One of the many ways you can make money as a photographer is to specialise on events. Christenings, weddings, and all sorts of other events where people make memories can be well paid business. The great thing is that all you need is a great camera, lots of memory, and a stack of business cards.

Here’s how you can do it

The key trick is in choosing your market slice. You must choose a slice of the market where people want to keep memories alive in print. It must also be an event that is hard to capture for a not professional so that they will need your services.

One idea is to go to kids sports events. Get permission from the coach to click pics for the parents watching and then start clicking away. If you turn up with a massive telephoto lens like the ones used for pro coverage of events, you will be taken seriously. Make sure you get all the kids doing great action shots and then hand out flyers to all the kids’ parents watching with your web address. If you can grab the parents email address so you can email them the URL of you site then upload the pics to your web site that day and email everyone. If you have a simple shopping cart set up you can make money in a few hours as people pop in to see the pics and buy them for $20 or more a pop.

You can do a similar thing with weddings. Take all the regular pictures as part of the wedding coverage but then get your URL printed on the wedding invites and all the other wedding materials and also get an email list of all the wedding guests, offer the couple a nice 20% discount for doing this and then take lots of extra pics at the wedding of the guests doing all the things they do. Upload all the pics to your site and send the emails. You will then make a lot more money than the 20% discount it cost you because then 20 or 30 people will be also purchasing your pics at $20 or more a shot straight from your site. You can also charge a higher price for high resolution pics.

The trick is to find a corner in the market place where you can excel by being the best photographer in the room, and offering an easy way for people to buy your photos.

Dog shows, fashion shows, horse shows, car shows, livestock competitions, rock shows, – the list goes on. Keep your eye out in the events section of your local paper to see what is happening. Always ask for permission to shoot pics and if you need to offer the people 10% of the income if feel you need to so you can get easy access.

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If you are on the lookout for a new business to establish in Hong Kong, why not consider putting up an employment agency, particularly a domestic helper agency. The potential of a business like this is big especially now that the demand for housemaids in HK is high. Should you feel interested in getting into this type of business, here are some of the things to consider:

Take a look at your budget. No business can be established without a capital. There will be a need to buy some equipment and materials, and employ people who will make up your staff.

Try to find out how things are with your business competitors. Make sure that your business will be competitive enough. Check on their rates as well to give yourself some ideas on how you should charge.

In putting up a domestic helper agency, you will be required to secure permits and other necessary documentations. You cannot operate legally without these, so be sure to gather all the information that you will need in line with this issue such as the “where tos” and the “hows”.

Decide where your office site will be. Would you rent a space or is it your preference to situate it in your home. Some business owners chose their homes to become their business base. This is to save both time and money on their part. Whatever your choice will be, you have to make sure that your place can easily be accessed by your applicants.

Have a dedicated phone line installed for your business use. Make a decision too if you want the calls to be diverted to another phone, particularly your personal or home phone after office hours or if you will get an answering service. One good solution for this is installing an answering machine or a voice mail.

Now, here are two of the best parts — marketing your services and getting job orders. You can obtain them fast enough if you have some good marketing strategies which are ready to be applied. You can create print ads or announce your business through various directories and classified ads online and offline. You can hire skilled marketers or establish a reward system which will entitle anyone who can bring in new clients to a commission.

Job orders should be continuous; lest, you won’t have anything to offer to your applicants. The more job orders there are means more business, and more business means more income and more help you can give to those people who need jobs.

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Modern Darvas uses a technique called ghost boxes to handle some other aspects of modern volatility. In Darvas’ time, stock market rallies that drove up the price rapidly were rare. However, in modern times, news of breakout stocks travels much faster, leading to higher volumes of trades in shorter periods of time.

Ghost boxes are usually used when a stock will break out of a box and not form another box for some time. The danger here is that the Darvas method dictates that a stock should be bought when it breaks out of its box and the stop-loss order should be set at the bottom of the box. But if no valid Darvas box forms for some time after the stock breaks out and continues to rise, there is the potential that a trader could lose a great deal of profit. Darvas was very strict about moving his stop-loss orders. He felt that the box method should be the only influence that set the stop-loss orders. However, Darvas’ method needs to be adapted slightly to account for today’s rapidly moving markets.

The solution to this modern market tendency is to use what is known as a ghost box (we’ll call it GB from here on in). The first issue to consider when using a GB is to decide whether or not the conditions are right to apply one. It is important to be confident that the stock is going to continue the Darvas trend. Although if a trader is wrong and applies a GB, this will still help to preserve his profits.

A GB is implemented by first measuring the height of the initial Darvas box. Then, a GB is formed that is the same height, and the bottom corner is applied to the top of the initial box. Once this is accomplished, the stop-loss order is updated to be the bottom of the GB.

The GB is simply a means of applying the most recently confirmed volatility range to a stock. In modern markets, stocks will often rally unexpectedly as a result of breaking news or instability in certain parts of the world. The job of the GB is to ensure that a sudden rally and recession does not leave the trader caught unprepared. One of the advantages of the Darvas method is that it requires minimal management under all circumstances. The GB uarantees that even while there is no valid Darvas box to guide the stop-loss order the trader’s profit will be protected.

If a rally takes place when no valid Darvas box forms, a GB that raises the stop-loss as the stock rises is a reasonable solution. The height of the GB should be the same as the height of the last valid Darvas box. As the price continues to rise, the trader can continue to stack the ghost boxes. Of course, the same rules that apply to the Modern Darvas boxes apply to ghost boxes.

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