Make Money Taking Photos

Making money using your digital images has never been easier. Microstock photography sites have now made it possible for just about anyone to earn money from their digital images

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Microstock photography allows users to sell their digital images for free. Users are encouraged to upload their digital images to a microstock site. Every time your image is downloaded by a registered user, you receive money. The amount you take home depends on the size and resolution of the image downloaded. iStockphoto, Dreamstime, Fotolia and Shutterstock are popular microstock sites.

Although the payout per picture is not that high, your earnings do add up. In fact, you can make thousands of dollars a month from selling many of their digital images.

Below are a few tips to get you on your way to making money through microstock photography.

Note 1: Image Quality is Important

A high end camera is not required to produce acceptable images. Any high resolution digital camera can do the job.

Note 2: Your Photos Will Be Reviewed

Each individual image submitted to microstock sites will be reviewed. Therefore, it is important to analyze your own images before submission. Also, make sure to read all the image terms and requirements before submission. Images are sometimes rejected. Today, many of the prominent microstock photography sites have tutorials that you can follow to help you take fantastic images.

Note 3: Subject matter is important

Content does matter. Certain subject matters, such as business and food images are popular. However, images of family and flowers may not make the cut. Do some research and see what image types are downloaded the most. This will give you an idea of what sells and potentially what to focus on.

Also, images containing people may require you to complete a model release form. Please read the terms and conditions of the microstock site before making such submissions.

Note 4: Portfolio Development Takes Time

To make a serious income from microstock sites, it is important to develop a portfolio containing a many high quality images. Also, make your images keyword rich. Relevant keywords will allow your images to appear more frequently in customer searches.

Also, submit your images to numerous microstock sites. This increases the probability of your images being downloaded.

With these notes in mind, you can be on your way to making serious money using only your digital camera!

Survey Spot

Survey Spot is a survey company that offers surveys to take for cash. They are one of my favorite, mostly because they usually have good prices for their surveys. Mostly $1-$5, which is very good considering that some places only offer .50 cents per survey.

They allow you to cash out at only $5, which is extremely good compared to other sites at usually $20 or $30. They pay through a check or direct deposit. Survey Spot will send you survey invitations to your preferred email address. The surveys are specially chosen for you through your special profile survey that you take at sighn up to let them know more about you. By doing this you only get surveys that are going to allow you to complete them, and you won’t waste your time.

Survey Spot has other benefits, like drawings that they hold. I’m not sure how often but I think every week at least. Every time I take a survey for cash I also get to play a game, something like a scratch off ticket or slot machine, to see how many entries that I get in to the drawing. The prize is a cash prize, a pretty decent one too. I would definitely recommend joining this site.

Here is a photo copy of one of my payments from Survey Spot

Make Money Blogging

Many of you out there might have a blog or two, maybe you have Adsense on it or possibly not. If you want to make money then you should definitely put some sort of ads on your blog. If you don't already have a blog, that's okay. They are very easy to create.

You can't just throw a blog together and expect to get rich from it. There are many tedious tasks that you have to go through in order to create a successful blog. If your really interested in blogging and making money from it then the place to go is The Keyword Academy. You can try it out for 30 days for only $1, you really can't beat that!

If you want to do it just for fun, which I also recommend, then start by going to Blogger and setting up a free blog. That is the nicest thing about making money this way, you can do it for absolutely no cost at all.

You'll need at the minimum five posts about the same topic, preferably something that you are interested and knowledgable about. I started my very first blog about indoor tanning, you can view this blog at tantips123.blogspot.com and see how far it has come in less than a year. I have to make very clear that making money from blogging is not something that comes quick. It takes a lot of time for you to build up any kind of credit with the search engines. Many other reasons, such as links, come in to play also but that is a completely different post. That is why I advise using The Keyword Academy to learn the basics of blogging.

The next thing is putting ads on your blog. Most people have heard of Adsense but that is not the only ad placement service that is available to use. For example there is Widgetbucks, both of these are great. You can use both if you would like. You pretty much just sign up for an account and follow the directions. Widgetbucks is a little bit easier at applying the ad to your blog because you don't have to put a big code in to your template, which can be agonizing and confusing, especially for beginners.

Well there are the basics of the basics. You can learn for yourself by trial and error or you can do more research, or go to The Keyword Academy, I highly recommend them, they taught me so much and I had already been blogging for six months. It is worth it and so is blogging, it just takes time. Don't give up like most people do because they are impatient.