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Can't entice customers? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by G8M8N8@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I'm very confident in my abilities as a photographer, and I think my prices are fair, yet I am just not able to lock in a solid confirmation from potential clients, they always slip away.

I'm a student photographer offering portraits at a University, so maybe it's college kid cash insecurity that is the problem, but then I wonder why they even bother to DM me in the first place?

I charge $10 a photo, minimum of $60 or 6 photos. From what I've heard that's about as undercut to the competition as I can go, and yet no one is interested?

I know for certain that the market for portraits exists at my Uni, as I walk past our front entrance with a rival photographer and graduate model everyday.

Reaching people has always been my weakspot. I feel like there is a network I don't exist in.

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[–] MattMakesPhotos@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

What is your sales proposition? why should people hire you?

Right now all you've told us, a community of photographers that you're asking for business advice from, is that your sales proposition is that you are cheap. There's plenty of that going around.