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A Baby Photo Contest: Start a Child’s Career

Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Parenting
by Erin Peters

If you, the proud parent, think that your baby has got it, then there is no better way to get started on the road to stardom than entering your baby in a baby photo contest. There is no better, nor faster way, to get the early exposure you and your baby need, than using this means to get attention. After all, most baby photo contests are sponsored by companies looking for the next Cindy Crawford or…or…or the male equivalent to Cindy Crawford, whoever he is.

So, where do you begin to get this notice, this exposure? Why, with photos, of course. I am sure you have taken tons of them of your baby since he or she were born, right? If not (and I doubt if you hadn’t), then grab the digital camera, or borrow one, and snap away, amassing a few good ones of your future star. Once you have photos that would blow them away at the baby photo contests, you are ready for the next step.

Your next step in guiding the future career path of your darling little angel is to find out where to use your chosen baby photos. Where to get the maximum exposure that will get the attention of the executives of television, magazine and modeling agencies, so that you can start getting those casting calls pouring in. An argument here could be produced concerning whether to enter your baby picture in a free photo contest, or one where you need to pay a fee. In my humble opinion, that decision should be based solely upon your objectives. If you are after career exposure for your baby, then free photo contest is the way to go. However, if you are after career exposure and you’d like to pick up some nice prizes along the way, then those contests that you have to pay a fee to enter most often carry the best prizes.

Online photo contests are by far the most accessible and easiest to enter. It is just a matter of searching in Google for online baby photo contests (remember to look for the free photo contests first, to get started), then register, upload your photo or photos and you are off to the races. If you choose a contest where a fee is required, doing it online makes this a snap, too.

What is the next step? Why, becoming a baby photo contest winner, of course. You should expect no less than victory. With these initial victories, with winning multiple baby photo contests, you increase your chance of exposure in front of the right crowd. The movers and shakers. The biggest benefit to entering online photo contests is the winning photos are displayed online for all those big wigs to see and discover your little angel.

As a side note to entering baby photo contests where they charge a fee. A benefit to entering these contests is that their prizes are usually cash prizes. Enter enough of these and your baby’s college is paid for early, just in case there are any career changes - or challenges - midstream in life.

Lastly, the biggest reason to enter your baby’s pictures into photo contests, is because you know you have the cutest baby in the world. Why not prove it to the world? What better way to let the world, and most especially, your own baby, that they are indeed a cute baby, by entering pictures of your baby into many photo contests, rake in the winnings, gain exposure for that future career, but show your baby that you indeed know that he or she is a cute baby, and now the world knows it too?

But the biggest advice of all that I can give to you regarding entering baby photo contests is this: have fun, please. Don’t stress out and worry and cause your baby any anxiety. The number one purpose of baby photo contests is entertainment: for you, your baby, the other contestants and their parents, and all others involved. So treat it as such and you will never regret it.

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