lll wrote:
Book that would be useful is:
Guerilla Marketing by Levinson.

Me = Marketing Consultant for many small businesses.

Great book, BTW. I am also a Marketing Consultant.

MarkMarek wrote:
I recently had an escort girl phone me. She asked if I could take some pictures for her website, blah blah. Being a freelancer whose bread is dependent on photography gigs I fundamentally accepted the job. I decided to charge her mere $100 (the session took about 30 minutes, no artistic farting around) and I made sure she lets her fellow escort girls know about my services. They all loved the pictures and next thing I know, is my calendar is getting filled with appointments with hookers. At first I found it rather ironic - escort girls are paying me for my services - but then, because of low cost and high quality of my services I started getting the same girls back because they wanted to keep their website updated.

Well, that's my $.02 and perhaps a little nudge for fellow photographers. There are many ways to make money at photography. I have no business plans, never read any books on marketing, yet I'm still here, alive and kicking.

Mark

Just curious:

- Did you ask the girl how she found you?

- Do you have your own studio?

Steinberg Photo wrote:
Just curious:

- Did you ask the girl how she found you?

- Do you have your own studio?

I have my own studio and though I don't know which search engine or which other on line method she used to get the list of photographers in Edmonton, I know that it was my weird style which made her decide for me out of all the big crowd. I remember her first words when she called me (by the way for a mid age woman she was giggleing way too much:

"Hi, I'm just on your website. I like how your pictures are different. I would like to get some done for my website, but I want it more edgy yet with the feel your other work provides. How much would it cost me..."

I know from a friend of mine, who is a stripper how close girls from this type of industry are to each other so I immediatelly sensed an opportunity to grab more of them to do the same thing so instead of making it one profitable job, I made it less profitable, but continuous (I did the same thing with horse breeders a few years back - to this day it's been a source of nice stable income).

Mark

MarkMarek wrote:

Steinberg Photo wrote:
I know from a friend of mine, who is a stripper how close girls from this type of industry are to each other so I immediatelly sensed an opportunity to grab more of them to do the same thing so instead of making it one profitable job, I made it less profitable, but continuous (I did the same thing with horse breeders a few years back - to this day it's been a source of nice stable income).

Mark

stable income? is that a pun?

lll wrote:
Book that would be useful is:
Guerilla Marketing by Levinson.

Me = Marketing Consultant for many small businesses.

Aren`t there any that are photography business specific though?