Sunday, March 26, 2006
How I made my first "big" money
I don't remember exactly how I found that service, I was just surfing around the net and once I saw this Page. They wrote that they will host your images for free, and you even will get paid for that. I have a personal homepage with lots of pictures so I thought this could bring me couple of bucks maybe.
ImageCash:
How it works, well they pay you a certain percentage they make profit in a month, from ads etc. They paid around 50% they got. You were paid from the views you were getting. The views of the pictures, which were hosted, brought the company profits and they paid you the certain part of their income. The clickrate was quite a rollercoaster. It used to be 6000 views for 1$, but on the hard times it was over 16000 views.
I started posting my pictures around the net, I had see it again, the most views getting pictures were those with nudity or adult content. The slogar 'Sex Sells' is still true.
The views conversions were made once a month, and the earnings were added to your internat account. After reaching 20$ you were able to request the money. There were few possibilities. Check, Paypal and E-Gold. I had none of them, and I wasn't trusted using them, so I requested a check, it took me a long time to wait for it. Nevertheless I decided to open an E-Gold account to get the money out of the program. By then I had already made 3 digit profit.
Briefly after Christmas I had Christmas again, the payment came. 114$! I was like wow, this is cool
Here is the ImageCash Payment Proof.
Unfortunately after that some problems begun, the site was growing faster than the admins could handle, they needed new space and bandwith. Sponsors left them and the rates were climbing to the sky. That was the begining of the end. Until today Imagecash is not paying for the views anymore. They just a free pictures hoster for now, but they still have a huge picture gallery.
That was the only payment I got from there, but I am quite happy with that amount.
What am I using now?
After it showed that this concept was very profitable, more and more same kind of programs started. Currently I am using two of them.
PicBux
It works about the same, as the one I describet above, pity is that this is more for the adult content. So I would not place my private holiday pictures on their server and put them on the net, because the viewers would be irritated because of the adult banners around the picture.
Good point is, they have quite a low clickrate it is like 1$/4000 and they have a good Java-based uploader, which makes putting the pictures on the net very easy. They pay also via E-Gold so it is about the same as ImageCash.
I have been paid twice from them. Here is my first payment. (It is hosted on friendly server, don' worry about the adult ads)
The second one came today, again 20$
For the other pictures, I mean non adult content I use
Imagefap
They have to categories, the adult and the "normal" one. Here I can host my holiday pictures and I can put them on my personal webpage and nobody founds it annoying, because there are non adult ads.
Bad point about this one, is the upload, you either have to zip the pictures properly to get them all once uploaded or you have to use the manual php-uploader, where you have to upload every single picture manually. It is ok for like five pics, but what if you have 100++. It takes some time to understand it. The clickrate is a bit higher than in the one above it is around 5000 views for $1. Not bad at all if you look that ImageCash had 16000.
Very good thing about this one is, that you can request your payout when your account reaches 5$ and not 20$. They pay also via E-Gold.
Unfortunately I don't have a screenshot for this one, because I have been using this service for a short period of time, but I will post a proof as soon as I get the payment.
So that was my story about the first "big" payment of mine. I hope I will get the same amout some day again. Later on I will tell you what I did with that money I earned. So stay tuned.
Tomaa
P.S. For the adult hosters, you have be aware, that you are not allowed to post copyrighted material, and it has to be legal. That is very important to know. That was also one reason ImageCash went down. It started to have illegal content.
ImageCash:
How it works, well they pay you a certain percentage they make profit in a month, from ads etc. They paid around 50% they got. You were paid from the views you were getting. The views of the pictures, which were hosted, brought the company profits and they paid you the certain part of their income. The clickrate was quite a rollercoaster. It used to be 6000 views for 1$, but on the hard times it was over 16000 views.
I started posting my pictures around the net, I had see it again, the most views getting pictures were those with nudity or adult content. The slogar 'Sex Sells' is still true.
The views conversions were made once a month, and the earnings were added to your internat account. After reaching 20$ you were able to request the money. There were few possibilities. Check, Paypal and E-Gold. I had none of them, and I wasn't trusted using them, so I requested a check, it took me a long time to wait for it. Nevertheless I decided to open an E-Gold account to get the money out of the program. By then I had already made 3 digit profit.
Briefly after Christmas I had Christmas again, the payment came. 114$! I was like wow, this is cool
Here is the ImageCash Payment Proof.
Unfortunately after that some problems begun, the site was growing faster than the admins could handle, they needed new space and bandwith. Sponsors left them and the rates were climbing to the sky. That was the begining of the end. Until today Imagecash is not paying for the views anymore. They just a free pictures hoster for now, but they still have a huge picture gallery.
That was the only payment I got from there, but I am quite happy with that amount.
What am I using now?
After it showed that this concept was very profitable, more and more same kind of programs started. Currently I am using two of them.
PicBux
It works about the same, as the one I describet above, pity is that this is more for the adult content. So I would not place my private holiday pictures on their server and put them on the net, because the viewers would be irritated because of the adult banners around the picture.
Good point is, they have quite a low clickrate it is like 1$/4000 and they have a good Java-based uploader, which makes putting the pictures on the net very easy. They pay also via E-Gold so it is about the same as ImageCash.
I have been paid twice from them. Here is my first payment. (It is hosted on friendly server, don' worry about the adult ads)
The second one came today, again 20$
For the other pictures, I mean non adult content I use
Imagefap
They have to categories, the adult and the "normal" one. Here I can host my holiday pictures and I can put them on my personal webpage and nobody founds it annoying, because there are non adult ads.
Bad point about this one, is the upload, you either have to zip the pictures properly to get them all once uploaded or you have to use the manual php-uploader, where you have to upload every single picture manually. It is ok for like five pics, but what if you have 100++. It takes some time to understand it. The clickrate is a bit higher than in the one above it is around 5000 views for $1. Not bad at all if you look that ImageCash had 16000.
Very good thing about this one is, that you can request your payout when your account reaches 5$ and not 20$. They pay also via E-Gold.
Unfortunately I don't have a screenshot for this one, because I have been using this service for a short period of time, but I will post a proof as soon as I get the payment.
So that was my story about the first "big" payment of mine. I hope I will get the same amout some day again. Later on I will tell you what I did with that money I earned. So stay tuned.
Tomaa
P.S. For the adult hosters, you have be aware, that you are not allowed to post copyrighted material, and it has to be legal. That is very important to know. That was also one reason ImageCash went down. It started to have illegal content.
# posted by Mikey @ 5:53 AM 
