People seeking free images are notoriously difficult to convert, but not impossible, and there’s a lot of them. So these sites require massive amounts of traffic to generate revenue. Judging by the limited momentum of most sites with this business model, they’re not very successful. Though as always, there are exceptions: Freepik has a large and growing team of people behind it and is very successful with this business model.
In recent years people have been experimenting with variations on this business model. One particular variation that’s becoming popular is to distribute a few high-quality images, offering a paid subscription to access more of the same, with the only delivery mechanism being email – so you have to give them permission to constantly send you offers in order to get the free stuff.
One Stock photography site gets the money from some different ways.
- Single Purchases: Each time someone purchases one image
- Extended license: Each time someone purchases one extended license.
- Subscriptions: Subscribers get unlimited access to all images.
- API Usage.
Then, each download the author receive or a % or a commission.
Sometimes they offer for free the images. But with the condition of the reference in the image. If you want to use it without the link, you should pay a fee.
But the most of the times they work as an Affiliate[1] for the big one’s companies. They offer for free the images as a way to get the attention of the people, but in the middle of their images, you can find advertising from the big one’s companies. Each time someone goes to through the affiliate link to the big one company, they get a % of the sale. But sometimes they do not get money
But if your looking ways to make money online I would suggest to:
1 Write an article or two for these sites
Writing articles for money is one of the simplest and fastest ways to start making money online.
Writing articles for money is one of the simplest and fastest ways to start making money online.
You don’t need to be an accomplished writer either. As long as you can write decently, you can get paid to write.
Here are a few good sites that’ll pay you to write for ’em:
TopTenz
They publish “Top 10” style articles–Top 10 Ways to Save Money, Top 10 Cities to Live in, etc. They’ll pay you a minimum of $50 for every article you submit that gets published.
The Dollar Stretcher
They’ll pay you $50 for a 500-word article. They like articles related to personal finance.
WOW! Women On Writing
This is a global magazine that is centered around women’s issues. They pay between $50 to $150 for each article you write.
2. Get paid to find coupons
If you’re anything like me, before you buy anything online you open another tab and search for coupons.
That’s great. You save a little money.
But what if I told you not only can you save money, but you can also make money for finding those coupons?
I’m serious!
There is a company called CouponChief that will actually pay you for sharing your best coupon with other members of the community.
3. Turn your pictures into cash
If photography happens to be your thing and you are good at capturing that special moment, you can trade your skills and expertise with a number of stock photography sites. Basically what you do there is to upload the shots that you have taken.
Every time a user takes a fancy about your picture and download it, you will earn a commission on that image.
This moneymaking option is a slight departure from most of the stuff I mentioned here. It is special because it represents one of the few passive income options online.
Remember you just need to do the upload once, and your picture may just bring in the cash repeatedly.
Of course, you’ll need to be good with your camera, and have that peculiar instinct to spot images that are going to appeal to the masses.
4. Affiliate Marketing
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