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p.3 #6 · p.3 #6 · dealing with hurt feelings as a photographer | |
savingspaces wrote:
We must be reading 2 different posts. This was a long time repeat customer who was pretty much setting up another session. How is that the same as thinking about going with a different plumber? If you made an initial contact and you said you wanted the service, is that how YOU conduct business and just go with another one without letting that person know? I hope for your sake that for the rest of this year you don't get a bunch of snakes posing as potential clients and chose another photographer right before signing a contract. But if I think about, I guess in your world it is just business. Wow! As a small business owner I am very surprised how corporate like some of you think. Is that due to too many rejections over the years? Is this attitude specific to wedding photography? I once had a cancellation a few days prior to an appointment with this client ( I detail high end cars) but she reassured me that she would call back to reschedule. She did a year later. I was doing the work at her house and at one point I happened to ask why she waited a whole year. She told me that her husband took his own life the week of the appointment. Think about that! She called to cancel. To cancel a stupid detail of all things. And you are going to tell me that not giving a shit about another human being is just part of doing business? ...Show more →
Nope, definitely in the same post. What makes you so sure I haven't been using the same plumber for 20 years? And that I don't have a friendly relationship with them. You actually want the client to make a potentially uncomfortable phone call to the photographer, because it hurts his feelings if you don't...call me corporate all you want if you think that's right, cause I don't. And for the record, I have had many clients that I have worked with in a sales capacity go with other photographers. Some were referrals, some were previously clients, some had strong verbal commitments. It's business.
Frankly, if I act like you are recommending as a small business owner I would probably end up miserable and out of business because I would take every rejection to heart.
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