In summary: youtube, affiliate links , sell PDFs (contracts), blogging, lightroom presets, t-shrits, stock photo, stock video, prints (fine art america, great big canvas, image kind, cafe press, red bubble zazzle, society 6), etsy(costs money to sell, for selling prints and products), ebooks, video courses(self host or udemy) I would still recommend watching the video to increase this awesome channel's watch-time and pay her back for all the valuable info she shares!
Wow, you covered more than I expected. I thought it was going to be another cookie-cutter passive income video. Great job and thanks for taking the time to make the video.
Great video, Nicole. My passive income sources: 1. Dividends from stocks... Has not been doing well recently. 2. Shutterstock. I earned a whopping $6 from 97 accepted photos. Sigh.
I’ve had about half of the pics I submitted to shutterstock approved and that’s not that many either. I think I’m gonna take some time to submit more, if I already have pics I guess it can’t hurt
I am just getting started with Photography and have been very nervous about being able to make it financially. This video gave me so much peace and hope, by going over so many different ways of making money with Photography and other things. Thank you so much!
Great ideas! I have an e-book that's published on Amazon. To be honest I probably don't make more than when it was a PDF sold directly through my website (Amazon's cut is pretty big). I'm thinking of adapting it to an audiobook to see how that does.
Thanks for some really useful and great tips and yes this is probably your longest RUclips video. I'm more of a landscape photographer nowadays and maybe I'll try the the Fine Arts site. Just returned from Hawaii from a 7 days cruise and 3 nights in Honolulu right on Waikiki beach and now I really could use some passive income to pay for the trip:-)
Thanks for your videos Nicole. Would you recommend that the photos uploaded to print sites be exclusive? Do you sell content on those sites that you also have, say, on Shutterstock?
How much you can get on stock video footage? My brother goes timelapses and he is complaining that shotterstock is making some kind of crazy discounts on he’s footages and selling them for 6$ instead of original price around 80$ and they justify that this is because not much was sold for a full price! And the don’t even gave him an option to opt out from this clearance selling
In that case I would probably recommend that he uses Pond5 instead. On Pond5, he can set his own prices and prevent those kind of sales. I've never had a video make me less than $20 but I hear it happens to people every so often, unfortunately. I'm guessing someone downloaded super low quality SD versions of his clips.
Oh Nicole where do I start? :D I would like to have all of those sources of "passive" income of course. Right now I focus on my website with a blog (and a twist). However, I think that the most important message in this video is that none of those sources is truly passive. Any content gets old and that happens quickly these days, especially if it is about technology/equipment. Anything else, as I am sure you know, will not get shown to anybody if the creator stops uploading new content. I think that is how the algorithms work. I could be wrong but that is why I find it difficult to stay motivated in my online journey. :) Thanks for the video anyways. It is nice to have one go to spot where all of those sources are laid out for us.
Marek Bromberek Yes, you have to keep uploading new content. But for instance, I just sold a Xmas photo that I had uploaded last December. It’s passive income in the sense that once I got it accepted by Shutterstock, I didn’t touch it ever again. It took 9 months to sell it, but it sold. And it’s August!
Wow that was information packed. Great video Nicole. Thank you so much. I love all your videos. Your Shutterstock ones are great, I am particularly interested in your income stream ones, and the travel ones. Heck - I love them all!
great video. When you think about being truly passive it comes from a few strategic moves. It has to be something you own and control exclusively, which is timeless in its demand. Think of patents, copyrights, and licensing agreements, etc. So, the questions turns to how you can accomplish this as a photographer. It could be as hard as creating the photographic piece of equipment that every one has to have to compete, to as simple as a licensed process that makes the demand last for ever. They say necessity is the king of inventions, and for a reason. Capitalizing on what you have created for yourself, which could also solve other photographers problems, or image curator's needs is the best place to start.
Hey Nicole. Love your channel. Need some clarification. Can you sell stock product photos and videos to stock sites? For instance a photo of a Corona bottle for instance. I am confused on what you can submit and what you can’t when it comes to product photography.
Sorry if this had been mentioned in your other videos before, but is it better to use your real name or a business or profile name when selling stock photography? I ask this particularly if you sell editorial photos, and you take pictures of say, a Buffalo in the National Park you live next to, and it gets featured in a news article about a buffalo goring a tourist, and your community you live in sees that it was you who had the photo used for, you could say, bad press. Or do most editorial photos not even give photo credit? I really appreciate your videos, pure gold!
Modfarmgirl I can’t speak for Nicole, but IMO, why not use your real name? I usually do see photo credits in captions. I certainly think they should give credit! If you’ve managed to capture a newsworthy image, think of yourself as a journalist. You’re not drawing conclusions about the incident. You’re reporting the facts with your camera as they occurred. You’re a visual journalist. Many of my editorial photos are not newsworthy in the sense that I took photos of a protest or something like that. Most of my editorial photos are of places and show events or businesses or locations where obtaining a release isn’t feasible. But yes. In my case, I want my name out there. It’s my artwork that’s being used, it’s my craft... which sometimes means it’s just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
The name you use is up to you, but for editorial photos, the client is supposed to give photo credit. So it is a good way to build up a portfolio. Sometimes your photos could end up in well known publications.
I want to start selling a few prints, start a stock photography portfolio, and eventually do a travel photography vlog. Your videos are seriously motivating me to get started!
Sure, please talk about other topics too. I think I would like your traveling photos/videos (since I like traveling but don't have enough money and time to do it consistently). Btw, this kind of thing (talking outside the original topics of a youtube channel) is done by a lot of youtubers. . For example, I know a youtuber who starts talking about photography, but then lately also adds photomanipulations in his videos. Another one starts as a vector graphics channel, but then adds raster graphics also. And so on.
Pleeeeeeease do some videos on stock video. I've sold a fair few photos but not a single video. Don't wait for lots of sales data etc to analyse, keep us involved along the journey. The videos don't have to be long.
Thank you for this! It was sooo helpful. I had so many questions about contracts, for example. What’s important to include, what are some of the pitfalls of which to be are... that sort of thing. I’m interested in selling some of my photos online. I’ll check out those sites you mentioned. I would like to get into video too, but I don’t know much about video equipment or techniques. Are you referring mostly to drone videos?
Thank you, thank you. I have been uploading photos to Shutterstock. My goal is to submit a lot then try other stock photography. I am also writing a book. I want to get into video so look forward to how you submitted to stock. I appreciate your informative, very inspiring.
Thank you - thoroughly interesting video, and very thought provoking. Specifically looking forward to your thoughts, tips and experiences with stock *footage* xxXxx
I’ve really enjoyed your videos. Good info, you come across as authentic and real and not too over the top - hyper excited ... which no offence but I find some RUclipsrs can be (not all) when they present themselves publicly. I’m a photographer looking to make a living out of my craft in this ever changing digital age. I would love to hear your thoughts on selling digital downloads of photo art prints. Selling the file itself so the customer can print the image and frame it for their personal wall art etc... There is a lot of this happening on Etsy but it also seems a lot of the images sold are stock images and not unique as everyone is selling the same image. Thanks and look forward to hearing your reply.
Really great video! I sort of suspected that stock video would be more lucrative than just images... would definitely love to see a video of yours on making moola from stock video! :)
You should definitely check out “Crafted Shutter” on RUclips - he’s a full time stock videographer :) He truly demonstrates the stock video possibilities.
I am now, after watching this video, am beginning to think that Shutterstock, and video work could be within the realm of serious possiblity for myself. Thanks!
Sure. They changed the earnings system in May, which makes it harder to make money with photography. If you're just getting started I would recommend selling video footage, since that has greater earnings potential
I have passive sources: Foley, sound design, 3d models, stock photos and stock footage - though I have to say never sold very well on photos. I think it's just over saturated now and most places don't see the point.
For the Get Rich Quick seminars and courses industry, they are selling Passive Income. The accepted definition for passive income is "Do something once, earn from it multiple times." It's not money for nothing. It's what happens after making the investment in your hard earned money or your time to create something. To multiply the effect you do all of that again but the first one is already in play. I think that's the closest to stock photography. Of course it took work up front but we are submitting one asset, an image or a clip, with the expectation to get paid for it multiple times with no further work done on that specific asset. It's passive after the point where you upload it.
I just have shutterstock contributor. I would like to do more with my photography. As I don't have the confidence to start my own portrait business. In my photo edits, I've never used presets. Every single photo has different edits because no two of my photos are taken in the same conditions.
You're such a beautiful girl that i'm quite sure whatever you do, you'll have success. Talk about your hobbies, personal life, workouts if you do some, anything. All the best. Also, i love your honesty, the way you speak about numbers.
Nice ideas! Thanks for sharing, you really got my thoughts flowing. :) I've been recently exploring my possibilities and I'm gravitating towards Podia to sell my own digital products and courses. Having an actual website as a central to everything just makes more sense in my case, although I was considering Udemy at some point. I don't have a massive following and no RUclips channel (at least for now, kinda tempted to start one), but I do have ~25K followers on Instagram. It has been my dream to live the "freedom" artist life for 14 years. Took a long time to even get this far, and I'm still not earning a cent, haha. Anyways, keep up with the videos, you just got a new subscriber. :)
Do you do any automotive photography be it new cars at press releases or antique car shows of hot rods, muscle cars, classic cars etc? I'm more interested in automotive photography, especially hot rods and classic cars of 1930s-60s.
Hi Ken, no I don’t do automotive photography. I often photograph car dealerships and repair shops, but the focus is more on the people at work, not so much the cars. I’m sure there’s RUclipsrs out there who specialize in automotive photography
Danke für Deine Videos, ich finde sie sehr inspirierend. Du bist echt klasse. 😎👍 And thank you for THIS video. It is a great inspiration what to do with all that pictures that accumulate on my harddisks. 😄 I learned a lot from you about stock photography especially about uploading to shutterstock. I can imagine, that you don‘t want to post vids about stock photography for ever. Personally i would be very interested in vlogstyle insights, how you master the everyday challenge of your life, being a professional photographer.
Hallo Felix, das freut mich, dass dir meine Videos gefallen! Wish you lots of success with stock photography. And you are right, I can't imagine talking about stock photography for the rest of my life. I will definitely incorporate more vlog style photography videos :)
Hey there could you tell me or maybe make a video telling everybody if you can sell the same photos acrossnmultiple stock photography platforms and of not, which platforms do and dont allow it? Many thanks☆
Hey Timon, I'll keep it in mind but I think it would be a pretty boring video. Most stock platforms allow you to upload the same content wherever you want. The exception is Getty Images, which requires exclusivity. The other main ones (Adobe, Shutterstock, Pond5, etc.) allow you to sell other places as well.
I have shutterstock and I’ve made ALMOST $5 so far. I’d like to get into selling work for print and media but seems most papers are happy with an iPhone photo from their reporter. I’ve sold prints at shows (before the kids were born) and that could bring in £100 or so for work you’ve already got but it’s quite a lot of effort to set up and manage over a day.
Pete FlintMurray Yes! I’ve sold 27 images in Shutterstock so far, and I’ve raked in a whopping $6.75! 😏 I’m keeping my fingers crossed that someday a photo will be bought by a non-subscriber.
finelly i find a teacher about photo stuck any way can you make avedio about how to make a vedio about what kind of vedios ar excpted and duration option fram ex and shutterstock rejecting my picturs olways they say focus any sullutin pleas
I am so out of touch with passive income. Now is it better to open another bank account? How does that work out with taxes. That’s the area I’m not clear about.
Hi, great video! It's very informative. Can you talk a little bit about stock photos income and taxes? Since you get a stream of income from stock photos or videos, do you have to claim that? If so what's the process
You get a 1099 Miscellaneous Income form from Shutterstock every year and you just add that to your taxes. There's really nothing unusual about it. You report it like you would report any 1099 form.
@@NicoleGlass so on top of getting small percentage of your stock sale (because those sites take a portion) you also have to account of taxes on your earning, you'll end up with much less right ?
Yes. But like with any business, you can declare any camera related expenses. I usually declare a LOT of expenses so it definitely brings my taxes down.
Am I the only one not necessarily looking at passive income for being 'passive', but rather for being 'anonymous and introverted'? :D Stock photography playlist, here I come..
An interesting topic could be using other peoples stock images to extract elements which could be used to form a composite image of your own which you then go on to sell as stock. The legalities of doing this and how it personally makes you feel? I went as far as using a free stock image from a site but didn't go on to sell it as it just didn't sit well with me, as it was not 100% my work hmmm but maybe lost of people do this? However there was good reason for it as it was a subject that I would never be able to photograph myself.
Definitely an interesting topic. I've tried to research the legalities of creating stock photos with other stock photos (in the form of composites) but there is not much solid information out there about it. I will do some more research.
@@NicoleGlass I can see you hitting a million subs. I started following one channel at about 9,000, it hit one million two or three weeks ago. Even from the beginning it had elements I liked, an ability to have the viewer feel a part of the ride, a pleasant, consistent tone, unique interesting style.
At 7:12- If you join Professional Photographers of America, they have contracts, model releases, and property releases for free to members. Plus, you get free equipment insurance up to $15,000 and insurance against being sued. Other perks too.
Nicole, please do us a favor and grab your landscape photographer friend and make him talk about Fine Art America because I have my best work up there since forever and I have no idea how to gain traction. I get like 7 views per image, crazy.
@@NicoleGlass Thanks! Not a large portfolio but I mean just views, no sales. The website is super confusing in general, could be worth a video or two, people might find a tutorial to FAA useful.
In summary:
youtube,
affiliate links ,
sell PDFs (contracts),
blogging,
lightroom presets,
t-shrits,
stock photo,
stock video,
prints (fine art america, great big canvas, image kind, cafe press, red bubble zazzle, society 6),
etsy(costs money to sell, for selling prints and products),
ebooks,
video courses(self host or udemy)
I would still recommend watching the video to increase this awesome channel's watch-time and pay her back for all the valuable info she shares!
I do appreciate the breakdown, but I still watch her vids because she is so easy to learn from and has so much good advice.
Thank you
I freely admit that I love it when you talk freely.
Aww thank you!
@@NicoleGlass Bitte schön
Wow, you covered more than I expected. I thought it was going to be another cookie-cutter passive income video. Great job and thanks for taking the time to make the video.
Thank you John! :)
Great video, Nicole.
My passive income sources:
1. Dividends from stocks... Has not been doing well recently.
2. Shutterstock. I earned a whopping $6 from 97 accepted photos. Sigh.
You still have a very small portfolio. Try to get up a few thousand images if you want to see good results :)
I’ve had about half of the pics I submitted to shutterstock approved and that’s not that many either. I think I’m gonna take some time to submit more, if I already have pics I guess it can’t hurt
6USD - at least you can get a pint of guiness in Dublin ;-)
Mzungu73 Worth it!
I am just getting started with Photography and have been very nervous about being able to make it financially. This video gave me so much peace and hope, by going over so many different ways of making money with Photography and other things. Thank you so much!
I click thumbs up before watching your videos because the content is always interesting, useful and (wait for it) inspiring! Really useful stuff.
Aww thanks so much Tony, that means a lot :)
Me too!
great video Nicole... perfect topic and title...:):)
Thank you Zdenka! :)
Great ideas! I have an e-book that's published on Amazon. To be honest I probably don't make more than when it was a PDF sold directly through my website (Amazon's cut is pretty big). I'm thinking of adapting it to an audiobook to see how that does.
Sounds like a good idea. I'm curious how the audiobook will fare compared to the e-book.
Thanks for some really useful and great tips and yes this is probably your longest RUclips video. I'm more of a landscape photographer nowadays and maybe I'll try the the Fine Arts site. Just returned from Hawaii from a 7 days cruise and 3 nights in Honolulu right on Waikiki beach and now I really could use some passive income to pay for the trip:-)
Ahh yes, Hawaii is expensive! I was there last November and it took a while to recover from those expenses. Worth every cent though :)
Thanks for your videos Nicole. Would you recommend that the photos uploaded to print sites be exclusive? Do you sell content on those sites that you also have, say, on Shutterstock?
Super video Nicole! Thanks for sharing these awesome tips and strategies! Huge congrats on smashing 12K! Keep crushing it! :D
Thanks so much!! 😊
You've inspired me to start vlogging. Wow....it's so much work! Well done on what you are achieving.
I'm so happy to hear that! I truly believe there is so much potential with video. Hope you have fun with it :)
How much you can get on stock video footage? My brother goes timelapses and he is complaining that shotterstock is making some kind of crazy discounts on he’s footages and selling them for 6$ instead of original price around 80$ and they justify that this is because not much was sold for a full price! And the don’t even gave him an option to opt out from this clearance selling
In that case I would probably recommend that he uses Pond5 instead. On Pond5, he can set his own prices and prevent those kind of sales.
I've never had a video make me less than $20 but I hear it happens to people every so often, unfortunately. I'm guessing someone downloaded super low quality SD versions of his clips.
New subscriber here😊
Thank you for your informative videos.
New learnings love it.❤
My gaming channel here on RUclips is passive right now. I gave up on it and am moving to photography. Thank you for all the information you provide.
Oh Nicole where do I start? :D I would like to have all of those sources of "passive" income of course. Right now I focus on my website with a blog (and a twist). However, I think that the most important message in this video is that none of those sources is truly passive. Any content gets old and that happens quickly these days, especially if it is about technology/equipment. Anything else, as I am sure you know, will not get shown to anybody if the creator stops uploading new content. I think that is how the algorithms work. I could be wrong but that is why I find it difficult to stay motivated in my online journey. :) Thanks for the video anyways. It is nice to have one go to spot where all of those sources are laid out for us.
Marek Bromberek Yes, you have to keep uploading new content. But for instance, I just sold a Xmas photo that I had uploaded last December.
It’s passive income in the sense that once I got it accepted by Shutterstock, I didn’t touch it ever again. It took 9 months to sell it, but it sold. And it’s August!
Thanks for your channel. Your uploads really hit the mark for me.
Wow that was information packed. Great video Nicole. Thank you so much. I love all your videos. Your Shutterstock ones are great, I am particularly interested in your income stream ones, and the travel ones. Heck - I love them all!
great video. When you think about being truly passive it comes from a few strategic moves. It has to be something you own and control exclusively, which is timeless in its demand. Think of patents, copyrights, and licensing agreements, etc. So, the questions turns to how you can accomplish this as a photographer. It could be as hard as creating the photographic piece of equipment that every one has to have to compete, to as simple as a licensed process that makes the demand last for ever. They say necessity is the king of inventions, and for a reason. Capitalizing on what you have created for yourself, which could also solve other photographers problems, or image curator's needs is the best place to start.
Yes, great points and good insights! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Great video Nichole, thank you and wishing you all the best for your channel.
Hey Nicole. Love your channel. Need some clarification. Can you sell stock product photos and videos to stock sites? For instance a photo of a Corona bottle for instance. I am confused on what you can submit and what you can’t when it comes to product photography.
Great information Nicole.
I'm in the process of trying to turn a hobby into something more and your video helped a lot.
All the best.
Cheers. Dave.
Awesome! I'm happy to hear that :)
Sorry if this had been mentioned in your other videos before, but is it better to use your real name or a business or profile name when selling stock photography? I ask this particularly if you sell editorial photos, and you take pictures of say, a Buffalo in the National Park you live next to, and it gets featured in a news article about a buffalo goring a tourist, and your community you live in sees that it was you who had the photo used for, you could say, bad press. Or do most editorial photos not even give photo credit? I really appreciate your videos, pure gold!
Modfarmgirl I can’t speak for Nicole, but IMO, why not use your real name? I usually do see photo credits in captions. I certainly think they should give credit!
If you’ve managed to capture a newsworthy image, think of yourself as a journalist. You’re not drawing conclusions about the incident. You’re reporting the facts with your camera as they occurred. You’re a visual journalist.
Many of my editorial photos are not newsworthy in the sense that I took photos of a protest or something like that. Most of my editorial photos are of places and show events or businesses or locations where obtaining a release isn’t feasible.
But yes. In my case, I want my name out there. It’s my artwork that’s being used, it’s my craft... which sometimes means it’s just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
The name you use is up to you, but for editorial photos, the client is supposed to give photo credit. So it is a good way to build up a portfolio. Sometimes your photos could end up in well known publications.
I want to start selling a few prints, start a stock photography portfolio, and eventually do a travel photography vlog. Your videos are seriously motivating me to get started!
That's awesome Michelle! Go for it. It takes time to build these things up so the sooner you get started, the better :)
Nice one Nicole. I think the next video needs to be on how to build an audience. Just a thought.
Thanks Robbie! I can certainly make a video like that :)
Sure, please talk about other topics too. I think I would like your traveling photos/videos (since I like traveling but don't have enough money and time to do it consistently). Btw, this kind of thing (talking outside the original topics of a youtube channel) is done by a lot of youtubers. . For example, I know a youtuber who starts talking about photography, but then lately also adds photomanipulations in his videos. Another one starts as a vector graphics channel, but then adds raster graphics also. And so on.
Thank you Hani! I'm glad you enjoy the travel vids too :) They're fun for me to make!
@@NicoleGlass Yup I enjoy it
It's rare to see this amount of information in one video and also in an attractive style, Thank you!
Thanks, glad you found it helpful :)
Pleeeeeeease do some videos on stock video. I've sold a fair few photos but not a single video. Don't wait for lots of sales data etc to analyse, keep us involved along the journey. The videos don't have to be long.
Thank you for this! It was sooo helpful. I had so many questions about contracts, for example. What’s important to include, what are some of the pitfalls of which to be are... that sort of thing.
I’m interested in selling some of my photos online. I’ll check out those sites you mentioned.
I would like to get into video too, but I don’t know much about video equipment or techniques. Are you referring mostly to drone videos?
Excellent as usual! Great ideas, thanks Nichole.
Thank you, thank you. I have been uploading photos to Shutterstock. My goal is to submit a lot then try other stock photography. I am also writing a book. I want to get into video so look forward to how you submitted to stock. I appreciate your informative, very inspiring.
Thank you - thoroughly interesting video, and very thought provoking. Specifically looking forward to your thoughts, tips and experiences with stock *footage* xxXxx
I’ve really enjoyed your videos. Good info, you come across as authentic and real and not too over the top - hyper excited ... which no offence but I find some RUclipsrs can be (not all) when they present themselves publicly.
I’m a photographer looking to make a living out of my craft in this ever changing digital age. I would love to hear your thoughts on selling digital downloads of photo art prints. Selling the file itself so the customer can print the image and frame it for their personal wall art etc...
There is a lot of this happening on Etsy but it also seems a lot of the images sold are stock images and not unique as everyone is selling the same image.
Thanks and look forward to hearing your reply.
Really great video! I sort of suspected that stock video would be more lucrative than just images... would definitely love to see a video of yours on making moola from stock video! :)
You should definitely check out “Crafted Shutter” on RUclips - he’s a full time stock videographer :) He truly demonstrates the stock video possibilities.
Thank you sharing such information highly appreciated i am new RUclipsr& i am interested photography as well .
I am now, after watching this video, am beginning to think that Shutterstock, and video work could be within the realm of serious possiblity for myself. Thanks!
Sure. They changed the earnings system in May, which makes it harder to make money with photography. If you're just getting started I would recommend selling video footage, since that has greater earnings potential
I have passive sources: Foley, sound design, 3d models, stock photos and stock footage - though I have to say never sold very well on photos. I think it's just over saturated now and most places don't see the point.
For the Get Rich Quick seminars and courses industry, they are selling Passive Income. The accepted definition for passive income is "Do something once, earn from it multiple times." It's not money for nothing. It's what happens after making the investment in your hard earned money or your time to create something. To multiply the effect you do all of that again but the first one is already in play.
I think that's the closest to stock photography. Of course it took work up front but we are submitting one asset, an image or a clip, with the expectation to get paid for it multiple times with no further work done on that specific asset. It's passive after the point where you upload it.
Thanks a lot!!
I just started to try Lightroom presets.
Stock Photography is my number 1 proyect Regards
Awesome, wish you the best!
I just have shutterstock contributor. I would like to do more with my photography. As I don't have the confidence to start my own portrait business.
In my photo edits, I've never used presets. Every single photo has different edits because no two of my photos are taken in the same conditions.
You're such a beautiful girl that i'm quite sure whatever you do, you'll have success. Talk about your hobbies, personal life, workouts if you do some, anything. All the best. Also, i love your honesty, the way you speak about numbers.
Speaking of T-shirts, I have 4 of the shirt you're wearing (2 black, 2 white), and I wear them to many shoots.
Sweet! I wear those kind of shirts all the time during shoots :)
@@NicoleGlass Hi We design T-shirts, we are willing to do some on this subject :)
I haven't watched it yet and I'm sure it's very good - passive income is income that happens while you do nothing (like stock shots with a library)..
Nice ideas! Thanks for sharing, you really got my thoughts flowing. :)
I've been recently exploring my possibilities and I'm gravitating towards Podia to sell my own digital products and courses. Having an actual website as a central to everything just makes more sense in my case, although I was considering Udemy at some point. I don't have a massive following and no RUclips channel (at least for now, kinda tempted to start one), but I do have ~25K followers on Instagram.
It has been my dream to live the "freedom" artist life for 14 years. Took a long time to even get this far, and I'm still not earning a cent, haha.
Anyways, keep up with the videos, you just got a new subscriber. :)
Do you do any automotive photography be it new cars at press releases or antique car shows of hot rods, muscle cars, classic cars etc? I'm more interested in automotive photography, especially hot rods and classic cars of 1930s-60s.
Hi Ken, no I don’t do automotive photography. I often photograph car dealerships and repair shops, but the focus is more on the people at work, not so much the cars. I’m sure there’s RUclipsrs out there who specialize in automotive photography
Awesome content, and totally agree with you, passive income is for patient and dedicated people. Thank you!
Sure thing :)
Danke für Deine Videos, ich finde sie sehr inspirierend. Du bist echt klasse. 😎👍 And thank you for THIS video. It is a great inspiration what to do with all that pictures that accumulate on my harddisks. 😄 I learned a lot from you about stock photography especially about uploading to shutterstock. I can imagine, that you don‘t want to post vids about stock photography for ever. Personally i would be very interested in vlogstyle insights, how you master the everyday challenge of your life, being a professional photographer.
Hallo Felix, das freut mich, dass dir meine Videos gefallen! Wish you lots of success with stock photography. And you are right, I can't imagine talking about stock photography for the rest of my life. I will definitely incorporate more vlog style photography videos :)
Nicely said. You're generous. You got my liked
Thank you kindly!
Thank you Nicole.
what do you think about fiverr for photographers?
Great, very informative video. Thank you so much.
Hey there could you tell me or maybe make a video telling everybody if you can sell the same photos acrossnmultiple stock photography platforms and of not, which platforms do and dont allow it? Many thanks☆
Hey Timon, I'll keep it in mind but I think it would be a pretty boring video. Most stock platforms allow you to upload the same content wherever you want. The exception is Getty Images, which requires exclusivity. The other main ones (Adobe, Shutterstock, Pond5, etc.) allow you to sell other places as well.
Thanks Nicole for all your fantastic talks about photography and life experience. You are so inspiring!
Thank you so much! :)
Amazing video! Thanks again!
Very informative! will you make a 2020 version of this video?
I should :) I’ll have to see what’s different this year
@@NicoleGlass great! Suggestion: something that works for me are donations via pixabay, pixels, ed. Love your video's! Grtz from the Netherlands!
I have shutterstock and I’ve made ALMOST $5 so far.
I’d like to get into selling work for print and media but seems most papers are happy with an iPhone photo from their reporter.
I’ve sold prints at shows (before the kids were born) and that could bring in £100 or so for work you’ve already got but it’s quite a lot of effort to set up and manage over a day.
Pete FlintMurray Yes! I’ve sold 27 images in Shutterstock so far, and I’ve raked in a whopping $6.75! 😏
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that someday a photo will be bought by a non-subscriber.
Great video again. You rocks
thumbs up! great food for though and well done on such a smooth free talking vid
Thank you Andrew! :) That's why it ended up being so long haha.
Love this video!! Thanks so much for your advice :)
Sure thing. Glad it was helpful! :)
finelly i find a teacher about photo stuck any way can you make avedio about how to make a vedio about what kind of vedios ar excpted and duration option fram ex
and shutterstock rejecting my picturs olways they say focus any sullutin pleas
Usefull channel for everyone. You are doing good work for hard workers
Thank you :)
I am so out of touch with passive income. Now is it better to open another bank account? How does that work out with taxes. That’s the area I’m not clear about.
Definitely check out Roberto Blake’s channel, he has some videos about taxes for freelance work
Thank you!!!It was great information. I even took notes.
Aw I'm glad this was helpful!
It's very practical, and even though without a script, it's very much to the point!
Thanks so much :)
Nicole Glass all pleasure is mine!!
I need to do this passive income deal. I'm trying but I have to build another audience and it is so exhausting!!!
Very good tips as usual, thank you 👍😃👌
Sure thing, glad you enjoyed it :)
informative! nice chat.
thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! I know it was a long one.
if i posted a picture in face book and send to stock photos. is it worth?
Hi, great video! It's very informative. Can you talk a little bit about stock photos income and taxes? Since you get a stream of income from stock photos or videos, do you have to claim that? If so what's the process
You get a 1099 Miscellaneous Income form from Shutterstock every year and you just add that to your taxes. There's really nothing unusual about it. You report it like you would report any 1099 form.
@@NicoleGlass so on top of getting small percentage of your stock sale (because those sites take a portion) you also have to account of taxes on your earning, you'll end up with much less right ?
Yes. But like with any business, you can declare any camera related expenses. I usually declare a LOT of expenses so it definitely brings my taxes down.
@@NicoleGlass thank you! Your explanation helps a lot
Good stuff.
Great video, the guy you interviewed looks like the guy from arrested development😅
Haha, which character? I've never watched that show
i just started to upload my photos on shutter stock but i need some suggestionsnug....
Am I the only one not necessarily looking at passive income for being 'passive', but rather for being 'anonymous and introverted'? :D
Stock photography playlist, here I come..
I think talking freely is more natural than a scripted video and makes for a better end content
Im thinking of selling photography prints in the near future 😊.
Go for it! :)
An interesting topic could be using other peoples stock images to extract elements which could be used to form a composite image of your own which you then go on to sell as stock. The legalities of doing this and how it personally makes you feel? I went as far as using a free stock image from a site but didn't go on to sell it as it just didn't sit well with me, as it was not 100% my work hmmm but maybe lost of people do this? However there was good reason for it as it was a subject that I would never be able to photograph myself.
Definitely an interesting topic. I've tried to research the legalities of creating stock photos with other stock photos (in the form of composites) but there is not much solid information out there about it. I will do some more research.
Pet photography and dog tranning for me ! :)
Nicole. Thanks for this upload. Muchos gracias, as they say in Poland. Good stuff.
Thanks Lawrence!
@@NicoleGlass I can see you hitting a million subs. I started following one channel at about 9,000, it hit one million two or three weeks ago. Even from the beginning it had elements I liked, an ability to have the viewer feel a part of the ride, a pleasant, consistent tone, unique interesting style.
Wow that’s amazing. I would definitely be honored if that happened to me. I feel incredibly grateful for the 12,000 I have right now. 🙏🏻
Complete explanation 😁
How do you handle taxes in regard to affiliates or downloadable pdfs or stock photo sales?
I get 1099 forms from all of these companies and I enter them as part of my photography business when I do my taxes.
@@NicoleGlass Thank you! I recently found your vlogs and love them. You are really good!
Nice video & love your t-shirts collection :)
Thanks! I have a whole shelf full of photography shirts haha
At 7:12- If you join Professional Photographers of America, they have contracts, model releases, and property releases for free to members. Plus, you get free equipment insurance up to $15,000 and insurance against being sued. Other perks too.
Thanks for sharing valuable information
You’re welcome!
Thanks for sharing your experiences 👍🏻
Sure thing! Hope you got some value out of it 😊
You are too cool, thanks for all that you do.
Sure, glad you enjoy the videos:)
I'm interested in selling stock video and photos. I'm start to learn about the website who buy it but having issues signing up.
Thank you!
Thanks!
So helpful
I can uplode one photo on two website or not ?
Yes you can!
Thanks, good info !
A video about drones would be awesome!
Awesome! I love that topic 😊 #droneenthusiast
HI thank you its really helpful and yeah i would like to build up my youtube.
Nicole, please do us a favor and grab your landscape photographer friend and make him talk about Fine Art America because I have my best work up there since forever and I have no idea how to gain traction. I get like 7 views per image, crazy.
Sorry to hear that. I’ll follow up with him and see what he does. Do you have a large portfolio there?
@@NicoleGlass Thanks! Not a large portfolio but I mean just views, no sales. The website is super confusing in general, could be worth a video or two, people might find a tutorial to FAA useful.
Hi nicole i like your english ..so easy to understand..i am from indonesia
Hi! Awesome, glad you understand me!
Thank you this was very informative
Glad it was helpful!
Clear concise and to the point, well done!
Really enjoying your content : )
Thank you :)
I put the work now and hope it will turn out to passive income
Thank you for this informative video! It gave me some great ideas and inspiration!
Awesome, I'm happy to hear that!
you are simply great! Do you make money by stock videos?
Yes, I also sell stock footage. I have a few videos about that. :)
Thank you Nicole for this inspirational tutorial.
Sure thing! Glad you enjoyed it 😊