Finding work as a photographer is becoming more difficult in our ever so growing economy with a constant rise of competing fellow photographers. Finding your USP (unique selling point) can take years to perfect, whilst finding a market for your niche of work. There are two main options one can take to try get some work.
-To fit into the primary demanding market of standard traditional domestic portraiture and rely on advertising and your work flow to ensure a constant supply or clients
-Make a niche market that none of a very small handful of photographers are currently doing. This will drastically reduce your competition but in return you will have a limited amount of clients who will have needs for your work. This form is how photographic trends originate and can ultimately have a mass demand in the long run after awareness has been made of your product/service.
Take Joel Grimes for example (www.joelgrimes.com) who uses composite photography to add drama to his portraits. This technique is nothing new but the concentration put into the photos leave the end result nothing but amazing. I will be posting more of his work in my next blog.
Elance is a site that works just like an online matchmaking site but for photographers and clients.
It's easy to make a free account where you can setup all of your online folios, hourly rate, contact details and the best part of it is, you even get emailed a list of 4-6 jobs each day that Elance has matched with your work description.
Many larger clients in the commercial realm are using this form of communication between not only photographers but any type of designer as it's easy for both parties to virtually meet and discuss the work to take place. Elance will charge the client on average an extra 10% your specified hourly rate/total cost. for example if you're working for $100 an hour, Elance will bill the client for a $110 hourly rate which is more than fine will a majority of designers out there. If the client won't pay you for your work then Elance will give you your hard earned cash after a specified period and they will deal with getting debt from the client.
Elance is a new customer to provider platform enabling easy and efficient communication throughout the world.
Have you got an Elance Account?
It's easy to make a free account where you can setup all of your online folios, hourly rate, contact details and the best part of it is, you even get emailed a list of 4-6 jobs each day that Elance has matched with your work description.
Many larger clients in the commercial realm are using this form of communication between not only photographers but any type of designer as it's easy for both parties to virtually meet and discuss the work to take place. Elance will charge the client on average an extra 10% your specified hourly rate/total cost. for example if you're working for $100 an hour, Elance will bill the client for a $110 hourly rate which is more than fine will a majority of designers out there. If the client won't pay you for your work then Elance will give you your hard earned cash after a specified period and they will deal with getting debt from the client.
Elance is a new customer to provider platform enabling easy and efficient communication throughout the world.
Have you got an Elance Account?
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