desertrattm2r12
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2012
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- 265
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- Location
- desert edge ca
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I don't think you have much of a business plan, very little preparation. Many stock photos tell a little story. Do any of yours tell a story?
I was in the stock business for quite a while and made some okay money but never utilized the Internet. There was a town on the Pacific Coast that every year grew 3,000 acres of flowers for seeds. It was hard to get decent photos of a lot of the flower fields because the area on the coast was overcast a lot. A photographer would come into town, drive around and get very few photos. This field was not ready yet and without it in perfect condition he could not shoot it and the next one and the next one and the next one.
However, I lived in the little town. Any time I had a few minutes or the weather was specially good I would zip out and get one field of particularly great flowers that everybody else with a camera missed. And I got to know how to look at a field and say -- this will be ripe next week and next week I would pick a nice, clear day and nail that one, too. I sold all kinds of photos of the flower fields to magazines and newspapers and even the local Chamber of Commerce.
Note all my sales were local and not on the Internet. You can find local clients if you look.
I was in the stock business for quite a while and made some okay money but never utilized the Internet. There was a town on the Pacific Coast that every year grew 3,000 acres of flowers for seeds. It was hard to get decent photos of a lot of the flower fields because the area on the coast was overcast a lot. A photographer would come into town, drive around and get very few photos. This field was not ready yet and without it in perfect condition he could not shoot it and the next one and the next one and the next one.
However, I lived in the little town. Any time I had a few minutes or the weather was specially good I would zip out and get one field of particularly great flowers that everybody else with a camera missed. And I got to know how to look at a field and say -- this will be ripe next week and next week I would pick a nice, clear day and nail that one, too. I sold all kinds of photos of the flower fields to magazines and newspapers and even the local Chamber of Commerce.
Note all my sales were local and not on the Internet. You can find local clients if you look.