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Photographers make good money, and frankly it’s a great home business to have, if you’re good, and if you’re enterprising enough to really get your name out there and help yourself to get more customers among other things.  That’s realistically the trick to it.  Most people can go to a nice little class on campus and think that they’re doing good.  But frankly, other people have to be able to appreciate your work. 

 Moreover, you have to know where to draw the lines.  There are plenty of people looking for the best deal, but they will keep pushing no matter who they are actually dealing with in order to get a better deal, even if it is seriously at your expense.  It doesn’t really matter that much to them.  So there’s a point at which to say this is the price, pay up front, or I’m not wasting my time even getting started. 

In this economy, you also should never accept checks, especially from people you know.  It’s harder that way.  All in all, you shouldn’t accept checks anyway.  But if you know what you’re doing and you have a good business sense to take care of things that might get messy, a photography business can be easily quite profitable.

There’s a simple fact to be considered.  Every major business out there at one point started out as a small business.  Even the US government, which could be considered to be a business, had its struggles in the beginning and throughout.  They have gone through multiple CEO’s or acting Presidents, and they have seen all the ups and downs.  But with another business, Omniture, it is not a huge conglomerate, and all things considered Google is now supposedly offering to buy it.  I wouldn’t be particularly surprised.  The owner started it in his own basement.  Likewise, one of the biggest internet companies in the world now paid their employees in stock at first, because they couldn’t afford to pay them money.  Their secretary sold hers for millions.

The lists go on.  Some people had more money in the beginning than did others, and some businesses with more money in the beginning still fail.  It should be remembered that most small businesses in general fail.  But the simple reality is that every big business came from somewhere.  They didn’t just magically pop up one day, and for the most part their original owners were not always rich men or women, they had to come up with the start up costs from loans and otherwise.