These days, in the age of cheap digital cameras, EVERYONE is a photographer!
Remember when only a few years ago you went on holiday with your old point-and-click camera loaded with a 24 exposure film, took a few snapshots such as "me standing by the hotel" or "the kids playing on the beach", and then had to take your film to the chemist to be developed and printed. Those days are well over!!
Now you take your compact, intelligent, digital camera with all its built-in applications and SD memory card, with massive picture storage capacity, and come home with a unique collection of maybe 500/600 photographs, which you can easily upload to your Home PC and instantly send a copy of any picture to any other computer in the world via the Internet. How good is that?
Photography is a worthwhile hobby in itself that is becoming immensely popular. Photographs bring family history alive, they record special events in our lives and create personal memories that last forever.
But, there is another side to photography. They say that "Every picture tells a story" and that "One picture is worth ten thousand words". Advertisers, marketing men, newspaper and magazine people and publishers of all kinds have an insatiable and ever present need for new images to illustrate the messages and words they constantly pump out. That's where you, the hobby photographer come in!
All of these people buy stock photographs by the hundred from agencies, most of whom operate online. There are a few large, long established photographic agencies who only deal with experienced professional photographers, but with the explosion in Internet technology, there are many newer younger agencies working to get established in the business of selling stock images and they need your photographs to build up their online stocks.
All types of photos apart from family snaps are urgently wanted. Scenes of town and country, wildlife, buildings ancient and modern, groups of spectators at public events, sporting moments (unstaged), seasonal and weather pictures, etc, are all eagerly sought. If you took the picture ... it's yours to sell as long as no one's privacy has been violated and in a few obvious cases permission has been obtained.
You can make money from your photographs by uploading them FREE to these agency's websites. Their customers download them in bulk and each time they pick one of your images you get paid. It may normally be only a few pence per picture, but each one can sell over and over and if you have hundreds or even thousands of appealing photographs on offer the money will soon mount up. And if you use several agencies you could soon be earning some serious cash!
Start making a part time living now. Look for photographic agencies advertising online and read their Terms and Conditions. Sign up free and start making money selling some of those thousands of photos 'gathering dust' on your hard disk. Good luck!
Sunday 29 November 2009
Friday 6 November 2009
Keep Fit, Lose Weight AND Make Money
A friend of mine at the gym has always been a fitness fanatic. She spent hours at the gym exercising, doing aerobics classes, swimming and consequently kept herself in good shape. She is very particular what and how much she eats and made a point of finding out all about nutrition and healthy diets.
She studied a number of books on fitness, exercise, pilates, yoga, dietary health, etc, and became very knowledgeable about many aspects of keeping fit.
She got a job at a gym helping in the café because she got free use of the gym facilities and could use them at any time she was not on duty. This meant she met a lot more of the members socially and found people started asking her how she kept so fit and what they themselves could do to lose more weight, get fitter, etc.
At first she was happy to help all she could and devised a number of fitness programmes for people. Someone said she should charge a fee for doing this and set herself up as a professional lifestyle coach.
She made enquiries about becoming a personal trainer and enrolled on some courses for specialist disciplines. She soon became qualified and began taking on private clients. Her clients pay her £30/£35 per session and she now has more work than she can cope with.
So, she is now earning a living doing something she always loved doing, her fitness hobby, and is happier than ever.
She studied a number of books on fitness, exercise, pilates, yoga, dietary health, etc, and became very knowledgeable about many aspects of keeping fit.
She got a job at a gym helping in the café because she got free use of the gym facilities and could use them at any time she was not on duty. This meant she met a lot more of the members socially and found people started asking her how she kept so fit and what they themselves could do to lose more weight, get fitter, etc.
At first she was happy to help all she could and devised a number of fitness programmes for people. Someone said she should charge a fee for doing this and set herself up as a professional lifestyle coach.
She made enquiries about becoming a personal trainer and enrolled on some courses for specialist disciplines. She soon became qualified and began taking on private clients. Her clients pay her £30/£35 per session and she now has more work than she can cope with.
So, she is now earning a living doing something she always loved doing, her fitness hobby, and is happier than ever.
Sunday 1 November 2009
Can a carpenter make money on eBay?
A young friend of mine, who is a trained and experienced carpenter and joiner, just asked me "Can you think of anything I can make out of wood that I can sell on eBay?" He has access to offcuts of quality timber and often makes small wooden knick-knacks at home as a kind of hobby.
Not having immediate access to my files and notes on the subject of eBay ideas, and while giving due thought to eBay sellers' principles of items needing to be fairly small, more or less unbreakable, easy to pack into a parcel, and light enough to be cheap to post, I couldn't actually come up with anything on the spur of the moment.
All I could suggest was that he spend some time looking round gift shops, cheap shops, pet shops, hardware and homeware stores, for wooden items that are already on sale.
If he sees an article made of wood that he thinks he could make himself, he should consider how he could improve on the design, personalise it for individuals, ie., with a persons name or a witty slogan etc., or combine it with another idea to bring something new to the marketplace.
He began to get very enthusiastic about building up a home business making wooden craft items and selling them online. Together we came up with a few ideas such as house name boards, bird feeders, pet boxes and hutches, toy furniture, wooden toys, cooking utensils and storage boxes, dolls houses, specially designed picture frames, small book shelves, CD/DVD racks, nursery furniture and equipment, novelty clock faces ... we went on and on.
When I came away he had a new sparkle in his eyes and was talking about making a range of wooden gift items to offer to local shops on a wholesale basis as well as selling them online. I think the Internet has found another online entrepreneur! I wish him luck!
Not having immediate access to my files and notes on the subject of eBay ideas, and while giving due thought to eBay sellers' principles of items needing to be fairly small, more or less unbreakable, easy to pack into a parcel, and light enough to be cheap to post, I couldn't actually come up with anything on the spur of the moment.
All I could suggest was that he spend some time looking round gift shops, cheap shops, pet shops, hardware and homeware stores, for wooden items that are already on sale.
If he sees an article made of wood that he thinks he could make himself, he should consider how he could improve on the design, personalise it for individuals, ie., with a persons name or a witty slogan etc., or combine it with another idea to bring something new to the marketplace.
He began to get very enthusiastic about building up a home business making wooden craft items and selling them online. Together we came up with a few ideas such as house name boards, bird feeders, pet boxes and hutches, toy furniture, wooden toys, cooking utensils and storage boxes, dolls houses, specially designed picture frames, small book shelves, CD/DVD racks, nursery furniture and equipment, novelty clock faces ... we went on and on.
When I came away he had a new sparkle in his eyes and was talking about making a range of wooden gift items to offer to local shops on a wholesale basis as well as selling them online. I think the Internet has found another online entrepreneur! I wish him luck!
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