Here’s a reason to consider photo coaching as a home business opportunity.
Let’s start with your situation by answering these two questions:
- How many photos and videos do you have on your phone, laptop, or other electronic device?
- How many printed photos, videos, slide shows and other files do you have in storage containers, garages, and closets?
Like most people, you’re going to have thousands of digital and printed photos, and you can’t enjoy them because you have so many.
Can you find what’s important?
Do you know how to safeguard them and store them?
I’ve been a photo coach since 1995, nearly 30 years. It was a home business I started as a young mother and now I’m a grandmother and I’m still helping families to:
As a photo coach, you help families get maximum enjoyment from their family’s photos, videos, slide shows and so many other memories.
You can work in a way that meets your goals. It may be building a full-time income like I’ve done or you may enjoy using the services here to preserve your own photos and help a few friends.
Click my Services page to see a summary of what I offer.
The Need
Why do families need a photo coach like you?
Because they need someone to connect them with a solution.
Today, we’re immersed in digital clutter on our phones and other electronic devices, and we have scores of printed pictures, videos, and other files. It affects all ages.
Look at this simple chart I made.
| AGE | Your Life Captured Digitally | Your Life Mostly Digital | Your Early Childhood on Rolls of Film, Video | Your High School / College All on Rolls of Film, Video | Your Adult Kids On Rolls of Film, Video | Your Grandkids on Rolls of Film, Video |
| Teens | x | |||||
| 20s | x | |||||
| 30s | x | |||||
| 40s | x | x | ||||
| 50s | x | x | x | |||
| 60s | x | x | x | |||
| 70s | x | x | x | x | ||
| 80s | x | x | x | x |
We’re caught between two worlds
Digital photos and videos started replacing those 36 exposure and other sized rolls of film (analog) around 2005 to 2008.
Today’s teens have had their life captured digitally. A 19-year-old who was born in 2005 may have some rolls of film or VHS tape memories but it’s going to primarily be digital.
Young adults in their early to mid-20s have had most or all of their life captured digitally with little analog.
If you’re age 30, and you started high school at age 14 in 2008, then your early childhood years through middle school were film and video.
If you’re age 40, born in 1984, then you graduated around 2006. Were your junior and senior years all digital memories or were they also on film?
Those of us in our 50s to 70s may have inherited our parents’ memories that are nearly all analog format.
Many of us have memories that are printed, on CDS, DVDS, micro-discs, VHS, slide shows, Super 8, and even floppy discs and film reels.
Our lives are captured in a variety of formats and many of those formats aren’t usable.
We need photo coaches to help us organize
Here’s the tool I’ve been using for almost the past 10 years.
Using FOREVER®
I’ve been using FOREVER® in my business for almost 10 years.
Here’s a major benefit:
You can bring all your analog memories into the same, safe and private place as your digital memories. Guaranteed for a lifetime, plus 100 years and with the goal of beyond that time span.
Here’s a summary of services with links to a page on my site:
- Digitization of analog files (no compression)
- Permanent storage
- Printed photo books and gifts
- Family research
FOREVER® is more effective than storing on social media or low-cost companies charging monthly fees.
Here’s why:
- You own your account and the digital rights to your content. This is your digital home for your memories.
- Every file has margins to write brief or detailed descriptions of the photos or videos.
- Future generations can access files.
- Older files are migrated to the newest technologies thanks to the FOREVER® Guarantee Fund.
FOREVER® has the highest Trust Pilot rating in the industry with a commitment to serving everyone who uses the service with dedicated customer care.
Could photo coaching be a business for you?
I became a photo coach because I enjoyed looking through family photos as a child and getting lost in the stories that I imagined.
As a young mother, I began helping families tell their stories using their printed photos. Businesses have to adapt with changing technologies and my operation evolved with the changing times. Click here to read more on my About page.
Now, I can offer permanent storage and the opportunity for families to pass their stories on to descendants they’ll never meet.
If you:
- Enjoy family photos
- Like helping others declutter
- See the value of digitizing and permanent storage
Then being a photo coach using FOREVER® may be a good home business for you to launch.
Want to know more?
I’ll be glad to help you think through your interests and share my experiences gained over a few profitable decades.
I’m also looking to mentor a few individuals if there’s a fit.
Contact me and I’ll enjoy meeting you and learning about your interests.
Choosing a home business requires careful consideration so thanks for looking into photo coaching.
See more of what Cindy Marks has done with her photos and photo coaching:
Researching Family History with Photos and Digitizing Handwritten Letters