Looking for Micro Work

Posted on July 07th, 2009 in News

I still get emails from microstockers looking for work.Â Many want to know more about how to go about profiting from low cost legal images without waiting for the micro stock site payout. How can you make money? You can earn dollars by making the most of your skills.

Here’s a post (a real one)

I need a banner $25 ;Â need a banner done for a grocery shipping website. Please PM me. Thanks,

Patrick, www.863togo.com

food delivery in Burlington, Vermont

If you’ve been actively chasing the micro stock dollar, new clients might be lining up at your inbox very soon. Do you have a website or portfolio url (http://mypictureshere) or gallery ready for viewing?Â I use www.Portlandshock.comÂ as my own personal example. It is a Coppermine gallery open source application installation.

The opportunities are out there for an independent micro stock sales career.

However, before looking for work the marketing tools of the microstockÂ vendor must be put into place. Having a splash page of your best work will catch the attention of the idlest cruising potential client. have an online bank account such as Paypal to accept online legal image vending payment.

People shopping for images, banners, logos and visual elements for websites react to what their site visitors will get excited about. many webmasters rely on sites like cooltext.com to get their banner or logo image ready. Not surprisingly, webmasters are more adept at website composition skills than graphic editing. Hence a post like this might appear:

(from a real ad)

I need 50 images (for start) created 350×450 px (banner style images); I would like to hire someone who can design 50 images for me. The images need to be 350 x 450 px (not animated). If this works out it will be ongoing work. When you reply please leave your msn id so I can contact you there. Thank you.

With hard work and open eyes and operable mouse fingers a flash page of examples of your work is ready for the client to view.Â If you register for this or other online forums and use the avatar and profile picture file as an opportunity to displayÂ your work, the member can see potential reading reply post. Other readers might see your images and follow up to get something similar for their own web site.

That being the case, I’ll review some online search tactics to provide opportunistic windows for microstockers to breed new business. Photographers with editing and graphics skills can make money with ideas for creating image sale revenue. These independent gigs and private commissions can make way for more work online. Get going!