Freelance Wedding Web Design
Weddings are the one of the most cherished events in a person's life. You can help people remember these events by creating a wedding website full of fun facts and wedding photographs. You might want to contact wedding planners who might include your wedding design services into their portfolio of things to do on that special day by giving them an affilate fee.
Believe it or not, there are actually a lot of freelance jobs that are available to the people who know how to look and where to look in the wedding website design business. You can leave your business card in bridal shops, at photography businesses, checkout newspaper announcements, and go online to contact wedding planners.
Get Your Wedding Website Up and Running
You should have a wedding website up and running as an example of what the wedding couple can expect to see on their own wedding website. If you haven't done a wedding yet, you might contact a wedding couple and offer to do it for free if they provide you with a recommendation of your services. If you need an wedding website right away, you might get stock or free photos of brides and create a wedding example for the lucky couple to follow.
You might contact the people who perform the wedding ceramony and ask them to hand your business card out to the wedding couple. You could provide a small donation to ministers or clergy people if they refer your services or provide an affiliate fee to public persons performing ceramonies. You may want to send out a brochure to get-away resorts that specialize in weddings. You might let them know with a wedding website their resort listed on the couples website could bring them more business.
Partner with Freelance Photographers
One of the most in demand freelance professionals are photographers. Freelance photography is actually quite lucrative especially if you have already established a good reputation in the industry and in the community. The going rate per assignment can skyrocket and remember that you can demand to be paid per picture and not per assignment. If you partner with a freelance photographer, he can pay you an affiliate fee for helping him get freelance work. If you are especially talented you can take the photos yourself!
Below are just some of the ways in which you can do freelance photography. Read on and you might get an idea on how to earn extra from that extra film that you have.
Photo sites
Photos.com and other sites that provide photo services to people accept freelance photographers who can submit their work online and get paid for each photo. Of course, the pay is not as good as being hired to do photographs for an event but you can actually earn from the number of photos that you submit. Often, they pay bulk photographs as subscribers of these photo galleries pay for future use.
Wedding Photographs and Wedding Websites
Most people will want people to view their wedding pictures and so many people are investing in a wedding website where they can keep track of what went on on their special wedding day. Pictures of the guests, the wedding cake, friends of the groom and bride often are very popular.
What to Include on the Wedding Website
Your wedding website should include the guests best wishes comments, wedding speeches,and online wedding guest books can be included on the wedding website. People like to remember their special day and what better way to do that then to have it all written down and photographed?
Turning Wedding Photographs into Video Slide Shows
Wedding photographs can be turned into slide shows, you add music and subtitles and then create a video for the bride and groom. This video can be posted on youtube.com or any of the other video sites and the embedded code can be put into the wedding website.
You can actually do photographs not only for the wedding day itself and the receptions but also before the wedding. In fact, there are some couples who even hire a photographer to do their engagement party, their bachelor’s party and their bridal shower. Photographers can also do engagement portraits as well as wedding portraits. All these photos can be made into video slide shows to be included in the wedding website.
Another area where you can earn money during weddings are taking shots of the guests and then selling them afterwards during the receptions. As most people do not have someone who can take photographs, you can actually earn a lot from this. If you can, offer packages at low prices. This way, you will be able to earn more. You can even suggest that they just use photos as their souvenirs. Wedding guests can be referrals for your next job! Make sure you add the guest list to the wedding site. If you can get recommendations from the guests it will go along way towards convincing others that they should buy your service.
Wedding Website Hosting
As a wedding website design freelancer, you might also suggest the couple put a Facebook fan page up. The advantages of this is that most of the wedding couples friends may be online at Facebook and they can like the fan page. The disadvantages of this is that if you don't own the web hosting company they can suddenly change their policies and you can lose all your wedding data. If you recommend hosting and maintain that wedding website then you might get a maintenance fee per month in addition to the wedding website design fee. Of course you might do both and receive a fee for putting up the fan page as well as maintaining a separate wedding hosting package for bride and groom. Web hosting is easy to include if you are a website hosting reseller. If you own a lot of example websites for your portfolio, you probably should be a website hosting reseller.
Freelance Travel Photographers and Event Coverage
Many people travel and like to have a travel website to display their photos and travel events. While there are blogging platforms that do this, free hosting can disappear. If this travel event has important data, you don't want to lose this information if the company decides to close down the free websites. Also there may be advertising on the free websites that would turn your readers off. It is a good plan to offer hosting to your new clients. Let them know you are doing reseller hosting and make sure they agree to the parent hosting company's policies.
Freelance Travel Website Designers and Photographers can also earn money by covering events where the pay is given per article or picture that is used. This is often the case with magazines and newspapers which hire correspondent photographers to cover the events for them. Online webzines and other websites are also other areas that you should look into. Companies that maintain their websites also pay a lot for news articles and pictures to be updated.