How to Sell Your Sexy Photos Online

There are 2 ways to sell photos online. On a subscription site, buyers pay monthly for everything you post. On a pay-per-post site, they pay for each photo or set they want. This guide uses SexySelfies, which is pay-per-post only, so every step below is about listing single posts and pricing each one.

Step 1: Check the Platform Before You Sign Up

A few minutes of reading now saves you from shooting a set you can't post or waiting on money you can't reach.

Step 2: Set Up the Profile

Your profile is the shop window. Members usually reach it from the feed and decide in a second or two whether to look further.

Choose a display name

Use a stage name you haven't used anywhere else online. Pick one you won't mind seeing every day for a year.

Pick the profile photo

• Choose a clear, well-lit shot with a clean background.
• Make it inviting, but keep your most revealing photos for paid posts.
• Show your face only if you're comfortable with that long term. A cropped or turned-away shot works too.
• Swap it every so often so returning members see something new.

Write a 2-sentence bio

Say what you post and give a little personality. Keep it specific and confident.

Step 3: Choose Your First Upload

Don't go live with 3 photos. Members who like your first post will tap through to your profile, and they should find enough there to buy.

For the photography itself, see how to take sexy selfies that sell.

Step 4: Price Each Post

Members pay per post, and you pick the price for each one. Nobody can hand you the right number, but a simple method helps:

• Rank your posts by effort and how much they show. A quick mirror selfie and a styled set shouldn't cost the same.
• Start lower than you think while you have no buyers yet. Low prices get your first sales, and those sales teach you what people want.
• After 2-4 weeks, look at what got unlocked. Raise prices on the kind of post that sells easily and rethink the ones that don't sell at all.
• Change one thing at a time so you can tell what made the difference.

Step 5: Your First 2 Weeks

• Post on a schedule you can keep. New posts give the feed something fresh to show.
• Reply to messages. Messages are free for both sides, and you can't charge for photos or videos sent in a DM, but a good conversation often leads to someone buying your paid posts.
• Fill in every part of your profile.
• Note which posts get unlocked. You'll need that when you shoot next.

Step 6: Protect Yourself From Day One

• Add a small watermark with your stage name to discourage reposting.
• Many creators open a separate bank account for creator payouts.
• In the US, self-employment income generally has to be reported once net earnings reach $400 in a year. Put part of each payout aside for tax.

If anonymity matters a lot to you, read the faceless creator guide before your first shoot.

Mistakes to Skip

• Launching with a near-empty profile.
• Pricing everything the same, whatever the effort.
• Ignoring messages for days.
• Posting dark or blurry photos because they were the only ones you had.
• Judging the whole thing after 1 week.