Author Topic: Easy money.... (Read 13683 times)

rene · « **Reply #25 on:** April 18, 2013, 01:16 »

Yeah, not so easy.
That's why I decided to make it a little bit easier and outsourcing a part of work to iStock. Why should I spend a lot of time selecting and checking at 100% details of all photos? Looking for sensor spots, purple fringing, logos on jeans' buttons, noise?
The excellent reviewers are here, they can do this job for me. They are paid over 80% for this. I was to respectful with them.
I estimate my gain to 3 hours/month.

asmai · « **Reply #26 on:** April 18, 2013, 09:28 »

It's extremely easy. I have spent my entire 6 weeks full time building my site, SEO and creating exclusive content for it, and yesterday i got my first sale that net me roughly 5$, Woohoo. We went out for dinner to celebrate and spent 30$. Easy!

ShadySue · « **Reply #27 on:** April 18, 2013, 09:33 »

Quote from: davidgoh on April 18, 2013, 00:25

I actually got into microstock after reading this article:

http://freelanceswitch.com/money/how-i-make-2000-every-year-without-doing-very-much/

What's written isn't very reflective of how the industry is now (especially because it was written in 2008!), but I thought it was a pretty honest take on what to expect.

And that author only has one file remaining on iStock, though the article does say they hadn't uploaded since 2006, when they started envanto. I wonder how much they make per month from that one illo nowadays.

CD123 · « **Reply #28 on:** April 18, 2013, 09:45 »

Quote from: asmai on April 18, 2013, 09:28

It's extremely easy. I have spent my entire 6 weeks full time building my site, SEO and creating exclusive content for it, and yesterday i got my first sale that net me roughly 5$, Woohoo. We went out for dinner to celebrate and spent 30$. Easy!

Please invite me over for the party when you make your first $100

asmai · « **Reply #29 on:** April 18, 2013, 10:00 »

Quote from: CD123 on April 18, 2013, 09:45

Quote from: asmai on April 18, 2013, 09:28
It's extremely easy. I have spent my entire 6 weeks full time building my site, SEO and creating exclusive content for it, and yesterday i got my first sale that net me roughly 5$, Woohoo. We went out for dinner to celebrate and spent 30$. Easy!

Please invite me over for the party when you make your first $100

Sure hope you can wait till that day

. With this rate of celebration i may go bankrupt before that

RacePhoto · « **Reply #30 on:** April 18, 2013, 14:18 »

No No, spend all your profits in advance on new equipment so you can make more profit. Which are actually a bigger loss, faster. LOL

Quote from: asmai on April 18, 2013, 10:00

Quote from: CD123 on April 18, 2013, 09:45
Quote from: asmai on April 18, 2013, 09:28
It's extremely easy. I have spent my entire 6 weeks full time building my site, SEO and creating exclusive content for it, and yesterday i got my first sale that net me roughly 5$, Woohoo. We went out for dinner to celebrate and spent 30$. Easy!

Please invite me over for the party when you make your first $100

Sure hope you can wait till that day . With this rate of celebration i may go bankrupt before that

drial7m1 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 22, 2013, 13:27 »

Oh come on, you know that all we ever do is point a camera and push a button to make the perfect picture, we never have to do anything more than that!!! Our cameras even upload the photos directly to the web sites and keyword it for us!

< I'm hiding behind my chair as I know I'm getting things thrown at me>

Oh I forgot, we never have to travel any distance at all to get our photos, we just walk out our front door to get all of those photos we do take!

CD123 · « **Reply #32 on:** April 22, 2013, 14:10 »

Quote from: drial7m1 on April 22, 2013, 13:27

Oh come on, you know that all we ever do is point a camera and push a button to make the perfect picture, we never have to do anything more than that!!! Our cameras even upload the photos directly to the web sites and keyword it for us!

< I'm hiding behind my chair as I know I'm getting things thrown at me>

Oh I forgot, we never have to travel any distance at all to get our photos, we just walk out our front door to get all of those photos we do take!

Have heard of those cameras and technique! Can't remember the name, but if my memory serves me right it was definitely model version BS.

Livingstonatlarge · « **Reply #33 on:** April 25, 2013, 19:36 »

and then when I'm out on the beach shooting a shipwreck, dodging in the surf to get the right shots/vids and that night after an 18 hour day knowing i have to make the sunrise..... go to the pub, hang out with the locals drinking whiskey and singing pirate songs....

I forget all about processing, keywording etc.

and think.... this is the best job EVER.

You get out of it, what you put in to it. It may be a lot, but it's better than anything else.

Ala01 · « **Reply #34 on:** July 12, 2013, 08:36 »

Shutterstock is good, but they often criticize photos like this picture. Maybe it is mistake but it is popular. Galery is good. mhttp://www.shutterstock.com/pic-135496172/stock-photo-close-up-image-of-watermelon.html?src=3vRwT4D_3HQsYhBiQ8pJYg-1-8
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Red Dove · « **Reply #35 on:** July 12, 2013, 10:01 »

Hmmm....People who promise easy money usually have holes in their shoes and smell like a pub carpet in my experience. And if they don't I'm even more suspicious.