GraphicRiver.net Review

Residual incomes can be made in many different ways on the internet, you just have to find out which ways work for yourself. If you are a graphic designer and like to tinker with graphics then GraphicRiver.net is right up your alley. Graphic river is a micro stock site that lets you sale your own designs and design templates on their marketplace. Whether you just created a fancy business card that you would like to sale or maybe you created a background maker that can help other designers with their mock ups, GraphicRiver.net can help you make a little extra money each month.

How it works:

You have the graphics, they have the marketplace to expose your work. Its that simple. You become a member to their site, you have to pass a simple little test that gives you the lowdown on making sure that you content is simply that: your own. You are not allowed to have made items from templates on the internet, everything has to be created by you, this way they can’t get sued for copyright infringement and you can avoid a nice long legal battle. After you are a member you submit files for the marketplace and they will set the price for that particular file. Bam, just like that you have a little design on the internet waiting to be sold that you can collect the check after you reach the threshold. You get a % of each sale, and the % rip that you are getting each time is broken down by how much you sale. The more you sale, the more you make. Check out their description of services.

Making that money:

If you become an Exlusive Author you get a bigger rip (rip = the % of the sale) on each item sold. If you are not an exclusive author you get 25%. If you become exlusive then you will get 40% each sale. Once you break the the $2,000 mark then you get bumped up to 41%. After another $2,000 in sales you get 42%. The thresholds get further apart once you start to make bigger money, but with time you can get all the way to 70% of each item sold.

Make even more money:

Saleing graphics and design templates are not the only way to help build your passive income with GraphicRiver. They also have a referal program built into their system. Basically it works like this. You refer a person to their site, you will get 30% of their cash deposit. So lets say you know a designer who wants a nice business card template. You refer them to your site through a link, they deposit $50 bucks to buy it, you walk away with $15 bucks. Now it may not seem like a ton of money, but the ResidualBacon knows that little things add up over time.

More about GraphicRiver:

One of the greatest parts about GraphicRiver is the tools they give their authors to track which items are saling well, as well as monthly breakdowns on money earned. They have graphs for items sold as well as money earned each month. They have nice layed out tables for your referals and clickthroughs. Not to mention the styling of GraphicRiver is producer from the Envato Network which is leading edge as far as creating nice clean layouts for thir user interface. Everything is easily navigated unlike many of the other stock sites out there, and when searching for items everything is broken down into easily understood categories, so tracking down that specific type of file you may be searching for is simple.

The Lowdown:

• Expose your designs/templates to their expanding marketplace.
• Cash in on graphics that you have created that are just sitting on your hardrive.
• Earn extra cash through referals.
• Do the work once, reap the rewards forever.

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