Comments on: Respecting your business http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/05/31/respecting-your-business/ Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua writes on the photo business and marketing Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:36:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Hoo Gan Tan http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/05/31/respecting-your-business/#comment-12472 Hoo Gan Tan Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:56:59 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/05/31/respecting-your-business/#comment-12472 Hi I discovered your weblog today. Great place to be here! Really love those sentences: "I want the people who work with me to want to work with me–not to choose me because I’m cheaper than any of my colleagues out there. I do not compete on price. Ever. I respect my colleagues and my own business too much to do so." I did get a similar email. "Do you sell your photo’s". Just short as that. I did not even took the time to answer this mail seriously. I just wrote: "Which photo, for what kind of purpose, for what price?" I did get a reply, but at the end I think I was too expensive for him... Thank you for sharing your information and also thanks for the Manuals! Hi

I discovered your weblog today. Great place to be here!

Really love those sentences:

“I want the people who work with me to want to work with me–not to choose me because I’m cheaper than any of my colleagues out there. I do not compete on price. Ever. I respect my colleagues and my own business too much to do so.”

I did get a similar email. “Do you sell your photo’s”. Just short as that. I did not even took the time to answer this mail seriously. I just wrote: “Which photo, for what kind of purpose, for what price?” I did get a reply, but at the end I think I was too expensive for him…

Thank you for sharing your information and also thanks for the Manuals!

]]> By: Chris Hunter http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/05/31/respecting-your-business/#comment-11608 Chris Hunter Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:24:34 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/05/31/respecting-your-business/#comment-11608 I very much enjoyed reading that tonight. It made me smile for some reason :-) I just recently discovered your blog/podcast and have gotten much inspiration from it. Thank You! -chris I very much enjoyed reading that tonight. It made me smile for some reason :-)
I just recently discovered your blog/podcast and have gotten much inspiration from it.

Thank You!

-chris

]]> By: info http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/05/31/respecting-your-business/#comment-11555 info Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:24:53 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/05/31/respecting-your-business/#comment-11555 Thanks for posting, Margaret! You're right, it *is* hard to say "no" and sometimes it feels a bit overwhelming. One thing to keep in mind is that if you shoot commercial work (as opposed to consumer-direct), you don't need hundreds and hundreds of clients to have a successful business--you need the *right* clients and those can be in much smaller numbers than if you try to service the wrong ones (who are invariably cheap). Keep it up! -Leslie Thanks for posting, Margaret! You’re right, it *is* hard to say “no” and sometimes it feels a bit overwhelming. One thing to keep in mind is that if you shoot commercial work (as opposed to consumer-direct), you don’t need hundreds and hundreds of clients to have a successful business–you need the *right* clients and those can be in much smaller numbers than if you try to service the wrong ones (who are invariably cheap). Keep it up!
-Leslie

]]> By: Margaret Bryant http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/05/31/respecting-your-business/#comment-11547 Margaret Bryant Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:37:21 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/05/31/respecting-your-business/#comment-11547 Bravo! I get so tired of people sending me emails similar to what you received. They are requesting advice (usually) for their pet photography business. They all seem to get upset when I ask them something as simple as their name! And they want help from me?? Anyway, I digress... I'm trying to do more stock and assignment photography. I have to say "no" a lot. Sometimes I find it very discouraging, but sometimes the "right" client comes along; one who understands the need to pay a fair price for services received. Thanks for the encouragement! Love your blog, love your website and love your comments when you post to the various forums I read. Keep up the good work! And thanks! Margaret Bravo!
I get so tired of people sending me emails similar to what you received. They are requesting advice (usually) for their pet photography business. They all seem to get upset when I ask them something as simple as their name! And they want help from me?? Anyway, I digress…

I’m trying to do more stock and assignment photography. I have to say “no” a lot. Sometimes I find it very discouraging, but sometimes the “right” client comes along; one who understands the need to pay a fair price for services received. Thanks for the encouragement! Love your blog, love your website and love your comments when you post to the various forums I read. Keep up the good work!
And thanks! Margaret

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