Dave, I'd tell 'em a price for looking, a steep price. Tell 'em you've got 20,000 pictures from 2005 and can't look for nothing. Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > Not sure how you catalog and keep track of who is who at these things > (as you do them) so that you can sell the print to them in the first > place, but I'm sure you have some sort of system. > > I can't tell you how to go back and locate your prior files, but I > would suggest that to avoid this situation you follow up each sale > with a post card or letter within a year or so, offering them the > digital file on CD for $xx. You could even use this situation to > explain that it is impractical to offer reprints into the indefinite > future (when memories slip) and so this is their ONLY opportunity to > purchase the digital image. > > This may be anathema to some, but I think for this sort of photography > business it would generate a pretty good percentage of income over and > above what you were doing before. People who have purchased from you > in the past are more likely to do so again in the future, and if you > only offer it to those who originally made a print order, then you > aren't really hurting your real-time print orders to generate the > addition income (from fear of losing the image for all time, if they > don't purchase it now). I'd give it a value-added name like Legacy > Images. > : ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
