This is another easy and great way to pick up extra money. Do a digital inventory of all your friends and families belongings and assets. They need this list of personals for their insurance if they were to ever need to file a claim. We all know that bad things happen such as natural disasters---fires or tornadoes. They would need proof in case of a robbery. The truth is that in the face of any disaster it is hard to remember exactly all of your precious items. Making a list is usually required by your insurance company but they aren't going to really push you to list everything. Face it, if it isn't listed or you can't prove you owned it after it was taken or destroyed, they wouldn't actually have to pay for it.
You can contact insurance companies to have them give out your card or recommend you. You can let real estate agents know you do this type of work so they can inform their clients when purchasing a new home.
There are hundreds of uses for a digital documentation of items. Even small business' could benefit from this because all that office equipment does not come cheap.
If you are truly interested in this you can email me for more details or purchase the entire informational kit from me for $17.95. It includes the best way to do documentation, paperwork to list items and prices. Just copy and add your own letterhead. You're set up in business.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
More about making money with Photography
You seriously want to make some extra cash. Here is another simple way to use Photography to make some money. This costs a little but if you want to make money from home or become an entrepeneur, you're going to have to spend a little.
What you'll need is a fairly decent camera. You can get away with around $400.00 for this. You'll need a few nice backdrops. They cost around $150.00 into the thousands. But here is a great way too that will save you some of that expense. Make your own. Go get you a pretty little antique sette and a large piece of silk to hang behind it. Pick up an easel and a nice painting from Hobby Lobby. Purchase a tall candleholder and change candles with the seasons and add some greenery around the bottom, just lying around on the floor. All of these are great ideas. I'm sure you'll think of more.
Next, you'll need a really good photo printer. Epson has one that works independent of a computer, makes really good prints. Just pop in the memory card from that digital camera, choose picture and print. This printer costs a couple of hundred dollars.
Now you need to go places where they want some instant 8x10 photos and just point, shoot, print, and sell.
My #1 suggestion is beauty pageants. They always want pictures and they don't want to wait for them.
You could do fairs, carnivals, festivals. Maybe you could even talk to someone about working up a booth at a local concert.
Just remember that you have to market any business you do. Make cards so if they do want the instant shots but later decide they want more photos they can contact you.
This isn't really the cheapest way to get into photography, but it is quick for extra money on a slow weekend. It is really cheap when you consider the fantastic expense of operating a full-time, photo business or studio. Those folks spend thousands of dollars to begin their business.
Happy working.
What you'll need is a fairly decent camera. You can get away with around $400.00 for this. You'll need a few nice backdrops. They cost around $150.00 into the thousands. But here is a great way too that will save you some of that expense. Make your own. Go get you a pretty little antique sette and a large piece of silk to hang behind it. Pick up an easel and a nice painting from Hobby Lobby. Purchase a tall candleholder and change candles with the seasons and add some greenery around the bottom, just lying around on the floor. All of these are great ideas. I'm sure you'll think of more.
Next, you'll need a really good photo printer. Epson has one that works independent of a computer, makes really good prints. Just pop in the memory card from that digital camera, choose picture and print. This printer costs a couple of hundred dollars.
Now you need to go places where they want some instant 8x10 photos and just point, shoot, print, and sell.
My #1 suggestion is beauty pageants. They always want pictures and they don't want to wait for them.
You could do fairs, carnivals, festivals. Maybe you could even talk to someone about working up a booth at a local concert.
Just remember that you have to market any business you do. Make cards so if they do want the instant shots but later decide they want more photos they can contact you.
This isn't really the cheapest way to get into photography, but it is quick for extra money on a slow weekend. It is really cheap when you consider the fantastic expense of operating a full-time, photo business or studio. Those folks spend thousands of dollars to begin their business.
Happy working.
Photography, not just for professionals
Hey guys,
Yeah, I'm back. I've been trying to think up plenty of ways you can make money from home. Here's a quick and simple way to start making some revenue money and maybe quick money as well.
A lot of people love photography and everywhere you look you see examples of this. Ad pages in mags., newspaper photos and everyone's living room wall. Some of these pictures are professional and some are done by people just like you. What sets the standard for the difference? Getting paid. That's right, an amateur took a picture and someone paid them for it and they became an instant professional. Sound too simple? Well, it is.
These days most everyone has a digital camera, even one on their phone. Am I a believer of digital, HE__ yes!!. Digital is like cell phones and computers and even electricity-----, I wonder how we got through life without any of these things.
So, you don't have a lot of money to invest but I'll bet you have most of the things I just named. Right? Right. So we'll just start with the basics. You have a fairly decent camera and can upload them to the computer and you have internet or you probably wouldn't be reading this.
Go take some fabulous pictures, we all have. It is that easy. Then search stock photos on the computer. It will give you lists and then you join and some are free, some require a membership. (I always go for free). Then, you post the photos to the site, enter contests. It becomes addictive and you will try to outdo other pictures. Anyway, stock photos are photos that other's look at and buy. You know, ad people and that kind of thing. You'll start recognizing photo opportunities everywhere you look and just get better and better.
This is just one idea and I have a few others I will post soon. Just get the wheels rolling on this one.
Here are a couple of stock photo sites you might start with:
http://www.istockphoto.com
http://www.ClusterShot.com/
Yeah, I'm back. I've been trying to think up plenty of ways you can make money from home. Here's a quick and simple way to start making some revenue money and maybe quick money as well.
A lot of people love photography and everywhere you look you see examples of this. Ad pages in mags., newspaper photos and everyone's living room wall. Some of these pictures are professional and some are done by people just like you. What sets the standard for the difference? Getting paid. That's right, an amateur took a picture and someone paid them for it and they became an instant professional. Sound too simple? Well, it is.
These days most everyone has a digital camera, even one on their phone. Am I a believer of digital, HE__ yes!!. Digital is like cell phones and computers and even electricity-----, I wonder how we got through life without any of these things.
So, you don't have a lot of money to invest but I'll bet you have most of the things I just named. Right? Right. So we'll just start with the basics. You have a fairly decent camera and can upload them to the computer and you have internet or you probably wouldn't be reading this.
Go take some fabulous pictures, we all have. It is that easy. Then search stock photos on the computer. It will give you lists and then you join and some are free, some require a membership. (I always go for free). Then, you post the photos to the site, enter contests. It becomes addictive and you will try to outdo other pictures. Anyway, stock photos are photos that other's look at and buy. You know, ad people and that kind of thing. You'll start recognizing photo opportunities everywhere you look and just get better and better.
This is just one idea and I have a few others I will post soon. Just get the wheels rolling on this one.
Here are a couple of stock photo sites you might start with:
http://www.istockphoto.com
http://www.ClusterShot.com/
Monday, June 22, 2009
Making money
Isn't that what it's all about. Maybe you already have a good job and you're looking for a second job to supplement it. Just something that is fairly easy, low cost and won't take years to get a degree for. That is what this blog is going to be all about. My other blogs are fairly successful in the fact that people look at them and that is cool but if I am honest and look at the stats it is because they keep looking at the same posts over and over. This blog is to elaborate on just those posts that seem relevant to the making money articles.
See, there are companies out there that pay you to work from home, that info can be found on my telecommuting page; http://www.examiner.com/x-12784-Memphis-Telecommuting-Examiner
This is great, but what if you aren't fortunate enough to work for one of those companies.
What if you just want to work from home, be your own boss, all that. Well, I have tons of solutions and if I spread the word, then you guys will spread the word.
Now you're thinking this is just a ploy to get folks to read my blog. On some level, YES, you'd be right but with over 13,000 hits on my article about how to be a field inspector on e-How then I think that makes me able to say I can write something worth reading.
I'd like to create more and better new ways for people to start basically their own business with just things they already have instead of going out and buying costly equipment. I have successfully done quite a few of these projects. There are a few of them that are what I intend to do to retire. So, I must have a lot of faith. See, there is a good reason for this, they were lucrative money makers, they didn't cost a fortune to start and in some cases there are others you have to work for or answer to but they won't be hanging over your shoulder.
So you guys keep checking in and we'll figure out ways for you to make money without it costing you an arm and leg.
Just for your own interest, if you want to check out the article on e-How, How to be a Field Inspector, it is written under the display name tdixon777.
Thanks, and work happier, not harder.
See, there are companies out there that pay you to work from home, that info can be found on my telecommuting page; http://www.examiner.com/x-12784-Memphis-Telecommuting-Examiner
This is great, but what if you aren't fortunate enough to work for one of those companies.
What if you just want to work from home, be your own boss, all that. Well, I have tons of solutions and if I spread the word, then you guys will spread the word.
Now you're thinking this is just a ploy to get folks to read my blog. On some level, YES, you'd be right but with over 13,000 hits on my article about how to be a field inspector on e-How then I think that makes me able to say I can write something worth reading.
I'd like to create more and better new ways for people to start basically their own business with just things they already have instead of going out and buying costly equipment. I have successfully done quite a few of these projects. There are a few of them that are what I intend to do to retire. So, I must have a lot of faith. See, there is a good reason for this, they were lucrative money makers, they didn't cost a fortune to start and in some cases there are others you have to work for or answer to but they won't be hanging over your shoulder.
So you guys keep checking in and we'll figure out ways for you to make money without it costing you an arm and leg.
Just for your own interest, if you want to check out the article on e-How, How to be a Field Inspector, it is written under the display name tdixon777.
Thanks, and work happier, not harder.
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