Pricing photos with fotoQuote
Posted by Craig | Filed under business
My studio business has so far been mostly events, weddings, and headshots. This makes pricing pretty easy. I have a set base price for weddings, hourly rate for events, and fixed pricing for headshots. No sweat!
Today I got a call from a designer friend of mine to get pricing for some advertising shoots. One is for a local store that needs images for their website. The other is for an engineering firm that needs product shots for the web, brochures, etc.
I had no way to give him a quick estimate, other than to think of the time involved and adding a little bit for the use of the images.
After getting off the phone with him, I remembered hearing about fotoQuote when PhotoShelter integrated it into their online tools.
I went back into my email archives and found a newsletter from PhotoShelter announcing a $40 coupon code discount on fotoBiz or fotoQuote.
I purchased fotoQuote immediately. It only took me about 10 minutes of poking around to get used to it before I had a quote ready to go, complete with detailed language about usage rights. Very slick!
The interface is a bit clunky and out of date, but that doesn’t matter when you have access to current pricing data that is this current and valuable.
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