Bohemian Journey

This is my newest online-money-making experiment: submit my photos to eefoof and expect a payment. (Uh, don’t know when as the minimum amount is $25. But I suspect it will be a long time before I see that check unless you start viewing my superb, heavenly cool photos like crazy.)

Isubmitted my pictures to Eefoof, a community web site that pays authors for submitted videos, audios and images. Base on the hits I get for my “photography” work, Eefoof shares with me a small amount of their ad-generated revenue.

Does it work?

I’m a bit unsure about this money-making method as Eefoof is an underdog in the creative sharing community. Have you heard of Eefoof before? Yup. My point exactly.

In addition, the site’s look is too mediocre and the existing content is low-quality if not sooooo baaaad. I’m not sure if they can attract fans at all when Flickr and Youtube are among their competitors.

But again, I think users will be more motivated and willing to jump boat to Eefoof since they all have a chance of making money.

Think about Youtube, that famous video-sharing startup which recently bought by the Internet giant Google. Youtube is profited from thousands of videos uploaded mainly by its users. These Youtube users have been doing it for free and for fun JUST because there is no other alternative which offers them some money in return. Hopefully, with Eefoof’s possible competition, Google and Youtube might consider paying the users for their videos.

How can Eefoof possibly be Google’s and Youtube’s competitor? You might ask. Maybe they can’t. But if somebody mentioned the name Youtube a year ago, you wouldn’t have thought it could be Google’s next rival in video sharing right?

For now, I just want to see if I can get enough from Eefoof to cover my Flickr’s picture expense, $25/year. Isn’t that ironic? I pay to have my pictures hosted from one service and try to make money for the same pictures from another.

Notes

I spent 3 hours to check out Eefoof, prepare, upload photos and write this post. Geez, I demand Eefoof to make me a lot of money. ;D And I kindly, simply ask my readers to keep hitting on–NOT ME–my photos.

I’ll check back in a month and see how much money I’ve made.

[via dumb little man]