Are you a budding photographer? If you like to snap pictures at family events or at friends’ parties as a hobby, put your photography skills to good use in ways that will earn you money for your efforts.

Here are seven ways that you can make money with digital photography.

Photography has changed since the instant camera was developed. With a digital camera, you can take a not so good picture and make it perfect using a variety of software options, such as Photoshop. Best of all, pictures can be printed on high-quality glossy photo paper on your home printer or at a kiosk for just a few pence per picture.

There are lots of opportunities for both amateur & professional photographers to make extra money with their pictures online. Here are just a few:

1. Stock photography. For website newsletters, magazines, blogs & articles, authors & publishers look for photos that capture the essence of their articles. It is not always convenient to go out and snap some pictures every time you need one for a new blog or article. Selling stock photographs of generic images to businesses and individuals is convenient for them and lucrative for you. You don’t have to sell directly to businesses either, you can list your photos on stock image websites such as Fotolia and earn a commission everytime somebody buys your image.

2. Newspaper pictures. If you are in the right place at the right time, you might capture photos that are worthy of being published with an article in the newspaper. When news happens, a newspaper photographer might not be on the scene at the right time. If you can capture the newsworthy moments and sell them to newspapers, you could be rewarded with a token payment. Pictures of celebrities usually attract the biggest payouts, although that does verge on being labelled as a paparazzi!

3. Magazine photographer. Create a portfolio of photos that you’ve taken and submit them to magazines.  Looking at your work, they may hire you for assignments or photo shoots. Magazines are a tough market to break into so cut your teeth on other smaller assignments for local newspapers first to build your portfolio.

4. Local photography for businesses & classified ads. Ever seen an ad that shows cars for sale or houses for sale? Someone had to take those photographs. It could be you. Hire yourself out to local businesses to do these photographs for them.

5. Event photographer. Family reunions, christenings, bar mitzvahs and birthday parties are perfect – the event organisers don’t always want to pay for a professional photographer but may be willing to pay you a small amount to cover the photos for their own memories. You can be the eyes in the room catching candid shots.

6. Photography website. If you know a lot about digital cameras and photography, create a website or blog to review photography products. Keep visitors and customers coming back with engaging content on various aspects of photography. You can then easily monetise your website using affiliate links to the products that you are reviewing.

7. Teach a photography class. Those cameras look easy to use but some of those symbols can mix people up. Teach others to use their digital camera and create great pictures that they, too, can market as a business.

7 Ways You Can Earn Money with Your Digital Photography is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway

When I first attended Chris Howard’s 3-day Breakthrough to Success seminar in London in August 2008, I had no idea what NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) was and had never really heard of the ‘personal development industry’. I had no idea how to use & implement the tools that I would learn by attending this event into my Internet marketing business – which are now priceless to me.

I arrived at the venue in London not knowing what to expect really. I had received an invite by email from a mailing list that I was subscribed to so I had registered about 6 weeks prior to the event. Didn’t think i’d stay for all three days, but wanted see what it was like anyway.

The 3-days that followed really blew me away – the content that was delivered by Chris and his team was really fascinating; the showcase of information; the sleek arrangement and running of the weekend by ThinkBIG Education (then ‘Christopher Howard Events’) and the really friendly crew members helping to run the event.

After attending the Breakthrough to Success event in London, I started reading more about wealth creation and personal development (I bought Chris Howard’s book at the event called Turning Passions Into Profits) and a number of other books that Chris and his amazing event crew had mentioned to me throughout the weekend (such as Think and Grow Rich, The Alchemist, Rich Dad Poor Dad). I had never really heard of these books before the event and didn’t realise how ‘big’ they were in this industry.

The weekend also gave me a great networking opportunity with around 1000 other people and I made some great contacts who ended up becoming clients and/or suppliers. Not bad going for a free event!

Throughout the weekend, I learnt things that I had never even heard of before such as Strategic Visioning and the Decision Destroyer process that Chris takes the participants through from stage. The key to all of my new learnings was that anything that I want to achieve and accomplish is down to my mindset and the way that I thought. I learnt new ways of thinking, new ways of asking questions and new ways of communicating. The best part of it all was that all these new learnings & skills were totally transferrable and I could use them all in my Internet marketing business, as well as in my personal day-to-day life.

The Breakthrough To Success London weekend seminar with Chris Howard was a fantastic eye-opener for me in many respects. Not only did I see this great speaker but I saw the way the event ran as a business, albeit as a participant and spectator. I knew at the end of day 1 that I wanted to learn more about this industry from a business point of view and wanted to get involved in helping to run the event, because the crew seemed to be having so much fun! Now, I work with ThinkBIG Education to run the events and get to spend a lot of time surrounded by great people who have become very good friends.

I will be at the next London Breakthrough to Success seminar which is on February 12-14 2010 at the Ibis Hotel in Earl’s Court.

You can register you complimentary tickets to the event by clicking here.

Mindset over Matter: How I used NLP & mentors to reach the dizzy heights of Internet success is a post from: Internet Marketing Highway