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Did you know that digital photography is one of the most popular and fastest growing hobbies? You may want to consider the use of digital photography to bring in some extra income of your own, especially if you have an affinity to showing some beautiful examples of digital photography. In order to make money with digital photography all it really takes is some interesting creativity and a little knowledge.

There are a number of ways, which digital photography is useful in turning your hobby into a money making business. Digital cameras are fundamental in generating an income, as they are useful in many abundant ways. With a strong willingness to do some work as well as a little imagination and the flair for showmanship with a bit of salesmanship to boot, you are set and ready for making money with digital photography.

If you already have the love and a knack for digital photography more than likely you already have the equipment you will need to begin you own work at home career. Ideally, a digital camera with features equivalent to an SLR film camera is what you will need in a digital camera, also you would benefit from having a tripod or two for certain picture-taking occasions. You also will require the use of a printer that is capable of printing excellent quality photographs, or pay for a printing service.

Good digital photo editing software is next on your list of the items you will need. The best-known applications of good digital photo editing software include:

1. Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
2. Adobe Photoshop CS3
3. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
4. Corel Paint Shop Pro X

To get set up for a good business venture start, investing a few hundred dollars in marketing materials is a wise home business empowerment.

There is a current false impression that needs clearing from the air, before we proceed. A number of individuals conceive these days that it is impossible to make money at photography. Although they are able to point out that nearly all of us have a digital camera or in any case the use of a camera phone. All the while, they may wonder aloud why anyone would pay for digital photography when they can all take their own photographs.

The thing about it is that everyone may have use of some type of camera; however not everyone possesses a love or a knack for digital photography

Think about it, if you look at the photos that many individuals take, they can be terrible. Many amateur photographs suffer from six commonly found problems.

1. No composition skills
2. Awkwardly posed subjects
3. Dark shadows obscuring the face of a subject
4. Motion blur from holding the camera incorrectly
5. Poor color
6. Red eye

There is only so much you can do to correct a poor photograph. Even supposing any of these people understood how to use digital photo editing software properly, many of their pictures are beyond the scope of help of photography, digital or otherwise.

Undoubtedly, you have seen some of these images. No doubt, much money is wasted in efforts of printing a good shot. Since who ever was, taking the shot had no understanding of how a camera resolution should be set to allow for the best picture printing.

Do you still have doubts about making money with digital photography? Perhaps this short story will help you with your decision.

Recently I attended a birthday party; the hostess had made arrangements with an experienced amateur photographer who had hopes of starting her own work from home business.

Nearly everyone there brought their own digital cameras, however, once the party began, most forgot about taking pictures. Those who did take photos got results that had no good view or they were poorly positioned.

The photographer was paid for her services. Within two days, she had her photographs uploaded to a website. There was an email sent to the partygoers. We were able to save photos to our computer or chose to download the prints we wanted.

In the mean time, the photographer was paid generously for her services, and she did not bear the expense and work of printing or delivering the photographs.

Is that not awesome?

You too can develop your digital photography skills, work up a marketing plan and make money with digital photography too!

John Renolds is a Photopreneur that shares his strategies for generating different sources of income with digital photography at his blog... To learn how you too can turn your love for photography into a money making home business, check out John's blog now at http://photopreneurblog.com.

Learning to sell online requires not only master knowledge of your product or service but mastering the techniques that get you noticed in a huge online world full of competition at every turn. You can take the best offline salesman and put him against someone with no face to face sales experience but an understanding of how to drive visitors to a website and that experienced sales person will be outsold every time.

This is the reason that many people who would never take a conventional sales career to make incredible amounts of money selling online. There are still many similarities such as presentation and a proper sales pitch that will close a sale but online it is more important to understand how and why people make decisions when looking to make an online purchase.

On the internet the first thing that must be mastered is exactly what ad how are people looking for something they want to buy. The sales cycle online generally starts at the search engine so we must learn to understand what is going to be typed in that little search box and how we can be one of those sites that gets listed when the search button is hit. To this extent learning to sell online begins with understanding how people find the things they want to buy and how to put your product or service in that search path.

The online sales training process goes something like this:

1. Is there an online market for our products?
2. How do people find a particular process (what are they typing in that box)?
3. How do we get or product or service in that path?
4. Providing a sales presentation that triggers a sale. (The silent sales pitch is different than being able to sell face to face)

There are people building businesses on the internet making tremendous annual incomes not because they are sales people but because they have spent the time learning how to sell online.

Around the world billions of dollars in purchases are being made on the internet every year and it has become the biggest retail marketplace in the world. The incredible thing is anyone who is willing to spend a very small amount of money on an education about learning to sell online is afforded and incredible opportunity to make money. Auction sites, affiliate programs and general retail ecommerce sites all provide a low cost business opportunity for anyone willing to be open to learning how to market in a digital world.

Steve Phipps makes a living selling products online via physical and digital sales through auctions sites, blogs and traditional ecommerce of a wide range of products and services. He has created a website dedicated to selling products online and learning to sell online.

If you are interested in more information about online sales you can visit his site at:

http://www.onlinemoneytruth.com