Digital Scrapbooking Business - Going Beyond the Screen

A digital scrapbooking business certainly has a number of advantages over traditional scrapbooking in terms of ease of start-up and range of potential customers. After all, once you've got a site set up to spread the word about your work, and a few digital scrapbook samples to show, you could be pulling in clients from anywhere in the world!

What's more, you can send the same scrapbook to any number of people for the same cost a sending it to one. So for example every guest at a wedding could have a copy of the digital wedding scrapbook. Something that would be extremely time consuming and hugely expensive to do traditionally.

But is the digital scrapbook, whether viewed on screen or printed out, a bit lacking in depth? Is there a certain lack of texture? Is it missing something when you pick it up?

If you, or clients of your digital scrapbooking business, feel that this is the case then the solution is what's become known as hybrid scrapbooking and, as you might guess, it's a combination of the two styles.

How far you want to take the mix is up to you but hybrid scrapbooking gives you the opportunity to use the best of both worlds.

Elements which are best handled by a computer - like things which are repetitive, or journalling (adding the text) are quicker and in many cases neater when produced on your computer. Likewise photos if you have to produce a number of scrapbooks.

Personal keepsakes like ribbons or other materials can be added once the digital element is printed out.

A cover for your scrapbook could be made using expensive textured paper or card, stamped or otherwise embellished to make it feel special but the inside pages could be created digitally and therefore much more cheaply.

So when you're thinking of ways to promote your digital scrapbooking business try thinking "outside the box" sometimes - or perhaps that should be "beyond the screen"!

You'll find lots more free professional information and a wealth of scrapbook resources at Digital Scrapbooking Business where you can also download a valuable free report from well known scrapbooking teacher Dawn Stegall. If you're thinking about making money from scrapbooking you don't want to ignore help like this!

Digital Scrapbooking Business - 5 Minutes to Success!

If you are considering your own digital scrapbooking business as a way to get out of the rat race and make a good living working from home then I'm about to give you the 5 minute secret to your success.

That's about how long it will take you to read this piece - possibly less - and in a nutshell it contains everything you need to know to take your scrapbook business to any level you like.

Oh, and it'll cost you less than fifty dollars to start.

Ready?

OK, first thing you're going to need is to get yourself on the internet. Go get a proper dot com domain name so you look like a pro. Under ten dollars for a whole year.

Next you need some hosting for a blog or website. Get professional hosting, not free. This is a digital scrapbooking business you're running - emphasis on the word business. You don't want to look like an amateur. Depending on the deal this can cost you between six and nine dollars a month.

I'd recommend a blog rather than a traditional website and I'd recommend WordPress. It gets in the search engines quicker, it's easier to run and more customer friendly. WordPress is free and has a huge number of themes so you can customize its appearance and plug-ins to extend it's abilities. It can do virtually anything your scrapbook business needs.

If you don't have Word or a page-layout program get a copy of OpenOffice (free) so you can create sample digital scrapbooks. Save them as PDF format so that you can offer them as free downloads from your blog.

Now subscribe to a mailing list/autoresponder management service so that you can collect names and email addresses of visitors to your blog. This is absolutely vital and can dramatically increase your income. Your free digital scrapbook download should be offered in exchange for their details. This will cost you just under twenty dollars a month and will repay that investment over and over again.

Depending on your precise scrapbooking business model, find a couple of affiliate programs that you can promote alongside your own business for additional income. Any reputable scrapbook affiliate program will be free to join.

Finally promote your digital scrapbooking business via your blog posts and article marketing. Both free and extremely effective.

Is our five minutes up?

OK, you might think this article is a bit tongue in cheek, and clearly there's a lot more flesh to put on these bones, but the above really is all you need to create the framework for your own digital scrapbooking business. Building it from part-time pennies to substantial full-time money is just a question of putting in a bit of effort.

Over the next few weeks I'll be expanding on each element to give you the bigger picture, and I would be more than happy to answer any questions you have. You'll find lots more free professional information and a wealth of scrapbook resources at Digital Scrapbooking Business where you can also download a valuable free report from well known scrapbooking teacher Dawn Stegall. If you're thinking about making money from scrapbooking you don't want to ignore help like this!

From Hobby to Multibillion Dollar Industry

Scrapbooking Hobby. The scrapbooking business has come a long way since people started making scrapbooks as a hobby in their homes. No one could have guessed how big the scrapbooking industry would become over the years. The annual sales of the scrapbooking business have turned this favorite homegrown pastime into a thriving multi-billion dollar industry.

To date, there are numerous companies that are dedicated to the craft of scrapbooking. In most cases, some scrapbooking businesses even offer an extensive line of scrapbooking materials. Scrappers, short for scrapbooking enthusiasts, can easily get any type of material or equipment they need from a variety of resources.

Scrappers have their choice of paper, cardstock, embellishments, stickers along with stamps and stamp pads. In addition, beginners in the scrapbooking industry can get their first taste of the business from scrapbooking kits that contain step-by-step instructions on how to get started. Enthusiasts have their choice of special scrapbooking paper as offered by various companies like Daisy D’s, Design Originals and Hot off the Press Paper Pizzazz.

Scrapbooking paper is available in plain or patterned styles. The assortment of colors and designs will surely render any scrapper speechless with excitement. Embellishments for scrapbooking are another top seller in the business. Many scrapbooking companies like Adornaments, Brads Scrapbooking and Bo Bunny Press offer a wide variety of embellishments that are designed to make scrapbooking fun and interesting.

Tools have become big business in the scrapbooking industry but these can be quite expensive. Fortunately, scrappers can get the right tools they need from any number of companies where the values range from the reasonably priced to the most expensive. A scrapper would need to have several types of tools such as cutters, scorers, scissors, punches, paper trimmers and perforators for creating their masterpieces.

Paper Shapers Corner offers punch tools with intricate designs while Cutterpede and Cutterbee offer a variety of cutters and straight edge trimmers for the perfect crop. Fiskars® is a recognized brand name in the scrapbooking business. Fiskars® offers everything from mini-craft scissors, decorative blades and rotary cutters.

The Latest Trends in the Scrapbooking Business

The Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show featured the latest trends to hit the scrapbooking business in 2006. These include the newest embellishments for chipboard as well as fashion paper colors. The colors of these papers are inspired by the latest colors used in the fashion industry. In addition, the show also showed how the scrapbooking business has invaded the home décor industry by presenting various ideas on how to display scrapbooking projects at home.

by Scrapbooking Is Now My Business