Category Archives: Q&A

Responding to Clients Who Kindly Ask You To Violate Your Policies

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Clients.  We love them.  We’re constantly thinking about how to get more of them.  But once we do….we find a whole new set of issues cropping up!  Most of the issues aren’t horror-story-esque, but the subtle difficulties are often the hardest to handle. One reader sent in a question asking what to do in situations...

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When Gift Certificates Go Sour…

Q:  I had a client who contacted me saying she wanted to purchase photos of her infant niece as a gift to her sister (the niece’s mom). I explained to her what would be involved, how much it would cost, and that the DVD of images could be purchased later for X amount. The shoot went great,...

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Do Your Clients Feel Nickel and Dimed?

I put out a call for open Q&A to my mailing list last week – if you’re not on the mailing list you can hop on over in the sidebar!  On to the questions: Q: I was wondering how do you deal with a client who doesn’t want to or think that they have to...

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Clients & ‘Comfortability’ | The Last Forty Percent Photography

All images in this post are copyright The Last Forty Percent Photography. Used with permission. I’d seen a lot of blogs, ogled a lot of pretty images.  But one post stopped me dead in my tracks. It didn’t just awe me.  It changed the way I thought about photography.  The post was a set of...

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Your Business Should Work For You | Interview with Elizabeth Taylor Frandsen

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All images in this post are copyright Elizabeth Taylor Frandsen Photography. Used with permission. I met Liz back in New Haven, and watched out of the corner of my eye as she started her photography business.  Happily galloping along a different career path, I still couldn’t help but stand in amazement at what she was...

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