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Friday, November 9, 2012

Last year I had the opportunity to photograph for a local manufacturing firm. And a few weeks ago I received a call from them once again for another job. It’s nice when clients appreciate your work enough to return to you again. The firm, Merit Engineering, makes concrete saws. Not the sexiest photo topic ever, [...]

Pricing the digital darkroom

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Not too long ago portrait studios didn’t necessarily do the whole 9 yards. Before digital there was film. And part of your process had to include developing. Often times studios would actually send out their rolls to developing and print houses, and that part of the studio business was external. Retouching and enhancement were also [...]

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Of Weddings, Craigslist, & The Numbers

Monday, November 5, 2012

The other week as I pondered reaching a broader market it was suggested that I try giving a post on Craigslist a chance. While I wasn’t super keen on the idea (folks usually go there to bargain shop or read creepy personals) I decided to pop on to the site and see what the photographers [...]

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Running the numbers

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying to figure out how to grow my business. Actually, as a small business owner I try to figure that out every day. Other photographers have been in and out of my studio trying to work out their own business models as well. And finally, a few weeks [...]

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Updating my Facebook page

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Yesterday while toiling away (9 big canvases can be called toiling) I popped by my Facebook Page for my business. I don’t often use it, and decided I should remedy that. Facebook is starting a new page layout and I liked the concept. So I sat down and created a new banner for the page, [...]

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If you could name your own prices……

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Most likely your favorite car would only cost $29.99 and you’d be paid several million a year. Let’s face it though, the world doesn’t work like that. Normally “the market” helps determine price. Remember supply and demand? It actually does factor into pricing determination. Of course now we have unions, government regulation, oligopolistic competition, regulated [...]

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Running at a million miles per hour

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Since September I’ve felt like I’ve been moving at light speed. Every day clients in the gallery and the studio. Every day I’ve been booked with something or other. Painting reproductions, photo prints, photo sessions……it goes on and on. My thinking about the start of the New Year was pretty simple. It’ll slow down after [...]