Digital BW, The Print

see my response at your group. (i just joined)
Janie

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:
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> Hi fellow photographers,
> a couple of years ago, I tried to get a Yahoo! Group off the ground called "The Business of Art Photography". 
> 
> It didn't really get off the ground, but still shows over 200 subscribers.
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> The idea was to discuss issues related to generating sales for one's work and making it more economically viable - how to get it 'out there' and selling (which is very difficult, with a small market of photographic cognoscenti).
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> So I'm trying again.
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> Here is the post I sent yesterday - which no one has commented on, so far.
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> >Hi everyone,
> >I started this list aeons ago, in the hope that people like me would like to share ideas about how to earn money from art photography - but the list fell silent.
> >
> >I checked this morning and there are still over 200 subscribers - so it would seem that it's worth trying to generate some interest and discussion.
> >
> >These are my current strategies aimed at generating more sales.
> >
> >Currently I'm preparing for four exhibitions. In an effort to make it financially feasible, I am checking framers' shops for second-hand frames - they are usually selling for almost nothing. Gradually, through hunting around for second-hand frames and seconds (usually they have no more than a scratch) and painting them all the same shade of cream, I'm collecting a number of frames, for a very low expenditure.
> >
> >In times of recession, we have to be clever; by finding ways of keeping our costs down, we can keep down the price of the framed print and so, hopefully, generate more sales.
> >
> >To that end, another thing I'm doing is buying small frames (as small as 8x10") and planning to exhibit some of my photos as 4x6 prints in them - then I can justify selling them very cheaply. And I plan to have full-sized unframed prints available as an option, in a print rack.
> >
> >The other thing I'm planning, is to write letters to local businesses who may be interested in the sorts of images I make, to try and generate some sales. I couldn't believe that my dentist, for example, has photos of the Greek Islands on his walls - and I live in New Zealand! 
> >
> >Earnest Rutherford said, 'We haven't got the money, so we have to think.'
> >
> >If anyone else has bright ideas, this is the forum to share them with. And at the moment, we really need bright ideas.
> >
> >Please let others know that this forum exists, because I still believe that there is a need for it.
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> The URL for the group is: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/business-of-art-photography/ .
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> thanks,
> Richard
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>    --Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest 
>    asking that he renounce Satan.
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