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Photography For Real Estate » How to Survive In A Competitive Environment — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:17:18 +0000

[...] Print Media Photographers Moving To Real Estate Photography [...]

By: larry

larry — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:55:54 +0000

Kevin- Yes, in his “will shoot for food” post David said his blog income would give him “breathing room” in his career change.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:35:29 +0000

There was a David Hobby interview in USAToday a few months back (now behind a pay firewall) and I believe it said he’s pulling down 6 figures between his seminars and the advertising on strobist.com.

Not too shabby for a career change

By: larry

larry — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:42:06 +0000

Cape G- Interesting. This is probably an attempt to keep some of their staff photographers by finding a way to have them generate some income for the paper. Newspapers are doing everything they can to replace their disappearing advertising income that their business model is based on.

By: Cape Girardeau Missouri Real Estate

Cape Girardeau Missouri Real Estate — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:03:57 +0000

Our biggest compentition is the local newpaper. They took our business plan, copied it and tried to resell it to our customers. Fortunaly, our customers did not bite. They then started giving away the photos and advertising. Some agent do work with them but most either work only with us or with both.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:43:30 +0000

The problem with most creative people is that they’re good being ‘creative’, and lousy being a business person.

The people that are succeeding in real estate photography are good businesspeople. They probably aren’t even the best photographers, but they are good at marketing themselves and their business.

There may be more competition, but 99% of the successful real estate photographers that are steadily working are just plain good at business and marketing THEMSELVES. Most photographers are anything but.

It’s always been that way and always will… concentrate on your business skills and you’ll do more business than photographers 100 times better than you…. and doing BUSINESS pays bills. Just being GOOD does not, unfortunately.