Industry Awareness. Lesson 2
How to start a business
How you cost a job
How you quote a client
Portrait Photographer – Sue Bryce
13 years in business
Studied architecture for 6 years
In her final year she got into photography
Came to CIT in the mid 90s [film based]
Photographed sport events
She then started her own small business with her husband and did wedding photography.
She did a rage of things from commercial to wedding photography.
Her business is about creating portraits and memories.
She showed us her website
you need to come up with a session fee between 150$-250$ for a good 1-3 hour session
when people call you need to get as much info as you can and educate them how much time you will be spending with them and how many images they want.
Pro-select > download off the Internet use for displaying images for clients.
Seldex > makes albums.
>starting a business checklist<
What you need:
-ABN www.ato.gov.au and http://abr.gov.au/
-Do you register for GST?
-business Name Registration
-business bank account
-contact information
phone number/email/post address.
-have an exit strategy
-Domain name, web hosting
-website
-branding your style
-portfolio , printed and digital
No comments:
Post a Comment