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Old 04-04-2001, 03:10 PM
R01AND R01AND is offline
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Guidance needed!

I am considering taking on a 600+ participant event this coming weekend. There will be an award ceremony the evening of the event, which may be the time to preview my images. I am using a D30, titanium G4, and an olympus p400 printer. I am a one man operation. What suggestions can you make as far as how to handle this size of event. Can one guy do it? What about selling the images online? What about having the customer prepay, after which I will print the image and mail it to them. Is there some way to avoid having to print out all the images for the participants to preview? Please, I am in need of guidance.
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Greg

  


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Old 04-05-2001, 07:10 PM
Neil_Copeland Neil_Copeland is offline
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Re: Guidance needed!

You've pretty well pegged it for a one man show. With only one Oly printer you will have a difficult time being able to produce prints on site AND still have time to shoot them, sell them, print and package them.

The easiest would be for you to have some printed cards with a website name printed (and possibly some sample prices) and hand them out during the event. You might print out a few samples to place at your table/tent/shooting location with additional info for contacting you later by phone or at the online website you use for photo sales.

You could blend this approach by also taking prepayment for photos you will mail to them later, but it would be helpful in that case for you to have printed out some oversize thumbnail proofs on the Oly printer so your customers can at least preview their shot before they pay for it (some customers are funny that way). You might have time somewhere in between there to be able to print a few onsite just to generate interest in your shots to help downline sales, but be careful about that because you may get bogged down at the printer and not get finished before folks get antsy.

In either case, I would suggest that you get at least one other person to help out by working the sales desk or passing out your info sheets, and, ideally, get someone else to run the computer and printer if you plan to print onsite. The return on that investment in personnel on a flat rate or hourly basis could be worthwhile in your final sales.

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