Micro Dollars: A Pile of Tiny Dollars In A Businessman's Hand.

Funny Money: A Businessman's hand holds a pile of tiny U.S. Dollars showing the concept of Micro Payments and Micro Loans.

Micro payments are illustrated by this funny image of a businessman's hand holding a pile of tiny dollars. This image can illustrate the credits one uses to license micro stock images, or the receipt of any kind of small payments. This image can be about banks loaning inadequate amounts, or micro loans in the third world, or small loans for less expensive consumer items. I used a pile of cash rather than single pieces of currency to indicate the fact that many small amounts can add up to large sums. This image can go either way indicating abundance or scarcity, depending on the headline and body copy that accompanies it. This money image can illustrate savings issues, investment issues and personal financial dilemmas.

Humor Sells, and Funny Stock Photos Are Effective In Getting Messages Across

Humor sells, and funny stock photos can be extremely effective and compelling in getting a message out. In today's world of image overload people are very adept at tuning out unwanted calls to their attention. Most people are more receptive to humor...to images that entertain as well as inform. When I look at this funny money photo I can't help but smile...and so do the others I have shown it too. For me, that is a strong indicator that this picture can cut through the clutter and deliver its message whether advertising, corporate or editorial in nature. This image is about banking, finance, fiscal policy, the politics of money, debt, personal finance, debt collection, cash flow and more.

Micro Loans Are Big Business and Global Business

Micro loans are big in the global business world and as such there is a need for stock photos that can communicate ideas and messages around them clearly and quickly. This is especially true in the Internet age when micro payments can equal huge revenue when multiplied by the millions and even billions of possible prospects throughout the world. The great thing about photos of micro payments is that they are cross cultural and global in nature. This particular stock picture is also versatile and flexible as it can be cropped effectively both horizontally and as a vertical and there is ample room for Headlines and body copy.

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