A few weeks ago Karen at A Meaningful Existence pointed me in the direction of a great eBook  called Cloud Living by Glenn Allsop – awesome book about how to get started in affiliate marketing and make a living from it (incidentally there’s a half price offer on it for the summer, go check it out).

Anyway, more importantly, Karen and  Cloud Living introduced me to Glenn’s website Viperchill, which I’ve been reading with interest over these last few weeks.   Glenn is an internet veteran but only in his early 20′s and has built up a huge following on his viral marketing website, originally from the UK but now living in Cape Town, South Africa.

Glen’s latest post on Viperchill is  The Viperchill Business Plan which has given me an idea and I’m asking you to get involved.

Here’s the idea:

If you’ve had a look around this site you’ll have noticed that it’s very image heavy. Several reasons for this;  the main one being that I wanted a ‘magazine’ look to the site when it was created and I really do love great images. In fact, a little know fact about me is that for several years I used to be professional wedding photographer and  I’ve taken 1000′s of photographs in the time before digital photography, so photography is pretty much in my blood.

The vast majority of the images I use are from Flickr under the creative commons license (ie. images that are free to use and are copyright) however, sometimes I purchase images from sites like istockphoto.com

Anyway, I know a lot of people love taking photographs. Some of you will  have expensive digital cameras and others maybe just taking photos on their iPhones.   The idea which I’d love to introduce on this site, is to feature great images from our readers as a showcase for their work and make less use of stock or the creative commons images I’ve been getting from Flickr.   For example, here’s a photograph I took on my wedding day

Of course there would be a few ground rules….

1. obviously we aren’t going to feature pornography or other images that may be considered offensive
2. participating is no guarantee that your image will be used, it needs to be relevant to the post
3. there will be no payment for the use of your image (although credit will be given to you and a link to your site or Flickr Album)
4. you must be the copyright holder of the image (ie you must have taken the image yourself)
5. if you show images featuring people, then they must give you permission to do so
6. image would have to be of good quality and in focus!

There’s just one hitch….

I’ve no idea how we could make this work, simply.  I think it would make good sense to use a site such as Flickr so the images can be shared, but there may be a better option.

If you have any idea how we could make this work, please share your thoughts in the comments below!

If you’d love to get involved please let me know in the comments below and we’ll start sharing your beautiful images.