| ot really thought about it, but I suppose it does | | | | national levels) has been spectacular, and not just |
| make tremendous commercial sense to widen the | | | | on ebay or Exchange and Mart. If someone has a |
| availability of photographs. The demand for | | | | car they want to sell online, they need a digital |
| photographs today is greater than at any time | | | | camera or of course, someone else with a digital |
| since Louis-Jacques-MandĂ© Daguerre became | | | | camera who can take their car’s |
| the inventor (in 1839) of the first practical process | | | | photograph for them. |
| of photography, the famous Daguerreotype. | | | | This is where you come in. |
| We only have to look in our newspapers, both | | | | With print media ads, take a note of the |
| print and online, to see the requests for readers | | | | telephone number they give, and call them, |
| to send in their photographs of events or even of | | | | suggesting that if they are not successful selling |
| incidents. This was almost unheard of before the | | | | their car with this advert, they may like to try |
| advent of digital photography. But this demand is | | | | one with a photo, as sales successes are far |
| a drop in the ocean compared to demand from: | | | | more likely with a picture, and you’ll be |
| * Huge variety of internet sites | | | | very happy to take the photo for them. Make |
| * Real estate agents | | | | sure though that it is at a very reasonable cost. |
| * Travel companies | | | | Markets vary considerably, and you will need to |
| * Online auto, lifestyle and speciality magazines | | | | gauge what is right for your area. While you need |
| * Landscaping sites | | | | to convey that you will provide them with a |
| * Celebrity gossip sites | | | | professional job, you need to balance that with a |
| * Greetings card sites (and offline companies too!) | | | | price structure that is not synonymous with Lord |
| * Web designers | | | | Snowdon, David Bailey or Annie Leibovitz! |
| * E-brochure publishersÂ…..and so on, the list is | | | | Once you’ve got them hooked on using |
| almost endless. | | | | your newly professional talents, you could also |
| Unlike many other GPT (Get Paid To) ideas, such | | | | suggest additionally using one or more of the |
| as taking online surveys, being paid to drive your | | | | online car sales sites, and of course, that |
| car or being paid to shop or dine, there are not | | | | you’ll be delighted to help them get this |
| too many sites dedicated to getting paid to take | | | | organized! |
| and submit digital photographs. This is undoubtedly | | | | Clearly this is a business (and make no mistake, |
| a good thing, as it should mean that the | | | | you can make this into a good business), but as |
| scammers haven’t yet found a way to | | | | with any new venture, you will only get out of it |
| fleece us! | | | | rewards that are proportionate to the amount of |
| Another great aspect to this is that it largely does | | | | effort you have expended. Start slowly, and on a |
| not matter where you live. The Net is borderless, | | | | small scale. Put particular effort into building your |
| so if you’re in London, England, London, | | | | skills, both photographic and self-marketing. This is |
| Ontario or East London in South Africa, you can | | | | a business that is about quality not quantity, |
| submit digital photos from anywhere to anywhere | | | | especially at the outset. That being the case, it is |
| around the world. | | | | probably advisable to start out part-time, not |
| You would be surprised at one particularly simple, | | | | giving up your regular employment. Once |
| yet rewarding demand area for your photographic | | | | you’ve built a little bit of a reputation, |
| talent. If you look in your local paper you’ll | | | | people will tell their friends and you’ll gain |
| no doubt see lots of cars for sale ads with a | | | | new business that way too. But that’s |
| photo and lots without. Do you think those | | | | mostly just local. |
| without a picture will sell as easily as those with | | | | Your new business’s boundaries are |
| one? No, of course they won’t. | | | | limitless. Search out all those sites that are |
| It is not just print media, of course, but the | | | | desperate for new photographs but do not want |
| growth in online used car sales (at local and | | | | to pay over-the-top for them. |