Unfortunately we are not exactly going through the best economic moment in history, however the Internet surprises us more and more with new possibilities that allow us to turn our hobbies into a small source of income or even into a stable job to live on. A few days ago we discovered one of these curious possibilities; Instacanvas, a web platform to earn money with your Instagram photos.
It is true that every day we discover new companies created around Instagram, but since we already talked about Jewelgram, the website that turns your Instagram photos into jewelry, today is the turn of Instacanvas, a web platform with a truly interesting business model that will certainly revolutionize the photography market in the medium term.
But… what is Instacanvas?
By the definition of its own creators, Instacanvas is a market that enables users buy and market Instagram photos like beautiful pieces of physical art. Its creators promise that despite the youth of their platform, Instacanvas is growing at a good pace and they already have tens of hundreds of galleries from more than 30 countries.
In short, we could say that Instacanvas is a web platform that acts as an intermediary between the buyer and the photographer, taking care of the printing of your photos and their subsequent delivery to the final buyer.
Apparently Instacanvas takes a good part of the sale of your photos, around 80% or maybe a little less. In return they give you the possibility that your photos are seen by thousands of hundreds of people and anyway, earn some money with them.
How do I sell my Instagram photos on Instacanvas?
Even if at first glance it seems something truly complex, Instacanvas takes care of doing the hard work for you, so you only have to focus on taking good photos and uploading them to your Instagram profile.
If you start to accumulate a good handful of followers on your Instagram account and you think that people appreciate your captures, then it is time to start making your photos profitable on Instacanvas, and for this you just have to follow these steps:
- Enter the Instacanvas web portal and connect with your Instagram account. To do this, click on the "Market your photos" button in the upper right bar and then on the yellow "Connect with Instagram" button.
- Afterwards, a page will appear asking you if you authorize Instacanvas to connect to your Instagram profile. Click the green "Authorize" button.
- Now write your email and a brief description about yourself, then click on "Start".
- If everything goes well, you will be seeing a page with 3 tips that you must follow and a yellow button that says "Create My Gallery!", Click on it.
- In conclusion, choose the photos that you want to include in your gallery, save the changes and click the "Open gallery" button to open your gallery to the public so that anyone can buy your photos.
At the moment, Paypal is the only method available to collect your Instacanvas earnings. Therefore, for the payment to be viable, you must indicate the email address with which you created your Paypal account. How to do it? Extremely simple.
- Go to Instacanvas and click on "My Gallery" at the top right of the page.
- Now go to the "Settings" section and then click on the "Account Settings" tab.
- In conclusion, write the email with which you created your Paypal account and click on "Save settings".
As you have seen, Instacanvas is undoubtedly a convenient and peculiar way to earn money with your Instagram photos. Therefore, do not doubt your potential and create your own gallery now.
