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This applies to all business not just photographers and photography businesses. To get paid on time takes cunning, guile and a really keen eye for detail. The aim of the game is not to let your client use any excuse to not pay you. You’d think that after delivering a stellar product on-time and within budget your client would be only too grateful and would pay you as a matter of urgency. You’d be wrong. Read the rest of this entry »

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Where would we be without the small print? I’ll tell you where. In a world where we could be taken advantage of or worse still ripped-off and we would have little or no come back. I’m always surprised at the number of photographer’s websites that don’t contain any reference to their terms of business. Simply, that is what terms & conditions are, a way of setting out the conditions under which you will undertake a commission or sell a stock image. Read the rest of this entry »

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And so the turkey is eaten, the beer is going flat, the Xmas jumper has been dutifully worn and thoughts turn to the New Year and the hopes and fears that may bring. Here’s PP’s handy guide to the 5 things you really do and don’t want to do if you want to make more money than last year. Read the rest of this entry »

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But it’s the web! It’s just a web image. It’s cheap. It’s not worth as much as print usage. It’s only 300 pixels wide. It’s small. It can’t be worth anything like a full page in the magazine. It’s just our electronic version. Nobody reads it online anyway. Read the rest of this entry »

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Back in March PP posted some tips for new photographers advising on what NOT to do if they were to have a successful business. You can see “12 easy ways NOT to succeed”here.

Meanwhile a new site called simply “Dear Photographer” has emerged in a similar vein with some really great tips on it like:

“HDR: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should“

Take a look and you can even submit some of your own too!

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