Digital BW, The Print

On 04/06/2009 08:15, "Richard Smallfield" <r.smallfield@...>
wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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).
> 
> So I'm trying again.
> 
Hello Richard,

Please allow me to comment. Your group looks interesting to me, as I would
like to explore this avenue in more detail too. What inhibits me from
signing are two things that immediately strike me.

1) The message archive is public, meaning that non-members can access the
messages and email addresses of folks who post and respond. Spammers love
this, and also non-member are not encouraged to join as they can read the
messages without doing so.
2) I am put off by message headlines like:
Sexy Models and Beauty Queens looking for Sugar Daddy!
This makes it look like the list is being used by spammers, rightly or
wrongly, but my inclination is to the former. I am disinclined to join lists
where spammers participate and leave lists where spammers are allowed to and
their messages left on the archives. (Of course, if this is not spam, but
from a legitimate member that is another story, but the mentality behind
such as subject line if it so is somewhat infantile.)

The list is not being used as much as you want, in part, for the very
reasons that makes it attractive and useful; the difficulty of finding
approaches to selling photography, especially art or domestic display
photography. This is not an easy issue to solve, and it is not going to
generate a lot of ideas of how to do so on a continuing basis. Maybe mails
need to be generated on actual experiences of photographers selling and
making their work known, or something.


Toodle-pip,

Allan.
> 
> The URL for the group is:
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/business-of-art-photography/ .