1. Give business people Moo cards. Turn your photos into mini-Moo cards and market them as unique intros for business people who think theyre unique.
2. Become a paparazzi! Snapped a celebrity doing a walkabout? Scoopt finds buyers for news pictures and a model eating is always news.
3. Put a mouse on an image Zazzle is one site that lets you put a photo on a mousepad and sell it through their store
4. Create a photography book and Blurb makes it a breeze to publish your photos in a book and sell it to admiring fans for a profit.
5. Create a specialized photography book Its nice to put your favorite images in a photography book; its nice money when you put your kids school soccer team in a book and sell it to their parents.
6. Give MySpace users unique pages Its hard to stand out on MySpace and other networking sites unless youve got some very special images. So contact networkers and offer them yours.
7. BritePic your pictures BritePic lets you put a floating ad on your images when users mouse over you earn even if the pictures arent on your website.
8. Blog about your pictures and get paid for it Googles AdSense program is giving many bloggers a handsome income. Put your images on a blog, discuss them and earn from ads.
9. Find local distributors for your local images Even simple pictures sell well when people recognize them. Get your local images in local stores and youll make sales.
10. Create creative computer covers Moo isnt the only place that can turn photos into stickers. Other printers can do the same thing, letting you turn photos into long shapes to cover dull PCs.
11. Give hosting companies exclusive libraries Hosting companies give packages to clients that can include microstock deals. Give them an exclusive library of images and theyll have a unique offer for their customers; youll have your own microstock customer base.
12. Create creative car window covers When the weather is hot, cars get hotter. Print your photos on windscreen covers and offer them to accessories stores.
13. Earn real income from real estate Taken pictures of buildings? Take pictures of buildings with For Sale signs and offer them to the sellers. If your photo is better than theirs, youll be exchanging contracts.
14. Take a trip to a travel agents Travelers want to know where theyre going so if youve been there and photographed it, give travel agents a chance to show them. For a small fee, of course.
15. Decorate cafes Ask caf owners to put your pictures on their walls. They get free art you get to show pictures with price tags.
16. Earn every day with calendars Calendars are simple to make but tough to get into stores. So sell them online.
17. Build a membership base Create a club and give members a photo a day with an explanation of how it was shot. It will be like an email photography course with tuition fees.
18. Put your pictures on microstock sites Hey, everyone else is doing it and some people are making six-figure sums doing it!
19. Put your pictures in competitions The net is stuffed with photo contests these days. Some of them pay cash prizes, others pay with a valuable reputation boost. Be a winner!
20. Go mobile Ringtones are a huge market and ringtone companies also sell mobile phone wallpapers. Ask them to sell yours.
21. Snapped a logo? Take it to the company If theres a logo in your picture, youve got just one possible buyer. So ask them to buy it.
22. Put it on a t-shirt Yes, we know its old-fashioned but it works! People do buy them
23. Turn your photos into art works You dont need a gallery to create art works; you just need a canvas printer. There are plenty of those around so put your picture on a stretcher and sell it as art.
24. Turn your art into sketches Photoshop lets you turn your images into sketches. So if you cant draw, pack your camera, a laptop and a portable printer and head to where the tourists are. While the sketchers sketch, you can shoot and print.
25. Customize stationery Fancy stationery comes with all sorts of flowery designs. Why shouldnt they come with your pictures? Find a printer, create notebooks and put them in stores.
26. Put your pictures on programs Software companies need all sorts of images to decorate their disc covers, to put on their boxes, to function as backgrounds. Check out whos working on what, shoot some stills and make your pitch.
27. Play with picture cards Soldiers play with sexy playing cards but who says you have to be crude? Take 52 themed pictures, print them on cards and take a bet on gamblers.
28. Take to student life Students dont have much money. Neither do their publications. But they do have enough to pay freelance photographers with good pictures and theyre open-minded enough to try someone new. And you dont have to be a student to do it.
29. Decorate model apartments Property developers always create at least one apartment that looks lived in to show prospective buyers. Why shouldnt the developers put your pictures on the wall?
30. Decorate furniture stores Its not just developers that need to create fake living spaces; furniture stores do it too. Take a look at whats on offer, create pictures that match the chairs and market them.
31. Put it in the bag You can put anything on a handbag these days, even a $5,000 price tag. So talk to a bag designer and build a winning team.
32. Cover school books No, youre not back at school but plenty of kids are still there and every year they have to cover their school books usually in horrible colored paper. Take trendy pictures, print them on thin paper and sell them to kids who want their books to look cool.
33. Stretch your pictures to 42 inches The price of flat-screen TVs has fallen faster than an anvil in a road-runner cartoon. These days, almost everyone has one on their wall and most of them are dark most of the time. But theres no reason they should be. Some of them can take uploaded pictures. Make a disk and make them yours.
34. Cover CDs People are still burning CDs and still storing in them in boring plastic covers. Put pictures on circles and offer them to stores that sell blanks.
35. Cover flash cards Of course, more people these days are using flash memory cards to hold their information. They may be small but theyre big enough to hold a photo with sticker. Especially if you print it small enough.
36. Create collectors packs Shoot a series of themed images such as birds of California or hairstyles of the rich and famous. Print them on cards and sell them in niche outlets in restricted doses. It worked for baseball players
37. Tell stories with your pictures You dont have to draw to create graphic novels. Call some pals, create some poses and print them as story books.
38. Turn your pictures into wallpapers Desktop wallpapers are still big business. Or at least, big enough to buy your photos. So sell them and appear on computers across the nation.
39. Help campaigning groups Local pressure groups need images for their campaigns and theyre the sort that arent easy to find beautiful pictures of the local woods, for example, or the headquarters of a property developer. Snap and sell.
40. Become a local photojournalist Its not just pressure groups and student papers that are willing to take freelanced images. Local newspapers often will too, especially the free ones. Call their photo editors and make your pitch.
41. Change clothes Not yours, the clothes in your pictures. Shoot a series of people standing in the same pose, shoot clothes to match, then team up with a programmer to let people play around with them. Then sell the game to a site about fashion as sticky content.
42. and expressions. Theres a good reason Mr. Potato Head is still around. Hes fun. So create an electronic version by shooting portraits then ask your friendly programmer to let players change noses. You get to share the game profits.
43. Sit on your best work If you can put a picture on a t-shirt, you can also put it on a cushion cover. So do.
44. Let buyers eat your pictures IcingImages.com lets photographers print images on sheets of edible paper and stick them on cakes. Could be a tasty deal for wedding photographers.
45. Market to Flickr book marketers Book marketers are using Flickr to drum up publicity. They need good images. You need sales. Its a match made in a kitchen.
46. Sell to eBay auctioneers Many of the items sold on eBay appear time and time again, often with poor images. So shoot commonly sold products and sell the pictures to sellers.
47. Illustrate recipes Its not just Flickr book marketers who need food pictures. Recipe sites do too. Cook up a storm and photograph the results. Then eat them and offer the pictures to the people who made the meal possible.
48. Advertise on Craigslist So simple. So overlooked. So why not be the first to advertising outstanding prints on the worlds coolest classifieds?
49. Create coloring books Take pictures of cats, dogs and bunnies, follow these neat Photoshop steps and put together your very own coloring books.
50. Cover the Earth in your pictures Well, Google Earth anyway. Some photographers have already put their aerial images on Google Earth but why not turn all of your best travel photos into an overlay and sell them?
51. Take after photos There are few things more appealing than vintage photographs except comparing them with how the place looks today. You cant go back in time but you can find the old places, shoot them today and sell them to vintage photo sellers to complete their set.
52. Sell them as prints Yes, we know its old fashioned but theres still a market for pictures you can hold and touch. And there are plenty of photo sites that let buyers order online.
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