Business Idea Event Photography & Scrapbooking Service
With this business idea you can tap into your creative skills both as a photographer and as a scrapbooking enthusiast.
Scrapbooking is the newest big thing in family arts and crafts. It is becoming a multi-billion dollar industry.
And you can start your own niche small business by providing a service as a photographer for families at their special events, with the added bonus of providing the photos in a scrapbook.
This will allow the parents to enjoy the experience instead of being behind the lens the whole time. Pictures are the foundation of great scrapbooks.
If you are a talented photographer, or even just want to get into the business, photographing families at special events - sports, scouts, weddings, births, etc. could be a lucrative business for you.
Of course, you will need a fantastic camera and an eye that is able to capture those special moments.
Preserving those precious memories is a big concern for people interested in preserving their family history and helping their siblings or children remember the important, happy events in their lives.
That is why many people value photo scrapbooks.
The number of scrapbooks made by each individual everyday shows this fact.
According to U.S. statistics, sales of scrapbooks are 1.4 billion dollars annually.
People use scrapbooks to save and organize their thoughts, photos, cards, invitations, or even dried flowers and other things that they want to look back on.
With scrapbooks, people can be as creative as they want.
They can create different layouts, create inventive backgrounds, position stickers, design photo frames in different shapes and sizes, choose colors, or attach fun embellishments.
How and where do you begin your scrapbooking? Actually, it is your decision to make.
First, decide on a theme. Your theme can be a color scheme, an activity or event, or time period.
Scrapbooking photos is such a great source of income since people are constantly attending events that they would want to photograph and remember.
To begin marketing this idea you should offer your service for free to a few family members of friends for an upcoming special event.
Once they see your scrapbooks and have enjoyed the convenience of your service, you will have begun to build a regular customer base that will also spread the news about your services by word of mouth.
This will also help you to build a portfolio – you should take photos of the scrapbooks you prepare and then feature them in a brochure and eventually on a website that showcases your business offerings.
Besides showcasing your portfolio and service fees you can offer tutorials and scrapbooking info on your site.
And this leads to even more opportunities to expand this business idea.
Building a website
also gives you an avenue for additional income; you can put advertisements on your site, and become an affiliate of large scrapbook supply websites such as
Scrapbook.com,
where you will receive a commission if any of your website visitors makes a purchase through your affiliate link.
Be sure to use products from these suppliers yourself. Then when have given your readers new scrapbooking ideas, they will start looking for your choice of materials.
You can even make scrapbook kits and offer them on your website.
You could easily keep in touch with your clients by creating newsletters full of ideas for events to photograph and scrapbook.
And you can also offer to teach classes on scrapbooking through local community venues.
These are all ways that build you recognition and clients for your business, and create multiple income streams too.
Now the start-up costs for this small business idea vary of course on whether or not you have a quality camera, and also what you will need to invest in a stock of scrapbooking supplies.
And the cost of building your website would be $300.00 with
Site Build It (SBI),
– my recommended website building resource.
But you could get your business started without a website first, and add the website as the business and your portfolio grew.
But all in all, these costs would still be low for a business start-up, and if you are already a scrapbook hobbyist you probably have a lot of scrapbooking supplies.
And of course any supplies and/or camera you buy would be tax deductible as part of your business expenses.
You could also partner with an expert scrapbooker or photographer if you only possessed half of the talents and expertise needed for this business idea.
So if you are one of the many people who love scrapbooking and would love to create a business around your interest, hopefully the ideas in this article will give you some inspiration.
Scrapbooks not only help us preserve our precious memories, they can also serve as a start for establishing an enjoyable and lucrative business.
