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Writer's pictureSven Arndt

Focus on this full time, is it possible?



Hi everyone So been doing some research into this and naturally when you start a business like this the one question that always pops up is.....will this work? I mean lets be honest, doing anything photography or design related like this is not an essential thing people need. My wife runs her own accounting firm at the moment( yes if you need any help in South Africa with a sars/tax issue, I can refer you, or just view her website at www.vaservices.co.za, but her work is something people need help with continuously. So its easier to find a audience, sometimes people find her. But this is about outdoor, nature and wildlife photography. not exactly something people go looking for as a need in their daily lives. So it does beg the question, is it possible? But I kind of feel like in this instance, every business owner says that to themselves in one way or another. The doubt sets in at some point, you question if your good enough etc. One youtube video I watched, the guy even said his designs are not that great, but yet he made money off it anyway, because there is a market for this. I just need to make my market aware of what I am doing. So the current plan is to market with GoSeeDo in wildlife hotspots and see what happens. They are a cost effective method as google adwords or facebook ads or whichever social media you can think of charges on a per click basis more than the profit margin of the item they could potentially buy. So thats not viable for a dropshipper potentially. At least not in my market. As a another business owner, the only way to start a business is to start a business. there is no magic formula for it. You essentially start at one point and adapt as you go along. So even though I am starting here with Wildlife photography through zazzle, Etsy and Redbubble, who knows what could happen in a few months. Maybe it will lead to me doing my own printing and selling through local retail channels. there is a lot that could happen. So for now it's all about just keep working, keep faith, and putting out good products. We have a few new designs we recently added to our store like these:


All our designs are naturally designed with the wildlife tourist in mind, thinking how can we make a design that will appeal to them. Some are basic, some are more designed, some were just plain horrible. We delete those and forget about them. But all our designs are unique and are at the beginnining testers to see what works and what doesnt. Just like any business, they have to do market research and see what happens to determine if something works. Or look at the mistakes of others and learn from them.

Either way, these two are our latest designs. We wanted a text design to cater for the wildlife clothing lines available, as it has been shown that text normally sells well on a shirt. So we took that with the "Africa" concept and used the word with each letter made from a photo we took. there are 5 variations on this design to cater for for the different colors of the shirts: The faded design

Black border then the above design is a new trial design we are using, we wanted to see how we could use the majority of the area available on a shirt to create a design that gives you your moneys worth when it comes to printing. Rather than a simpler design, we wanted to incorporate a more attractive image collection, using photos of lions, rhinos, buffaloes, giraffes and zebras joined by a elephant tusk frame to achieve this image. and thats all from us. have a great day.


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