Spending money to make money
A couple of days ago, I did an article on making money via stock photography, and one of my eagle-eyed readers pointed out that you had to pay for the service I recommended.
I had a bit of a think, and was trying to make up my mind if I should write something more about the topic, ‘if it is worth investing money into trying to make money off photography’. Obviously, in most business, you are dependent on making an investment in order to start earning anything, but can the same be said to be true for photography?
Before I had time to formulate my thoughts, one of my regular readers who is also an old friend of mine posted a comment which pretty much sums up my opinions on the matter – I’m sure he doesn’t mind if I reproduce it here:
Yeah, you do have to pay, but the thing is, if you manage to sell a couple of images, you can make that money back easily. They seem to have one of the best systems out there, and it’s all about having faith in your product.
If you don’t think your photos are good enough that you will be able to sell them, then paying for the service is not for you. If you believe your pictures are good enough to compete, then you’ve got yourself a winner.
I’ve been able to make a profit from this website over the past 3 months, and I’ve had my account for about 7 months. In total, I’m running at a loss, but if the last 3 months are anything to go by, I’ll be running a profit overall from next month onwards.
I’m really excited, actually, it’s the first time I’m making money off my photos. Even if I end up not making much from this, I can say I’m making money of photography, which has been a life-long dream for me.
YMMV, of course, but I’ll stick with Photo Stock Plus for as long as they’ll have me.
Thanks a lot for that, Tim.
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Spending money to make money is a no brainer, especially when its $25 / month. After reading the original post I was immediately interested in signing up for photostockplus. It sounds like a great idea. My only question is how effective are their marketers? Does the site get enough traffic that it wouldn’t be difficult to make a profit with a modest sized portfolio?
It’s been awhile since this post. How does your friend feel about PhotoStockPlus now? Is he making any money?
As of now in a hundred of ways to make money online, there is no way that can earn money without spending some cash at first. May be you can find some other way where you will spend a little amount of cash and earn a big amount of cash. :) nice post!
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