How to Make Money Selling Feet Pictures Online
Over the last few years, unconventional side hustles like selling pictures of your feet have garnered more interest from people who want to make money online. It might sound weird if you don’t have a foot fetish or other need for foot photos, but it’s a popular and legitimate type of digital product you can sell if you’re interested in making money from home. This post will cover everything you need to know to get started selling pictures of your feet as a beginner.
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How to Sell Feet Pics Online
Before we get into tips and best practices, I want to cover a couple misconceptions about the industry surrounding feet pictures and what it actually entails.
First, it’s important to understand that this is not an easy or get rich quick scheme. A lot of the discourse around this topic has a mocking or dismissive approach that leads people to believe it’s inherently easy because they don’t take the idea of it seriously. In reality, it takes just as much work and effort to make good money selling feet pictures as it does any other type of digital product. If you’re thinking about selling feet pictures because you think it’s the easiest way to make big money with little effort, you might burn out after a week or two when you realize how much time you’ve spent taking pictures, uploading them for sale, writing descriptions, teasing them on social media, managing customers, making sure your feet are up to par, and learning the ropes of the business (don’t worry, it all gets easier and faster the more you do it). Work is work, so make sure it’s work you actually want to do.
Secondly, you have to go into something like this with an open mind, especially if you’re selling to people with foot fetishes. If you think that anyone who would buy or enjoy feet pics is a gross perverted creep, this probably isn’t the work for you. Don’t get me wrong – there are plenty of creeps and weirdos out there who are not worthy of your respect and you’ll likely encounter some of them. But you can’t go into this looking down on the industry or your buyers and expect to succeed. In the grand scheme of fetishes, feet is a pretty tame one. If it makes you clutch your pearls, fetish work probably isn’t for you and there are plenty of other types of digital products you can sell online.
If you’re ready to put in the work and go in with an open mind, here are my best tips for selling feet pictures online in 2022.
Tips for Selling Pictures of Your Feet Online
Prioritize Your Safety: Never Use Your Real Name
Your privacy is your business, so you’re more than welcome to use your real name and show your face if you’re comfortable doing that. At the very least, I highly recommend creating a fake name for your own protection. You can use this name for any accounts you create.
Get a Separate Gmail and Google Voice Number
Once you have your alter ego, make a new Gmail email address and get a Google Voice number. Many social media platforms and foot fetish websites require an email and/or phone number, so creating a new one will add an extra layer of privacy. It will also prevent Instagram from outing you by automatically syncing your contacts and letting all your coworkers know “Your contact Ashley Smith is on Instagram as FootHottie420. Would you like to follow her?”
Create at Least One Social Media Page to Promote Yourself
There are several websites where you can sell feet pictures online safely, which are listed at the bottom of this post. In most cases you’ll have to drive traffic to your page, which you can do by promoting yourself on social media.
You don’t have to use all social media platforms, but you’ll find people selling and promoting their feet pics on every platform including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. You can start on the one that you’re most familiar with. I recommend Instagram because it’s so photo-friendly and you can create a large visual grid of all your teasers. You can also now link directly to your seller profile in your Instagram stories which is a convenient way to drive traffic.
I also recommend setting up a CashApp account for your pseudonym where people can pay you for custom requests or leave you a tip if they’re enjoying your free content.
Never Show All 10 Toes in Your Preview Pictures
Don’t give away the money shot for free!
Watermark Your Social Media Posts
Always watermark your free teaser photos on social media with your username. This way if the photos get shared (which they inevitably will) other customers know where to find you for more. It’s easy to add a watermark with a program like PicMonkey.
Take Good Quality Photos
I cannot stress enough the importance of having good quality, well-lit photos. Your ideal photography situation would be natural lighting near a window or outside in the middle of an overcast day. Anytime when you can easily take a photo without glare, shadows, or discoloration is ideal. You could have the most gorgeous feet on Feetfinder, but you’re much less likely to make sales if the photos look like they were taken in Buffalo Bill’s basement.
Also, mind your surroundings when taking a photo. Use a light-colored fluffy blanket as a background instead of cat hair-covered carpet. Move your McDonald’s cup out of the frame. If you’re near a window, make sure it’s not causing a glare because it’s in front of you instead of next to or behind you.
If you’re struggling with photos, check out the pictures of other top sellers to see what looks good about their photos. Practice all sorts of different angles and take pictures in different areas of your home at different times of the day to see how the lighting and background changes the effects. Use a simple photo editor like PicMonkey to touch up, filter, and enhance your photos.
Lean Into What Makes Your Feet Unique
If you’re reading this thinking your feet are not quality enough to sell pictures, you’re wrong (probably, I haven’t seen them). There is someone out there for everyone and everything. Callouses. Bunyons. Crooked toes. Dirty feet. Tattooed feet. Dancer feet. Lean into what makes your feet different and unique, there’s most likely someone out there searching for that.
The Best Websites To Sell Your Feet Pics
FeetFinder
FeetFinder.Com is one of the more popular marketplaces for buying and selling feet pictures. At this time they don’t allow nudity of any kind, although you can wear lingerie and get as creative as you want without the nudity. It costs $3.99 a month to sign up as a seller, or you can pay $14.99 for a full year of access which is pretty cheap considering how many buyers are signing up all the time. You will also have to verify your identity with them to prove you’re over the age of 18. You can add content and charge per album, and you can also create a subscription for anyone who wants to pay monthly for access to all your content. If you’re looking to get into the foot fetish niche, FeetFinder is my top recommendation for where to start. It’s easy to use and you can direct all your social media followers right to your page.
OnlyFans
Only Fans is where you can sell any type of content, so if you want to get naked with your feet pics, this is the place to do it. I don’t have any experience with it but I know people love it for its various upselling opportunities, like sending a message to your fans that they have to pay to unlock.
Etsy
Yes, you can even sell pictures of your feet on Etsy. As long as your products are within their terms, you can sell them just like you would any other type of photography or digital product. I’ve written a lot on this blog about selling digital products on Etsy, and the same principles apply to selling feet pics on Etsy as any of the others, especially search engine optimization (SEO). If you’re new to this, make sure to check out these posts to help you get started:
How to Sell Digital Photography on Etsy
20 Types of Digital Products You Can Sell on Etsy
Also make sure to sign up with my seller referral link and your first 40 listings are free!
Stock Photo Websites
If your photos are high-quality enough, you can sell them on stock photo websites like Shutterstock and Unsplash. This is a good option if you want to sell to companies using them for their brand (like a salon).
Start a Foot Blog and Monetize Your Content With Feet Pictures
This is the most time-consuming of the options, but if you’ve ever wanted to start a blog you can do that by creating content in the foot niche, such as:
How to Care For Your Feet in the Winter
The Best Products for an At-Home Pedicure
How to Stretch and Strengthen Your Feet
The Best Footwear for (insert activity here)
Tips for Starting a Barefoot Lifestyle
Etc.
These articles will help drive search engine traffic to your website. You can then monetize this content with affiliate links to recommended products, by directing readers to your FeetFinder page, by selling custom pictures and videos directly on your website – so many possibilities. This takes a little more time because you’ll have to drive all your own traffic unlike a marketplace like FeetFinder or Etsy, but you control more of the variables this way and there are multiple monetization options.
Related posts:
Affiliate Marketing for Beginners
I hope this article helps give you some clarity on how to start selling feet pictures online. Have you found success with a side hustle like this? Share your experience in the comments!
Check out more of my posts about making money online:
How to Sell Printables Like Coloring Pages, Planners, and Wall Art on Etsy
