How weird will it be if I tell you to sell feet pictures of yourself?
No, I am serious! It's not a kind of weird thing anymore in this digital era.
In this article, I will explain how to make money selling photos of yourself, especially pictures of your feet.
But wait here, there is an age restriction to sell feet pictures. You must have to be over 18 for legal purposes. Along with that, you also have to be female.
Does it suck?
Ok, don't worry if you are a male! Still, you can sell your selfies of any kind, and this article is all about that.
Selling photos online is the main topic of this article, and selling feet pictures is a subtopic that I tried to cover first.
I am going to explain about selling feet pictures and will give you some tips.
Similarly, I made it easy for you about the step-by-step process of How to make money selling photos of yourself online using different platforms like FeetFinder.
What are feet pictures and why it matters
A Foot picture is simply a photo of a female's feet captured for special requests from an anonymous person.
It doesn't matter to everyone, but it matters to millions of people, including foot fetish, beauty lovers, art lovers, marketers, jewelry business owners, Shoe companies, and more.
Pros and cons
Selling photos online is a kind of business, so every industry has its pros and cons.
Before getting into the photography business like this, I would recommend you to have a look at the pros and cons of selling photos online, including feet pictures.
Pros to selling feet pictures (Or any kind):
There are many pros of selling photos online, but I tried to cover the most common and prominent online photo-selling business benefits.
1) Personal development:
When you capture your photos, you can see how you look. You can feel what needs to improve your personality.
So capturing your selfies, again and again, makes you more confident. Especially when you shoot pictures of your feet, you become more hygienic, neat, and clean.
2) Passive income:
Photography is a leading industry in the digital world. Every SaaS company and other leading companies like TP organics are always in need of photographs for their marketing campaign.
If your photos fill their needs, you can build a passive income funnel. Selling feet pictures is another case.
Some people are foot fetishists, and some just love pictures of feet to decorate their bedroom walls. They are all willing to pay you $10-$50 for your single feet picture.
3) Work from home:
Most females prefer to work from home, so this kind of business is best for them. You can make your home a studio to shoot your portrait and run your photo-selling business by working from home.
Cons to sell feet pictures:
You can sell feet pictures all over the world, but it has some drawbacks. However, if you can overcome it, you can dominate this industry.
1) Requires beautiful feet:
No matter what your intensity is to sell feet pictures, you must need gorgeous feet. It's a showbiz industry, so if you don't have beautiful feet, why would the business owner endorse you to represent their products.
2) Possibilities to be scammed:
There are so many foot fetishists who can take your photos without paying you, so I recommend you to be professional and always interact with professionals like marketers or business owners.
3) Restricted for some countries:
Some countries, especially Islamic countries, condemn the showbiz industry. So if you are in an Islamic state, you may have the restriction, but still, as long as it is modest, you can run this business internationally and 100% legally.
Five Tips to Sell Feet Pictures
Selling feet pictures are safe as long as you can keep them safe. If you think of doing it for fun, then no tips and suggestions are required; carry on as you want.
But, if you're going to do real business by selling your photographs, you will find some useful tips in this section.
1) Take care of yourself:
It doesn't matter who you are, either male or female; you have to take care of yourself to create an impactful image for this industry. In this case, females are always in the default mood. They keep themself fit and tidy.
Males should think of themself as a model and always keep themself fit and good looking from the start.
Develop your dressing sense and always have a good haircut that fits your personality.
To sell feet pictures, females should pedicure regularly to keep their feet beautiful.
2) Know who your customers are:
Not everyone will buy your pictures, so you have to figure out who your customers are.
If you try to sell feet pictures to the wristwatch company, then it will not work. Instead, you should present the right offer in front of the right customers.
Other than that, you can target a group of customers and ask them for their requirements.
Divide your customers into various sectors like corporate level customers,
marketing agencies, ad agencies, small companies, stock libraries, and more.
To narrow down your target customers, first, decide what your goal of business is.
Where do you see yourself in the next few years? Do you want to run an agency, or do you want to carry on your freelance photography business?
Based on the resources and the capabilities you have, target a particular group of customers.
If you have beautiful feet, then you can target foot fetish(last option), shoe companies, jewelry companies, beauty salons like Brow Sugar, beauty products (like nail polish), and more.
Similarly, if you are a traveler, then you can target different hotels, event managers, amusement parks, travel agencies, transport companies, and more.
3) Be the best version of yourself:
You are the model of your targeted customers, so always be the best version of yourself.
Never underestimate the size of the business you are targeting because all you need in this industry is exposure of your images as much as possible.
Always be nice to all of your customers.
When you communicate physically live with your customers, they can see your body language, can hear your tone of voice; overall, they can feel your intensity.
But, when you communicate online via text chat, they can only see your writing, so improve your writing skills to communicate in a better way.
Good writing instantly gets you accepted in your proposals and leaves a good impression about you to them.
4) Avoid feet fetish:
I don't know why people like feet, but yeah, selling feet pictures is a million-dollar industry, just like the por*n industry.
Although different people use feet pictures differently, as I mentioned in the previous section, the feet fetish is some kind of extravagant.
It's completely your choice either you want to deal with feet fetish or not.
I recommend you to avoid those people if you are a modest girl and prefer modesty, because they may ask you to take pictures of the other parts of your body. However, if you face someone who may ask these kind of pics then simply recommend them beautiful sex dolls.
5) Always Learn what works:
Now, you have a complete business mindset, so you have to learn what works and what doesn't in your industry.
Gradually do a little research about market trends. Know what is the current situation of the world and how you can capture the best moments that click the emotions of your target audience.
Learn some digital marketing skills and how to convince someone.
Always be in the know of your customers' needs and try to give your 100% whatever you offer.
5 Steps of How to make money selling photos of yourself
Now it's time to take the practical steps to make real money. In the previous section, I explained the facts of the photo-selling business, some tricks, and tips. In this section, I will explain the step-by-step process of making money by selling photos of yourself.
1) Take a photography course:
Everyone is a photographer who has a smartphone, but it takes something more when it comes to professionalism.
Only capturing photos is not the end of the photo shooting process; you need to edit them correctly.
To do so, you need tools and the skills to use them, and that's why the short course comes into taking place.
But don't worry at all; if you have an internet connection, you can learn photography for free.
2) Prepare your camera and equipment:
It's an essential part of photography to get the best result out of your photoshoot.
Make sure you have chosen a comfortable and best result camera.
Arrange all of your photography equipment such as camera tripod, prime lens, lighting equipment, chroma-key, and so on.
3) Set up your social media accounts:
Create your profile on a different social media website, especially on Instagram.
Be active and share your portrait regularly so that you can build an audience.
As much as you can build followers, your portfolio will be strong.
Most of the time, your followers will be converted into your paying clients. So make sure you will be caring for your followers.
Create a Facebook fan page and invite all of your Fb friends to like your page. Then, learn a little bit from youtube about optimizing the Facebook fan page for search engines.
Post different stories and snapshots from your real-life regularly on the Facebook page so that your audience can interact with you.
If you are a pro photographer, you can share some tutorials on your fan page. It will help you to build credibility in your industry.
4) Taking your best shots:
Best shots depend on various criteria. If you are not a pro-level editor, then you have to focus on natural assets.
Learn how to leverage natural lighting, how to set a perfect background, how to shoot outdoor photos, and so on.
Especially when you capture your feet' picture to sell, you should pedicure your feet and understand your clients' requirements so that you can capture accordingly.
5) Platforms to sell your photos:
There are so many opportunities to sell photographs online, but below I have listed the top three platforms to sell your feet pictures as well as your outdoor snapshots.
a) Freelance websites:
You can join different freelance websites like Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer.com, PeoplePerHour, and so on. Set up your profile and upload your portfolio with your best work. Showcase your best skills there and offer your services according to the clients available on the platform.
b) Social Media:
When you share your portrait and different snapshots on your social media account and your Facebook fan page, your followers will comment on your content. So reply to each comment to engage with your followers so that whenever your followers will be in need of photographs, they will come to you.
c) Stock Libraries:
You can sell your best photographs on different stock libraries like Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Getty Images, iStock, and so on. So go there and register yourself and an image author and submit your best photos. When they accept your photos, you will get paid for each download of your images.
Conclusion
Selling feet pictures or any kind is a business model that can be run from your home yourself.
This article mainly covers how to make money selling photos of yourself, either your feet picture, selfie, or any kind; you can build a passive income funnel through simple steps.
The first step of this journey is taking a short course on photography then practicing for a few weeks and months.
Then the second step is, you will have to understand who your customers are and how you can represent yourself so that they can buy your pictures.
Then prepare your camera and the required gadgets so that you will not have any issues during your photoshoots.
Set up your social media accounts and be active by sharing the snapshots of your day-to-day life, and don't forget to showcase your portfolio images in your social media profiles.
Join different freelancing platforms as well as various stock libraries so that you can offer your best work to get paid.
