Making money online is not a new thing; multiple paths are available for it. Now-a-days, every Hand holds Smartphone for better functionality, but do you know that your Smartphone can become the best way to earn money? Yesssss… it’s true… Now, people can make money by putting their images captured by Smartphone online. You don’t need to be a professional photographer to catch amazing photos with Smartphone because it is already made with best picture quality. Foap.com is the latest platform, which gives opportunity to earn money online by selling your iPhone photos via an app. At this innovative platform, you just need to snap or upload photo with your iPhone and sell it for editorial / commercial use. It is a great platform to turn your iPhone photos into dollars without any restriction for photo selling or photo uploading.
Earning money through Smartphone is become possible with Foap.com, which is the stock photography market founded by co-founder of Tripl.com, “David Los”, and former e-commerce Manager at Solresor.se, “Alexandra Bylund”. Foap is a Swedish Company and first it launched in Australian market. The Foap application has been launched in the Scandinavian AppStores on May 15, 2012. Foap joins several prosperous entrepreneurial companies like Spotify, Wrapp, iZettle and Skype. The main aim of the site is to create the world’s largest marketplace for Smartphone photos.
Foap is specially created to attract the best Iphoneographers and those who adorn photography more willingly than everyone. The Foap has also joined with various photo buying companies like Ferratum, which is continuously searching photos that show unexpected bills and expenses. The mobile application of Foap is available only for iPhone users, later it will be available for Android. When it will be available in Android Market (Google Play), more than half of the worldwide people will be able to take the advantage of it because now-a-days most of the current and upcoming phones are available with Android OS.
It is the simplest way to upload photo for selling. To put your photo for selling on Foap, you must have iPhone because it is available only in application, so you cannot upload photo directly on the site via internet connected PC. If you are users of iPhone and want to increase your earning, then download Foap application from Foap.com and share photo on it and earn money after selling it. It is not only useful for selling Smartphone photos but for purchasing photos too.
After downloading Foap application, take snap on iPhone and place it on Foap. Your photos can get sold by tagging it with descriptive word tags and submitting it for approval. When you are placing a photo, you have to describe the label of photo either “Commercial” or “Editorial”. Commercial photo market is difficult for sellers as well as for buyers and it can be extremely frustrating when trying to discover photos. But you can help buyers and sellers, by publishing photo with commercial label that means companies can utilize these photos for selling/marketing purpose like to sell their products. Photos with Editorial label cannot be utilized for selling/marketing purpose; generally it can be utilized by news editor or bloggers to express different news/thoughts/opinions. As editorial, you can add photos like famous buildings and other types of photos.
It takes little time for approval after submission. All photos are not approved by them for publishing on Foap Market for sale. There are many reasons for rejection like image is too small, blurry, uses heavy Instagram filters or is poorly composed. Each photo has been put on sale on the site with the same price of $10. Foap divides the income on 50/50 basis with the photographer. So, when your photos get sold, you will earn $5 every time for each photo. There is no earning limit for photos. You can also place as many photos as you wish on Foap. It enables users to upload/publish/sell photos.
The earning money can be easily cash out from “sales” page in the application. To cash out your earning money, you must have PayPal account. To increase you sales, check out the top list of selling photos to get some inspiration. Tag your photos properly to get sold because better tagging gives more chances to find your photos and buy them. You can publish any photo that you like or want. Keep in mind the most important thing, don’t try to upload any kind of photo that has sexual and violent content. Foap has a right to remove your photo any time, when they find uploaded photo is not appropriate.
Searching is also possible on the site; and it can be made by entering tag or keywords. Each photo appears with photo resolution details, photo license and photo location. It enables users to download photos sample direct from the site. To buy photo, you have to register on the site with required details. With registration, you can add photo into light-box. During the surfing, if you like any photo and want to share on your social networks like facebook, twitter or google+, then you can do it just by logging into your appropriate social network account.
Pros:
- Sell photos captured by Smartphone
- Earn $5 for each photo selling
- Search photos by tag and keywords
- Download sample photo
- Share photo on social network
- Easily cash out earning money
- No limit for photo selling
- Upload as many photo as you want
- Companies can use photo for marketing/selling
Cons:
- Must have iPhone for getting benefit
- Can’t upload photo direct on Foap
