Have you ever seen these things before?:





Chances are- you have. There's millions of these around the internet and everyone seems to be using them on their social networking sites, especially myspace.

Glitter graphics were simply designed to put on your page to make it look pretty and the animated sparkling glitter just makes them more appealing.

"What's that got to do with me?" i hear you asking. Well, there's a few ways you could make money from these babies;

1. Make some and sell them to MSRS's
An MSRS is a Myspace Resource Site and they pay top dollar to people who can design and sell them these to put on their websites as content.

If you make them yourself, you're more likely to get more cash for them as well as more buyers if they are new and unseen. Most glitter sellers will make sales on the same 100 glitters for years but there values drop, because that means that the same glitters have been brought by loads of different people to put on loads of different websites.

There's a great tutorial here on making high quality glitters.

Well, what's the difference in high quality and low quality?

Here's an example of a high quality glitter graphic:


Here's an example of a low quality glitter graphic:


As you can see, the high quality graphic is bright and colorful with a nice clipart image and contains a few effects, including 3D which makes it look really appealing! Whereas the second is really simple, cheap looking glitter and color and there's not much to it at all. Which one would you rather buy or put on your Myspace page?

So, how much should you charge for glitters?
If you're designing really good, high quality glitters like the ones above, you can get anything between 10-50 cents each for them- it really depends on where you're selling and how many are in a pack. Buyers expect discounts on packs with lots of glitters. I'd suggest making a pack of 50 and then selling them here for around $20.

Or

Make customs for 50 cents each.

Where can you sell your glitters?
Kawaiiville
Digital Point
Myspace Pros

A few tips whilst making and selling glitters:
. If your glitters look like the second, low quality design- you're doing something wrong. Follow the tutorial above to make HQ glitters. It will take some time and practise but eventually you'll get the hang of it.
. Never sell individual glitters- they must be sold in a pack of 10+ depending on where you're selling them. Websites like Digital Point expect large packs in hundreds.
. Only ever sell your packs of glitters to a max. of 10-15 people to keep their value.
. Offer tagging (adding the websites name in a pixelfont) for extra cash if you have the time.
. Try and make your glitters look as unique as possible- never just copy someone elses technique. Try and develop your own look and then buyers will be more interested.
. Choose matching colors that don't clash or look tacky.
. Visit good quotes to make your glitters into. Try and use quotes that noone has used before. But always use popular ones such as 'Nice profile!', 'Happy Birthday', 'Thanks for adding me!', etc...
. Make glitters according to the time of year, eg, if it's Halloween, make a huge pack of Halloween glitters and you'll get lots of sales!

2. Buy and Sell Glitters
You don't just have to make the glitters yourself, though. Even though making glitters yourself and then selling them can make you alot of money- buying and selling can too, just not as much.

I suggest visiting the websites i mentioned above to buy glitter graphics with resell rights (make sure you have rights to resell or you could get into alot of trouble selling without permission to) and then selling them on for profit.

3. Make an MSRS website
If you know how to make high quality websites, then this will definitely be a good idea for you to give a go.

Hundreds of Myspace users are always searching to find cool glitter graphics from Myspace Resource Websites. By making one and promoting your site well, you can get floods of traffic to your site to use your glitters. From that, you can create revenue through allowing others to advertise on your website, Adsense, reviewing other MSRS websites, etc...