Why learn face painting? The "Pro" face painters I have spoken to and met, seem to love their jobs. Not surprising since entertaining and making people, (especially kids) happy, is a joy. To be paid to do this (often at a great hourly rate, for a talented artist) is an added bonus and pleasure.
Mark Reid (a famous face and body painter) has a signature on his emails, which sums up my point: "If I can make a difference in the life of a child even for just a day, my life was worth living."
What many Stay at home, or Working moms and parents don't realize, (until they phone to hire an artist) is that it is reasonably expensive to hire a face painting artist.
This fact creates at least 2 opportunities:
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Here is what Tina mailed me.
"Thanks Andrew!
Lilly's ebook is very good. I find that it feels like a friend is sitting down with me to talk to me about this business and giving me insight into tips and tricks that work. I really like it a lot and I like your site a lot too.
Regards Tina"
If you have one of your kids birthday parties soon, then take the opportunity now, to learn face painting, or maybe you just want to start a great sideline business? I have looked at a lot of face painting books that teach everything one needs to know about learning to face paint, and the best one would be this e-book. I like that you can quickly download the first 10 pages for free.
This has got to be one of the most fun ways to connect with your kids. You can learn face painting while having fun and being creative. You do have the artistic talent to do face painting yourself! It just takes a bit of training.
Snazaroo and various other reputable companies have good physical books on the topic, but it may take days or weeks to ship to you, so for the information with pictures, within minutes, Click here to Learn Face Painting right now!
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Great business opportunities are available as a face painter.
Step One: was trying to face paint at home for your own friends and family.
Step Two: would be to make sure you have bought some quality face paints and offer to paint for your next school function for free. That will be a rush when you see how the people love it and you are giving something back.
Step Three: Find a Pro face painter in your area who is offering a course and go for some serious training.
Step Four: Make sure you have some Public Liability Insurance. The last thing you want is to be put out of business with a legal claim and expensive lawyers fees.
Step Five: Put the word out in your community that you are available to face paint for parties and functions.
(Not everyone is artistically talented or has the time to attempt this. But if you are a budding artist, then this is a major opportunity. The reason is that to start a small sideline face painting business, has a very low startup cost and yet earns great hourly rates) There is also the chance of earning passive income (money for doing nothing) of a busy website if one knows how to do it.
The cost of some good brands of face paints are reasonable, while others are pretty expensive, but then if you are making good money, and the clients have no come backs or complaints then this money is well spent. Have a look at our Suppliers page for more on the various brands of face paint, on the market.
Step Six: To me if you have decided to start, (or you already have a face painting business) up and running then a vital part of advertising in the 21st century is to have a website WITH TRAFFIC. Many companies or isp's are offering cheap web site hosting. Also tons of small business website design companies offer a "cheap internet website". The problem with this is they don't feature well in search engine ranking. This means no traffic!
Ask anyone who has attempted a business with a website and they will tell you that mostly it is fraught with "many perils". I found this out the hard way. My advice to anyone starting out in business needing a website would be to go with SBI.
S B Who? I hear you saying. That's what I thought too. The quickest and easiest way for me to explain is for you to have a look at the following video clip.
Taking the time to build a business, that has a top performing website as it's foundation is crucial for the success of any business in this day and age. With all the talk of recession and financial crisis it has become a matter of survival. The sooner one starts the slow step by step process of building a great business the sooner one can find success.
Learn face painting, and you will find it is one of the best business opportunities for someone who is: Creative Loves kids Can work fast Free on weekends Is looking for extra income