Pricing help + New website

[Robin Usagani]

the one that has a lot of picture is a car event. It does have hundreds of car cruising by

 

[mwcfarms]

I wouldn't go outrageously higher then. Have you ever printed one from Mpix and one at Costco to compare the difference and then shown this to the client? I have seen Costco's and they arent bad but my print lab does such a much better job not to mention they can custom the print with metallic paper/canvas or whatever it is they use and it smokes Costco's out of the water. You want to sell a product that they can't get elsewhere right.

 

[Robin Usagani]

Dee, I have not ordered one from Mpix. But I have seen Costco one and they are not bad. The price I put for Costco one is a lot cheaper. Plus I make much more profit vs if they get it from mpix. I guess I need go print one from mpix. I want to but we are moving next month. Dont want to order any big prints for the house until we move.

 

[mwcfarms]

Dee, I have not ordered one from Mpix. But I have seen Costco one and they are not bad. The price I put for Costco one is a lot cheaper. Plus I make much more profit vs if they get it from mpix. I guess I need go print one from mpix. I want to but we are moving next month. Dont want to order any big prints for the house until we move.

I can understand you not wanting them to go straight to costco with a res file and print it themselves but maybe check out the difference. I think selling high res files for anything other than a wedding is a harm to your business plan but that might be the norm in your area.

So where you moving. Local to new house or out of state?

 

[terilynne]

I love how your web-site is set up! I have been wanting to get one set up like that where my clients can just purchase right from the site---how much does something like this cost?? Also your clients dont care that you print at Costco and not a professional lab?? I have been sending mine out...I am super new, just starting out!

 

[Robin Usagani]

Dee, I have not ordered one from Mpix. But I have seen Costco one and they are not bad. The price I put for Costco one is a lot cheaper. Plus I make much more profit vs if they get it from mpix. I guess I need go print one from mpix. I want to but we are moving next month. Dont want to order any big prints for the house until we move.

I can understand you not wanting them to go straight to costco with a res file and print it themselves but maybe check out the difference. I think selling high res files for anything other than a wedding is a harm to your business plan but that might be the norm in your area.

So where you moving. Local to new house or out of state?

I think everything is shifting to digital Dee. I rather they have all of the digital files because I have no use of them. I am moving to Golden, Colorado. Home of the largest beer factory in the world Coors Brewery .

I love how your web-site is set up! I have been wanting to get one set up like that where my clients can just purchase right from the site---how much does something like this cost?? Also your clients dont care that you print at Costco and not a professional lab?? I have been sending mine out...I am super new, just starting out!

It will cost you $100/year. $90 on your first year if you put this code
CGU-X2C-TBR

 

[ababysean]

Why are your gallery wraps so cheap?

The one for local pick up? I print them at costco and it is a lot cheaper than mpix. You think it needs to be more expensive? I cant make it too expensive because people will just buy digital files and do it them self. It is hard to find a happy medium

That is why you only give reproduction rights on digital downloads to 8*10.
If they want larger prints, they need to be ordered through you.

Have you actually gotten a gallery wrap from Costco? I got one from Sams to see the quality and I was not impressed. at.all.

However, I've never seen any from anywhere else, so I've nothing to compare it to.

 

[Robin Usagani]

how do you limit it to 8x10? What resolution? Once they have somewhat high resolution, people will print anything (even with bad quality).

 

[ababysean]

how do you limit it to 8x10? What resolution? Once they have somewhat high resolution, people will print anything (even with bad quality).

yes this is true, but if you make them sign a contract and in the contract it says 8*10 is the largest with the rights you are giving them...
People will try to print a screen shot from your website, if they want.... know what I mean?

you can't really limit it, unless you size the image to resolution for 8*10 max.

but you can just throw it out there and put it in writing.

 

[Jeatley]

Why are you offering digital files and under cutting yourself. I plan to offer them for on line use only but not for printing purposes. Your customers have to buy you! The fact that you take the photos and you do the editing and you get them printed and make sure everythin is perfect and you deliver what you say or better. Can they do all that? And why are you worried about other people pricing. WHAT are you worth?

 

[Karri]

there was an article I read that was very informative. If I find it again - I will come back and post it but it talked about pricing your business, photography. It says how much are you worth? Don't undercut yourself b/c you are a beginner, etc... If you are running your photography as a business, remember it is a business. That means you need to do the math in order to run it successfully. That means taking into account how long were your sessions and how long do you edit? Are these 1 hour sessions and you take 4 hours to edit? If you charge $50, you are only making $10 an hour and that's not including any gas to go to the shoot or taxes or for your equipment... Not sure about taxes in Colorado but are you including anything for taxes you may have to pay for the business? Set your prices a bit higher than you think as you can offer discounts to begin with but as someone already said on this posting, it's harder to raise your prices later. I am going to find the article as it will not give you exact dollars, but will give you some things to think about when you are pricing.

 

[Karri]

Here is the link I was looking for and I have no self-serving interest in promoting this link. I don't know this person but just came across this when I was researching pricing my photography:

How Should I Price My Photography? Words of Advice from Jodie Otte | Facebook

 

[Robin Usagani]

Thanks. Thats why I havent pointed my domain to zenfolio yet. I want to get the pricing right. Do you think my price is about right if I remove the downloads? Raise it? Acckkk.. so confusing.. Even at this price there is a member here who thinks it is too high.

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Even at this price there is a member here who thinks it is too high.

Make that 2!

 

[ababysean]

Again, you really have to go by what others are doing in your area.
Everyone here offers digital files. Period. If you don't, are you going to be losing business to someone that does?
I might limit my pricing to say 5 digital files for xxx. You are going to have to make packages, like it or not.
But don't go overboard and have like 20 different packages, three to four is enough.
I am so working on my pricing for next year as well.
I just don't know what I should do either, but like it or not, I'm going to offer digital files.... because that is what the market is calling for.