{"id":869,"date":"2011-08-26T21:13:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T21:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morephotos.net\/photoblog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2011-08-26T21:13:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T21:13:47","slug":"dont-post-images-online-market-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/dont-post-images-online-market-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t just post images online, market online"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s a mindset change more than anything else.\u00a0 The idea of posting images online and letting them sell themselves is gone.\u00a0 This is especially true when it comes to high end portraiture, including seniors and families.<\/p>\n
Here’s a HUGE<\/strong> secret.\u00a0 It deals with the human psyche and sales (yes, you are a salesperson)<\/p>\n One of the MAIN reason we purchase photos to to show them off to our friends and family.\u00a0 Seems obvious enough, so how should this factor into your sales technique?\u00a0 This means three things to us.<\/p>\n 1. DON’T send proofs home with your clients, they will show their friends and the number one reason to purchase from you is gone, poof.<\/p>\n 2. DO sell your images in person, under your control, with specials and bonuses, and deals for them when they purchase at the consultation.\u00a0 Blow them away with some music, their favorite drink, their images filling up the wall with a nice projector\/TV.<\/p>\n 3. Only post images online that were purchased, but be sure to post them.\u00a0 This is huge, if they want to show off their images, they are going to have to purchase that image from you, no way around it.<\/p>\n Now go make some serious sales!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s a mindset change more than anything else.\u00a0 The idea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}