GeorgiaOwl
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Hey all. I was wondeing if the professional photographers among us could comment on the idea of offering CD/DVD only services. I found a nice website from a legit local company while looking around for photography business that might need some part time help...and I found a really nice website from a noted local photographer....and it turns out that they only offer services with CD's of customers images!?
Is this common? Is it smart?( No printing to mess with at all) Is it tacky?
If you can get people to buy into the fact that you are charging them ( in this studio's case) $100 for a CD of their photographs from a portrait session, that sounds like a good idea to me.
But I was wondering how other professionals felt about this approach to running a photography business.
tia
owl
[EDIT] Poking around the site a little more, apparently the higher priced packages do include actual print photographs. Still....the only downside I see of offering CD only packages is getting the consumer/client to buy into that business model. Probably a hard thing to do since commercial studios and photography in general have created a market for paper photographs for so long( obviously out of necessary fact, as before digital...well, you know..)
Is this common? Is it smart?( No printing to mess with at all) Is it tacky?
If you can get people to buy into the fact that you are charging them ( in this studio's case) $100 for a CD of their photographs from a portrait session, that sounds like a good idea to me.
But I was wondering how other professionals felt about this approach to running a photography business.
tia
owl
[EDIT] Poking around the site a little more, apparently the higher priced packages do include actual print photographs. Still....the only downside I see of offering CD only packages is getting the consumer/client to buy into that business model. Probably a hard thing to do since commercial studios and photography in general have created a market for paper photographs for so long( obviously out of necessary fact, as before digital...well, you know..)