Digital Photography Money Making Tip #8
Looking to make money with digital photography? One approach is to create beautiful cards or postcards and sell them.
Take photographs of flowers, wildlife, local attractions, breathtaking scenery, etc. Mount your images, or have them mounted on a good quality card stock. Don't forget to put your name and web site address on the back of the card. You could also position this information on a corner of the card's front, since digital photo editing software lets you do almost anything you want to do with a picture. You never know when someone will contact you with an order or to enquire about a custom digital photography assignment.
To sell cards or postcards, you will need a printing service to print your products. For small numbers of cards or postcards, you could print and assemble at home. This will become too cumbersome if you are looking at larger numbers, however.
Find Your Ideal Market?
You might think there is no market for your cards or postcards, given the prevalence of cards widely available at card shops, department stores, and even supermarkets.
You are correct that these are not good places for you to sell your products. For one thing, you cannot hope to compete with the prices. For another thing, there are simply too many choices at these stores. Your cards will be lost in the crowd.
However, you can most assuredly sell your cards and postcards if you think in terms of being a big fish in a small pond.
Let me explain.
A few years ago, a friend and I visited Seattle's amazing Pike Place market. Anyone who has been there will remember the seemingly endless mile after mile of shops and vendor stalls, the unlimited shopping choices, the novelties and miscellaneous merchandise looking for an owner.
My friends and I quickly went into "overload". The items on display began to look the same. Glassy eyed, we wandered through quickly, rarely stopping at any particular stall for more than a few seconds. We bought nothing other than a cup of coffee. Later the same day, we visited a smaller shop elsewhere that sold relatively few items. There, everything we saw stood out and captured our interest. We shopped.
That's what I mean by being a small fish in a big pond when you think in terms of making money with digital photography.
Sell your products at craft shows, which are especially popular prior to the Christmas season. Enquire about a booth or stall at a marketplace or farmer's market. Contact boutiques and small specialty shops to ask if they will carry your products. Visit the local tourist attractions and ask vendors at those locations about displaying your work. Tourists will appreciate your cards and postcards showing pictures of these local attractions.
It is best to sell cards individually, rather than boxed. Few people purchase boxes of cards any more. You might consider offering a discount for quantities of six or so.
This is just one money making suggestion. Check the article list for more ways to make money with digital photography.
Thank You!
June Campbell
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