Ways To Make Money With Your Drone

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Hi Y'all,

I am waiting on my Mavic! Just wondering if I could create a thread and brainstorm ways to make money with your drone.

I know about...

Stock Aerial Footage/Stock Aerial Photos
Real Estate Photography

But, there must be more than that! Any advice would be appreciated!

Michael-John Wolfe
 
Manufacturing parts
Sell parts and drones thru sites



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Parcel delivery.
 
Radio tower inspection.
 
Search-and-rescue.
 
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Shark patrol at beaches.
 
Creative aerial photography and videography for weddings. Don't see too many companies using drones for that...


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Sausage delivery, right to your hot-tub.

 
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Structure inspection.
Bridges
Buildings
Roofs
Exhaust stacks
Cooling towers
Power lines and towers
Right of way inspections. Especially those in rough terrain. My company currently uses manpower to walk and a helicopter to fly them.

Anything that reduces the chance of injuries from falls and reduces the cost of setting up scaffolds and man lifts is a good gig for a quad.

Flying golf course holes for use on their web page.
FLIR and LIDAR surveys of commercial and industrial facilities.

Security

One I keep thinking about... Drones for video feeds of car races. Was at Road Atlanta for a 12 hr IMSA race in Oct and was amazed that Fox Sports flew a full sized chopper around the course to video the race. It flew for 6 hrs or so just for the video feed.
A fleet of quads, a few pilots could easily get that video for a fraction of the cost.


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Search-and-rescue.


Search & Rescue is not a viable business option at all. SAR is voluntary and will remain that way. If you want to make $$ in the SAR realm you'll need to create/resell SAR products designed specifically for SAR.
 
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Creative aerial photography and videography for weddings. Don't see too many companies using drones for that...

i have done a wedding. the problem is that for most of the ceremony a drone is too loud. incidentally, it was a seaside wedding and the bride and groom took a ride in a dune buggy up and down the beach. the drone was great for filming that segment...
 
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