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How to make money online with public domain pictures and images?

More often than not, when you’re mulling over - or in the idea phase, of a new information project, you think about writing, audio or video. Those product creation methods have always worked very well for me, but the other day I ran into a new eBook that sent me spinning into ‘idea universe’ with its fresh and ambitious approach to product creation.

And, in case you haven’t already guessed, this new approach to product creation is none other than using the magic of Public Domain images.

http://hurleypix.com/pictureproject

My good friend, Tony Laidig (the Public Domain Expert) told me that he has made thousands of dollars selling copies of maps, photos and more. And I know he wasn’t kidding either. He proceeded to tell me about his buddy, George, who takes Public Domain images of Native Americans, prints them on leather and then sells the new ‘work of art’ for hundreds of dollars… And get this… he can’t keep the prints in stock.

Tony also told me about another guy is quietly making hundreds of dollars EVERY day selling image collections on eBay. Then there is the dude who’s making nearly $20,000 per month selling poster prints of Public Domain images.

So if you’ve been wondering how to make money online then this should open your mind to wild and wonderful possibilities…

Then Tony shared something about Public Domain images that dropped my jaw… there are millions… tens of millions of photos, fine art and illustrations available for you to use anyway you want! He’s not talking about Cafepress t-shirts and greeting cards here either (although you could create those if you wanted).

http://hurleypix.com/pictureproject

Tony just created a killer, new eBook called “Easy Money Picture Project” and he reveals strategies in the book that NO ONE else is willing to talk about. And here’s the thing… these image-based products actually sell so well that Tony has people e-mailing him to beg him NOT to tell anyone about their websites or their methods.

In the book, Tony shares over 90 websites (like the one I love that has over 1.3 million images on it in high-res) where you can find and download Public Domain images. He also tells you everything he has learned about using Public Domain images from his 20+ years experience working in the printing and publishing industries…

In the “Easy Money Picture Project” you will learn:

=> Where to find Public Domain images online and offline

=> What to do with Public Domain images once you’ve found them

=> How to profit from Public Domain images

=> Who your potential customers are and why

Some people talk theory about new ways of selling, but Tony speaks from experience. That’s what I like about him. (Plus he’s always happy to email me - no matter what time it is!) So if you want to be part of the huge and profitable ‘picture business’ but you haven’t yet got your own photos, or you want to know how to make money online using images, then this will be a godsend!

Enjoy!

http://hurleypix.com/pictureproject

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The reason I know this for a fact is because I have my own SiteBuildIt site, albeit one that I rarely do any work on. And it still gives me LOTS of Google lovin’ in the form of Google Juice (Adsense income), amongst other things.

So, yeah SBI sites do work, but only if YOU work them. Site Build It provides all the background tools and resources that you need to use, but you’ll have to follow through by bringing your BAM (brain and motivation) to the table…

But you’ll find out all this anyway after you’ve got stuck into reading Make Your Knowledge Sell - the (now) completely free guide from SBI! that’ll open your eyes wide with possibilities about how to earn revenue from what you know!

To download Make Your Knowledge Sell all you need to do is click the link below. That’ll take you to the download page. Scroll down and you’ll see the magic button…

http://myks.sitesell.com/ideal3.html

And, if you’re pressed for time, you can even use the services of SiteBuildIt to have a website built for you from scratch. See this link for details on that one…

http://services.sitesell.com/ideal3.html

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Why not?

So I sat in front of my iMac and cranked up Photo Booth. Then with a nice neutral colored backdrop to smooth things out, I started snapping. Using the iMac’s built in iSight camera with Photo Booth, gives you 640 x 480 pixel image that actually turns out quite sharp and nicely defined.

Depending on what you shoot of course…

The next step is to open the images in PhotoShop or another image editor and check the color balance, levels, and work your magic to make sure the picture looks snappy. It has to snap right off the page.

You know what I mean, right?

Of course you’re incredibly limited to just what’s in front of your iMac at that moment. In this case, as you can see, it’s that dude also known as The Sell Photos Online Dude. But… if you have a camera that you can move around, then that opens the whole world up…

And then you can start snapping celebrity photos everywhere you go.

Right?

The only things I wish Photo Booth came with would be a longer timer (it gives you about 3 seconds before it SNAPS a shot of you), and maybe a remote, for those shots you want to take on random, or when you’re playing with the dog and can’t be beside the iMac to click the fire button.

Now let’s think of the possibilities here…

These shots took about 20 minutes to shoot. Imagine if you were to cut out the backdrop, leaving just the figure, and do a whole series of unusual facial gestures… Let’s say, elegant and business type shots, or ‘man in distress’ type shots, or ‘dude with a great idea’ shots…

Don’t you think they’d be of an interest to someone who wants to add a particular feeling to their sales page? In fact, this is what a friend asked me just recently…

“One thing I have trouble locating is shots of people on a white background, or a background that makes for easy cutting out of a given subject. You know what I mean?”

Is this giving you some ideas or what?

And, thinking of most sales pages and websites, no one wants a super high resolution picture… After all, you want your website to load fast.

Small punchy images that get an idea across as the viewer scans down the page…

You could easily do a series of 50 good facial actions. It’d take some time to edit them in Photoshop of course… BUT now think of those images on a CD or DVD… You could duplicate this CD and sell it as a package or on eBay for $20 or even much more… And you could sell this CD over and over again (you could even automate the whole process using Auction Acrobat ).

Is this filling your brain full of amazing ideas?

Think I’m going to have to shoot a few more celebrity photos and see if it works!

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For me I believe that learning photography is an intuitive, highly creative act that works best when one is immersed head first into the doing (action) and the learning.

In my case, I ‘learnt’ by taking pictures - honing my talents, sharpening my sword so to speak. Along the way I observed, and appreciated, the fascinating array of photographers and photography styles, whilst thinking and dreaming (idealizing) about how to do something similar.

So if we are talking about learning photography here then my suggestion is that you can go and look at stock photo agencies and microstock photo sites (check out istockphoto ) and see what great work is coming out and what is happening there.

Then you can emulate or try out certain styles and see how they fit with you. Of course you’ll bring your own personal, unique individuality to the table, and everything you do anyway. (Ie. The photography that you produce will be unique for you). Keep in mind that your images (more often than not) will need to be sellable too… but that’s a story for a rainy day. Let’s get back to learning photography, or the happy little world of beginners photography…

It usually does take a long time to get good… It’s said it takes 10 years to become an expert at something. So, that means you do need to work at it. And keep practicing… and GO find that particular photographer, photography style, or digital photography tutorial that motivates you so much you can’t wait to get out there and shoot.

There’s a fine balance between the learning and the doing. You also need to have a clear, measurable goal and destination. What this means is that if you want to create photography specifically for microstock photo sites, then you’ve given yourself a project to learn all about what type of images sell best, with a target of getting accepted and uploading 50 new images a month. (As an example).

However if you want to just create local photos, or want to start your own photography business, or even make your first information product in the photo niche, then I suggest you find the experts who are already doing this, and emulate what they’re doing.

Hold on - let’s get clear on the meaning of emulate first…

Emulate: To compete with successfully; approach or attain equality with. Also: strive to equal or match, especially by imitating.

Clear on that?  So… at the end of the day learning photography is all about having a mission, Ie. knowing what it is you want to do with your amazing creative photo talents, and then focusing intensely on that goal, learning everything there is to know about it, and continuing to take photos as you go.

It’s also about asking questions, getting involved (photo forums are helpful), and contributing something special to the world. I think that about sums up what learning photography is, do you?

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The Challenge: You’ve got an ebook, ephotos, or series of ‘how to’ digital photography tips videos that you desperately want to sell on eBay…

You know that there’s 280+ MILLION buyers who are looking to buy products from eBay every single day, with roughly over 70,000 new buyers joining eBay every day… which just means eBay is an absolute GOLD MINE for you and me.

However…

Recently there was new changes to eBay… eBay basically said ‘you can’t sell ebooks anymore’ (and enforced a complete ban on selling digital items).

As soon as I heard about that I thought about the incredible opportunities that lay in waiting… And today we’re about to see one of these opportunities realized. It’s called Auction Acrobat and in a nutshell it automates the creation, packaging, and shipping of your CD/DVD’s…

Here are some features of Auction Acrobat:

1) Automate the delivery of your CD/DVD’s on eBay.

2) Build a highly profitable buyer list on auto-pilot using your favorite auto-responder: Aweber or Getresponse.

3) Make Money Without Selling – Awesome ’secret’ email feature inbuilt into the software will enable you to increase traffic to your blogs, websites, or sell your other products to laser-targeted buyers. You can even send these ‘hungry’ buyers to affiliate pages!

See more: http://hurleypix.com/auctionacrobat

Just think about it…

You could be selling DVDs AS EASY as selling eBooks!

How does one sell info products on eBay?

Well, in my case, I’m considering using CDs and maybe even DVDs to package my products… (What other options are there?)

And let’s face it, when digital items are neatly packaged into tangible CD/DVD form, the value of these products goes way UP.

So, if you’re a photographer, artist or designer, then you could be easily putting your designs or photography onto a CD or DVD, and setting up the whole process on autopilot… Customer comes along, orders your photo screensavers CD, pays for it at Paypal, and your software takes care of the WHOLE ordering process…

ALL you need to do is keep running eBay listings… (and checking your Paypal account for sales notifications!)

Impressed yet?

You should be…

So… How To Make Money On eBay?

Create a great product that people want (need), put it on a CD/DVD, put the whole process on autopilot, and tweak until you get it right…

http://hurleypix.com/auctionacrobat

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How to write an article if you don’t have a clue how to go about it? And, are resale rights products the answer?

Let’s go and find out…

Firstly we need to understand what Private Label Right (PLR) products are. (PLR is also known as Resale Rights Products).

In a nutshell, Private Label Rights products are YOURS to own, edit, sell, resell, grant resale rights to and more. Basically you BECOME the author of the product without writing or creating a thing.

So it does not take a genius to realise the value of these products… You can use PLR as your own and sign your OWN name as the creator. In other words, you can have a business in a box (think affiliate income) within minutes, with all your own back links and up sells without writing a single word.

When you have your own PLR products you can:

1. Sell them on their own mini site - Use the PLR material to create your own mini website and sell your products from there.
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2. Add them to bigger packages - Take 3 or 4 related PLR products and add them to a larger package. This is turn will allow you to sell your package for a much higher price.
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3. Convert them to CD or DVD and sell them on auction websites - Place your PLR on a CD with your website links and affiliate links inside and not only create an income from selling your created items on auction websites, also make a massive residual income from the other sources of income.
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4. Create a home study course with a variety of PLR products and sell them for a huge profit - You can create and sell home study courses with the help of PLR. Package your PLR onto a CD, box it up with check lists and help manuals and you can create a home study course which you can sell for 100’s of dollars.
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5. Split your private label into articles - Place them on article websites with your website links, mini site links, auction links and generate traffic you never knew existed. (PLR articles).
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6. Create a mini course and distribute them to your mailing lists - Convert your PLR to a mini course and send it to your subscribers. This really makes PLR work for you.
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7. Convert your products to physical books, print and sell them as your own - By converting your PLR to physical books you can them place them on auction websites such as eBay and Amazon and create huge revenue potential.
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8. Add your affiliate links to your PLR - Create affiliate income sales which will earn you a residual income for years to come. By adding your affiliate links and website links to your PLR eBooks and articles and granting resale rights the viral effect is in place, your eBooks and articles will be around for years…

Can you see how you actually don’t need to write those articles yourself? All you need to do is make full use of resale rights products (PLR). And then, with some basic tweaks, you have your own instant articles!

What else can we learn about PLR?

Well, let’s see…

For starters, PLR can be very very expensive. There’s also a LOT of cheap and copy PLR websites out there to choose from. YOU have to be careful and make sure you are getting fresh content or content quality.

Fortunately there’s a nice little solution available, called PLR Monthly. And I know these guys pretty well - in fact, I’ve been ‘annoying’ one of these guys (Daniel Sumner) for the last two years or so with my ever-varied eBay related questions!

But actually what you can get here for a pretty good monthly payment is substantial. They really do over deliver with great content.

In fact, here is an idea just what you will get from them (sourced from their sales page):

• Niche Market PLR eBooks - PLR eBooks are very expensive to develop and hard to find. Such top quality private label fresh content has been sourced for you as we strive to provide the best service possible. With the Niche Market PLR package you can use the 3 PLR eBooks as a niche collection and provide your potential buyers with more than a single eBook, you can give them a whole multimedia experience.
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• Bonus PLR eBook per month - You can use the bonus PLR eBooks the same way as the package PLR. We supply all you need to get your products ready to sell.
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• Audio eBook with resale rights - You can place the audio book as an auction or include it as a bonus in your eBook packages. All audio sales letters are graphics will be provided for you.
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• Mini website graphics to use with all PLR products - Use the mini websites and sell your converted PLR to the public directly from the internet. You can use Paypal or any online banking system to do this and completely automate the process.
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• 25 PLR articles per month - Use your PLR articles with your affiliate links inside to generate you traffic for years to come. Submit them to article directories blog, and content hungry websites to earn your affiliate commissions and a steady influx of traffic.
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• An eBay sales template - Simply paste the template to eBay and we host the graphics for you. There is no need for a website hosting service for this one!
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• CD graphics - Use your CD graphics on your auctions and your mini websites. Print the covers to your CD’s and sell them as physical items.
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• DVD graphics - Why not advertise your product as a DVD and burn it to a DVD! You can charge more for a DVD than a digital delivery item.
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• eBook graphics - Use the eBook graphics for your auctions, your mini sites, your sales letters and your physical printed Book creations.
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• Header and Footer Graphics - we supply for you the graphics for your headers and footers for your mini sites and your auctions, which are all professionally prepared by our graphics team.
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• A PLR request service - This service will give you mini sites, websites, graphics and PLR eBooks (NB: for this service, certain terms apply.

As you can see the amount of content you get is phenomenal. Not only do you get all of this, you get full support for your products and a bunch of tutorials to help you move your business along. All in all this is one of, if not the best PLR opportunities I have ever seen. It’s a complete no-brainer so get involved with PLR Monthly today.

http://hurleypix.com/plrmonthly

So by the way, if you’ve been wondering how to write an article, now YOU know that one answer lies with private label rights…

How many of us pour our heart and soul into creating snappy looking websites, inspirational photo blogs, image rich presentations and then find out the only people visiting our sites are family and friends, or the occasional waylaid visitor?

I’ve been there and done that, and it’s not much fun. You become disillusioned REAL quick with just a dribble of traffic to your websites. It’s like a healthy, growing plant… if you never water it, eventually it curls over and dies. Please don’t let this happen to your website, especially if you’ve spent a LOT of your time on it.

So, what are we going to do about it then? Well… I read that there were only 3 ways to grow your business, and here they are…

• Increase customers.
• Increase the transaction value.
• Create a backend product/create more products.

So, let’s focus on the first one. How we can increase customers, or increase website traffic?

Before we jump into that, let me say that the whole ‘normal’ process of getting ‘bums on seats’ or visitors (traffic) to your website is not exactly a walk in the park. In other words, it does take quite a bit of effort on your part.

In this case, we’re focused on ‘organic’ traffic, or ’search engine traffic.’ In a roundabout way, that simply means I want you to find my website (or blog) in the first page of Google when you type in specific photo marketing or photography tips related keywords. I personally focus on Google, but Yahoo also works well for some niches too.

In the articles on this photo marketing blog you can read about many of the different ways to increase website traffic, including a free download-able guide about Article Marketing (click to download), so I won’t get into all the methods here.

But thankfully there IS an easy way… a method that allows me to get a whole bunch of my websites on page one in Google, for a number of different photo related keywords…

Basically I use a service called 3 Way Links ($47 per month). I won’t go in to the mechanics of how it works exactly (you can read more at the 3WayLinks site) but it sure has made it a LOT easier for me to hit page one in Google much faster (and with very little work on my behalf - all I did was add one page to my blog).

As you could imagine, a page one in Google for a few particular (highly searched) keywords gives me a LOT more eyeballs, plus get more sign ups to my ezine, etc.

Having said that…

• You need to choose your keywords right.
• You also will want to know how to monetize your website or blog effectively whether that’s with Google Adsense or other methods. (That is, if you want to make some money from this!)
• You also need to post regular content (often) to your website or blog (that’s why blogs are SO good for this!)

So if you’ve got a nice little WordPress photography tips themed blog or brand spanking new website, and you’re struggling to increase website traffic… then at least consider the 3WayLinks method. No matter what niche you’re in, this ’set it and forget it’ method is one way that makes getting that highly desirable page one in Google rather attractive, and very achievable.

Read more about 3WayLinks here.

How about becoming a featured artist or photographer for PhotoBox?

Sometimes opportunities reach up and grab you by the hair. (Head? Neck?) When they come it’s often good to make the most of them. Otherwise, they can be like ideas… if you don’t hook them on the tip of your pen, they can slip away into the night faster than you can blurt out “thank you Elvis.”

So, how would you like to become a featured artist on PhotoBox then?

After all, you get to…

- Showcase your photography work online

- Earn royalties (10%-20%) per card volume sold

- Potentially set up a recurring income stream

PhotoBox also…

- print the cards on environmentally friendly pulp

- Soon to include A4 and square cards (big!)

- Offer send-to-me cards where they send the card to you with envelopes, and you can sign the card and send on to someone else… (Or you can choose send-to-someone-else cards as well. They’ll post the card on your behalf using First Class post or Airmail…)

Anyways…

To get your photography work showcased online and hundreds of future customers potentially browsing and buying your photo greeting cards - just visit PhotoBox here…

The process to submit your photos or artwork is step by step (and doesn’t cost any $). You have to submit a design, choose a template, and fill in your artwork submission form…

Yes… a little bit of upfront work involved, but great potential for ongoing income… Never know where your photography might end up, and in whose hands…

Go for it…

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Let me introduce Yahoo Answers to you with this quote…

“When your focus shifts from getting rich, selling more ebooks, and banking more cash to a mindset of adding value to more people’s lives, helping them get richer, healthier, happier, more successful… a paradigm shifts in your success level.”

The above quote by my friend Dr.Mani does a lot to explain ultimately what is at the heart of all successful businesses… whether that’s in Internet marketing, digital photography or any online niche. It’s all about giving. It really does pay to give your knowledge away.

And one great way to give is by using Yahoo Answers. Basically this is where you can go to ASK any questions you have, or answer other people’s questions. (To answer other people’s questions, just search for questions on your preferred topic, and post with an answer. Make sure to drop in a link to your website too!)

I love Yahoo Answers because you get some really, terrifically HONEST questions being asked. And to be able to help these people out is very rewarding. There’s a photography section too, and so you constantly get people looking for photography tips, printing photo questions, selling photos, website help etc.

IF you are knowledgeable in a particular area, it’s worth contributing, and posting your perspective. I try to get in there every week and give it a blast. If your answer is chosen as the best answer, you can end up (down the track) with some good search engine rankings. Yahoo comes with a LOT of link power!

Answers.Yahoo.com - remember to add to Yahoo Answers with quality input.

Yahoo! Answers allows you to make someone’s day each time you reply, give value to people no matter where they live in the world, and share your intelligence (and depth of knowledge) for a good cause.

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One of the most important things I study and constantly watch is the amount of traffic or visitors that flow through to my websites. With my SiteBuildIt (SBI!) site I don’t need to worry too much about how to increase website traffic - I just focus on creating LOTS of content, and let the SBI! submitter engines purr away, working like magic to get my web pages discovered in the search engines like Google and Yahoo.

If you want an all-in-one solution (for $299 a year) then SiteBuildIt wins hands down.

So, if you’re the type of person that just wants to focus completely on creating your web pages, over delivering with great content and helping your visitors get what they are looking for, then SBI! is for you.

Click here to find out more about SiteBuildIt!

But if you don’t have a SiteBuildIt site then there’s other options available out there too. In fact, I use a variety of different tools to increase my website traffic - the newest is this one. (This is one tool so darn valuable that I’d prefer to keep it secret - but I’ve decided to reveal it to the passionate photographers that are reading this!)

This amazing software tool (created by Jon Leger) has allowed me to score 4 top ten rankings for specific ‘photo niche’ keywords in Google within 36 days (since I’ve been a member). And I have no doubt there’s many more top ten rankings to come.

Was I reluctant to fork out $47 a month for this? At first, yes. But it all depends on what you’re selling or offering, and what you want to achieve. One digital photo book sale, a few days of Google Adsense earnings, or a few stock photo sales and you’ve covered your membership fee…

So, from that perspective, it’s definitely worth it…

Click here to read more about this amazing tool.

The other way to attract visitors - and increase website traffic is by writing articles. (The resource box at the bottom of your article will link back to your website or blog). This is the ’slow and steady wins the race’ method that also works wonders. Of course you need to put the time in to actually writing the articles to make this fully effective!

Click here to download a great free guide called Article Marketing Strategies by Alan Cheng that’ll teach you how to write the articles, where to submit them, how to get ideas for your articles, and LOTS more great info…

OK, that’s 3 digital photography tips that I use to attract visitors to my photo websites (including this digital photography business blog). You can easily take one of these methods and use it to get started. Go for it.