Sunday, December 16, 2007

Earn Money Sharing Images!

Shareapic.net is a website that allows you to upload and host images for free on their servers. What makes shareapic different is you do not sell your pictures. It is a revenue sharing model that rewards you for directing your friends and family to your free-hosted images. As a member, you can make galleries, to categorize your pictures.

Like I plan one making one just for the pictures I draw as apposed to family pictures. You can use your hosted pictures in forums and on places like myspace.com.

The amount of earnings can vary from month to month, because it is based off the amount of Advertising revenue generated by shareapic.com. When the amount of ad income is finalized for a month, a percentage of that is distributed to shareapic members. The amount each member gets is based on 'image views'.

They explain it like this: if the percentage of revenue to be distributed to members is $1,000. To figure out how to distribute the revenue, they first tally up the total amount of image views in that month. Let us say the month's total views are 500,000, they divide the percentage of revenue to be distributed by the number on views (1,000 divided by 500,000) which equals = 0.002. I guess they turn that 0.002 in to $2 dollars some how and give you $2 dollars for every 1000 image views in that month. The goal is to keep the users happy, and maintain the website, which includes development costs, salaries, site hosting fees, and so on.

Shareapic does not disclose the amount revenue share, they do show you what was paid in the previous pay period. You will find that is the members section of the website. So the more pictures you post the more earning potential you have. Hey, if you are going to post pictures on places like MySpace or FaceBook, why not make a little cash from them. You can even use the pictures for auctions on eBay, being able to use your picture in that way, you can really see the earning potential.