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10 Ways to Make Money with your Digital Camera
by C.S. Deam
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Real Estate - Photograph homes as a paid service to realtors
in your area. Since most newspapers and 'home for sale' magazines
feature photographs of the homes that are for sale, your services
can allow the realtors to spend more time earning their living instead
of taking pictures. Also, with the popularity of the internet, most
real estate agencies have websites with featured homes or searchable
listings. These websites usually need good photographs as well.
2. Amateur sporting events - elementary, junior high, or high school
sporting events offer a great opportunity for taking photographs
of peoples kids in action. By getting good shots of their kids,
you'll be able to offer great photographs to proud parents who don't
own cameras, or forgot to bring them, or didn't have the great shots
that you got.
3. Digital Image Collections - bundle hundreds of photographs onto
a single CD rom and sell as a royalty-free package for web designers
and graphic artists that don't want to take time from their areas
of interest in order to take photographs.
4. How-To Projects - photograph the progression from start to finish
of a particular project and put a few explanations with it and then
offer it for sale as a 'How To ....." guide.
5. Insurance Records - offer your photography services to property
owners who want to document their possessions for insurance purposes.
Offer the final photographs on a CD. An add on business would be
to have a written itemization for all the items, which could be
included with the CD.
6. Child Safety Identification - not all parents have recent photographs
of their children. By offering photography services as part of a
Child Safety ID business you are doing a service to improve children's
safety. Additional services could include recording fingerprints
and a hair sample.
7. Digital
Image Website - by putting high quality or interesting photos
on a website you can create a cyber-gallery from which people can
by prints. Many online photo-processors want you to do this because
it means additional income for them too. Just upload,
email, or send the online photo-processor your digital images and
arrange them into albums. Many photo-processor's provide online
tools so that you don't have to build your own website, or know
how to run expensive photo editing software. Every time someone
buys one of your photos from your gallery, the photo-processor makes
a buck, and so do you.
8. Publish Church Directories - most churches want directories of
the families and other members of their congregation or parish.
By using your digital camera, careful documentation, and a some
software you can create a church directory that include a photo
of each family or individual, as well as their contact information.
Your directory doesn't just have to be a printed out version, it
could also be an online version. However, due to privacy concerns,
some churches may not want their members contact information to
be publicly available via the world wide web.
9. Selling Scrapbooks of Events - if you're a Scout leader or a
participant in a family or class reunion, you could be the person
who takes pictures of the big event, compiles it into a easy-reading
visual scrapbook, and sells it to others who were at the event.
Everyone wants a souvenir and reminder of a good time, and as memories
fade, a quality scrapbook would be something most people appreciate.
10. Freelance photographer - go to public events and take photographs
of the goings-on. Immediately contact local newspapers and magazines
about the availability of your photographs and work out the details
of how they prefer to look at the images you've captured. You never
can tell when a publication didn't know about the event in the first
place.
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| 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 www.LinkertonPublishing.com
where you can sign up for FREE E-Courses & Newsletters to help you
on your path to self-employment.
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