Re: Selling Portraits or Scared by all the cheap prices
Ed,
Great explaination. Marketing, Management control, cost control and other ideas that have been learned thru experience. You cant teach these ideas to someone who is not willing to learn.
The person who is under Charging is doing it for there own reasons, but the one person who is charging less so they can get everyone elses business hasn't learnt the idea that they will fail in the long run. They actually think they are doing better then someone who is charging a lot more and getting over. Thats the bottom line, and this person is Not a threat to the honest hard working, real quality, real experience and that cares for there clientele.
To the people who are not charging, shooting for relatives/friends or for the Churches this thread is for people who want to charge and are trying to make a Profit and trying to learn how to set a price. Your comparing Apples and Oranges.
As far as someones post about trying to get a job at a Studio to learn. This is how its supposed to be done, just have patience you will find a place to work but you must keep at it. There is always someone who doesn't want to share in there knowledge. Thats the nature of the beast and they cant help it that there threatened by every shadow.
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