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Making Money With Photography: How To Set Up Your CameraDollars ClickBank Link

March 16, 2009 By 3 Comments

Here’s a quick 5 minute video I created to show you ways you can start making money with photography…

Basically this video is an introduction to getting your ClickBank affiliate link set up so you can then promote any digital photography book you want. (It doesn’t just have to be CameraDollars!)

Although I used Brian Moore’s CameraDollars because his product is such an excellent example, and, from I can see, converts very well.

Have a look at this video and let me know your thoughts in the comments section below…

If I get enough comments I’ll create another video. If not, I’ll go and talk to my friend Robert Plank about why his marketing methods are not working. icon smile Making Money With Photography: How To Set Up Your CameraDollars ClickBank Link

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10 Quick Ways To Sell More Photos Online

January 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
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1. Explore digital stock photography… Cast your eyes over iStockphoto or Fotolia… Learn more from Yuri Arcurs who makes an exceptional living from selling his stock photos. Yuri says “…branding yourself by having a unique style that is recognizable and consistent is probably the most important aspect in microstock.” Here’s a list of 10 popular microstock photography sites to sell stock photos.

Read more photo articles about digital stock photography…

2. Nurture your brand of one… Create stunning t-shirts, calendars, greeting cards, clothing etc that makes folks go wow. Use CafePress to sell your photography, photo image or photo illustration you created in Photoshop…

Right now if you look around you’ll spot lots of t-shirts, prints etc that are inspired by President Obama and are probably still going to still be popular for a while to come… How can you tap into this? Turning your photos into a photo product WORKS…

3. Stand in front of the hungry crowds… Use eBay to sell your photos on CD or DVD. Take a selection of interesting photography you have… find out what is selling well on eBay… then automate the whole eBay to DVD to buyer process by using Auction Acrobat.

4. No time to reinvent the wheel… Know about public domain? This means photos and illustrations and music etc that is copyright free and freely available to be used by you (the public!) Dig around the public domain until you find an amazing image or two, then re-idea them to your heart’s content… Think t-shirt designs, logos, website photography, blog headers, etc. Tony Laidig is the master of public domain and his picture project will get your visual IDEAS clock spinning madly…

5. Get a name for being unique… Use boutique photo galleries or photo agencies like these friends of mine (www.farmboyfinearts.com) to get your abstract or landscape photos lining the walls of restaurants, resorts, billboards, upscale hotels, etc… Create custom artwork… site specific artwork… Every wall needs a photo, right?

6. Create free desktop wallpaper screen-savers… Create screensavers or other popular downloadable ‘toys’ – stuff such as wall papers, desktop screen savers etc that put your photos on other people’s computer screens… Look at http://www.download.com for more…

7. Take the photos that no one else wants to take… and then get paid for it! See what I mean here: $200 A Day… Think of all the folks that need insurance, home, vehicle etc ‘photo documentation’ and then you BE the one who does it…

8. Tap into people’s passions… Everyone is enthusiastic about something right? Hobbies, enthusiasts… think modified cars, trucks, motorbikes, sports, homes, vacation spots etc … Make the necessary arrangements then shoot… After which you present said collection of images in a beautifully bound digital photography book using PhotoBox

9. Explore the 7 seas… Travel based photography ring any bells? Be the wordsmith and wield the camera, or just shoot and then develop a working relationship with another writer (they can live almost anywhere too)… You’ll want to be familiar with posting the images you take on blogs, using web 2 sites etc. Think ‘how to’ articles, either for photo blogs, or offline publications… Photo/text features easier to sell than individual photos… Plus you can on-sell this photo article to other magazines…

10. The wide world of pets… Folks LOVE pets like nothing else! And they’d like a photo of them too, wouldn’t they? Here’s some thoughts on the matter… “Before you hire yourself out, though, practice with your own (or a friend’s) pet – when people are paying money for photos, they want good ones. Some tips: Don’t use a wide-angle lens at close range unless you want an elongated, distorted look. Enlist the pet’s owner as an assistant to help manage the subject. And get some shots of the pet with the owner too…”

OK that’s 10 quick ways to sell more photos online (and off)… Comments?

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Snapping Celebrity Photos Using Photo Booth On iMac

September 24, 2008 By 3 Comments

Celebrity photos of the Sell Photos Online dude?

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…

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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?

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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?

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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.

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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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Learn Photography Skills And Grow Your Digital Photography Business Into A Monster

April 28, 2008 By 2 Comments
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Learn Photography Skills And Grow Your Digital Photography Business Into A MonsterImage via WikipediaIn all honesty I personally never took photography lessons, know nothing about the technical side of cameras, and when I went to learn photography skills, I found myself daydreaming of adventures in far and remote lands…

But for some of you, you’ll really get into how the camera works, depth of field, the best new lens, etc, etc…

I, on the other hand, ‘trained’ myself to look for situations that were suitable to shoot. I looked for the right times of the day, locations, objects and materials that were noticeable enough to take note of.

So this means I’m unable to give out photo tips…

But I CAN go for hours on how you can expand your ‘brand-of-one,’ super-charge your website or blog, create multiple information products from what YOU do…

And now, after inserting a huge and overwhelming dosage of Internet marketing into my blood, and carefully mixing that with the vision of a ‘portable’ digital photography business, it has come to be.

Well, almost anyway. icon smile Learn Photography Skills And Grow Your Digital Photography Business Into A Monster

Anyways, no matters what I think, the whole point of all this is about you. Let me help you build up your portable empire, your passive income photo business, so that you are free to do what you darn well want to do, everyday…

The best way to start is by firing your questions at me…

Look for the little ‘comments’ link and click that… and ask away.

Whether you want to sell photos online, sell photos to Alaskans, get your own funky and terrific photo blog, do screen savers or slideshows, create podcasts, or whatever… It’s all DO-able…

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