Dave Seerams 24/7 Photo Pro
Dave Seeram runs PhotographyBB and is the editor of Clarity magazine, where I have a column on Lightroom. As part of the 5daydeal, his 24/7 Photo Pro video tutorial see it's official launch. This product is aimed at everyone that wants to make money from their photography from things other than their photographs.I've been selling digital products for years now, and it's a bit hit and miss for me because marketing is definitely one of my weaknesses. In this course Dave goes right through the hows and whys of setting up a blog, running an email list. The tutorial starts with buying a domain and hosting-you see David buying a site live, and then setting up a Wordpress theme with one post and on gallery. In less than 5 minutes. It's impressive to watch, but he does go back and do it in detail to let you get the hang of using Wordpress.The emphasis is not on business for business sake, but is very much about personality and authenticity. While a lot of what in the first part is stuff I know how to do now, it really is a resource I wish I had when I moved away from using Blogger back in the day. The material is well presented, with Dave being quite articulate in his presentation. Areas where Dave isn't working with screen capture contain transcripts of what's being said, so there is no fear of missing anything. In addition there's also a PDF of the slides.I'm not finished the whole course yet, but I did stay up 2 hours later than intended last night watching it. I simply got caught up in it. I did once have a good email newsletter going, but the pressure of getting 4-5 new articles ready each month got to me and I stopped. When I started again, I hard to start fresh. I'm finding this course to be really helpful with regards to building my email list. If you're not on my mailing list, please feel free to join over on the left. I've loads of content and BTS stuff that doesn't appear on the blog in the newsletter, which is roughly monthly. I will be giving away ebooks and presets in the future on it, open to all subscribers on the list (not just new ones when it goes live!).The remaining parts of the course show how to get going with AdSense, how to set up Affiliate Marketing, getting Advertising, and creating your digital product. Once the product is created we get a look at a sales platform, and how to get affiliates for your own product. This course gives the aim of creating an ebook PDF for sale in 30 days, so is an excellent primer on getting you started making Passive Income. Hence the name of the course 24/7 Photo Pro. The aim is to get you making money from your photography even when you're asleep.The material in this course contains stuff I've learned the hard way, just like Dave has. Still, I'm learning things that I simply don't know how to do. And being honest, I was talking with Piet Van den Eynde about needing this kind of a course recently, so having it as part of the 5 day deal is really a blessing in disguise for me!The bundle is absolutely the best deal about. There have been others, but the quality of material in this is literally 2nd to none. This course is the second of the Launch Exclusives I've looked at (the first being Zack Arias 'The Art of the Editorial') and the two products are easily worth the price of the bundle. I'll definitely be applying the stuff I'm learning immediately, so consider this highly recommended.The links here are affiliate links. I've a 50% off coupon for my Textures as part of the deal, and am giving away copies of my book "The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC" in the Giveaway, and so am enrolled in the affiliate program. It adds nothing to the price, but allows me to concentrate on writing more content for you, and pulling out stuff I genuinely think is worth having.