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So, who else what as relieved as I was to see the Cowboys ride themselves right into first place
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ITA! Surreal to have the Cowboys go from last to first and vice versa for Steve and Allie. The Cowboys just completely kicked buns and took names last night! They were so impressive :) I rarely pay attention to the brothers but since they received so
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;o) Been there and back. I had clients that offered to barter my work for hours of IT services and when i kindly refused I was accused of taking people for a ride. I think what makes it hard is the "photographers" who offer a CD with all pictures for $250. If I account for all the hours I work plus taxes I have to pay. That's less than $18 per hour and I am not even considering paying for anything (camera, templates…). I just decided i wasn't going that way and I only work with people that value my work.
When I get an email or call I am upfront about my pricing and what people get for it. That way if they hire me we will both be happy.
July 24, 2012
by Christina Greve, Contributing Editor
If you want to evolve your photography into a successful portrait business, you need to start thinking in terms of business. From this is there no room to doubt your qualifications or your abilities.
I know it can be difficult, but you need to move beyond thinking, "I´m not sure I´m good enough to get paid or to raise my fee. I'm only a novice or I´m not a real photographer!"
Ask yourself the following questions:
Do I really want this? Do I want to make a living out of being a photographer?
Know that it is OK to say no and to keep your photography passion as a hobby or weekend business.
If the answer is yes and you can feel you want this with all your heart, despite your insecurities about your future success, then you need to know the following truths:
No matter how great an artist or photographer you are, you will never make it if you don`t think in terms of business – you need to learn how to ask for what you are worth!
I have been an entrepreneur since I was 15years old and if there is one thing I have learned it´s this:
If you are able to combine confidence in your artistic ability with some simple business knowledge and some networking, you will quickly grow into a successful business owner – aka. professional photographer.
One of the core fundamentals in business leading to your success is your pricing structure.
Let´s compare your photography business with an exclusive fashion boutique. When I was a child, I would walk past expensive shops with my mother. She would "window shop" (as we did not have much money) in the most exclusive stores in town and tell me that these shops would pay their rent by selling only one coat a day. These shops did not work under pressure and they had time to give their best service to their customers. Their business branding promised this! The same holds true for photographers!
You can set a low fee, get lot´s of price-shopping clients to book you, work your butt of and possibly burn out!
Or you can decide to charge a fee that will make sure that you don´t work under pressure and support the amount of time you spend on a client. That way you´ll feel happy when you work and have more time with your family.
The higher your price, the more time you have to spoil your clients, do your finest post processing, and brand your business.
And let´s be honest here: price-shopping clients often do not value all the work and effort you put into it, but maybe you already know that? Been there, done that – never again
How much work do you actually do for each client from start to finish?
Think about the following:
* Mail correspondence and phone calls: Time spent telling your clients how you work, what they should bring and how they should prepare for each shoot.
* Preparation and planning: location (including possible studio rental fees), styling, set up, and packing up gear.
* Transportation: to and from locations
* Pre-shoot time: to make clients relax for the camera.
* Styling your client: doing this yourself or, perhaps, hiring a make-up artist.
* The Photo shoot: probably 1-2 hours.
* Image selection: Time spent sorting through hundreds of images to select the best ones
* Post processing
* Creating an online gallery for your client to make their selection
* Printing – if this is a service you wish to offer.
* Packing and posting CD-room or prints for the client.
* Payment handling
* Marketing
* Customer service follow-up
How many hours do you think all this will take you? Be realistic. It does take a lot of time to do your best in each of these areas. If you want enough time to do good and set yourself apart from the competition, then you must set your price accordingly to take this into account.
The old saying, 'time is money' is very true.
When you work, you spend time away from your family – so make sure you get paid well. Make it worth it!
So HOW do you deal with price-shoppers?
Strategy 1:
Educate them! Explain your value and how that value translates into the photo session and the final result. Talk about the experience they will get with you, how much fun you´ll have, how they should prepare for the shoot, tell them why you love doing what you do.
Show excitement and enthusiasm. Nothing sells like honest passion that comes straight from your heart! You don´t even need to be a mean sales person – isn´t that just wonderful?
Strategy 2:
Don´t deal with them! Most photographers can smell price-shoppers from far away. The best way is to be upfront quickly. Let me give you an example; sometimes I get an email saying something like this:
"Hi, we love your work and we own a shop (clothing line, hat shop, jewelry or similar – you name it). We would love to hire you to shoot our new line. We know some non-professional models that can model who can do their makeup themselves. We can not pay you, but you will get free food and good exposure."
This is where I must laugh out loud! And believe me I do!
As we all know free food and good exposure does NOT pay rent, school tuition, heat…ect., true, right?!
I always give them a nice answer back, thanking them for thinking of me, kindly letting them know that it´s not how things roll in my little business. I don´t care how cool or how amazing their products are – I don´t work for free, it´s as simple as that! Voila!
The more you value the work you do, the more the customers will value your work too.
Whenever I have a client, I put aside two full days of work to ensure I don´t get stressed and ensure I perform my best. On the day of the shoot, I prepare, plan, and pack everything I need. Then, I drive to the location. I shoot the session, go home, and unpack everything in my studio. The next day, I sit in front of the computer and do the post processing.
I really don´t want to rush things – as getting great, timeless pictures in good quality for my clients is the most important thing for me.
Each of these hours must be accounted for in my fee. Therefore, I set a price that makes sure that I´m happy during ALL my working hours. It keeps me very motivated to know I do what I LOVE and that I get well paid while doing it.
I want you to consider all of these things when you decide on your price. Of course, you have to begin somewhere. In the beginning, you might need to charge less to get the ball rolling. I did this, too. But don't let this period last too long. Make an effort to raise your prices more than once during your first years.
The happier you are with the money your clients are paying you, the better you will perform!
To run a successful business, you need to avoid stress and make sure that you are happy and relaxed. Remember, an over-stressed mind cannot think creatively and your inner passion/creativity battery will shut down. (I know this happens tomany photographers).
There is no business if you don't take care of you!
Take some time now to think about how you will charge for your work. Then commit to raising those prices every month, or every second month, until you are at a level that is perfect for you. Only you can decide what that price is. Ask your heart (not your insecure mind) what that price should be. Now write down your payment plan and stick to it.
If you still feel that you are not good enough to get paid, then let me tell you: all art is work! Often many hours of work! All the work that you do is worth something. Your time should count for something.
Written by Christina Greve – Professional Portrait Photographer, Life Coach and Founder of Divas and Dreams
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;o) Been there and back. I had clients that offered to barter my work for hours of IT services and when i kindly refused I was accused of taking people for a ride. I think what makes it hard is the "photographers" who offer a CD with all pictures for $250. If I account for all the hours I work plus taxes I have to pay. That's less than $18 per hour and I am not even considering paying for anything (camera, templates…). I just decided i wasn't going that way and I only work with people that value my work.
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Experience the City That Never Sleeps this fall on Good Sam's New York City Samboree, a club-sponsored tour for RVers on September 18 – 24, 2011. Fall's the best time to visit when the weather is perfect, the summer tourists have gone, and the holiday crowds haven't yet arrived. The NYC tour provides experienced tour guides, a chartered motorcoach and six nights of camping with water and electric hookups.
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Low Carb Recipes Nasty
Every low carb recepie i have tried is nasty or even just the recipe/picture looks nasty and i don't wanna cook it. I have been on low carb for almost two months and have lost almost 20 pounds but i am getting sick of fish and fruit/veggies. i wanna start experimenting with cookies etc. but ugh, nasty. Does anyone suggest a way to make a normal recipe low carb by just swapping certain ingredients out?
Welcome to LowCarbFriends, Rachinator87 and congrats on losing 20# in your first 2 months. Wow, that's a pretty broad statement to make about low-carb food in general. Clearly you haven't found the RIGHT websites with the GORGEOUS pictures I'm looking at everyday on my fav low-carb sites. I'll agree, I've seen some pretty unappetizing LC pics; and have cooked some pretty not-so-good LC recipes, but man, oh, man, have I ever seen and tried some GREAT ones. Created a few myself in the last 4 years of LC'ing.
Since it sounds like you're looking for easy, you might take a look at this 3-ingredient recipe thread: http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/re...t-recipes.html . I pride myself on creating recipes that are easy, as I'm a lazy cook. Check out my website sometime. You can count on 1 hand the number of recipes there that are a bit more involved and take more than 20-30 minutes to throw together.
Learning to just substitute out this ingredient for that ingredient isn't so black-and-white, particularly when it come to LC baking. That is almost a science unto itself that has taken most of us kitchen experimentors a LOT of man hours in the kitchen. So I would recommend relying on the recipes others have created, tested, and that have been shared on forums, with user feedback.
Anyway, best wishes in finding just what you are looking for in LC foods. This place has lots of GREAT cooks posting recipes regularly that rival their higher-carb counterparts. Stick around and spend a little time browsing here.
Have you tried any of the recipes on THIS site? Because there are TONS of good to excellent recipes here. Look for those with lots of responses. There are ones for cookies, cakes, cupcakes, Danish, cheesecakes, brownies. If you can't find something you like here - um, not sure WHAT to say about THAT! :)
Congrats on the 20# lost.
I agree.....there are some GREAT LC cooks and recipes out there !
Wow that's a shame you feel that way. It takes alot to change a recipe.
We have some major cooks here. Wow
Congrats on 20 lbs.
Gosh..that is not my experience here..So sorry..Most of my friends want to have a copy of the recipes I've made for them.
However, you have to pick and choose..CarbQuick is hard to work with, but almond flour, etc..gives a nice flavor.
Hope you have more success..
Rachinator, you need a good cookbook or two, without overtly talking about the Low-Carbing Among Friends books. I have a great Gluten-Free Low-Carb Bake mix that you can substitute in all your regular cookie recipes and other baking recipes. I have one that uses xanthan gum, but lately I'm using the same bake mix (version 2) with gelatin in the recipes instead (healthier, I think - actually gelatin is really good for one's health and joints, etc.). I believe I posted one of the bake mixes in the Gluten-Free room in the sticky over there.
There is also a popular bake mix (better than flour mix) on this forum that is fairly high in fiber, but if you like that, it's another alternative, and it is super low-carb.
Low-carb baking definitely requires a little bit of a learning curve, however, you just need to find your favorite peeps on here (people like Peggy, Carolyn, Barbo, Char, Dottie and many others have excellent TNT recipes) or on blogs or on Facebook that you feel comfortable with and feel you can trust their recipes. Low-carb baking should be as good as regular baking. There is a slight difference and if you are still craving sugary, white flour desserts, the low-carb baking is not quite the same. However, you get used to it and in my opinion it is typically just as good, if not better in many cases. Certainly they are much healthier baked goods and if your baking is not up to par at the moment, it soon will be. Hang in there!
not sure, you all may be missing the point. if rachinator87 doesn't like the sound or pictures on ANY of the low carb recipes she has looked at, that's pretty serious!
rachinator87, do you think you might have a prejudice toward these things that keeps you from seeing them in a positive light? It's true that there are lots of good recipes on this site, but seeing them as appealing is more about your mind than the recipe.
if you are talking about cookies, there are ways to make a high carb recipe low carb by swapping out ingredients, and that is what you are looking at and dismissing, so it's hard to advise you. the substitutions needed to make a GOOD low carb baked product are more extensive than you might like. for example, more eggs are often used to make up for the different properties of the low carb "flour" mixtures vs. wheat flour.
maybe you need to start slowly and make very small batches of things until you find something you enjoy.
However, are you ONLY eating fish for protein? Would you care to enlighten us on your meal menus?
What kind of sweets/cookies do you want? :confused:
ETA: This is your first post and you have not come back to check on any responses/suggestions????? :dunno:
I admit I have tried some LC recipes that were simply inedible and a waste of ingredients, but I'd say that was the exception rather than the norm. I have also looked at tons of LC food pics, and I can't say that any really looked nasty to me. Where are these pics, if I may ask?
As for just swapping out HC ingredients for LC in baking, well, it's often much more complicated than that. Things don't always behave the same way, if that makes sense. You are best to locate and follow recipes that have already been tried and proven. Now, once you have built up quite a bit of experience with said LC baking ingredients, then you could try your hand at swapping things out. But, and this is a big BUT, there is a LC recipe for nearly every baked good at this point.
If you are tired of fish, then simply swap out your protein. I don't believe we are required to only eat fish. You have a plethora of options, and not every meal must include any protein whatsoever. I mean, there are vegetarians who do low carb.
It sounds to me like you are ready to branch out, but you haven't quite found excellent resources for recipes to do so. Once you can come back and provide us with more information, I believe we can help you. If you don't come back, then we are going to assume you just came to vent rather than find solutions. We hope you come back so we can help you.:)
I've had disasters, I think we all have, but it's another learning experience and you can then tick off the types of recipes that appeal to you and those that don't. (I recently made an LC 'cornbread' but substituted sesame flour for the almond as an experiment - yikes! It was SO sesame-tasting I couldn't eat it! Determined not to waste my ingredients, I pushed the whole lot through a mincer, mixed it with grated cheese, and used it as a topping for a savoury bake. Success! It didn't work as a bread, but worked as a tasty savoury topping - however, I shan't be making that particular 'cornbread' again, lol.)
If you keep bashing away at the recipes, I think favourites will emerge - those are the ones you'll do again and again. I now have one favourite flatbread recipe - I try others but I always return to that one. It's spreadable, toastable, fryable and tasty. It does for me! :)
Remember, nothing that is LC is going to taste like the high carb original--you will have to let your taste buds learn to accept LC sweets.
Low carb is not just fish, fruit , veggies. We have tried very hard to make foods that are better for us.There are so many recipes to start with. Why don't you gives us an idea what you are craving. Then we can help.
A big red steak w/ compound butter sounds really good.
Reading your post...let's start out with what do you like? If you were eating as you ate before low carb? Just remember that it takes a while to retrain your taste buds. If what you usually ate were fast food types of dishes, pizza, burgers, taco's etc. You can do this on low carb but often it does require effort on your part to cook them.
I must agree also that I eat very well on low carb. So much so that my daughter who doesn't do low carb loves what I make. I eat pizza making the crust from the first Low carbing among friends cook book (Jennifer Pizza crust) However, I am reading rave reviews about the "Fat head pizza crust" If you look down the posts you will see where I posted about it. That one looks easy peasy!! Almond flour + cream cheese and shredded cheese (it calls for Mozzarella but you can use cheddar in a crust like this) Broaden your minds and step out from what you usually eat. tell us what you have made that you really hate.
Also you cannot eat breaded fish or anything with flour, sugar, rice, pasta etc but there are some amazing dishes if you give them a chance
Once your tastes have changed, your expectations of what foods make you feel terrific will, too. At that point, maybe a recipe here or there might fit your needs. Still, if not, that's no big. Millions of people thrived on Atkins pre-substitutions and fared perfectly well on burgers topped with lettuce and mayonnaise.
Well the reason i said fish fruits and veggies was just a generality. I am a pescatarian so no meat just fish. I tried a stuffed mushroom recipe i really really liked. I eat alot of yogurt with fruit. I also do a meal of oranges and other times a meal of apples. I tried a LC cheesecake for me and my boyfriend (who eats normally) but we both didn't like it. Maybe i just need to find the right Artificial sweetener. I haven't read or bought any LC cookbooks, I am just looking at LC blogs. Sorry I am not responding back fast enough, I am a very busy entrepreneur and own my own business.
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It's called the Splendid Gluten-Free Bake Mix, but since you are a pescatarian, you probably don't want to be using gelatin? I don't know how strict you are. The other bake mix uses xanthan gum - called Splendid Gluten-Free Bake Mix 1 and Splendid Gluten-Free Bake Mix 2. You won't find the bake mixes on Amazon, just in our cookbooks and on here and on my blog (see my siggie).
You can find the first bake mix right here on lowcarbfriends.com in the gluten-free room in the sticky. Hope that helps.
It's a great mix to substitute for flour in your favorite recipes. Just read the instructions carefully first. I've had great success and so have others as I've had dozens of emails and comments on my blog and on the team's Facebook. I'd suggest first trying some of my recipes using the bake mix to get a feel for it.
You'll get there! I can totally relate to needing to be able to bake like before. Another person I highly recommend you check out is Carolyn Ketchum of All Day I Dream About Food - her hobby is baking and it shows!
Yes, I think you need to find a sweetener (or typically two for the synergy) that you're happy with. I cannot have stevia as it tastes bitter to me, so I mix erythritol and EZ-Sweetz (both also available on Netrition.com). I've used sucralose for over 20 years in great quantities without problems and my children grew up on it. However, I recognize that the campaign to destroy sucralose has been very effective and many, if not most, people are afraid of it....so find something that you like, you are comfortable with and tastes good to you. If your sweetener does not taste good to you, your baking will be off. That may be key, as you already mentioned. Some people like Swerve or Just Like Sugar, etc. Even Whey Low is what some people use....I don't think it is low-carb enough, but it is apparently low glycemic.
oops.. just saw that you are a pescatarian.. my response.. made no sense.. so I eliminated it.
I'm a super taster and there are a lot of sweeteners out there I seriously can't stand. They either taste like chemicals, they spike my blood sugar, or they plain bite.
That said, the sweetener I have had the best luck with was a 50/50 mix of xylitol and Splenda. That seems to deliver the best, most "real" sweet.
You're going to find over time that the most realistic results will come from combinations of sweeteners rather than one. :)
Can you tell us about this cheesecake recipe you tried? Maybe we can offer suggestions.
If you go to youtube and type in Dr. James Carlson sugar is sugar he has numerous video's. He is a molecular biologist as well as a regular MD. He wrote a book called GENOCIDE! HOW YOUR DOCTOR'S DIETARY
He explains in detail what happens to us when we eat sugar. He said it doesn't matter whether it the sugar in an apple or orange compared to the sugar in a candy bar. That our body cannot distinguish the difference between the sugars. He says, "Sugar is Sugar is Sugar"
So eating oranges, grapes and apples really hits your blood stream fast as if your eating a candy bar. If you have lost all the weight you need you can eat these but only in moderation. Google glycemic index. Everyone's pancreas secretes insulin when we eat carbs be it in sugar or other foods. How much insulin it the pancreas shoots out depends on the sugar content of our foods. A potato and other high carb foods actually turn into sugar in our bodies. Which is why diabetics find that a low carb diet really helps them control their blood sugar levels. This works for anyone trying to eat healthy and avoid diabetes.
I checked out the cheesecake recipe you linked to. A lot of us are having success with the following cheesecake recipe, and it happens to be my favorite. I make these every weekend to have all week long:
2 8oz. pks. philadelphia cream cheese
1/2 cup sweetener (I use spenda)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/4 c. heavy whipping cream
Soften cream cheese. I just allow mine to come to room temp. Add other ingredients. Beat with mixer till smooth. ( I beat this together long enough to dissolve the granular Erythritol - otherwise it will be gritty). Pour into 12 muffin pans lined with the papers. Bake at 350 for 20 min. or less. It takes mine about 14 minutes in my toaster oven. Watch them. If they start to get brown, get them out of the oven quickly. It shouldn't get brown at all. I take mine out right after they puff up.
I do mine in silicone muffin baking cups and without a crust, and I use a combination of two heaping tablespoons of Erythritol, 3 packets of a Stevia/erythritol blend from Aldi's, and a "glop" of sugar-free vanilla syrup. I add the syrup last, and do it "to taste." Like others have mentioned, combining LC sweeteners creates a more authentic sweetening effect. Combined sweeteners seem to be synergistic and create a better effect than any single one used along. I can't use Xylitol in my combination because it sends me running to the bathroom, but everyone is different.
Even my Dad who has diabetes his doctor told him never to eat anything white. No potatoes, rice, flour, bread, etc.
No one says you have to eat low carb. But choose what works for you. I am just sharing what happens to your body based on the glycemic index.
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