incomes you have as a
photographer if you compare it to what
you would get from many other spots so I
would definitely recommend going to
Shutterstock first especially if you're
more of a hobbyist or professional level
and you can see the image breakdown or
the earnings breakdown of course on
their website and also sign up to become
a contributor to do that just go to
become a contributor here at the top
right corner of the website take you to
a page like this where you just click
sign up now to start selling photos but
before you do that and put in your
information to be reviewed to become a
contributor you might want to get the
contributor success guide which they
will send you once you just put in your
email and a little bit of info about you
or you can get the protecting your
content guide which will just kind of
keep you from having trouble with people
ripping off your photos and things like
that so I would definitely recommend
going to shutterstock and go to submit
shutterstock.com to get started I will
have all the links to all this stuff in
the video description as well so you can
go straight to it
number two is folk and folk is more of
an amateur type of photo selling service
and it's actually an app that you can
get on your phone it's completely free
and you can go to folk calm and get
started there and sign up or you can
just go straight to the app you can get
the app on Google Play and in the Apple
App Store so whatever device you have
you can get it and it's a free app like
I said and it allows you to sell photos
straight from your phone so if you have
all kinds of just photos you've taken on
vacation with your friends with your
family of scenery of nature whatever it
is that you take photos of we all have
photos on our phones anyway you might as
well make a little bit of extra money
from them
and you can make pretty good money doing
it you might get five dollars for each
photocell and if you sell the same photo
unlimited times imagine how much that
can add up so if you get five dollars
per photo you can really add up
especially if you keep uploading more
and more photos you can also see kind of
what's popular to get an idea of what
type of photos get paid for the most so
just get the app to get started with
vote number three iStockphoto
iStockphoto really compete with
Shutterstock is probably one of the most
well known stock photography websites in
the world they have won the biggest
amount of traffic to your to their
website they do photos illustrations
video audio just like Shutterstock and
they're probably shorter stalks biggest
competitors so they have a process you
need to go to to go through to get
actually started selling and you can go
to the website I'll have a link to where
you sign up which is a page that looks
like this where they break down the
royalties and they give you a place to
kind of apply and of course they have an
approval process you might have to show
them a few example photos and things
like that but you can make a lot of
money from them maybe up to about forty
five percent Commission's from
iStockphoto so a little bit higher than
their main competitor Shutterstock but
you can kind of compare them or use the
same photos possibly or just use a
little bit of both to kind of see which
ones you like better but definitely
iStockphoto is one of the most heavy
traffic photo selling sites on the
internet so you will get a ton of
visibility if you have good stuff number
four is class shot in class shot is
actually
a really cool service they actually
allow you to sell your photos through an
app and you can go to clash comm to see
kind of what they're about and how it
works but you actually make the price of
your photos unlike folk which would be
one of their competitors where you get
paid about five dollars per sale you can
actually charge 50 cents to $80 per
photo so then it gets sold and you keep
a big chunk of that you can get the app
for Apple or Android devices so you can
upload straight from your phone to the
app and start selling photos for however
much you think your photos are worth and
they have promotions going all the time
and stuff like that as well so I would
definitely recommend in class shot you
can go to their FAQ to read more about
their how it's sold and their partners
that they sell it through and things
like that and how it works
but definitely try getting their app
getting started with that and start
selling some of your photos whether
you're an amateur hobbyist or
professional whatever your situation is
you can make pretty good money from
class shot
number five is SmugMug Pro SmugMug Pro
is more of a professional site kind of
like say shoulder stock I stopped photo
sites like that and this is kind of what
it looks like it's a big site lots of
traffic so you don't have to worry about
whether you'll get enough visibility for
it to be worth your time or not but they
really have a very professional site and
it's very easy to get started and you
can just go to a SmugMug comm /features
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started
you can set your price list and things
like that and start setting up shop in
selling photos they will also give you
analytics and things like that to kind
of see how well you're doing and it's
just a really nice site very simple very
straightforward lots of traffic and if
you're a professional or an amateur
especially I would definitely recommend
you try SmugMug and of course like I
said I'll have the links in the
description for where to get started on
all of these and yeah SmugMug especially
if you do a lot of photography can make
you really good money and you can kind
of set your own price kind of how much
you want to make and kind of negotiate
it through their price list creation
here on their application page number
six is snap wire snap wire is another
photo site they also have an app and you
can use snap wire to sell your photos of
course whether you're an amateur or
professional someone who just has photos
on their phone they do review
submissions though it's I don't think
folk or class shot actually do that so
it might be a little more professional
than those two apps but things like that
just help it stay a quality site and
it's just a great place to for people to
find not only free images but premium
images as well you can download the app
or you can actually I will show you
where you can go to get started
and go to I shoot beautiful photos it's
on the home page and this is kind of
what it looks like when you want to
apply to start selling photos and
there's two ways to earn and you have
requests and challenges and there's also
the portfolio marketplace way to go all
you do is you click the sign me up
button on this page and I will have the
link directly to this but you click this
sign me up page to become a photographer
and start selling on snap wire you get
to keep 70% from requests and challenges
where your people kind of request a
certain type of photo and you get to
keep 50% from portfolio and marketplace
sales so it actually pays a lot better
than most photography websites plus they
have the app for Google Play and Amazon
as well and Apple so definitely one of
the top ones I would recommend and you
get to keep a lot more of your money
that you make then a lot of them so snap
wire is great this is the kind of what
their app symbol looks like if you're
looking for it on a App Store number
seven is alum II and alum II allows you
to make money from of course one of the
bigger photography websites around there
they claim to be the biggest whether or
not that's true you'd have to kind of
look at their traffic and compare it to
probably iStockphoto and Shutterstock
because those two are usually the first
ones that come to mind for me and for
many others as far as the top photo
sites like they advertise up here they
have millions almost a hundred million
stock photo photos vectors and videos on
there right now if you want to sell
images you just have to go to their menu
at the top go to this page here it says
sell images and they will kind of give
you a breakdown of how everything works
and you can apply to start selling
images so
they have kind of their frequently asked
questions so you know all the stuff you
need to know about it and instead of
making a measly 30% or less or something
you actually get 50/50 as far as the
royalties go so you make more than most
photo sites with alum E and still get a
lot of traffic and visibility so if
you're pretty much any kind of
photographer and want to sell photos
that's one of the first places you
should go
number eight is marked shot and mark
shot is a you know another one of the
biggest apps as far as selling photos
you can get it for both Apple and
Android devices so you can go to their
website to find those links or you can
go to your preferred app store and you
can get photos on mark shot and mark
shot is a big leader as far as one of
the top apps and they don't have any
kind of subscriptions and things like
that so they also check for copyright so
it's a very high quality one it's not
just some complete amateur site that
doesn't care they allow you to earn 50%
when people buy your photos so they pay
you 50% of royalties and that's a really
nice bonus of course so you can get
started just by getting the app or you
can sign up here on their website number
nine is dreams time dreams time allows
you to make money selling your photos
whether you are an amateur whether
you're more of a hobbyist they even have
apps now for both Apple and Android
devices so you can get the apps as well
you can sign up for free here and they
have a
really nice site really impressive and
16 million users they claimed 51 million
stock images which is pretty impressive
and if you want to actually start
selling your photos images and videos on
dreams time you can go to dreams
time.com / sell it will take you to a
page like this where they have a
breakdown of your royalties which up
range from 25 percent to around 60
percent course they have different
levels as well but ultimately you can
make up to 60 percent revenue from
dreams time depending on what level
you're at and what type of images you're
selling but definitely a great site they
pay you pretty well and they get good
traffic so it's definitely one I would
consider and you can register here at
the register page on the dreams time.com
slash sell page you just go here to
register and like I said I'll have all
the links for you and last but not least
is I am so I am is an app that you can
get where you can sell your photos where
you can buy photos or things like that
get free photos and it's one of the top
ones as far as the apps go you can
become a seller and sell your photos
just by going to the website and
clicking the sell your photos page right
here which will take you to I am calm
slash market slash sell slash info ah
I'll have a point to you for that in the
description you just fill out this stuff
sign up and it allow you to start
selling you make up to fifty percent
every time you sell actually you make
exactly fifty percent so they split it
50/50 with you they make sure your
copyright is in check and you can sell
what some of the top image sites in the
world
so you can import from a lot of
different places it's very easy to get
your photos on here which is always nice
you can use the web uploader you can
also import from Flickr Dropbox Google
and so it makes it really easy they have
an app and it's both for Apple and for
Android devices so definitely easy to
get started very straightforward you can
go to the website or go to the app and
start selling photos on I am where you
can get paid 50% for each sale so if you
got something from this video if you
feel like you learned about some really
cool places to sell photos whether
you're an amateur whether you're a
hobbyist whether you're a professional
or someone who just has some photos on
their smartphone and they're looking to
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