Six Ways to Make Money From Photos

Mika

VIP Contributor
If you take good photographs, there are a lot of ways to make money from your photos. Here are some methods you can try:

Pixabay: This is a platform for free photos, however, you can add a donation button and make money when people offer you a donation for using your photo.

Etsy: You can sell your photographs as printable wall art or canvas art (physical canvas).

iStock or Shutterstock: These are stock photo libraries where you make money when someone buys your image.

Fine Art America: You can sell your photographs as posters, wall art, or even as a print in tote bags, throw pillows, phone cases, etc.

Redbubble: You can sell your photographs as a design on various clothing items, and prints on phone cases, curtains, bathroom mats, coffee mugs, etc.

OpenSea: You can sell your phones as an NFT. You can make really good money.

Is it easy to sell photos?

Well, the answer depends on how well you do SEO and digital marketing.
 

Jasmine

VIP Contributor
These are definitely great platforms and methods to sell your photos. Interestingly, you do not have to become an expert photographer to make money from your photos. However, you do have to become an SEO expert and digital marketing expert to sell your photos. Let's say you want to sell your photos as printable wall art or canvas print on Etsy, can you sell your item just by creating a listing? You will have to do SEO and digital marketing. You might even have to spend money ads ads to generate sales. You can sell through istock and shutterstuck, however, without proper SEO, people will not find your photos and you will not make money. Apart from these platforms, there are a lot of other platforms to sell photos and make money, however, selling requires extensive knowledge and skills on SEO and digital marketing. Anything that is done online requires SEO and digital marketing.
 
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