1. Stick to High Quality
2. Use the Flash
3. Be Odd!
4. Shoot Celebrities
5. Become a Bounty Hunter
6. Demonstrate!
7. Watch Sports Events
8. Take in a Concert
9. Develop Contacts
10. Win a Competition
11. Become a Location Scout
12. Take a Pic a Day
13. Shoot Your Business Every Day
14. Follow the Blogs
15. Go Easy on the Photoshopping
16. Promote your Photos on Flickr
17. Shoot Often

Read all the great tips that go with these “bullet” points!

Related Link: Make Money With Your Digital Camera!

I got brave and tried to see if it was worth anything these days.

Below are the results…

Hopefully, I’ll make it keep on growing!

 

PurpleStreet.com – (The site is a template right now… we’re doing development on it so what is there now is nothing like the actual final site.) This is a new site I’ll be launching soon. It will be a service for micro businesses that have one or two products to sell and don’t want to spend lots of money on an online store, getting approved for a merchant account…etc…etc. With this new service, they can upload their product to this ecommerce enabled website, in their own category, and then just link to the cart from whatever one page sales copy they have on the internet. The cart is REALLY professional looking with the ability to track orders, process payments, do sales tracking, ROI…etc. This kind of service is way over due on the net. I don’t know of one place on the net like it for real goods. It’s all inclusive. All you have to have is an inventory of products and a picture of the product. Now that’s simple ecommerce. Estimated annual revenue by December 2007: $250,000.

It depends on the level of stress and how we respond.

So how well are you handling stress?

The Franklin Covey website offers this free stress assessment…

PrestoGifto

PrestoGifto is a tool that makes it easy to sell products you like on your website or blog. You choose the products, write the descriptions, pick the colors, and we create a storefront for you that you can incorporate into your website. If the products come from a merchant that has an affiliate program, you can earn commissions when your site visitors buy products we display on your site.

For example, right now you can pick any products sold by CafePress, which means literally millions of different designs and products. If you are a member of CafePress’s affiliate program and give us your affiliate ID, we’ll embed it into the links we display so you earn 20% commissions on products your site visitors buy from your store.

We’re not part of CafePress. We like what they do, and wanted to make it easier for people to sell CafePress merchandise on their website or blog.

We support PrestoGifto by including our affiliate ID in some of the links we display in our tool, so we receive the commissions when a visitor clicks on those links. Most of the links use your affiliate ID (if you gave it to us). We include our link in one of out every five links that we display. You can always see which affiliate IDs are in each links by putting your cursor over a link, pressing the right-hand button of your mouse, and selecting “properties” in the menu that appears. We do this substitution so we can help our customers make money, support the tool, and avoid any lengthy signup processes, credit card information, upfront charges.

We’re currently in beta. That means our product is still in development, and we’re interested in hearing your feedback so we can improve it. Please send any comments, concerns, unanswered questions or bugs to support@prestogifto.com

“On May 1st I implemented a new template. The “wireframe� of the site really wasn’t much different from the new site to the old. Frankly, I was a little worried at first about the new template not knowing how it might impact my CTR. Thankfully my CTR didn’t drop, in fact it increased about 50%! I decided to think of my site from the visitor’s perspective. I asked myself “What type of information would a consumer be most interested in at this point on the page� and picked the eMiniMall which best presented that information.�

Suddenly you can turn your words into money … or so it seems for a while.

That sounds good until writer’s block sets in!

Here, Georganne Fiumara the author of Write An Article A Day The Easy Way tells how to overcome this dreaded maladay authors and copywriters face everyday:

Question: Please, please tell me, how can I overcome
writer’s block?

Answer: I feel your pain. Writer’s block is related to
procrastination, but is much more serious. It stops us dead
in our tracks and strikes fear in our hearts. It doesn’t
have to be that way. If you follow the same writing plan
every time you write, it will eliminate stress and help you
avoid the dreaded WB.

The step-by-step plan in WRITE AN ARTICLE-A-DAY, THE EASY WAY is exactly the type of technique you can use to avoid writer’s block. If you don’t have your copy of the book yet, here are some other techniques you can use to start your fingers flying over the keyboard:

You Are The Boss: If you are having a tough time with a certain part of your article, delete it and go in a different direction. Replace it with something you feel better able to concentrate on.

Switch Things Up: If you can’t write your introduction, write your conclusion!

Google It: Use a search engine to read what others have written on your topic. Don’t copy them but do use their points to stimulate your own creativity.

Take A Walk: Get away from your computer and get a fresh perspective. Or, take your laptop outside and let the sun warm you up.

Just Do It: If you can’t write on your topic, just write about anything that comes into your head. Write about how you have writer’s block, write anything you can think of.

Sometimes, just getting your fingers moving is enough to get your creative juices flowing.

Whatever you decide to do, don’t give up. Only those who give up have no chance to succeed. Sit back, relax and read some articles written by someone you admire. When you least expect it, the clouds will part and your writer’s block will fade away.

You might be able to get your own positive listing … even a small blurb can bring significant increases in traffic and sales.

David Frey related one of his recent experiences in his ezine…

How would you like to have your own advertisement appear in a national magazine with a huge circulation?

Imagine what that could potentially do for your business.

Well, it’s not only possible, but it’s very simple to do.

There’s a little marketing tactic that anyone reading this newsletter can do that can get you some national exposure in major magazines and newspapers.

It’s called an “op-ed.”

An op-ed is an editorial space in a magazine or newspaper where that publication gives you an opportunity to express your opinion on a topic that they recently covered.

Hence, “op” = opinion and “ed” = editorial.

You’ve probably read them before but never knew how easy they were to appear in.
While reading Inc. magazine, I came across a franchisor that was having trouble. In my opinion, it stemmed from his inferior marketing system. I decided to write Inc magazine to share my opinion with them. So I shot off an email to the publication.

Less than a few days later I received an email asking for permission to publish my opinion.

Sure enough…they did. Here is a copy of my op-ed that was published in Inc Magazine…

Inc Magazine Op Ed piece

When it came out I noticed a sharp increase in traffic and subscriptions to my newsletter.

Debra Jones knows all about starting from scratch. She’s started  multi-million dollar companies from her kitchen table — one training mortgage lenders, the other selling nutritional products in several countries.  

Here are some tips.

1. Reactivate previous customers. They’ve purchased from you once, see if you can interest them again.

2. DO something instead of waiting for sales… pick up the phone, drop in on old clients, SOMETHING! Preferably now.

3. Email your past customers using your in house list.

4. Make sure you have a benefit your customer can clearly understand in short order.

5. Make sure the prospect has your contact information easily available.

Read the whole interview at Home Business Mag

There’s even a Word of Mouth Advertising Association to prove it!

They even have a blog

While you’re there you can even sign up for free training and updates by email.

Here are 5 tips from today’s blog entry on making B2B WOM work…

Tip #1. Believe that customer opinions matter
Companies say they believe this, but often it’s just lip service. Top brass needs to believe that a customer’s input on a product or service is valuable and worth responding to. Too often, people think, “There’s nothing my customers can tell me that I don’t already know.” Start with an education process for employees and decision-makers, or a consciousness-raising event.

Tip #2. Identify happy customers and industry influentials
Look for the people who influence the decision makers — they’re not always the obvious people. For example, visible movers and shakers who are active in peer networks are obvious influentials, but less visible influentials might be consultants and others who influence the RFP process.

Look to those who use your product, and those who don’t. Include your biggest critics.

Tip #3. Give them a voice
This can be a formal process or an informal one. You may ask them to join a customer advisory board, or you may simply have an email conversation.

Tip #4. Use their input to make improvements
It’s difficult to criticize a company when you’re actively engaged in a dialogue with the company’s employees. When influentials — both happy customers and critics — are in contact with you and you’re responding to them, they’re more likely to be in your court.

Tip #5. Communicate back about the changes
More than simply using the input from influentials, a company should let those people know that their voices are being heard. Again, this can be a formal or informal process. You might have quarterly meetings with advisory board members, or engage in email conversations, or use blogs.