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If you've got some talent for painting, and you're interested in, and
have a good ear for, listening to people's life stories, there's no reason
why you cannot combine these two talents and earn some money from the results.
You can easily create and put together a big colorful painting (or
collage) of a person's life; their trips, homes, cars, pets, family members,
hobbies, planes, boats, honeymoons, graduations, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs,
births (all important occasions can be painted in,) businesses, foods,
wines, happenings, etc. etc. etc. I've been doing it for well over 30 years
and it's proved very lucrative.
At first, you should do a few of these paintings to give as gifts and then photograph them (close-ups, photographed outside turned AWAY from the sun, and never EVER using Polaroid) so you'll have an inventory of photographs to show perspective customers. You should then spend a good amount of money to place an ad for this unique gift (and it is uniqueno one on earth will have one like it) in a very good, high quality and widely read magazine. I chose The New Yorker and even though it's a weekly magazine, I would get enough business from one or two ads a year to keep me in business for twelve months.
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My book will explain to you how to advertise (what to say on the ad,) how to get the customer, how to talk with the customer, what you expect the customer to give to you---photos, (you guarantee their safe return in writing,) detailed descriptions, interviews whenever possible, what things they always forget to tell you about, etc.
It will explain how to ship and what medium is best to paint the collage on (masonite or hardboard---lasts forever, looks perfect, is indestructible and mails easily.) I will even recommend paints. (Acrylics. They dry in 20 minutes and the order can therefore go out quickly.)
I'll explain how to charge your customer, what to get up front, (half)
what recourses you have if they don't pay the other half. (You must have
a written contract, etc.) This is a complete and very detailed accounting
and How To of a career I kept going all during our children's growing up
years. The book includes a dozen examples of paintings I've done over the
years.
ISBN 1-59630-007-4 This 130 page book, 11 X 8 1/2 costs $34.95. To order
securely, click the button or simply fill out this online order form.
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