💸 Sell Your Instagram Photos as a Side Hustle

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What we got for ya today:

• 📸 Make money with your Instagram photos

• 💲 How to make millions as an employee

Time to get goin: 2 weeksEst. start-up cost: $0Potential return in 6 months: $3,000

GET PAID FOR YOUR INSTAGRAM PHOTOS

This headline isn't clickbait, there's a totally legit company that will really pay for your Instagram photos - if they're high quality.

This platform is called Snapwire.

Basically how it works is they find clients who are looking for advertisements and then you, the creator, submit your photo of say “Someone driving a car and smiling” or a video of “Two wine glasses clinking”.

And if yours is chosen, you get paid on average $15 to $100.

And they work with huge brands - here's some of the big ones:

The Point System

Snapwire runs on a point system where the more points you have, the more credibility you hold and the more brands that actually reach out to you.

It's like an Uber rating. If you post great photos to the Snapwire community and others nominate them, you get points. If brands select your photo for their ad, you get points.

And if you have a nice phone, you don’t need to buy a camera.

The new iPhones and Androids are so good nowadays shoot they shoot 48 megapixels. That’s the same thing as this nice $5,000 Canon.

SO HERE'S YOUR TWO-STEP GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED

1. Upload your existing photos

When you first start on Snapwire, you'll have to set up 3 things.

• #1 Your profile details - so whether you're a photographer, videographer, etc.

• #2 Your payment info - you can get paid with PayPal or Stripe, you choose. *there's no threshold minimum to withdraw funds from your Snapwire account!*

• #3 Upload your existing photos - that picture you have from summer break in Cabo of beautiful beaches, or a Toucan. Post it - who knows what brands are looking for?

If you're a photographer as a hobby, this will suit you well because you'll already have a bank of content you hit the ground running with.

If you don't have many quality cool photos, it's time to start applying to "briefs" - this is what Snapwire calls each project a brand posts.

Then when you're accepted to one, be sure to read the creative detail package from the brand laying out the specifics of how they want the photo to look.

A specific request could be something like "A photo of a glass skyscraper at golden hour"

And you would send them this - what a beaut.

2. Rank Up

Like I mentioned, if you do good work on Snapwire, you're rewarded.

It's like being the most athletic kid in gym class who's always picked first for ultimate frisbee. You want to be this person for Snapwire.

The more briefs you do, the more points you'll gain.

Everyone starts at the bottom as an "Explorer" then once any of your photos are nominated for a project you level up to "Shooter" - here you can now start earning points.

For each nomination, you'll earn 100 points and if you sell a photo for $15 you'll earn 250 points. If you sell one worth $100, that's 1,100 points.

Once you get to their "Expert" level (5,000 points), you're featured on their platform and this will start a more consistent stream of income.

This is where you’ll actually start being invited to brand's briefs instead of having to apply. The companies will come to you - a pretty cool feature Snapwire offers if you put in good work on the platform.

IN'S & OUT'S

• It can take time to start getting briefs - you have to build your brand, but once you do it's much easier getting a constant stream of income

MAKE MILLIONS AS AN EMPLOYEE

When I was listening to My First Million, a great podcast I'd recommend to anyone interested in business, Sam Parr, one of the hosts talked about how to become wealthy even as an employee.

He mentioned how working for a medium sized startup that hasn't gone public or had an exit yet is a great strategy.

Why? Because they have funding so there's a slimmer chance of going bankrupt and they have a much bigger upside potential from the equity you get with your compensation package.

And right now is the best time to do this because valuations have come down so you'd be getting that private stock at an ever cheaper price.

We're talking a few million in just 5-10 years as an employee.

Here's the list of companies he thinks you can do this at 👀

That's all I got for ya today folks!

DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Please be careful and do your own research.