ricardovaste wrote:
Well, hey, I was just trying to be constructive, apologies if it came off as negative.
+1
I realize you think we\'re attacking you. We aren\'t. We are trying to help you improve your situation. If you like your situation, then my bad. We have no right to tell you how to run your business. Calling people idiots is not the way to handle the situation on hand though.
We have a guy like you locally that shoots 60 - 70 weddings a year. He charges by the hour and does shoot and burn. It works for him and he\'s been doing that for years. It is a model that works as long as you don\'t mind being the Wall-mart of photography.
Personally I don\'t want to work that hard. If you doubled your rates and worked 1/2 as much, would that really be a bad thing? Can you imagine having 1/2 your time back?
Also, clients in your price range think that $1000 is a lot of money. To some it is. Those aren\'t the clients I want to work with. There will always be clients in that range and I have no problem leaving them to new photographers or the aforementioned guy in my area. In addition to this, saying that the ability to move up market isn\'t an option is just silly talk. I live in a town that has a median income of just 30k a year and the average house price is 350k. At one point we had the highest unemployment rate in our province at around 18%. If I can average more than 3k a wedding, so can you.
Hope this helps you out, I don\'t think anyone meant you any disrespect, myself included.
Spencer.
ps. if you still think I\'m a negative idiot, so be it, I won\'t lose sleep over it.
Oct 03, 2012 at 08:39 AM
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