Money Making with a Video Camera Part 1

Hello:

The idea that I am going to talk about here is video classifieds. Where you use you video camera to video tape a item for someone that has an item for sale. Such as a car, truck or boat or etc. Then you have some contact info put in the video or simply have someone repeat an email address during the tapeing. Then you post the video online. Like on you and such. You charge a reasonable fee to tape the ad and to post it online.

For most people who already have the equipment or are getting some new then it is some extra cash ro pay for the equipment. And posting to video website are free so whatever you charge is pure profit and you are paid for your time and some video skills. For a video ad ; there does not have to be any fancy editing or cut away to make it work. To cut down on your processing time. As long as people can see and hear someone talking about the item and they can see the item and of course have clear contact info then that is it. My suggestion is not to put a phone number in the ad but a email address to help weed out the crank callers. If someone is really interested in the item they should have no problem emailing the buyer.

Then you advertise your service in the paper, use word of mouth. Offer people a referral fee for bringing you leads to people who would be interested. Then simply set a time to video the item and collect your fee. After you upload the video you will have to email the location of the video so they know that you did what you said you were going to do. As for how much to charge will vary based on where you live and what you are video taping. What the market will bear. I have seen some charge $40 to 50 dollars for the service and in bigger cities more.

Then you just start setting up appointments for the video taping. You only really need the movie maker software from microsoft to convert the video to wmv format to post online. Just basic video editing software. Now of course you can get more involved with video editing to spice it up but then it takes more time and you would do fewer videos. Once you get into it you will start to get the feel for how many you want to do or can do. Try different things and have fun with it. Be creative.

Thanks for reading.

mrdragonsfire

Money Making by Stuffing Envelopes

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I have gotten into alot of work from home business opportunities. One of them was stuffing envelopes at home. The opportyunity is presented to you in such a way that all you think you have to do is take their flyer/brochure and stuff it in the envelope and mail back the stuff envelpoes to the company and you get paid so much for everyone that you do. It has been my experience that most if not all of these opportunities are scams.

They make their money by selling you a starter kit of supplies that you buy and then you never hear from them again. Or there are things that they leave out that makes the opportunity unprofitable. Such as the real way they refer to getting paid for the work. Just stuff them is simply office type work. But when you get your kit you find that you are not getting paid to stuff them but to market their product or service. What mostly happens is that you get your kit and find out them to work the program you have to place ads in newspapers and magazine advertising for people who might be interested in the product or service offer by this company. And in the ad copy you ask for a stamped self addressed envelope. And this is the envelope you will be stuffing with their flyer.

How about getting paid. I found one that would pay me 50 cent for every stuffed reply envelope I sent them but they are just really buying qualified leads that you generated thru your advertising. But of of they use a more cleaver design. They have you mail out their flyer and brochure to the interested party and if they buy the product or service then you get a small fee for this sale. So they can say you can make money from stuffing envelopes but what goes unsaid is that ; that money comes commissions on the sale of their product or service. What happens is that you spend hundreds of dollars on advertising and printing up their flyers and only get 5 or 6 responses. Because it not the cost of the starter kit that really knocks you for a loop it is the money you spend trying to make it work.

Think about this: If all they wanted was to hire someone to take their flyers and stuff them into an envelope and that is it ( which is basic office work) then all they would need to do is advertise for workers in their local area. Because their would thousands of potential workers within 50 miles of where they are to do the work without having to get a home worker in another state. So any company looking to hire you to do simply office work that is not near you then beware it is a scam.

My advice and experience says save your money and do not get into any envelope stuffing work from home program. You will spend plenty trying to get it going and not be able to get anything out of it.

thanks for reading,

mrdragonsfire

Twitter Joining

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I just join twitter with my mrdragonfire user name. It is interesting but I thought the post would be more chat room like. With new tweets or messages be adding again and again. But since I just created an account I really have to give it sometime to explore the world of twitter.

thanks for reading;

mrdragonsfire

My first blog post

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This is all new to me and I an trying this out. I have been into hundreds of business opportunites over the years and would like to talk about my experience with them here in my blog. I also may look to take about other money issues and explore other things to blog amount. And this is my first time blogging ; I will talk about different things but I will start with money making opportunities and how some are pure scams and others just did not find a market for them. I hope you find these post interesting and please bare with me for the post in the beginning will be kind of rough.

Thanks,

mrdragonsfire