Thursday, December 31, 2009

Easy Ways To Make Money With Event Photography


By Peter Wong

One of the many ways you can make money as a photographer is to specialize on events. Christenings, weddings, and lots of other events where people make memories can be lucrative business. The great thing is that all you need is a good digital camera, tons of memory cards, and some business cards.

How to do it

The key trick is in choosing your market slice. You must choose a slice of the market where people want to keep memories alive in print. It must also be an event that is hard to capture for a not professional so that they will need your services.

One idea is to go to kids sports events. Get permission from the coach to click pics for the parents watching and then start clicking away. If you turn up with a great big telephoto lens like the ones used for pro coverage of events, you will be taken seriously. Make sure you get all the children doing great action shots and then hand out flyers to all the kids' parents watching with your web address. If you can get hold of the parents email address so you can email them the URL of you site then upload the pics to your web site that day and email everyone. If you have a simple shopping cart set up you can make money in a few hours as people pop in to see the pics and buy them for $20 or more a pop.

You can do a similar thing with weddings. Take all the normal pictures as part of the wedding coverage but then get your URL printed on the wedding invites and all the other wedding materials and also get an email list of all the wedding guests, offer the couple a nice 20% discount for doing this and then take lots of extra pics at the wedding of the guests doing all the things they do. Upload all the pics to your site and send the emails. You will then make a lot more money than the 20% discount it cost you because then 30 or 40 people will be also buying your pics at $20 or more a shot straight from your site. Also charging them more for higher resolution shots is a great bonus income as well.

The trick is to find a niche where you can excel by being the best photographer in the room, and offering an easy way for people to buy your photos.

Dog shows, fashion shows, horse shows, car shows, livestock competitions, rock shows, - the list goes on. Keep your eye out in the events section of your local paper to see what is happening. Always ask for permission to shoot pics and if you need to offer the people 10% of the income if feel you need to so you can get easy access.

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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Rebate Processor From Home - How Does It Work

By Sarah Rohde


If you're ever wondered what it actually means when someone uses the term "rebate processor from home", then you are clearly in the right place.

Below will be explained what being a rebate processor from home is all about, and if there really is an "amazing" fortune to be made by processing rebates, right from your own home.

Now one of your questions may be, what exactly is processing rebates, and how can I make money being a rebate processor from home.

Rebate processing is simply filling out rebates for companies. Becoming a rebate processor at home is simple however spots are limited. For your benefit, we put together a few facts and did some research on our own

When we finished our research, the results completely blew our minds away.

In just the first 2 days, we made a total $613, which comes over to over 300 days a day. Oh, did we mention we only worked 2 hours a day? You do the math, 2 days X 2 hours = 4 hours of work for over $600, comes out to over $150 an hour, do you make that much at your day job?

The job of being a rebate processor from home really comes down to just 2 simple questions.

#1. Do you have access to the internet and a computer?

#2. Is it your goal to make a lot of money do simple work?

If you happened to answer yes, then a rebate processor from home is an excellent way for you to make an income from the comfort of your own house. All you have to do is process the rebates for companies and they pay you out excellent money. So what are you waiting for?

Just a reminder that the spots are very limited considering this is the #1 work at home job available. If you want to get in before its too late, I would definitely act now.

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Link Building: Advantage & Disadvantages From Paid and Free Methods

By Pete Miguel


Indeed it is true that there are plenty of options to choose from when you want to build links pointing toward your website. Some methods may need you to pull out cash from your pocket while some methods are absolutely free to implement. Of course if you are just a beginner or still consider yourself a newbie in the arena of owning a site, you would surely opt to acquire links thru free ways, this gives you the chance to become more familiar with things.

If you have slight knowledge already about link building, then you know for a fact that there are quite a number of ways to get links for free. The only catch is that time is deeply involved in these free methods. Even if you already get too familiar with the process of acquiring links, you will still find building links to be very tedious.

For starters or beginning internet marketers, free methods of building links into their websites is surely recommended at first, but once you get your feet wet and start to comprehend the whole process of link building, then it is advisable that you eventually shift into paid options of acquiring backlinks to your website.

It is really easy to find link builders when you search the internet. You will find individual link builders and you will also find companies or big websites exclusively offering link building as their services. If you are good at researching stuff thru the search engines then you can easily find a good one fit for your exact needs. In fact even if you are just browsing, you may eventually find advertised websites from these link building providers.

While it is indeed true that there exists a lot of link building services out there, the type of services they offer actually vary in many ways, so you should be extra careful at choosing the providers you would like to hire. Some link building services just don't seem that reputable just by looking at the kind of services they offer - while there are some link building service providers I have already tried and have proved to be worth the money I paid for.

Most people would choose paid services to get links for their sites instead of doing it themselves mainly because they want to save time. Well of course, if you are not tight on budget and you have little of money to spend, buying a service is definitely the better option for you. While many people would like to just keep their hard earned money and just go the free route, a lot don't realize that they really aren't saving money after all because the process is eating up a lot of their time. Time is very precious, in fact time is expensive by the single minute.

Unfortunately though for a few website owners, even if they wanted very badly to find a good link building service to do it for them, they just couldn't afford it. Well, that is absolutely understandable especially for newbies who haven't even tasted earning a single dollar from the internet yet. For a start, you should just patiently build your links the free way, but be extra wise in choosing the methods in acquiring links. While there are ways to get links fast and easy, there are also ways where you will easily spend an hour without noticing in exchange for just a single link or two.

There are ways where you can build links by the dozen every half an hour or so. The only advice I can give for link builders is that instead of acquiring as many links as you could in a single day, build links consistently every single day instead. That makes it easier for you and not to mention, will be much more effective for your website's rankings.

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