How To Make Quick Money With A Drone: Best Drone Business Ideas (2023)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 20th, 2022

How To Make Quick Money With A Drone: Best Drone Business Ideas (2023)

In the last few years, it's become evident that drones have and will continue to become apart of our everyday lives.

The potential business opportunities and innovation with drones are extensive.

Before starting a drone business, be sure to check local regulations and requirements for your specific use-case.

We've listed the various different opportunities below and provide you with the resources to get you started.

1. Drone Repair Business

Examples of a successful drone repair business:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a drone repair business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

2. Film Production Company ($9.03M/year)

Examples of a successful film production company:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a film production company:

For further info, check out these books and products:

Check out all of our film production company case studies ➜

Case Study

Hello there! My name is Hope Horner, and I’m the co-founder and CEO of Lemonlight, an on-demand video production company that offers brands and agencies access to high-quality affordable video content nationwide.

We’ve built Lemonlight as an entirely self-funded business. We haven’t taken any outside capital since we launched the business in 2014. We’re on track to hit 6M in sales this year and we’ve grown the team to 45 full-time employees. We’ve been recognized in dozens of major publications, and we were awarded in Inc 5000 and Entrepreneur 360 for three years in a row.

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How I Started A $500K/Month Video Production Company From My Bedroom ... ➜

3. Drone Photography Business

Examples of a successful drone photography business:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a drone photography business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

Check out all of our drone photography business case studies ➜

Case Study

We are CFF Media, a video production company located out of Atlanta, GA. We create video content (About Us, Testimonials, Promotional, Drone videos) for the Greater Atlanta area with a primary focus on videos representing other companies and what they stand for, but we love the opportunity to try other avenues of video production!

We started just four and half years ago, working out of our house and trying to understand how we could make our way into the industry. I look around now and cannot believe the progress that we have made and every day I’m still shocked to find myself walking into an office with our very own studio. These moments make me look back and really appreciate just how far our company has come in such a short amount of time.

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How A Group Of Friends Started A $10K/Month Video Production Company ➜

4. Drone Mapping And Industrial Business

Examples of a successful drone mapping and industrial business:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a drone mapping and industrial business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

5. Online Course ($1.41M/year)

Examples of a successful online course:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a online course:

For further info, check out these books and products:

Check out all of our online course case studies ➜

Case Study

Hey! We are Kelan and Brittany Kline the founders and co-owners of the popular personal finance blog The Savvy Couple.

We are currently on pace to make over $250,000 this year alone with our personal finance blog!

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How This 28-Year-Old Couple Quit Their Jobs And Make $20K/Month Runni... ➜

6. Drone Advertising Business

Examples of a successful drone advertising business:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a drone advertising business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

7. Home Inspections Business

Examples of a successful home inspections business:

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Here are some great videos on how to get started with a home inspections business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

8. Construction Company ($4.2M/year)

Examples of a successful construction company:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a construction company:

For further info, check out these books and products:

Check out all of our construction company case studies ➜

Case Study

With a little luck, and a lot of gaming the YouTube algorithm, I was able to experience the viral effects of the internet. It has now been seen by over 25m people through my channel and other media networks.

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How I Gamed The YouTube Algorithm and Went Viral With 25M Views ➜

9. Stock Photography Business ($60K/year)

Examples of a successful stock photography business:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a stock photography business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

Check out all of our stock photography business case studies ➜

Case Study

Hi! My name is Tsour Lee Adato and I am the founder of Pro Photo Studio. I started my product photography business over 5 years ago while living in New York. Pro Photo Studio specializes in high-end commercial photography and also caters to the average eCommerce online seller who sells on platforms like Amazon and Etsy.

The company began realizing a profit very quickly, in the first quarter after opening and year over year profits have increased while the cost of customer acquisition has decreased. Currently, the company makes approximately $350k per year and is on its way to becoming a 7 figure business.

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How I Started A Commercial Product Photography Business ➜

10. Roof Inspection Business

Examples of a successful roof inspection business:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a roof inspection business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

11. Real Estate Photographer

Examples of a successful real estate photographer:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a real estate photographer:

For further info, check out these books and products:

12. Drone Surveillance Business

Examples of a successful drone surveillance business:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a drone surveillance business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

13. Power Line Inspection Business

Examples of a successful power line inspection business:

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Here are some great videos on how to get started with a power line inspection business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

14. Drone Delivery Service

Examples of a successful drone delivery service:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a drone delivery service:

For further info, check out these books and products:

15. Wedding Photographer ($168K/year)

Examples of a successful wedding photographer:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a wedding photographer:

For further info, check out these books and products:

Check out all of our wedding photographer case studies ➜

Case Study

Hi, I’m Steven and I’m a wedding photographer based out of Adelaide, Australia. I believe photography is about portraying a scene in ways that people recognize, but at the same time, have never witnessed before. Anyone can take a photo of a scene, but I want to show the world what I can create through my lens in ways that are unique and yet completely relatable to other people who have witnessed the same scene, all the while allowing my couples to act as though I’m not there just as a ‘photographer’ but rather their friend. This allows for a much more genuine set of photos for them to remember their big day!

One of the things that stand out to my clients when comparing myself with my competitors is my ability to come across as a professional wedding attendee! I can help out with any aspect of a wedding, not just their photographer - so I’m often planning everyone's wedding for them. I also make use of some cool technology such as Virtual Reality cameras, hybrid shooting video, and photography, and course drones - and not just the aerial kind, underwater too!

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How I Started A Career As Wedding Photographer That Generates Over 6 ... ➜

16. Festival Photographer

Examples of a successful festival photographer:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a festival photographer:

For further info, check out these books and products:

17. Drone Blogger

Examples of a successful drone blogger:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a drone blogger:

For further info, check out these books and products:

18. Youtube Personality

Examples of a successful youtube personality:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a youtube personality:

For further info, check out these books and products:

Case Study

Zoella has a total net worth of more than $5 million as of January 2021.
She earned this fortune by uploading her YouTube videos and has almost a billion views.
She has 10.8 millions of subscribers on YouTube.
Her popularity made her appear in several advertisements and has also appeared on television.

Read the full story on influencermatchmaker.co.uk ➜

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Zoe Sugg - From Bedroom Blogger to Entrepreneur ➜

Examples of a successful social media influencer:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a social media influencer:

For further info, check out these books and products:

Check out all of our social media influencer case studies ➜

Case Study

My name is Asia Crawford and I am a Motherhood, Life, and Travel blogger that resides in Vancouver, Canada. I am a wife and mother to two sweet little girls aged 4 and 2!

I started with no community, 0 followers on any media page I had and in just two years have grown to 18.5K followers on Instagram, 1.2 MILLION monthly viewers on my Pinterest, 12.5K Pageviews a month on my blog website and have been nominated for 3 blogging awards.

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How I Started A $2.5K/Month Blog About Motherhood, Life And Travel ➜

20. Sell Drones

Examples of a successful sell drones:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a sell drones:

For further info, check out these books and products:

21. Drone Leasing Business

Examples of a successful drone leasing business:

Here are some great videos on how to get started with a drone leasing business:

For further info, check out these books and products:

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