Will you like to learn the professional operations of a Personal Historian?
The World needs more Personal Historians.
Personal History Business is a service based business engagement that is focused on the documentation, production and presentation of life stories (personal Histories) of individuals and groups. Groups here can be families, associations, religious groups, business establishments, etc. This is a business that has the capacity to generate large income and reward to any operator or operators. This is very possible if such operator conducts the business in a very sound manner.
Personal Historians help others to document their life story and Family History.
You can go into the Personal History Business. The market for the documentation of People’s Personal History is very huge.
Some of the areas of specialties of Personal Historians are:
Biographies Documentation for individuals.
Autobiographies documentation for individuals.
Memoir Writing for individuals.
Family Histories documentations.
Ethical Wills creation, structuring and presentation for individuals.
Historical Based Videographic Creation for individuals or groups.
Oral History creation, structuring and presentation for individuals.
Picture production, Structuring, Formatting and presentation for individuals or families.
Corporation History Documentation.
Historical Based Archival Creation for Businesses and Groups.
Religious Organisations History Documentation.
Histories of groups and Organisations.
Consultation Services on Important Personal, Family or Organisations artifacts preservation.
Mini Museum Creation for Families and Groups.
Qualities that will help you in this Business
To enter this line of business, you should have or develop these qualities.
a) You should have or develop interest on business. This business requires starting small and using the strategy you will learn, your will expand the business operations for better rewards.
b) You should have or develop interest in Personal and Family History Documentation. Memoir writing falls under Personal and Family History. You should be someone that has interest in reading people’s life story. Life story can be Memoirs, Autobiographies, Biographies, Family History etc.
c) You should be someone that will be ready to be creative and ready to implement creativity.
d) You should be ready to adopt a good branding ability and follow legal processes in your business approach.
e) You should be someone that has great interest in writing. You can as well develop the interest in writing by learning the techniques and putting them into action. Nobody was born a writer. Good writers develop the skills.
Rewards from the Personal History Business
Dan Curtis who has been a Personal Historian in Canada for some years, tried to analyse some basic rewards of the Personal History Business. He stated that apart from financial gains, there are some other great rewards that Personal History Business can grant any operator. He stated them as:
1. You get to learn from people who have a lifetime of rich and fascinating stories.
2. You have the opportunity to be involved with a supportive and creative group of fellow personal historians.
3. You can spend a good amount of your work time at home. No commuting.
4. You make a valuable contribution to the preservation of a family’s history.
5. You are your own boss. You get to set the agenda.
6. There’s plenty of opportunity for you to learn and grow professionally.
7. Having clients reflect on their lives makes you more reflective.
8. You have the great satisfaction that comes from watching the look of delight on the faces of your clients as they view, for the first time, their completed book or video.
9. You are involved in work that is nurturing, peaceful, life enhancing, and soul satisfying.
10. You make it possible for future generations to hear the voice and share in the wisdom of a long departed family member.
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