Ag Adjacent Side Hustle Idea... When browsing equipment listings (Facebook, Craigslist, TractorHouse, etc) I can't get over how terrible some of the pictures are... Looks like someone ran out to the shed with an old-timey lantern and took some pictures with a disposable camera. I mean, you're selling something worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Why not attract more serious buyers with quality photos & video? The Idea: → Get some portable lighting, and a quality camera/video camera → Contact current local listings & advertise locally → Your pitch is: for a couple hundred bucks, you can increase your asking price by $1,000+ → Schedule a route on a weekend to cruise around and take quality pictures & video → Have your laptop with & edit the photos/video on the spot → Hand them a jump drive w/ final files & collect your check Take it to the next level: → Reach out to every local auctioneer → Make it so easy and convenient to take pictures for their upcoming sales, that they'd be foolish to try and do it themselves This 1) gets you in front of local producers to build relationships; 2) earns some extra $$; and 3) is scalable This could work for livestock as well... specifically show/seed stock. Now, follow @clintwfischer and feel free to comment why this idea won't work ↴
@clintwfischer Offer your service as a freelance cataloguer to auction companies. Simple software on your phone like AimHQ.com and auctioneer can upload directly into their platform without leaving their office.
@clintwfischer Add cleaning and detailing to the pics/videos
@clintwfischer Even some medium sized online auction companies could use the help. Not only the bad picture's, its the inaccurate listing descriptions that annoy me. It's often overtly clear that whoever they have writing the description doesn't really know what they are looking at.
@clintwfischer Great idea--also, pull it out of the damned weeds before you take pics or have someone come look at it.
@clintwfischer I saw someone that took a picture of some tin on the ground recently. No measurements, no number of pieces, didn't even rake or blow the leaves away.