Starting Genealogy Scrapbook Video DVD Scrapbooking Business

Are you a Memory Maker?

Do you have a passion for moving images

and creating a product that invokes emotion in a customer?

Transforming a box (or boxes) of old photographs, genealogy materials or memorabilia to a video or DVD takes talent and organizational skills. After all, once accepting a customer’s project, you hold their past and their treasures in your hands.

A business in Video – Photo Production may include many different categories. Have you thought of all the things that you can do with a camera, a computer, and a scanner? Recording events, and family history and producing a video DVD could only be the beginning of your new career.

Starting a home-based producing service for digital scrapbook or family history scrapbooking of genealogy materials and photographs can be fun! Convert videos and old photos to DVD and stay at home doing it! Opening up a video service also opens up a world of those needing their wedding photos and videos, family heritage and ancestry history produced in an entertaining way. Add music and voice to a background of memorabilia pictures, slideshow presentations and graphics. Weave all this together into a beautiful digital video document and work at home. Create memories for your customers with video biographies with their family or personal historian. Learn how to operate these functions at a level that commands business and brings in profit for you. This business plan opens your door to that which is beyond a hobby........weddings, baptisms, school reunions, sporting events and more..........turn this into an income producing venture!

The work isn't the same thing day in and day out as every project and every customer is different. You'll enjoy hearing the stories people tell you when you are interviewing them. You'll enjoy see the photographs and how they work together on the storyboard. The production will take shape before your eyes, giving you a tremendous feeling of satisfaction from creating something out of "everything in a box."

Perhaps you have always enjoyed taking photographs (35mm or digital) and using your video-recorder. You may already have an editing program. Creating a finished product gives you a great sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. Perchance you've produced your own family DVD movie. Wasn’t it exciting to share this moving experience with others? Such an heirloom becomes a long-lasting keepsake.

Working with customers and planning their keepsake can be a fun business to do at home or in a small studio. You’ll quickly become the “town’s Videographer and DVD maker” for genealogy, weddings, baptisms and other special events in their lives. Everyone will want to take their memories to you as the demand for this service is increasing steadily. Growing fast are the video biographies, personal histories, sports biographies, pet biographies, video tributes, video montages, business and corporate biographies, and, of course, genealogy and family heritage scrapbooking.

You like creating magic in your work and feel that you have the talent and the gift for this career.

Your Service

Does your product or service satisfy an unfilled need in the market? Could your community do well with the products that you offer? Your strategy must include a written business plan and a guide on how to set your business up. A Business Plan is the first thing to consider as it sets the stage to transforming your hobby into a business. Organize your business and arrange how you want to set it up. Consider diversifying into these and other areas:

	Videotape to DVD Conversion
	Photographs and digital still photographs transformed into a video on DVD
	Regular 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm film to video or DVD
	Graduation Videos
	Wedding Videos
	Baptism Videos
	Remembrance Videos-honoring the memory of a friend or family member that has passed (perfect for showing at wakes and viewings and are great mementos for the family)

...the main goal is to run it more like a business and less like a hobby

Your Background

As for education, most production artists do not have degrees...just years of experience, the talent and the desire to be an entrepreneur. Some join associations where training workshops or conferences offer supplemental information. You may already hold several magazine subscriptions. There's much to learn and lots of research to be done.....always scoop up as much information and perspectives as possible--your clients are all different!

Your Lifestyle & Freedom

Be happily self-employed! With any job, you must ask some pertinent questions. How would a home-based business (or small business) fit around your family and home? The benefits might include more freedom to spend time with your family or care for your children or elderly family member. You may currently be in an unsatisfactory job and desire a diversion or change. Perhaps you are retired and have always wanted to do something like this. The flexible hours just seem to be important to you.

Either way, this may enable you to make and save money on the side. If you're searching for a new avenue of income and want the freedom of working at home, perhaps its time. Assisting people in a "positive work environment" is found.

In the unsure times of today, more people are turning homeward to make a living. Perhaps your neighbor or co-worker is working a home-based business. And, you'll always have something to fall back on. Having a business provides a little insurance for you.

Are you interested in just supplementing your income? Just two small clients that you work on weekends or evenings could bring you an extra $300.00 to $500.00 per month depending on the project budget. That could help your finances ketch up on overextended credit cards. You would be surprised, just by supplementing your income and providing a quality service to your clients, you'll love the freedom so much that you will set goals to "quit your day job". You may even end up earning so much more than your day job could ever pay you as an employee! You need to get yourself out of the "employee" title to earn the respect and money that you are worth. Either way, do something you enjoy!

We have all been in fear of the unknown.....where your next check is going to come from, how are you going to survive.....join the millions of successful business owners who have gone through that day in and day out, yet are successful and WON'T EVER go back to working full-time for someone else. But, you have to start your plan of action now!

Consider this:

If your life continues in the same direction it is now...

· Will you honestly be where you really want to be one year from today?
· Will you honestly be any closer to your financial goal?
· Will you have reality toward your dreams?

You can go ahead and punch the time clock,

and keep putting in those long hours at work.

Or, you can start a plan of action that builds your reputation and builds your business.

Do this for YOU and visualize what you will be doing one year from today!

If you can dream it, you can make it happen!

Your Stepping Stones to a Wish!

KIT CONTENTS

In these materials, the path to working at home is discussed. Your Guidebook includes a self-directed workbook on market analysis, products and services, production fee ideas, equipment needed, software programs available, working with customers on organizing the project, collection procedure for customer's old photographs, slides and memorabilia, storyboard ideas, deadline scheduling and budgeting, production length and profit, and the logistics of setting up. It also

includes checklists, forms, worksheets, business ideas and the nuts and bolts of getting started.

Kit Files

1-Work at Home Business Plan

2-Retail Web Biz Kit (BONUS file)

3-Sample Business Plan

4-Event Planning Designs (PPS)

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Step-by-Step Guide

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The business plan proposal that you complete can be the required documentation that enables a small business loan or funding. Your imagination and talent lends its hand to the management style that you create and the Video Memories Business Start - Up plan assists in taking command of your business. The business planning format is self-directed home study for completion at your own pace.

NOTE: There are several business start-up programs on-line, yet this package is for those desiring to initiate the stages of setting up their business and who already has some talents and skills in the area of cameras, and computers and software...........

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Files are formatted in ÿ Microsoft WORD for printability. Unlike PDF formats, this allows you to modify & personalize the forms in a Word document for your business needs......and, unlike a book, you can re-print the planner worksheets as many times as needed! If you need Macintosh/RTF (rich text format), please let us know.

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Johnnie Lea Tate, Business Plan Author

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