Recent content by mike weeks

This is a subject that appears to be taking off all over; There is Facebook page that has been created to highlight the problem of copyright theft by the scanning of images. The idea is it to try and get as many photographers as possible to join, so their friends will see the link, maybe view...

Actually I am probably doing more to adapt my business and help other photographers with their business than you will ever know. I did not dismiss everything out of hand, they were all considered replies with justifications about a market that I have a relatively good understanding about - I...

This should not be difficult for most photographers and as this thread has shown us photographers can also learn from our customers. Are you thinking of a sheet of 4 or 8 of these images? Mike

These are all useful comments but the one excuse that I have never heard is that I stole the images off of your site because you did not have a card machine with you. At £2 for a facebook image it would not be worth me taking a card. Mike

Personally I add the £30 a month it costs me to run a credit card terminal into my overall operating costs, all I need is another 3 sales per month. Yes there is a cost per transaction but this is no different from any online sales system such as paypal. I dont charge extra for the PayPal so why...

You can get everything else wrong but dont get the colour of the horse wrong so a B&W preview will not be beneficial. Have you not read some of the answers here even when infringers (thieves) have this pointed out to them. Most cant see the big pricing signs so I am sure they would not read...

Actually I do get a lot of trips with only 1 or 2 orders to take to the post office but as a further example I get a lot of work delivered from a professional lab where the post is collected from them and they send literaly hundreds of orders per day which reduce their time & effort per order...

Yes you are missing the point about postage. It is not generally easy to have a vast range of prices for differing amounts of prints so personally I balance 2 things the actual postage costs and the time it takes to get the order ready and get to the post office. Consider this; the post...

Tim is however in a different market from event photographers (the word tog should be banned) and having been to his studio a couple of times and seeing how he works he has a luxery of time that we do not have and it is totally understandle why his images command the price that they do. I...

I take it that this print was sent to you later as the largest dye sub print is 12" x 8" Mike

Would probably have to be sent on by email if it was at my event What size print is this? There are a lot of us that regularly talk about how we can offer different product/services but here is the catch, whatever we do it must make us a profit - all of these stolen images are our...

An interesting read spread over 3 days and I have joined to make a reply. The thread seems to be taking 2 directions, that originally intended (IMHO) by Spidge and a second one that many throw up some interesting code for anybody with a gallery from which they sell images. There are some other...