Accepted at Shutterstock!

I am a contributor to Shutterstock just today! Check out my gallery here. I haven't had any downloads yet but hopefully it will come in a few days.

Join Shutterstock now and earn commissions from your photographs and illustrations!

Job Lead - High Paying Forum Posting Job

Guys, found this thread in Work At Home Mom Forum which is a forum posting job. The job pays $1 per post if you are accepted. But I think there is a limit to 25 posts per week. But that's still something worth checking out. $1 vs a few cents for other forum posting sites.

I am already a part of this and have been paid by them already. Go check it out here.

Blogging Jobs

Back to writing gigs for a moment, there are some new blog writing jobs in ProBlogger you guys might want to check out. They don’t usually have much blogging jobs that are of interest to me since my technical knowledge is limited. But currently, they have a blog job for Music lovers, I am sure there are a lot of people who love music and writing about it would be easy. The company is Orble and they are looking for Music Bloggers and bloggers get 50% share of the revenues. Check out this job posting here.

Stock Photography

I recently found a new "job" that gives you passive income. It doesn't involve writing. It just involves taking pictures and slightly editing it in Photoshop or making illustrations using any Illustration software such as Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, or CorelDraw.

I am talking about Stock Photography sites. What is stock photography? According to Wikipedia, consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. In short, you will be taking these photographs and selling it to those who need it. If you take good stock pictures, you can get downloads even after a year of uploading that photo. It's always nice to get money from something you did a long time ago. By the way, you don't need fancy digital cameras for this. Basic Canon or Sony digital cameras with at least 5 Mega Pixel will do.

I tried photography when I found out about Stock sites but I am not really sure I get the technical aspects of it. Which is why I chose to make illustrations instead. Vector illustrations are drawn computer images representing different things, they are usually used for prints and web purposes. Cartoony like representations of people are good examples of Vector illustrations. There are also technical details in Vector illustrations but it is something that you can learn.

I have never used any computer drawing software before like Photoshop or Illustrator. I think the most complicated I have used is Paint! Anyway, I bought a copy of Illustrator and started reading up on it and now I can create illustrations! I can't really draw so I have to look at a lot of references (mostly in the stock sites) and get ideas from them.

Right now, I don't have a portfolio yet but I am doing them now. Try out Shutterstock first because they are more lenient on the Vector screening process. You need to have 10 vector illustrations or photographs as an application before you officially become part of the team. You should first look at their site to see what they require and what images/illustrations sell well. They pay you $0.25 per downloaded picture/illustration. It doesn't sound much but it would be worth it if the downloads are coming in. In Shutterstock, the customers have subscription. For example, if a customer subscribes for 1 year worth of subscription, that means, they will download 25 photos per day for 365 days in a year. Of course, they wouldn't like to waste their 25 downloads per day so they download a lot even if they don't need it yet. They store it for future use. So as long as you upload photos/illustrations, you can get downloads.