Photo coaching is a little-known but much needed home-based business helping families preserve their old and new photos, videos, and other meaningful memories.
If you’ve thought about starting a business from home, or you’re wanting to add another income stream to your professional business, then read on and learn how I’ve had a profitable career as a photo coach since March 1995, almost 30 years.
What Did I Do?
I’ve always enjoyed looking at family photos and imagining the people and places coming to life. Stories have drawn me in.
When I started my photo coaching business, most consultants helped their clients create artistic albums but I focused on helping my clients tell their stories and preserve their most meaningful memories, which I still do today.
Today’s Technology Makes Your Business Efficient
When digital cameras became popular, I adapted to the digital era and began scanning old printed photos for clients and showing them how to do the same. I often worked one-on-one.
Today, technology has let me scale my one-person photo coaching business across the U.S. and Canada. I work from my home in La Quinta, California, in the desert near Palm Springs, and connect with clients and associates throughout the U.S.
See a list of my main services here.
Before I share about the main tool I use, it’s important to understand how badly families need a solution.
Families Need Help Decluttering and Digitizing
Old photos and videos are scattered and cluttered in closets, garages, and even storage units. New photos and videos eat up memory on smartphones and other electronic devices.
Families need someone to help them with a solution and guide them in knowing what memories to keep, what to get rid of, and how to enjoy them for many decades to come.
I can show you the method I use to help my clients journal and get the greatest enjoyment possible from their memories.
The Main Tool I Use: FOREVER®
Families can easily write their stories, share with friends and family wherever there’s an internet connection, and have peace of mind that their memories are kept safe and secure in permanent storage that’s private and you own it.
FOREVER® guarantees that your files remain safe and accessible for a lifetime, plus 100 years with the goal of being accessible for decades longer. The FOREVER Guarantee Fund will migrate your files to newest formats when the current format becomes obsolete. No extra cost to you, your children, future generations.
I’ve incorporated the platform FOREVER® into my business since it’s the best solution I’ve found to help families declutter, digitize their old memories, and store their old and newest photos and videos for generations to come.
Here’s a summary of what you can with FOREVER®:
- Digitize
- Store old and new in the same place
- Print photo books and gifts
- Research and chronicle family history
What can you help clients digitize?
- Printed photos
- VHS videos
- Audio cassettes
- Slide shows
- Super 8 movies
- Hand-written letters and other hard copy documents like military records and marriage certificates
Potential Client Profiles
Here are potential clients to serve based on age and interests.
Age: Families in their 50s and 60s
Those of us in this age range are handling hard copy memories and overwhelmed trying to manage the crush of digital photos and videos on their smartphones, external hard drives, and other electronic devices.
Many of us in this age group have:
- Our own printed photos, VHS tapes, slide shows and more
- Our parents in their 70s, 80s and 90s who need to turn old memories into digital files and we will inherit these memories
- Our younger adult children who’ve grown up with digital memories
The Need: Digitization and Permanent Storage
Age: Younger Families in their 40s and 30s
Similar to the older age group above, but the photos and videos they’re taking of their children are digital and they need a long-term storage solution
The Need: Limited Digitization and Permanent Storage
Other age groups:
Seniors aged 70 and above who want to digitize older files and store them for future generations
Young adults in their 20s who want a long-term storage solution and are helping their parents and grandparents
Interest: Genealogists chronicling family history
Do you know a friend or someone in your family who loves researching family history?
FOREVER® has professional genealogists who can consult. Upload files and you’ll see that you have plenty of room to write brief descriptions or longer tales.
Other interests include travel and sports
FOREVER® makes it easy for you to create albums before you take a trip or see a sporting event. I created albums before taking a trip with friends from the Bay Area to Southern California and then knew exactly where I would upload the files during and after the trip.
Files can be stored in multiple albums and I’ll show you how to do that.
All of the files are easy to use in printing keepsake photo books and other gifts.
You’re Guiding and Teaching Clients
In most cases, you’re consulting with the clients by showing them FOREVER® and what the platform can do for them.
Use your imagination, too.
Click on the Events page on my website and you’ll get a glimpse of one way that I work with clients.
If you decide that photo coaching is a business that’s right for you, I’ll be glad to mentor you as an associate and show you how to build a long-term sustainable and profitable business.
Want to Know More?
Contact me if you have questions on photo coaching as a home-based business or income stream to add to your existing services.
I’ll share my experiences and why I work so closely with FOREVER®.
A home-based business can be profitable and professionally satisfying if you choose one that meets your goals.
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