How To Make Money on VideoHive with Little or No Effort

We all kind of dream about selling hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars in stock elements on sites like VideoHive.  That’s all well and great, but when you sit down, sometimes if you force yourself to pump out project after project, graphic after graphic, it gets kind of tiresome, and you lose that spark that you had when you first started.  Well I am going to show you a few ways to work uploading files to VideoHive into your daily routine, to make you money with little or no effort on your part.

Rejected Concepts

If you work for a design company or a post house, you probably get a few of these every week.  They are the mockups that you throw together for a client to see if they like the concept that you have in your head.  Sometimes they hate your ideas, but you still think they are pretty damn slick.  Well, you can take those ideas that got thrown into the trash can, refine them, and then submit them as a motion graphic element or a downloadable project file.  Easy as pie.  Sometimes you could get 4 to 5 of these in a week, and even if it might not be a route your client wants to travel, guaranteed someone, somewhere in the world is going the think its as awesome as you do.

Carry a Video Camera

Carrying a video camera and a tripod with you everywhere you go is such a simple task.  How many times have you been driving home from work and saw the sun going down and said, “Wow, that is a gorgeous shot, I wish I had my camera.”  I know I was doing that at least once a week, more so after I started planning days to go out and shoot footage.  You don’t even have to really have a spectacular camera, I carry a little Canon Vixia HV30 and a Walmart tripod with me in the trunk of my car, with a snap on wide angle lens at all times.  This prevents you from getting burnt out spending whole days, just searching for shots, and in a way, lets nature bring the shots to you.  All you have to do is bring your camera home, rip the footage to the computer and upload.

Modify Your Projects

So you have made a pretty sweet looking animation.  Maybe you used it in a job, or you were just fooling around and created something cool looking.  Well, why don’t change the mood of the piece by color grading it differently and maybe changing the background.   You could change the font and switch up the way that title reveals on screen.  The possibilities are really endless to what you could do, and in the process you might learn a little more, and find a new technique you could use on another project down the line.

Upload Your B-Roll

If you work in a position in which you have to shoot a bunch of b-roll, whether it be for your news segments, or for that music video or short film you are producing… take that b-roll and upload them as individual shots.  Sunsets, timelapse, cityscapes and shots like that are money notes in the making.  If you start thinking of files sitting on your computer as five or ten dollar bills, guaranteed it will spark you to get uploading and wanting to make that money.

Affiliation

If you haven’t signed up for the Envato Marketplace’s Affiliation, do it now.  It is perhaps the easiest way to accumulate money on the internet.  I have used a ton of different affiliations with marketplaces throughout the net, and no other place pays out as much as Envato.  You can earn up to 30%-50% just from people clicking through a banner or button ad on your website or blog.  This affiliation paired up with your earnings from your files throughout the Envato network, could get you well on the way to making a nice chunk of money every month.

So, there you have it.  Just a few ways to get you out there, and prompt yourself to start working stock element sales into your daily routine.  You will be surprised how much you can sell once you get uploading regularly, and before your know it, you will have a couple hundred elements online, that just sit there and earn you money, with no extra effort on your part after you hit that little upload button.