My Google Rant…

I’ve been thinking of a different angle to take my business international. Instead of teaching people my system to creating and selling fantasy portraits there is no reason why I can’t hire photographers back in the States and pay them $25 to shoot a 20 – 30 minute portrait session like I do with a few photographers here.

I can book portrait clients from anywhere in the world as long as I have a phone and Internet service.

I’m tired of trying to get photographers to become entrepreneurs so why not just give them what they want by booking portraits sessions for them and paying them $25 to shoot it for me…

I’ll take the raw images that a photographer takes for me and have my team of digital artists do the enhancements. And then, instead of trying to teach a photographer how to present and sell the images I can do the sales presentation via an online webinar meeting between the portrait client and myself.

If photographers just want to get paid to take pictures and not be troubled with learning sales and marketing, I can just outsource the picture taking and eventually replace myself with a portrait consultant and pay them by commission or a salary with bonuses based on their sales.

I’ll end up making far more by just working my system this way instead of trying to teach non-entrepreneurs to do what I do.

Today I decided to take a day off and work on my tan at the beach. It gave me a chance to work on the business instead of doing things that I could just let Vera my assistant handle for the day.

But after an hour I had to run back to my van for a notepad and pencil to write out a prospecting script for recruiting photographers to work for me. Relaxing on the beach while listening listening to the surf gave my mind a chance to clam down and the script just suddenly pop into my mind!

Also put together the below ad for Craigslist…. But the little discovery I made a couple of days ago is one hell of great way to get all the qualified leads I want for free! I can already tell that this will be a far more effective than postings ads on CL.

If one or both of you would like to see it let me know and I'll also share the cool traffic method I mentioned above. Maybe you guys are already aware of the method but I had never been aware of it until just a couple of days ago.

Cheers,
Steve

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by SteveSki

I’ll end up making far more by just working my system this way instead of trying to teach non-entrepreneurs to do what I do.

Hi Steve,

I agree - I think you'll make more money with your new idea, than the "old" way...

It reminds me of the story of Jim Penman.

Jim started mowing lawns. He'd advertise, and then get more lawn mowing work than he could handle.

He found that other people mowing lawns couldn't get enough work (maybe because they weren't advertising).

So he hit on the idea of selling these extra jobs to the other people mowing lawns for a living.

(I read this in Jim Penman's book, "Surprised by Success," which I read many years ago...)

Eventually, Jim turned his business into a lawn mowing franchise business.

It's now the largest franchise in Australia, with over 3,000 franchises, and it's also the world's largest home franchise business. He's also recently expanded to other countries, such as the UK and Canada.

His business now makes many millions of dollars a year in net income.

Who'd have thought you could get all that - just from mowing some lawns??!?!

Best wishes!

Dien

Steve,

Great Thinking! ...

Sounds like an excellent Win-Win opportunity using a Smart Proven method of [Re-Creating] the business overall into a Fresh new direction...

I have to agree with Dien's {Great example} on somewhat of a few very Different (type) of idea(S)...

Growing Concept! ... Expansion related formula...

And other Ways to Borrow & Twist [a little] from Jim's business model and concept...

As per...
Franchises now include Jim's Antennas, Jim's Bookkeeping, Jim's Building Maintenance, Jim's Computer Services, Jim's Dog Wash, Jim's Painting and Jim's Roofing, and Jim's Group has recently expanded into Great Britain, New Zealand & Canada.[3]...

Also, on a different related note...

Another very well known resource well worth... Digging further into...

A must Read as I'm sure Many already know...

Studying! ... Applying much of what you Learn about into Fresh new Ideas!

Taking Action is the Key! ...

Think and Grow Rich: Chapter 5. Specialized Knowledge...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Thin...sm=93&ie=UTF-8

Steve, love to hear more about your new found lead generation idea mentioned. Please feel free to PM and share those misc. details...

Much appreciated,

All the best,
Phil