6 Ways your camera can earn you money!

Taking pictures is your passion? Friends say you are great at photographing and call you cameraman? Why not to earn some income with it?

How? Here are some ideas…

1. Calendars and postcards

Most of people know Anne Geddes, who is making cute pictures of little babies for postcards. She found her niche and she is grate in it! You can also reach such success!

First of all choose your theme. It can be 12 seasons, or cute pets, or cities. Then take pictures according this theme. Then contact calendar publishers and offer your album to them! But remember, it has it own seasonality, so publishers will not accept your pictures at any time!

It could be easier with postcards, especially if you live in province, where are just small publishers. You can make photos of your city or country showplaces. It’s always marketable among postcard publishers! You can add some text to them or some decorative elements like borders. This way you can offer ready to publish product and ask for more money for it!

2. Newspapers and magazines

You can make photo reporting for newspapers. Make some pictures of interesting events or just your city and come to newspapers editorial offices. Even if they will not buy your photos right away, they will know whom to call next time when they will need “fresh” pictures. Newspapers and magazines need a lot of pictures on their theme. They can write around same thing again and again, but pictures shouldn’t repeat! Make different albums with different themes for them or make complete reports (with text) of interesting events or theme. It will make your service complete and will add additional value to your work! Be creative and unique and your pictures will be marketable!

3. Photo stocks

You can sell your photos online too! There are a lot of photo banks where you can upload your pictures for sale! Is there any demand for quality pictures? Yes, there is! Websites, blogs, online newspapers and magazines are always in need for fresh colorful photos and many of them are ready to pay money for them!

What you need to start selling your pictures in such stocks? Good digital camera (many stocks will ask certain quality of pictures), sometimes digital copy of your documents like passport or drivers license copy, at least 15 pictures to start (to pass exams in some stocks you will be asked for about 10 pictures).

But don’t be afraid, it’s not so difficult! Not all photo stocks are so requiring! 

  

OK, let’s see where you can sell your pictures online:

www.fotolia.com – no exams and no documents required! Fast to register. Easy to use. Minimal size of picture: 2400х1600. Money withdrawal by PayPal and Moneybookers after you reach 50 dollars.

www.bigstockphoto.com – terms and conditions test required, but test is very easy to pass even without knowing the rules! No documents required. Minimal picture size: 800x800. Money withdrawal after reaching 30 dollars by PayPal, Moneybookers or by check.

www.dreamstime.com – no documents and tests required. Quality of uploaded pictures: not less then 3 MP. You get 50% from every sold picture you uploaded! You can withdraw money after you reach 100 dollars. The limit of uploaded pictures is 100 files per day. 

www.istockphoto.com – one of the most profitable and popular photo stocks. Unfortunately it’s not so easy to start. Firstly you will be asked read the user manual and pass the test about it, then you will need to upload scanned document like passport or drivers license to identify you. After these tests you will need to upload 3 photos made by you. You will be accepted within 2 weeks. If moderators will not like your photos you will be asked to upload another 3 photos. Minimal picture size: 1200x1600. You will get 20% from every sold picture (1-40$), but if you become exclusive photograph and publish only on this stock, then your percent will raise to 40! You can withdraw your money when you reach 100$ in your account by PayPal, Moneybookers, Payoneer or by postal transfer.

www.shutterstock.com – at the moment most profitable image stock, that’s why it’s not easy to enter there. Firstly you need to upload a scan of your passport or driver’s license and then wait about 2 days. After identification you need to pass the exam: 7 out of 10 of your uploaded pictures need to be approved by moderators. But if you don’t pass this exam from the first time, you can do it after 1 month again and again till you pass. There are no limits for trying! For beginners minimal size is 4 MP, but for experienced – 2.5 MP. Format should be jpg or eps. For every download you will get 25 cents, but after you reach 500$ your income will rise to 30 cents per download. It doesn’t look much, but as more you upload as more you will get. For example, if you upload 100 pictures and each of them will be downloaded just 10 times, you will get 250$! Minimum to withdraw – 75$ (via PayPal, Moneybookers or check).

You may think photo stocks pay too less for your images, but it’s better than nothing, right? Your images can just take your disk space or they can bring you some income! It’s up to you what to do with them!

4. Participate in online photo competitions

There are many online contests and competitions for photographers. As a winner award could be money or valuable prizes like professional camera or laptop. Some competitions have participation fee, but some are free to enter. You can find some competitions here:

http://www.photographycompetitions.net or http://www.fanartreview.com/page/photo_contest/photo_contest.jsp

 

5. Sell printed pictures

Most of professional photographers make money with framed pictures. How? Celebrity photos sold to newspapers or to celebrity representatives, framed pictures online stores, your own website where you can sell framed pictures or art exhibitions and galleries.

Talking about online photo stocks, there are 2 unusual stocks. Why they are unusual? Despite of stocks mentioned before they specializes on printed photographs. First is www.photogonia.com, where you can just print images on canvas. Another one is www.imagekind.com, where you can also sell your works through the site! Advantage of Imagekind is free membership and possibility to hold a gallery up to 24 images. Upgrade to paid membership is also available. It gives more opportunities as usual.

6. Making photo sessions in schools, preschools or events

Every one of us has photos from their schools, preschools and different events they participated. Someone made these pictures for us and was paid for it! So you can too! Events are also great opportunity. For example, sport events. Then you can sell these pictures to fans or even to the teams who participated on event! Also in famous places where are many tourists you can make pictures of them. If they like your pictures, they can order them in printed format! For such income you may need advanced equipment, but if you are good in negotiations, your investment will pay off! And don’t forget about weddings, exhibitions and other events, where people simply need you!

For my blog readers I am giving away the eBook Photo wealth system

Enjoy your time by taking pictures and making money!
Best wishes!

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Make money with Amazon AStore

Amazon.com as one of the most popular online shops makes big money selling different things. Why we can't do same (?), especially if Amazon gives us such possibility!

Amazon AStore is a part of Amazon affiliate program. Despite of other parts of this program, it doesn't require having your own website or blog (however if you have, it's your advantage). You can start and develop this business without any investment! It's absolutely free opportunity!

You will have your own Amazon website like this Julia's Store and all what you need is just drive a traffic to this website. You choose item categories and design yourself. Setting up such website will take just some minutes (5-10 minutes average)!
 

This idea is made for you, if:

You don't have much time

You are looking for free money making opportunity

You don't want to deal with logistics yourself

You are thinking about your own independent store

Step by step guide:

1. Step. Create your account on Amazon (it's free).

If you don't have it yet, you can create it here: Sign Up!

2. Step. Create your AStore.

Follow this simple video instructions, to create your AStore:

  

If you don't have your own website or don't want to promote your AStore via website, then after you click "Finish and get link", choose "Simple link to my store as standalone site".

So now you have your own Amazon website! Congratulations!

But setting up an AStore itself will not bring you money. You need a visitors to your Store. Without visitors (traffic) no sell and without sell no earnings!

3. Step. Drive massive traffic to your AStore.

There are many ways to promote your online store. Let's look at most effective ways:

1. Classifieds. Choose an item what you would like to sell and place your ads on classified sites with direct link to this item. People who are searching for this item will come to this ads sites and find your ad. This way you will get targeted traffic to your website! Place your ads on Craigslist.org, Backpage.com, Classifiedads.com, Usfreeads.com etc.

2. Squidoo Lenses. Squidoo is like a blog platform. Now it's one of the best ways to be heard on internet. You can create a lens (page) about your store in general, then create other lenses about single items from your store, then link them to each other! 

3. Bookmarking websites. This websites are made to create bookmarks and share them with others. You can bookmark your Astore there too, it will be visible to others too. Bookmarking websites as Delicious.com, StumbleUpon.com, Diigo.com etc. will allow you bookmark not only websites in general, but every page you want to promote!

4. Social news websites. On such websites as Reddit, Digg, Mixx people vote content they like. You can submit your link with content or comment on other people content and include your link to your comment.

5. Commenting and answering. You can comment on other websites or blogs content related to products you have in your Amazon Store and place the links there if it's not forbidden.Comment everywhere you want even on Yahoo news but DON'T SPAM. Try to find what people need and if you have it, just give it to them! Answer on questions on Yahoo answers, but place your link only in appropriate place - in source field!

As i mentioned before there are many ways to drive traffic to your AStore and you will find more here: Search Engine Optimization

Wish you good luck with your new online business!

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Suggest domain names and get paid!

How do you think are you a creative person? Maybe? But how to make money with it? I am going to show you the way to do it. No website or blog needed, no need to refer anyone, no investment needed, just use your creativity and time!

There is a website named PickyDomains.com, where business owners meet creative people like you! This site clients need your great ideas for naming their companies, domains or giving tasty slogans for their advertising company. For your ideas what they choose you get paid. 

Details

For business owners and marketing people. If you are going to establish your own company, but can't decide the name of it, or you are going to run your own website, but can't find yourself competitive domain name for it, or maybe you need memorable slogan to overcome your competitors, then PickyDomains.com will help to solve your problems. How much does it costs? 50 dollars per domain, 75 dollars per slogan. Other naming and branding agencies would charge up to 120 dollars or maybe even more for same job, so you can also save on PickyDomains! And it's risk free: you pay only if you like the suggestion, but if you don't like any of suggestions, then they will just refund you your money! It's easy to set up an order (takes some minutes), easy to manage (you will get notifications about suggestions waiting for you), possible to change specification and submit new orders, easy to pay (via credit card, wire transfer, Pay Pal, e-check etc.) and refund (if you don't like any idea for your order, simply click Refund button). Are those suggestions really creative? Take a look at some examples: SellersMentor.com - educational website for online sellers, MerchMatch.com - matching service for buyers and sellers, Seomantic.com - SEO tool to analyze semantic core. More examples: http://www.pickydomains.com/all-domains-picked. PickyDomains is also ready to help you with traffic to your website! For more information please visit http://www.pickydomains.com/client-info. There is nothing to loose for you!

For creative people. Sign up with PickyDomains.com as contributor (it's free). Look for orders. Suggest your ideas according to client wishes. Make it as a brainstorm, write everything what comes to your mind. You never know which idea will meet your client expectations. Be creative and proactive while submitting your ideas. And always remember: statistics works for you - as more you submit, as more possibility you get paid! Keep trying and you will be successful. If your ideas will be chosen by client you will get 25-35 dollars on your PayPal account. In addition if you have your own website or blog you can review PickyDomains and get paid 30 dollars for it! So what you are waiting for? Show your creativity and get paid for it! 

Help people to meet ideas they need, invest your heart and you will definitely get good results! I wish you good luck with it!

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Good habit for success

After reading some of success books and talking to some wise and quite successful people, I found one secret about them. All successful people have one common habit. They may not realize it, but it works well for them. What is it (?) you will ask. It's very simple. They make many contacts! All their life from the childhood till death they choose their environment! There is such Russian saying: You don't need to have hundred rubles (Russian currency), but you do need to have hundred friends! Many people heard about it many times, but never knew how wise it is.

How this habit can affect your life?

Imagine you are a businessman who just started to run his new company. You have supply, but no demand. Where will you find your first customers? Your first clients could be your relatives, friends and friends of friends. If they like your service, they will definitely tell about it to their friends and relatives. So you will get most powerful advertising ("word of mouth") and more clients and all this for free! Having a lot of good contacts can also help you find your bellowed. Between your friends or friends of your friends or their relatives can be your future wife or husband. But the habit of creating friends everywhere can give you even more than that! Just imagine how much gifts you will get on your Birthday... :)

What kind of contacts you need for your success?

You definitely need some successful people between your contacts. It can be businessman or/and self-made person or any other person who succeed in field of your interests, i.e. you need people from whom to learn or who can teach you. Around you should be positive, communicative and wise people. Try to avoid pessimistic and complaining people. They are not the best friends on your way to success.

How to find good contacts?

Your contacts are everywhere: at your work, near to your home (neighbors) and everywhere where you used to be (restaurants, hotels, interest clubs etc.). Even visiting friends in Christmas can bring you new contacts! Just don't be lazy. Your time is your wealth! Of course you can get new contacts all over the world via internet too. Social networks as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn etc. are perfectly made for it!

Be friendly and natural. Care about people you know. Then you never be alone and success will find you!

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