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