Business & Finance

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.

Where you start is very simple. You start with your baby pictures. Well, not your baby pictures, but your baby’s pictures. I am quite sure you have a mountain of baby pictures contained in volumes of photo albums and scrapbooking albums, probably in every room of your house. Start there and begin the probably lengthy process of choosing a few baby pictures that would be suitable for a baby photo contest.

Next, just like the future movie stars do it, you have to begin to hang out where the top executives hang out. No, I don’t mean moving to Los Angeles or New York City, buying an expensive condo or penthouse apartment, and begin to wait tables in the fabulous bistros where it is “be seen” or “be gone.” No, by this I simply mean, be where the decision makers are. In the case of your little dumpling’s budding career, it means frequent online websites looking for the next baby photo contest in which to enter that prize-potential-winning baby picture. Preferably a free photo contest. With the free photo contest, your main objective is to gain that much needed early exposure, and free photo contests are the way to do this. Contests where you have to pay a fee usually have better prizes, but if it is a career you are after, exposure is the better prize, any day of the week.

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.

When that inevitable day arrives, and your baby’s picture becomes a photo contest winner, the rest is a piece of cake. Just do it again. Enter another contest for exposure. Then do it again. Rinse and repeat. With enough wins under your belt, you are assured notice by the top brass in television, magazines and modeling agencies. Then, there is nothing left to say but, “A star is born!”

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.

And another thing, just knowing that you have the cutest baby the world over, doesn’t mean the rest of the world knows this. The thing to do then would be to prove it, by parading your precious darling in front of the photo contests all over the world. Let them eat cake, those parents who lose! They’re just jealous, right?

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.