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Monday, September 21, 2015
How to Make Money Selling Photography Pictures
Consider selling photographs through stock photography sites such as iStockPhoto or fotolia.com. The revenue per photo is small; however when numerous photos are submitted, sold, and resold, the revenue can add up significantly.
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Use photographs that aren’t accepted by stock photography sites by selling them on eBay. Through eBay, you can choose to either sell the digital image, a print of the image, or a framed print of the image.
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Create a storefront web page on a hosted service to sell your digital photography pictures. Several sites exist that charge a monthly fee, but host your images on a clean, visually pleasing site. Buyers peruse these sites and purchase the photographs from individual photographers, based on the price the photographer determines.
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Avoid paying a monthly fee to a hosting site by creating your own website. The advantage to this method is full control over sales and web operation with little to no fee for purchasing a domain. The disadvantage lies in having to create an original site that is easily navigable and visually pleasing.
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Branch out from simply selling photographs by displaying your photography on online products. Cafepress.com is one site where you can upload your own photo, choose the products you’d like to sell in your store, and even choose the prices for the products. The company handles all printing and shipping to the customers.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015
How to Become a Vendor for Prepaid Debit Cards
Decide who you will target with your marketing activities. Teenagers and college students are a good target market because they normally cannot qualify for credit cards and may not qualify for a checking account debit card, but they need a card to use for online purchases. Parents providing spending money for their children and people budgeting their purchases find these cards extremely helpful. Businesses employing a large number of laborers or foreign nationals are now using these cards to pay wages rather than distribute checks. Each of these types of users would require a different marketing approach so narrowing your target market will improve your chances of success.
Examine your business model including where you intend to locate your business and whether you will be selling out of a storefront to walk-in clientele or whether you will be calling on businesses to sell them the idea of using stored value cards for their payroll, incentive programs, and to control travel and entertainment expense. The costs of maintaining your store or office will have to be covered by the fees you will receive from selling these cards, so be careful to establish how much you will receive on the sale of each card and, if you intend to set up a store, make sure it is in a location that is likely to attract walk in business.
Contact issuers of stored value cards and compare their various programs. You will find significant differences in their support, vendor procedures, fees and liability provisions. Not all issuers are banks and not all stored value card programs are the same. Look at the offerings in local stores to see which are the most popular cards among vendors. Make a note of the issuers of those cards and contact as many as possible while doing your research.
Ask vendors of stored value cards for their advice and recommendations for good reliable issuer programs. If an issuer goes out of business all the cards that have been issued will likely be worthless and the people who bought cards from you will look to you for repayment, so you must make sure to do business with the most reliable and creditworthy issuer you can find. Experienced vendors will be able to warn you of pitfalls to avoid.
Research the liability issues you will encounter such as lost cards, transaction errors, faulty cards, merchant acceptance and the outlook for industry regulations. Make sure your issuer has policies that are beneficial to their vendors because unfavorable policies will directly impact your profits. The individual states have laws you will encounter such as escheat laws that govern how remaining balances may be treated on cards that have not been used for extended periods of time.
Select one issuer to work with and start out as small as possible. An attorney can help you fully understand any contracts or other documents you may be asked to sign. Take advantage of any training the issuer may offer and test the marketing programs till you understand the business and can evaluate their effectiveness.
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