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Are You Ready to Profit From
Your Next Outing or Vacation?

You’re About to Discover the Simple Yet Profound Secret to Selling and Reselling Your Photographs for Cash.

I’ve used the same secret to sell more than 3,200 photographs, some of which have sold for $600--$800 each. Many of them have appeared in some of the nation’s most prestigious newspapers and magazines including Country Accents, Peterson’s PHOTOgraphic magazine, Popular Woodworking, Petersen’s Hunting magazine, Delta Sky magazine, The Detroit Free-Press, The Anchorage Times, The Boston Herald and even England’s Mail on Sunday, and many more.

I’ve been a photographer – amateur and pro – for most of my life. I’ve always enjoyed it. But I didn’t always make much money from it. True, I managed to sell a few photographs here and there, and I was making a living of sorts, but it didn’t always pay the bills. I used to wonder why I couldn’t sell more of my images because my photography was good. In fact, it was as good as any on the market.

I had learned all the tricks of the trade, or so I thought. But there was still something missing, something I had to learn the hard way, through rejection. I remember it as if it was yesterday: It was more than 20 years ago. I was moping around my office feeling sorry for myself, when the UPS man came by and dropped off a package of my slides – yes, it was yet another rejection from a photo editor. But somehow, this one was different. A hand-written note that accompanied it read: “Sorry, no needs, try again. Great photography, though.”

No, I hadn’t made a sale, but those eight words changed my life. I had finally found the answer that has enabled me to make a very good living and travel the world doing exactly what I love best. Question: How many people do you know that can say the same? Isn’t that the real dream of everyone? To spend their days working at something they really enjoy. You know it is. But how many of us ever make it? The secret I will reveal to you will enable you to do just that.

For now, I just want you to know that whether photography is your hobby or a career you’d like to pursue, the secret I will share with you will catapult you into the money right away. Without it, it doesn’t matter if you’re the greatest photographer in the world. You never be able to make any real money, but when you begin to use it… well, that’s when the money and prestige will start rolling in…

And if you don’t want to travel – perhaps you’d rather like to stay close to home - you can still make money from your photography. The opportunities are all around you: museums… zoo animals, special events, festivals, sporting events, high school football games, dog shows, and tourist attractions, and that’s to name but a few. All of these opportunities can enable you to turn your hobby into a real source of extra income, even a change of career.

You need to meet just one requirement. It’s not about being a pro or an amateur photographer. It’s something else that makes you money regardless of your skill.

Just take a look around. Visit your local newsstand, book shop or grocery store. Look at the magazines, newspapers, books, trade journals, technical manuals, software, packaging, you name it. Take a look at the cover of any one of those magazines, flip through the pages.

What do you see? Photographs.

Someone has to take those photographs. Why not you? Now, perhaps you’ve heard: “It takes many years knocking on doors before you can become an established contributor.” Or, “You must pay your dues.”

When I first started out all those years ago, that’s what I believed, but not anymore. I’ll get to that in a minute. You see, I played by the rules, went through the system, knocked on the doors and paid my dues. But I still wasn’t doing that well.

Ironically, it was that rejection note I mentioned earlier that opened all the doors for me: “Sorry, no needs, try again. Great photography though.”

At first glance I thought this editor was letting me down easy. However, the more I thought about it, the more I knew this wasn’t the case. I was already familiar enough with the publishing industry to know that no editor will invite people to waste his or her time. If my work wasn’t good enough to publish, the editor would have told me so. He certainly wouldn’t have asked me to try again.

No, he wasn’t trying to let me down easy. It was a note of encouragement.

I looked at the note again. Two words caught my attention, “No needs.” Then it hit me. This editor hadn’t said he wouldn’t buy from me. He was telling me: “Send me something I need and I’ll buy it.”

I NOW knew the answer.

The secret is so obvious, so simple, that no one really gives it any consideration. It may even surprise you.

It’s simply this:

People Don’t Buy What They Don’t Need.

When I discovered that, I knew I was really on to something. I also knew that I had to become “customer focused. " This is so important it bears repeating. But let me put it in another way.

You might be the finest photographer ever to hold a camera, you might own the finest equipment money can buy, and you can shoot thousands of images each year; but if you can’t find someone who needs the images you make, you’ll be spinning your wheels. You’ll never sell a single photo.

However, if you can find a need and fill it, the money will start pouring in, even if you’re no more than an amateur photographer. Here’s a glimpse into what’s possible when you start filling a need with your photos.

That’s exactly what you’ll discover in our new course, The Photo Essay – Getting Your Foot in the Door: A Complete Course for Photographers who Want to Make Real Money Selling Their Images. This course will teach you how to shoot photographs that will sell – truly marketable images - the sort that fills an editor’s needs.

Now, you don’t need fancy equipment (although it won't hurt). With an inexpensive digital SLR camera, or even a simple digital point-and-shot, you can shoot images that are truly amazing, but let me also say this: You don’t necessarily need to take great pictures in order to sell them. You do, however, have to produce the pictures your clients need. And you do need to make sure they include at least three of the four essential components that make up a saleable photograph

Ok, let’s talk about Renate, my business partner, again for a moment: less than 18 months ago she was no more than an unpublished “wanna-be.” Today, she has sold more than 130 photographs and 85 newspaper and magazine articles. She has traveled on assignment to Bermuda and she is as good a photographer as I have ever seen. Now that’s progress folks.

Renate loves to travel and meet new people, and she loves photography. But, early on she discovered something else that helped her get published faster, make more money, and stay on the good side of editors.

She Provides Them With A Complete Package

She writes Photo Essays - travel round-up articles. These are what editors love most of all. They make life very easy for them, and they are the perfect extension to your photographs.

Think about it. What did you see the last time you glanced at the cover of a glossy magazine? Photographs for sure, but how about those articles – “6 Tips for this, 5 Ways to do that, 6 Great Honeymoon Destinations,” and so on, right?

All of those articles are simple Photo Essays and, if you can shoot a simple photograph, you can produce articles just like them that will sell and resell over and over and thus provide you with a very good income… well, you get the idea. And, since someone has to shoot those photographs and write those articles, why not you?

It took me almost four years to get to the point Renate has reached in less than 18 months. She managed to shortcut the system by more than 2 ½ years. You can do it too.

Now, I know just what you’re thinking, “I can’t write to save my life. Well, YOU DON”T NEED TO. All you need to be able to do is write a simple caption that describes each photograph, and you’d need to do that anyway, right?

Ok, look. I know you must be intrigued by now. So, I'd like to make you a special offer just for trying our course. I am the author of a book called “How to Sell Your Photographs: The Tricks of the Trade.” I’m going to send you the e-book version for free, just for taking a look at The Photo Essay – Getting Your Foot in the Door: A Complete Course for Photographers who Want to Make Real Money Selling Their Images.

“How to Sell Your Photographs: The Tricks of the Trade,” was the inspiration behind “The Photo Essay” course. Does it work? Judge for yourself:

I’ve sold more than 600 articles and 3,000 photographs to such important publications as Petersen’s PHOTOgraphic, Delta’s Sky, Golf Illustrated, The Daily Mail Sunday Edition (The Mail on Sunday is Great Britain’s most popular tabloid newspaper), Tours & Resorts, British Heritage, Writer’s Digest, TWA Ambassador, Popular Woodworking, The Walking Magazine, Country Accents, American Geographic, Thoroughbred Times, The Boston Herald, The Indianapolis News, The Detroit Free-Press, The Anchorage Times, and many more. including the cover photo you see below.

I’m also the author of 13 travel guides, some of which have gone into 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions, four how-to books and one photography book. I usually get a $3,000 to $5,000 advance to write these guidebooks. Then, I get 10% royalties on the sales. And that doesn’t even include all the free travel and perks I enjoy while I do my research overseas to put the content together and take photographs.

A year after I discovered the key to selling and reselling my photographs I made so much money I bought more than $40,000 worth of cameras and lenses. I traveled the world, earned a living and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

So, does it work? You bet it does.

Look, I can’t promise how successful you’ll be. That’s really up to you. I will promise you this, though: If you use what I teach you and create/sell just one Photo Essay a month, it’s possible for you to make an extra $30,000 a year. If you want to change careers and do this full-time, it’s possible to make $50,000 a year and maybe even more.

Photography has taken me places I never would have dreamed of. It’s amazing to think my life has evolved the way it has — I’ve become quite a well-known author of books and travel articles. I get V.I.P. treatment wherever I go.

Over the years I’ve been fortunate enough to go to many exotic destinations: magnificent beaches, wild and remote mountain retreats, painted deserts, and bustling, historic cities. Yet, the islands of the Bahamas are my favorite.

Year after year I return here (and never at my expense) to update my book "The Adventure Guide to The Bahamas." The Bahamas has everything: bustling international cities; remote, tiny islets where the sand is golden and, so it seems, no human foot has ever stepped. The “Islands in the Sun” made famous by native sons such as Harry Belefonte, and in the James Bond movies, are the stuff most people only ever get to dream about, much less visit, and for free. The cool sea breezes, the hot sun, and vast stretches of shallow, emerald water bounded by snow-white strips of sand make these islands irresistible.

Some 700 islands and 2,000 islets lie scattered like a broken string of pearls across the northern Caribbean. They offer thousands of opportunities for adventure. So now maybe you can understand why I’m just glad I’m a photographer and can literally just pick up the phone and within a matter of days I can be on a flight, with my family, to Nassau, Bahamas whenever the mood hits me.

But it doesn’t stop there. When I arrive, a limousine meets me at the airport then takes us to Atlantis: the world-famous resort where rooms that costs travelers anywhere from $485 to $1,875 a night costs me nothing. That’s where I’ve stayed my last three trips to the Bahamas.

I’ll never forget my first stay at Atlantis. I arrived around lunchtime and walked up to the Front Desk to check in (I already had a complimentary three-night reservation) when a woman working behind the desk asked for my name. Blair Howard, I replied.

Her face lit up, “Oh, hold on a minute Mr. Howard. Then she disappeared around a corner, leading into a back office. An executive-manager dressed in a black suit emerged, He held out his hand and said, “Good afternoon, Mr. Howard, please come with me.”

Not needing to check in, he escorted me and my family to the VIP lounge. And, for the four days we were there, we received just that - V.I.P. treatment.

And it’s the same whenever I go to Bermuda (my other favorite destination). The last time I visited , I stayed in three different hotels. (It was a bit of pain, unpacking and then repacking, but all three usually charge more than $300 a night). And I usually get a guide and a car for a day , sometimes for two days. Then there are the attractions I visit: swimming with dolphins (Renate stole that one from me last month), the museum, the Wildcat (you don’t even want to know about that one, unless you’re really into adventures), the sailboat rides, fishing trips and, of course the golf. Bermuda has seven of the best golf courses you’ll find anywhere in the world. Then there are the spas (yep, Renate got to do those too), and all of these perks come free because I am a professional photographer and travel writer.

Would you believe I haven’t paid for a hotel room in more than 10 years? In fact, I never stay in a cheap hotel (and that’s not what I ask for, that’s what I get).

This lifestyle that I now lead started with my passion for photography…

I write two travel guide books – The Adventure Guide to Bermuda and the Adventure Guide to the Bahamas — every time I fly into Bermuda from the west and gaze down at the great, fishhook-shaped atoll surrounded by deep blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean, I fall in love with the island all over again.

The traditional, pastel-colored buildings with their snowy-white roofs stand out like coral beads; the turquoise shallows and pale pink beaches never change. To me, Bermuda is one of the most beautiful places on Earth — and the great thing is: I can travel here any time I want, and always at someone else’s expense, not mine.

Everything — my income, travel experiences, prestige and a lifestyle most people would give their eye teeth to emulate — have come because of just one thing: my camera.

Where will yours take you? Will it take you to the islands of the Caribbean? Will it bring you a lifetime of royalties as it has me? Will it bring you wonderful travel experiences? It surely can.

But there’s even better news: even as an amateur photographer, you’ll quickly learn how to build the Photo Essays that can make you a steady stream of extra cash.

Here’s my offer:

In exchange for $299, no, if you enroll today, I’ll take $50 off. For just $249, we’ll send you the first lesson — but at our risk. Not yours. You’ll start work on your first Photo Essay, immediately. You’ll go out and start practicing the new techniques I’ll teach you, and you’ll take the first steps toward turning your photography into a real source of extra income.

If you faithfully followed the techniques I’ll give you — you should end the 16-week course with at least one saleable article. Which means you can go out and sell it for $150, $250 perhaps even more. In fact, if you can sell it just once (and I’m going to show you how you can sell multiple times), you can just about pay off the entire cost of the course.

Guaranteed? You bet:

If, before you receive the third lesson, you don’t think this course will work for you, just let us know and we’ll promptly refund your money. No questions asked.

And just for trying my course "The Photo Essay - Your Foot in the Door: A Complete Course for Photographers who Want to Make Real Money Selling Their Images." I am going to send you the e-book version of my bestseller “How to Sell Your Photographs: The Tricks of the Trade” totally free of charge (a $49.95 value).

Now, that’s more than a fair offer. And here’s the thing: sell a single Photo Essay just once for a couple of hundred dollars, and you’re literally getting the course for free!

Ok, so what's the deal?

Well, we have a plan to suit everyone. You can pay for the course now and save $50, or you can choose one of three payment plans - two payments of $149.95; three of $99.95; or six monthly payments of $49.95 (note: if you choose the 6-payment option, it will stretch the course out over 26 weeks instead of 16 weeks)

Sign Up Today and Save $50 (You pay only $249.99)

This truly is a remarkable opportunity to unleash the potential of the budding photographer within you…

Wishing you a very profitable future,

Blair Howard