Ten more ways to make money in a home business, with your digital camera, at a very low start-up cost.
Ten more ways to make money in a home business, with your digital
camera, at a very low start-up cost.
1. Pet photos - advertise a Pet Photography business where you
photograph pets with their owners. Most owners won't struggle to
take a photograph with their pet all by themselves. You can be
the one who makes it easy on them. Not only can you charge for
the service and your time, but you can offer the photograph in
it's digital form or as a print that you can mail to them later
- either created by your own photo printer or by a photo
processing service.
2. Fishing contests - be around at the end of a fishing contest
to take photographs of the contestants that didn't even think
about bringing a camera. Most fishermen are more concerned about
fishing than carrying cameras, and most fisherman also want a
picture of their stringer full of fish or the big one that
they're going to have mounted.
3. Parades - be in position to get great shots of folks and
floats in the parade and sell the prints back to the individuals
or to their family members. The folks who take part in the
parades are often way to busy to take pictures before or after,
so someone who captures them in action might really be doing
them a favor - and a profitable service.
4. Landmark and tourist photographer - if there's a famous
landmark in your area, offer your photography services to
tourists who want their photo taken in front of it. Even if the
tourists are carrying a camera and get someone else to take
their photo, often the camera won't be digital with a display so
it means the tourists won't know how the picture turns out until
they're long gone. With your digital camera, you should be able
to show them it's a good picture.
5. Graduations - preschool, high school, or college graduations
offer dozens, if not hundreds of opportunities to capture a
significant moment in someone's life. If the family members of
the graduate aren't located in as good a location or don't have
as good a camera as yourself - you'll have even greater
opportunity at getting the shots they couldn't.
6. Holiday Family Postcards - offer your services to families
that want their picture taken and put on a postcard that they
can send to their extended family and friends. By using your
digital camera you can not only get photo-postcards through
online photo-processors, but you can make the prints available
in your online gallery and have the customers refer their
extended friends and family there to purchase a larger print if
they desire it.
7. Photo Novelty Items - take photographs of people that want
the pictures of themselves of their loved ones imprinted on
coffee mugs, mouse pads, keychains, tee-shirts, and other items.
Usually you can find suppliers of such photo-transfer
merchandise and equipment in business opportunity publications,
such as "Mind Your Business 101: How to Select & Start Your Own
Business"
8. Used Car Photos - work out an arrangement to take snapshots
of cars for used car dealers who don't have photographs of their
current inventory. If any of the car dealers don't have websites
that need photographs you could, provide an additional service
by learning how to make and maintain a website of their
inventory.
9. Promotional slideshow production - taking digital photos of a
convention, church, business, college campus, or other
promotable location - you can create a digital slideshow on
Video CD or DVD for your customers to promote their business,
organization, or event.
10. Newborn photo service - parents of newborns are some of the
busiest people in the world. Advertise your services on an
on-call basis so that you can take informal snapshots for the
growing family either before they leave the hospital, or after
they get home. This way both parents and the child(ren) can be
in more of the pictures all together, and the parents have one
less thing to try and figure out.
About the author:
C.S. Deam is a small business owner. His eBook Leverage Yourself
Out of the Rat Race is available for immediate download at
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