Seth is a wedding photographer in Phoenix, AZ. Photography is his second job, and while he loves the artistic side of taking photos, the left brained stuff is just too much for him. He books about 6 sessions per month, including 2 bridals and 2 engagement photos, as well as 2 weddings. On average, he makes $2000 for that work. The smaller sessions average around 50 images each, while the wedding day averages 300 images per session. He chooses about 15 images from each to post on his website, blog and FB. He provides a CD of low res images to each client as part of their session fee. Much of his income comes from print orders. Placing the orders is time consuming, but the packaging is very important to him and has to be done by him. His print orders are shipped to him in AZ. He also gets a backup disc burned each month and shipped to him.
His pricing breakdown looks like this:
Small session resizing/watermarking: $15/session (app. 45 minutes)
Small session CD: $5/session (app. 15 minutes)
Upload to web/blog/FB: $10/session (app. 30 minutes)
Large session resizing/watermarking: $50/session (app. 2 hours)
Large session CD: $10/session (app. 30 minutes)
Print order fulfillment: $15/session (app. 45 minutes)
On average, we save Seth 1.5-3.5 hours/session, or 19 hours a month. He pays an average of $330/month for his 6 sessions.
He uses the following monthly services:
Secure off-site backup: $5/month
Monthly DVD backup: $10/month (shipping is included)
Seth pays $15/month for our backup services.
Seth's monthly average is $345 for our services.
Since this is a small fraction of his income, the time savings and speed of service make it completely worth it both to him and to his clients.
