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A portrait packaged from a print vendor cost $24.71. How much should I charge?

Thanks for reading. Spanking new at this but I want to offer a Portrait package that includes: 2 8x10 2 3 inch buttons 2 5x7 2 large photo magnets 24 2.5 x 3.5 The print vendor charges me $24.71 These will be High School portraits. How much should I charge or is there a formula...

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Pricing Experiments you didn't know about, but can learn from

I wanted to share this with the community as it may or may not help you. Read on: http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learn-from/

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February 3, 2013

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Shoe store photography pricing

Hi,  I'm just starting in the photography business. I tend to do more portrait photography, and event. I have been approached to take some photos for a small shoe business store. I don't know the details yet, but it is mostly going to be used for web, as they don't have any...

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January 21, 2013

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New to selling my work as art

Hello Everyone, I have just found this site in my quest to figure out a pricing structure for my work. I do not, at this time anyway, accept assignments but do mostly personal work. I have a show coming up in November at the regional art supply store. I asked the owner to help...

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October 11, 2012

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Stock Photography: Times Are Changing Fast

Having been involved with stock photography since 1985, I've seen lots of change; some good, most not so good. Like everything else, change seems to be happening at a faster pace in the past few years. My primary stock agency, Alamy, recently published a white paper that had...

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So you want to be a Professional? Start by saying nothing and just reading and learning.

I do not pretend to know everything about being a Professional Photographer. I started out as a model, I did a lot of catalog work, arrived on time and was easy to work with. I had a respectable career and then met someone that planted the thought that I should pick up a...

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May 9, 2012

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How to Write an Image Use License (So That You Can Accurately Quote a Price)

Since I've started posting on this forum, I've seen a lot of questions from people asking how to price the usage of an image by a potential client (that's what this forum is for after all). Unfortunately, most of the questions lack all of the information necessary to accurately...

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March 14, 2012

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Trouble with pricing. Photography with website work included on a continual basis. Help!

This will include web-work & photo editing.  I work for the company and get paid an hourly rate to work there.  On the side I will basically be selling my photography and web work to this company and giving them a bill each week as new products arrive and are put on the...

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June 9, 2011

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amateur wants to know how to charge for photos

Hello I am new to this site! I am an amateur photographer, doing this as trying to make this my new side business because it is impossible to get a job. I do not want a career as a photographer, I have an AAS Network Administrator degree no certs. My sister gave me an Casio...

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May 13, 2011

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Tom Zimberoff: Pricing Photographic Services - Part Six of Six

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.

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Tom Zimberoff: Pricing Photographic Services - Part Five of Six

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.

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Tom Zimberoff: Pricing Photographic Services - Part Four of Six

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.

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Tom Zimberoff: Pricing Photographic Services - Part Three of Six

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.

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Tom Zimberoff: Pricing Photographic Services - Part Two of Six

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.

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Tom Zimberoff: Pricing Photographic Services - Part One of Six

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

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Keith Cooper: Are you confident enough to put up your prices?

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 customers why they picked you?

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Seth Resnick: The State of Business for the Digital Photographer Preparing For 2011

If it were just about money I would have been a lawyer. I know too many photographers who hate what they do or at best they look at it like a 9-5 job. I never want to look at photography as a 9-5 job. I always carry a camera so that when I am inspired I can shoot. It is something I always loved about my mentor, Jay Maisel. You can’t make a great image if you don’t have a camera and I am amazed at how many photographers never have a camera except when they are working....

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Requesting pricing suggestions from other members of the forum.

I've been reading a lot of responses on here with pricing suggestions. The thing is, all assignment pricing must be based on a photographer's Cost Of Doing Business. Now, MY CODB is not the same as a photographer's in LA or NYC and this is a very important part of pricing. When...

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December 23, 2010

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HDSLR video and editing

Is HDSLR video fair game for a pricing topic? I would like to see some discussion about video. If you are doing this kind of work, how do you structure your...

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