Image marketing.
This is a way that photographers can earn money by selling photos online. Photo marketing requires you to be creative as well as do research so that you can know which photos are needed, also if you know how to edit photos (photo editing) is very important. Some of the networks you can sell photos include,
Shutterstock – This is one of the most popular stock photography sites and photographers earn a 20% to 30% commission for each photo sold.
istockphoto - This site pays young photographers 15% and offers opportunities to become senior photographers and get paid between 20 to 45%
freeDigitalPhotos – Until now this site is the one that offers the biggest payouts to photo editors up to 70% of the payout for each image sold.
Fotolia – this network pays members from 20-60% of photo sales.
Alamy – this pays 50/50 for every image sold.
Important
In addition to carefully looking at the payment percentages, I have to read the terms and conditions of the relevant network, the payment methods according to the country you are in, and the payment period before you start selling your photos in that network. Some networks have a requirement not to sell your photo anywhere else after posting it to them and some networks allow you to post it in different places, it's important to know that.
-Sales of electronic books (Ebooks)
This is the sale of books in soft copy on the Internet, authors and publishers can use this as an opportunity to increase the marketing of their work. For young authors this method is a liberator for them as they can print their own books online and sell them in various networks such as Amazon and Lulu without printing costs. What you have to do after opening an account is to create your well-edited e-book, it can be of any topic, create a book cover with a good appearance before uploading your book to the internet. Plus you can sell your books on your website or blog. The following
The following are networks where you can make your own e-book and sell it there in an easy way.
Amazon - this is a large online shopping network and electronic books are among the products sold there. When you decide to sell your book on amazon network it will reach many internet users all over the world. This website charges 30% of every book purchased.
Payhip - this website sells various digital products and books are among them and they charge 5% of the sale of each book. This website allows you to create a link to your book and thus it is easy to promote it on other networks such as Facebook and WhatsApp.
-Other networks include Lulu.com, bluu, e-junkiena smashwords, other networks you can find by using Google search
