There are so many people who have boxes upon boxes of pre-digital pictures. Many older ladies who used to have a certain joy in taking pictures, now get headaches at the thought of trying to organize them. With just a thought of all their pictures, there is a sinking feeling in their stomach, a sort of wasted space, wasted time, wasted money, wasted memories feeling.
My ideas for this business go in many directions, and I think they could all be profitable, but ONLY FOR A VERY SHORT TIME, as it is possible to finish this job and have to no more to do.
Someone could create a company to take people's boxes of pictures and 1) scan them into a computer, 2) find some way to organize them, whether by year or by person? I'm not sure. Picasa has a face recognition tool now, which could be of some help, but it's not always accurate. 3) Create photo albums--acid free and lignin free, to ensure long term preservation.
I don't know how you come up with so many good business ideas, but they're pretty good! You're right about this venture being short lived because everyone is going digital now, you're going to find less and less customers as the months go by. But for a short time there, you'll be able to market all the late bloomers with the convenience of doing all the file transferring for them. It could be fairly profitable as well!
ReplyDeleteI like this one. I think it's a solid idea.
ReplyDeleteLet's throw some numbers in to see if it could sell. Let's say it costs $150 to get up to 1,000 photos done. If you could hire people to work on it for $10 an hour, and it took them 4 hours to do it, then you add in your costs (maybe $20), then your costs comes out at $60. so you make $90 every time you get a sale.
Do those numbers make sense?