{"id":24200,"date":"2020-04-13T18:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeybook.site.strattic.io\/?p=24200"},"modified":"2024-05-29T04:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:28:47","slug":"how-to-make-money-during-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbb.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/how-to-make-money-during-quarantine","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Money During Quarantine: 20 Ideas to Add Revenue Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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With the CDC restrictions on event size and shelter-in-place orders active across the country, events have been postponed and everyone\u2019s stuck at home, leaving many asking: How to make money during quarantine? Finding ways to maintain your cash flow is crucial to help you weather the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether that means pivoting your business online or offering something new entirely, there are ways to add immediate revenue to your business. We\u2019ve seen members of our community do it successfully and asked them for the 411 for how to diversify your income. Keep reading to learn how they did it\u2014and how you can, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 ideas for how to make money during quarantine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For photographers<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1. Edit photos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Market upsells like photo albums to past clients<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Sell stock photography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Split the work & share the revenue with another photographer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For videographers<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

5. Edit videos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Market highlight reels to past clients<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Offer landscape\/Drone footage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For venues<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

8. Offer virtual tours to get bookings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Focus on micro weddings & ceremonies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For interior designers<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

10. Provide e-design services<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For caterers<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

11. Create meal kits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For anyone<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

12. Create an e-commerce shop for selling physical goods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Offer gift cards<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. Find relevant ways to serve your community <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. Offer a virtual class<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. Create smaller-scale offerings <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17. Create an online course or ebook <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

18. Offer online 1:1 sessions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19. Provide website creation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

20. Food and grocery delivery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to make money during quarantine for photographers <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Market upsells to past clients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Your clients finally have the time to focus on designing their photo albums and checking this item off their to-do list. On top of that, they\u2019re probably looking for reminders of happier times (and encouragement for happier times to come), so this is the perfect chance to upsell your past clients on purchasing prints and albums. Offering design services for album creation in particular is a great way to make money. Typically this is an hourly rate type of job, and album design is not a quick process. Remind your past couples that this is the perfect time to create the album they\u2019ve been putting off making. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGoing through this pandemic that we are all in,\u201d says Victoria from Victoria Machin Photography<\/a>, \u201cI have taken the time to reach out to my previous clients and get them excited to design their wedding or family albums. Because of our busy lives, they were not made a priority before. Selling and designing these beautiful customized albums has given me a great opportunity to stay busy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Victoria uses HoneyBook (a client management software for small businesses<\/a>) to manage her photography business, she also uses it to manage these new projects and get paid. She says, \u201cHoneyBook makes it very easy to upload my design images when sending the final design so my client can approve it and move forward to pay for their albums.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smart Albums and AlbumStomp are industry faves for designing albums. The benefit of designing an album yourself through something like AlbumStomp<\/a> or Smart Albums<\/a> is that it’s a one-time fee to get the software and then the process to design them is super easy. Otherwise, you can use a company like Align Album Design<\/a> that specifically designs albums for photographers. After the album is designed, you export the file and then upload it into your album platform of choice. Some album companies even offer design in house for an added fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

StompSoftware is offering 20% savings on its popular blogging, album design, and workflow tools with the code LIFTALLBOATS<\/strong>. Add BlogStomp, AlbumStomp, and AlbumPrufr to your workflow HERE<\/a> and get SpaceSaver HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edit photos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Since we\u2019re all stuck inside, people are consuming content and craving connection like never before. Small businesses, educators and influencers are focusing more on their content in general to feed this demand. They may be taking more of their own photos or going back through their camera rolls to source content. Offer to help elevate their content by offering editing services for their images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to offering editing services for your clients or social media following, you can also create resources for how people can edit their own phone photos. Create a course or a guide for best practices, apps, techniques, etc. for editing images on your phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sell stock photography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Another easy option to make extra cash as a photographer is to use what you already have. Sell your photos to stock photo sites like Stocksy. They are known for their co-op model where contributing artists co-own the business. Stocksy also pays competitive royalties between 50-75%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While different sites have different rules for how to submit your work, Stocksy has an open call to artists application page<\/a>. Here are some tips on picking the best types of images and what they\u2019re looking for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n