Changes for 2011

While I'm sitting here blogging and thinking about it, I just wanted to share some new things Ive been wanting to change about my business. I knew when I did my prices and I put down how I was going to do things and offer, that after experience and time, I would change some things. Ive learned from experience and talking to a photographer here locally and also just reading and watching other photographers that the new things I want to do, will better my business.

As you know, this is a side job that I do love. I would only wish that one day, I could depend on photography to help pay bills. But in the meantime, I do work at a locally private school and I recently took on another job on the weekends. With that being said, my time is getting more limited, but I do hope that the job on the weekend is only at night time, so that leaves days for pictures on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The things I want to change is:
Prices: At the beginning when I first started, I didn't want to have high prices. I knew I was new starting out and I really just want to get my name out. Now that I have had clients and have had more experience, I realized that I'm not making a profit. I'm not even helping paying stuff off that I have invested in. So its time that I raise them up, and I hope that you don't think it went up too high. I still thought and tried to think of what I would want to pay if it was the other way around.
Clients Proofs: I always let my clients view their proofs for 6 months. I'm going to be changing that to only be able to view for 1 month after I release their proofs. So if you get your pictures taken, after I edit them and put them up to see, you will have one month to view them and pick them, until it expires. I will make exceptions for certain circumstances.
Ordering: I will no longer want my clients to order their pictures off the Internet. You will be able to use credit card, but I want to make sure that your pictures came out, just the way you want them to. Now, when someone orders, it will be shipped straight to them and I never see how it looks. This way, I can get it shipped to me, make sure they are correct and I can send them to you or drop them off, or we can meet somewhere.

I hope before the New Year, I will have everything that I want to change done before then. I have been thinking for awhile now, what I want to change and the positives and negatives of the outcome. I hope you understand everything that I have explained, and if you have any questions, please write me.

Also....I will have lots of new specials coming up!!! I'm excited for what this year will bring for my personal and my professional life!!