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Baby Photo Contests: Get the Attention Your Baby Deserves

Posted by Mike Redcliff on July 6, 2008
by Erin Peters

Getting your baby’s foot in the door into a lucrative career in front of a television camera, a magazine cover, or the runways of New York, Milan and Paris, could begin with the simple act of enter your precious one in a baby photo contest. There is no easier way to gain exposure and get noticed by the big wigs in television, magazines and modeling agencies.

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.

I mentioned above to look online to find the baby photo contests in which to enter you child’s baby pictures, but it does not have to be online photo contests only. Look in your newspaper to see if there are any locally sponsored events, such as one’s that are supported by talent or modeling agencies. This is a great way to get your foot in the door, and get the needed noticing necessary to…well, to get noticed.

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, and a good reason to not overlook contests where you have to pay a fee to register, paid contests usually have good cash prizes. With these cash prizes, you can set up a college fund for your baby, should the aspirations of stardom fade to black by college age. You would be all set should this happen.

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.

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