Well, its been a busy few days getting stuff done.
I have all my non-photography tasks for the moment sorted which has left time to get the old "bum in gear" for my promotion...
The web page will be completed this evening, the flyer is done, a cover letter is almost complete - just need to go through the yellow pages and build up a list of solicitors for personal injury work.
I have also spoken to a fellow photographer who also does this sort of work who was managing to charge £400-£500 a time but that part of the market seems to have dried up for him. Doing some research there appear to be quite a few photographers who are out there doing this work and are charging a much smaller amount, between £65 and £125, and they are providing sets of 7x5 prints and a CD. Hmm, that's not good. However, I need a USP to beat them!!
In MC's video they talked about reliability and that is going to have to be mine. Also, availability! I am sure that these lower end photographers will not want to get out of bed at 2am for that sort of money. I will go and do the work but I am going to charge them a call out fee of £95 on top of my professional services charges - I am doing this for a living.
Another USP could be the compassion and empathy that I can show the end clients.
Back on Monday I went to see my friend Martin and his wife and discussed pregnancy shoots. It just so happened that Martins cousin was about to "pop" one out and she was a more than willing model - the only problem was that it was due imminently and the doctor told her to take it easy, shucks!! However, Martins wife knows a few others who are towards the end of their pregnancy and is sure they would be interested - this is good but is likely to be a great task for next week - I need to get on with my promotion in the meantime!!!
Baby portaits are in the bag, but, I also need to get the child portraits done too using some of the ideas from nbp - I especially like the one of the legs against the black background.
I absolutely HAVE TO finish the web site this weekend, as basic as it may be, it has to be finished. I clicked on a link to "the Theme Foundary" and I really like their WordPress theme. I really like it and believe it has a lot to offer me going forward hosting on my own site unlike people like Clikpic. Maybe this will be version 2 of the site, but, I need to get to grips with Wordpress first.
Finally, there is Aperture 3. I really need to delve into that further, really hone my skills and wouldn't it be interesting to put together some "quick tip" vids for FroKnowsPhoto.com!! I need my new iMac before I go any further with that - less than 3 weeks to go before I get it!!
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