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Digital Photography And Calendars
Digital Photography And Calendars
There are so many ways you can make money with digital photography. You are limited only by your imagination. For instance, have you considered the lucrative calendar market? All calendars require photographs. There are two ways. You can either sell your photographs to producers of calendars or you could create your own and sell them.
Let's discuss the practicalities involved in making and selling calendars.
Here is the schedule: The time to do the photography and market your service is all year round. The time to arrange for the printing is around November or early December. But check with the printing service to find out their time frames for delivery. Expect them to be busy near the end of the year. And of course, the time to be delivering the calendars is mid to late December.
Arrange for a printer early. You will want to shop around for a good deal with a printing service. However, consider quality and reliability, not just price.
Now, how do you put your digital photography to work to make these calendars? Taking suitable pictures is an obvious step, and finding markets is another. Here are some suggestions for finding potential markets.
Markets for Calendars Created with Digital Photography
1. Churches, Charities and Other Organizations
Contact a church, charity, non-profit or social service organization and pitch the idea of calendars as fund raisers. You charge a set amount for delivering an agreed-upon number of calendars. The organization can resell them at any price they choose. Remind the person who speaks with you that they can resell to their members, on their Web site and to the general public.
You require twelve photographs, assuming you are using twelve layouts. You could arrange to take photographs depicting the organization's activities for each month of the year. Or, you could ask the organization to provide photos, which you could digitize if necessary. Alternatively, you could agree upon using twelve photographs of local scenery or attractions, flowers, wildlife, cute kittens - whatever they prefer.
2. Amateur Sporting Events
Contact the manager of a sports team, especially a children's team, and pitch the idea of taking pictures to generate a calendar. This could be an item the team could sell for fund raising, as mentioned above, or you could simply sell calendars to team members and their families. You will need twelve digital photographs, spaced through the year. If you are dealing with proud parents, be sure to stress what a great gift these calendars will make for grandparents, aunts, uncles and other family members.
3. Craft Shows and Specialty Shops
Take pictures of local scenery, attractions or wildlife. Generate calendars, then sell them at craft shows or arrange with vendors and specialty boutiques to sell your product. I suggest you stay away from big department stores, chain stores and supermarkets. You will face too much competition in these venues, and in most cases, you cannot compete with their prices. Try farmers' markets, market places, art galleries, mom and pop book stores, boutiques, art galleries, tourist attractions, and so on.
4. Special Community Events
Is your community planning a special event? An anniversary of something? A reunion? A walkathon or race? A celebration? Contact the event organizers and negotiate a deal to bring your digital photography service to the event. You can take orders for calendars, which you will deliver a few weeks after the event completes or to coincide with the next calendar year.
5. Flower Shows and Gardening Associations
Digital photography and flowers make an awesome match and where better to make this match than at flower and garden shows? Contact the organizers or club executives. Offer to photograph gardens and floral arrangements and compile your digital photographs into a calendar. Sell the calendars at the event, or take orders for later.
6. Artist Associations
Contact art galleries or artist associations and suggest a deal to photograph selected works of art and compile them into calendars. Include the artist’s name and contact information for each photo used. The associations or the galleries can sell the calendars themselves, or alternatively, you could sell them directly at shops or boutiques. Be sure to get a signed release from the artist allowing you to distribute copies of the work. Remind the artists that potential customers will view the calendars along with information about purchasing the artist’s work. Alternatively, you might reimburse them an agreed upon sum for each calendar distributed.
Calendars are a great opportunity to make money and promote your digital photography skills.
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