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Your Salary - The aggregate assignment fees you earn throughout any given year should be at least equivalent to the annual salary of an employee doing the same kind of work for someone else.

Net Profit - At this point it is appropriate to include a more academic definition of profit. Conventional wisdom has always defined a simple formula for photographers and other sole practitioners to follow.

The Components of a Price - Considering all of the different kinds of fees, expenses, mark-ups, and taxes, the criteria for pricing break down like this.

A Wide Range of Fees Means a Wider Range of Clients - Each one of the many skills you have mastered corresponds to a discrete fee that should be billed to your clients, either directly or indirectly.

A Shift in the Dialog About Value - You have learned what a price is, if not - yet - how to come up with one. With that in mind, the first thing to understand about pricing photography is that you're not really pricing photographs at all.

You are not in business to be a photographer; you are in business to make money!

It's been a little over 2 months since we launched Shakodo and we had a close look at the Questions asked by our members. On review, we decided to share some tips how to write a great Question which will receive also great Answers.

Hello Forum Well I am new to this site and wanted to post a question in the Assignment area of the forum. I read the FAQ and found nothing about my problem. Everything else looks to be working fine except for that. If someone can help me I would much appreciated, Thanks....

I answered a question in the Assignments section and on re-reading what I had posted saw that I could have been clearer in my answer but there is no way(I think) for me to edit the answer once it is posted. It would be great if there was an edit option such as they have on...

Hello Community, i am glad i stumbled over this nice Forum, and i hope i can help some off you with photo/technical related problems. I am an Vienna (Austria) based Photographer , mainly i get paid for Press- Reportagephotpgraphy, but i intend to break into the Fashion-...

We just got asked on Twitter about the best sites and resources for photographers about the business of photography, but instead of answering there in 140 characters, this is a perfect topic for Shakodo. Please share your links in comments below!

Later today, I've decided it's time to put up our advertised prices. I've taken the view that having -some- advertised rates works really well in getting me new clients, and when I've asked clients their views (part of our 'customer satisfaction surveys') several have said that having an idea about rates helped convince them to give us a call. - You do ask...

Photography is one of the most common 'what I'd like to do for a job if...' occupations, and when I recently looked at the UK photographers trends survey I noted just how many people were entering the profession at a later age, and without the traditional photography background.

As I get closer and closer to the half century mark in age, I have been doing a bit of soul searching about my chosen profession. At my age, I have lots of experience and hopefully enough youth left to do something with it. In other words, I would say near the peak of a career....

Recently, I was looking at a comprehensive report published last year on the alleged state of the UK photographic industry. It's called the British Photographic Council Industry Survey and in an accompanying press release headlines the benefits of retaining copyright.

This is a general question I'd like to ask the community, concerning qualifications gained by professional bodies.  Here in the U.K we have the Master Photographers Association, The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers, The Royal Photographic Society etc. All have a...

I am excited to get to know the Shakodo Community; share ideas and exchange information. In the interim, I did have a problem getting my copy to save in the About section of my profile. Can anyone help?

As one making his 100% income living from  PR ( and some press) assignments, I have to tell all of the professionals here:If you are confident in your self and what results you can give to your customers, you must "show" it during the  negotiations and that will bring you the...

As Ken and I designed Shakodo, our main focus was only on Pricing and Business information and we decided that Reputation points should only be given based on votes in the 3 areas Assignments, Licensing and Business. This Community Forum and the Blog was exempted until now....

From our fellow Germans this today on BBChttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12215921German researchers have created software called X-Pire that gives images an expiration date by tagging them with an encrypted key.