on this video i'm going to talk about
different websites where you can make
extra money on the side selling pictures
now i know you might have heard of the
saying that goes
a picture is worth a thousand words and
today i'm going to show you
that a picture is also worth a thousand
dollars it's worth a thousand rents
a thousand kwasha whichever currency
you're thinking of right now
you can make it with selling pictures so
stay tuned to this video until the end
so i can show you
these different platforms which are
going to pay you for your pictures
i'm also going to give you some tips on
how to sell your pictures
because it's one thing to have your
pictures up for sale
but actually making sales it's what's
important
it is a totally different thing
altogether and that's what i'm going to
share with you guys some tips
on how you can make sales with your
pictures
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like i've said today's video i'm going
to share with you
and on a way of making money online or
earning money online
by selling pictures i get so excited
when i share a strategy like this one or
a method like this one
which is from experience my own
experience
in other words i have sold some pictures
online
and i can tell you right now that it
wasn't
by accident i had to learn some things i
had to implement
some things in order for me to make
sales and that came
after a year of having some pictures
up online on different platforms so i'm
going to share with you firstly
the tips for making sales on different
platforms
with your pictures number one you first
of all need to have pictures of course
that is a no-brainer and but then if you
don't have pictures of your own stay
tuned because i've got something for you
at the end of this video so you need to
have good
quality pictures to sell because the
online market
is competitive for everything number two
you need to know what
sells the most or what currently sells
it could be different things at
different times so you need to make sure
that you are keeping your eyes on their
platforms
what they normally do or usually do on
these platforms is
they give out um a month's winner or
different winners top five of the month
top 10 of the month
the best selling pictures of demand and
that is an
indicator for you on the kind of images
or pictures that
you should sell on the platform now i've
gone on to these different platforms and
i've checked the leaderboard
to see who is selling the most what are
they selling
and that has really really helped me in
making sales with
my pictures so you need to understand
what are people buying on those
different platforms
and maybe to understand that you need to
first understand who is
buying these pictures so a lot of
companies and
uh brands and organizations
buy these pictures to work with them in
their companies for their presentations
uh for their videos um you know for
different a whole lot of things
even content creators like you and i buy
these pictures to use them for
our videos to use them for our articles
whatever the reason may be
and maybe you may be asking yourself
there are some
free platforms where you find free
images why don't they go there and just
pick
some of those images and use them the
reason why they don't go
to these platforms or maybe they've gone
to these platforms
is the fact that these platforms like
pixabay and pixels
are great but they are also limited
because also the people who are posting
on those platforms
are you know are talented people and why
wouldn't they want to make
money with their craft there is no
reason why they post
or sell their best content and also
share their other content
which is also good quality and it's also
um good quality it's also good content
but also they make money out of this so
they sell their best of the best
on these platforms and another thing is
it's cheaper for companies to source out
pictures on these platforms rather than
hiring a photographer
each time they have a campaign or a
project
you know because not only will they need
a photographer for some of these things
they're going to need some facilities
studio of some sort
some props and they may even need models
depending on the project or campaign
they are working on
so that adds up to a lot more than
just having a subscription in one of
these platforms
and having unlimited pictures and videos
to use for your campaigns
or their campaigns and projects so this
is the reason why
companies and individuals and content
creators prefer
buying pictures and paying for their
subscriptions
and actually helping you and i to make
money with
our pictures another tip that i'm going
to give you if you want to sell
is you need to move with the times for
instance
i found that a lot of the pictures that
i've sold at this time
had to do with the pandemic because
that's what a lot of
uh content creators are writing about
there if you look on different websites
you see pandemic related type of
content so to go with that content they
always need pictures and videos
so if you are targeting according to a
time in a season
it can help you make sales in these
platforms so
in this season i've made cells with
pictures that
have to do with surgical masks and the
new normal
which is families sitting together
working together as a family
so it's those type of things that are
selling at a certain time
and also it can help to go with seasons
if you are
in in summer in your country or wherever
it's important that you post pictures
that have to do with your season
because now different companies and
stores and online stores
are looking to create catalogs and a
whole lot of content
that has to do with this season so
that's
another way or another tip that i'm
going to give you that's going to help
you to
sell now when it comes to the pictures
labeling your pictures is very very
important in making
your sale so you might realize that when
you
shoot your videos or your um your
pictures with your camera
you know the camera saves them with some
digit numbers which are like zero eight
seven
which don't make sense and you need to
make sure that you rename
your pictures and you optimize your
pictures for search
so take for example if you are posting
an
image with a surgical mask what are
people
most likely to go and search on the
internet if they are looking for
you know such content people are going
to search for surgical masks
ask and a whole lot of of of keywords
that have got to do with
the mask so if you are renaming your
images and optimizing them for search
you are most likely to make sales with
these
platforms which is a tip which i feel
like has
really really helped me the most another
thing when it comes to labeling it's the
tagging
tags are really really important in
helping
your images be discoverable so
using the same scenario an example of
their surgical mask
when you are done labeling make sure
that you leave some tags
which are surgical mask related which
are what can you use a surgical mask for
you know list a different uh tags which
are related to the surgical mask
which you are selling or whichever image
you are selling that's going to help
your image
be available in search but the greatest
tip which i can give you
is look at what the best sellers are
selling and also
sell similar images sell the same images
don't download their images and resell
them it's illegal
you can't do it without their permission
but actually sell
similar images because you know why it's
an indicator that
those images are in demand or on demand
and also this best sellers only have a
limited pool of images
or a list of images so with you having
similar
images you stand a chance of you know
making sales
just in case the people have already
exhausted uh you know
they are they've already exhausted those
other ones
images so those are my tips now i'm
going to give you a tip
uh on where to find these images to sell
so one of the best places to find images
to sell
is on pixabay and another one is pixels
these are my favorite platforms for
finding images for a whole lot of
content which i create
i use these platforms to find images and
videos
for absolutely free because images which
you find on these platforms
are free for you to use you know
commercially
you don't need to give any attribution
which means you don't have to mention
uh you know the owner of the
photographer or the photographer
who has uploaded that picture it's free
for you to use
any how you look but if you go on to the
terms
and conditions of you know those
platforms
you will see that you cannot make money
directly by selling those images
so if you want to sell those images
number one tip that i'll give you is
find images where there is no brand
um on the image um there is no visible
or recognizable face
so you can find different images of
flowers for an example
and you can sell those on these
platforms that i'm going to share with
you guys today
and you can find images of maybe
mountains and rivers and
all of these things as long as there is
no visible branding
there is no visible face of a model also
on these platforms
on these platforms where you are selling
to they want you to have a release form
if you are selling images with visible
faces you know
you need to sign a release form and you
need to have the person whose face
is a visible sign that they allowed you
to use their face
and to sell their face with those
photographs
so now that we've gotten that out of the
way let me mention
some of these platforms the first one is
i stole istock is an international
microstock photography provider
the firm offers millions of photos
illustrations
clip art videos and audio tracks
artists designers and photographers
worldwide contribute their work
to i stock collections in return for
royalties
nearly half a million new stocks
illustrations videos and audio files are
added
each month so it is quite a big one to
look out for
do check it out i will leave links for
all of this on my description box down
below
to sell your pictures on istock you need
to follow the following three steps
number one you need to download
contributor by getting images
from the app store or google play upload
three to six sample images
illustrations or video via youtube links
then on the third step they will review
your samples
and let you know if you are accepted to
either getty images
or i stopped by getty images you must be
18 years of
age to apply make sure you upload
only good quality content the second one
is adobe stock this is one of the
platforms where i have personally
made sales with my images by using the
same strategy
which i have shared with you here today
looking at the best sellers what are
they selling
what do they have on their profiles how
are they organizing their profile
how are they taking and titling their
images and so forth
so in this platform i've been able to
make some sales
just using this strategy now let us look
at
website number three site number three
is
alamai and it is a privately owned
stock footage site they maintain an
archive of over 125 million
still images illustrations and a hundred
and thousands of videos
contributed by agencies and independent
photographers
or collected from new news archives
museums and national collections
its suppliers include both professional
and amateur photographers
stock agencies news archives and all of
those
agencies although they sell good quality
professionally looking stock content you
don't need to be a professional for you
to qualify
to contribute on alame as a seller or a
contributor of
photos and videos do check it out i will
also leave a link to this one on my
description box down below
another great site for selling pictures
online
is etsy i know it is popularly known for
selling your crafts your art and so on
but when it comes to selling images
which could be used for different
purposes
it's one of the best selling sites so if
you have creative images which people
can put onto their keyrings they can put
onto their walls and decorate their
houses
pictures which are creative and
beautiful you can sell
easily on itsy and again it's a
localizes their website depending on
a country where you are based in so do
check out
a an itsy website to see if it's
available also in your country because
that is the easiest way
to sell because you also understand the
culture of your country
and you know the buying habits which
people in your country have
this is another thing which i love about
selling pictures
on this website
the first website is shutterstock it is
a leading global provider of high
quality licensed images
videos and music so shutter stocks helps
inspire graphic designers
i would say all content creators like
web
developers and other creative
professionals by providing
diverse content to business marketing
agencies and media organizations around
the world
so content create creators contribute
their work to shutterstock
where end users buy and use in a diverse
array of creative
personal and business projects it is a
two-sided marketplace that empowers the
world storytellers
to sign up is absolutely free and once
you
are qualified you can start contributing
your high quality stock content on this
side
and get paid each time there is a sale
remember certain pictures online is just
one of many strategies which i have here
on the channel
for making money online there are so
many strategies which i have spoken
about
and i have taught about here on the
channel check out more videos at the end
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