Earn Residual Income Selling Your Photos on iStockphoto
Another microstock photography website that I make some residual income from is iStockphoto. iStockphoto is much more stringent regarding the quality of photos they will accept on their website. For example, I have 306 photos active on Shutterstock, I submitted those very same photos to iStockphoto and only 74 images got accepted. With those 74 images, I make about $40 t0 $50 per month in residual income and I think the payout is slightly higher than Shutterstock.
If you think that your photos are top notch, then you can definitly give iStockphoto a try. The worst thing about iStockphoto is the fact that you have to upload one photo at a time. It can take forever just to upload 10 photos on iStockphoto. For some reason, their website does not allow you to upload multiple photos at a time or use an ftp server.
Today I read on iStockphoto that they are now accepting audio files to sell on their website, I am not sure what kind of market there is on iStockphoto for audio files, but if you are a musician or producer – you may want to upload some of your songs onto iStockphoto and see if you can garner any sales.
Overall, I believe that for upper echelon photographers – iStockphoto can be an excellent source of residual income and one more tool for microstock photographers to use to make money online.
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Best regards,
Michael-John Wolfe
TAGS: Residual Income, Make Money Online, Royalties
2 Comments to “Earn Residual Income Selling Your Photos on iStockphoto”
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You can upload more than one photo at atime- there is a program called deepmeta that lets you upload many photos at once to istockphoto, and manage your portfolio offline.
However, istock imposes a limit on how many photos you can upload in a week. I think its fifteen when you start out, but it goes up.
Hi David! Thank you for the info. I will check out deepmeta! Is it free?
MJ