3 Tips for Selling Your Customers DIY Hidden Cameras
While hidden camera designers can be
very inventive when hiding a video camera inside a household
object, they may not be as imaginative as a DIYer! Read up on our
tips for showing off a hidden camera to the DIY audience:
• Make sure the DIY customer knows
about the battery life of the camera if applicable and how placement
might affect that. High traffic areas will run down battery life
causing disappointment for the uninformed DIY customer.
• Educate the DIY customer about the
difference between a stand alone DVR and a wi-fi camera. When the
customer buys a hidden camera kit to “reverse engineer” an object
in their home they may NOT think about how easy it is to go back and
retrieve the recorded footage. Explain that a DVR hidden camera
captures hidden video on an onboard memory card. While there is no
need to set up this stand-alone DVR camera onto a household wi-fi
network the customer also will not be able to view the footage
remotely or retrieve it without returning to where the camera is
placed. A wi-fi enable hidden video camera will allow the user to
view the footage remotely possibly making returning for the camera
irrelevant.
• Encourage the DIY hidden camera
customer to be creative! Think about objects peculiar to their office
or home that would work as good hidden video decoys. Are they
concerned about neglect at their doggie day spa? Then consider adding
a pinhole hidden camera to a food bowl or dog treat container. Do
they run a skating rink or arcade and suspect some skaters have
figured out how to hack the change machine? Then a DIY project
placing a hidden camera in an arcade prize might be the ticket to
changing that bad behavior.
Understanding the limits and benefits
of a hidden camera along with creating a camera unique to the space
it is monitoring are key steps to a successful DIY undercover
operation.
