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Would you go to this? Quick answers as need to leave in half an hour!

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AveAtqueVale · 29/12/2018 08:37

Ages ago we won a competition for a family photo shoot plus prints thing. Have booked and cancelled twice - once due to DS1 vomiting bug, and once because DS2 was teething so badly that he literally was doing nothing but screaming. It’s at 9.30 and I’ve woken up feeling (and looking) like death. Have been ill anyway and now also have a raging sore throat and temperature, puffy face, red nose, the works. Just want to sleep.

Would you take paracetamol, suck it up and go? Or should I just send DH with the boys? We cannot cancel again! Some nice photos of the three of them would be lovely, but there are also virtually no pictures of all of us so I’m a bit sad to miss the chance to potentially get a good one. But then it’s unlikely to be a good one of me anyway...

My head is full of cotton wool and I can’t decide! Help!

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Hezz · 29/12/2018 09:43

I don't know anyone who hasn't 'won' one of these.

They need you to buy lots of the photos to make money and they get the hump otherwise.

tittietinsel · 29/12/2018 09:56

flora

The only way this marketing tactic will benefit the promoter is if the 'winner' spends their money at the end.

Florabella · 29/12/2018 10:08

That's not true. You are going by the Venture model where everyone wins a competition and very few people would ever buy a full price shoot. If a competition is not a frequent event then it can work in other ways.

I haven't run a competition for about 5 years, but when I did I got approx 80 new likers on my Facebook page, I gathered over 100 people's details who were happy to be contacted by me. I have no idea now if the competition winner bought anything else- I don't do hard sell and I wasn't necessarily expecting winner to be my ideal target client. However I do know the the winner recommended me to other people who booked with me -at least three full paying clients, and other people who entered and didn't win, subsequently booked with me.

The Venture model is not the only way to make competitions work.

tittietinsel · 29/12/2018 10:20

I don't know what venture you are talking about. Post is quite confusing, but the idea is that the studios get them in and sell them pictures. You as an individual may just be looking for likes on Facebook, but in the main, these things are run specifically to target the winners.

Florabella · 29/12/2018 11:13

But it is only a few photography businesses that run them to target the winners - most have longer term marketing aims. I know this not as an individual, but having run a photography business for the last 8 years and networking with thousands of other photographers and know how they market too. Anyway, we are derailing the OP's question. OP - I hope you have a great shoot and are happy with your photos

DishranawaywiththeSpoon · 29/12/2018 11:20

I would go OP! If you've used the company before and it includes x amount of prints it can only be a marketing ploy if you let it.

Florabella your previous post makes perfect sense, so I don't know why PP is pretending it doesn't. Not all will be a hard sell opportunity, there are other ways competitions can work for both the business and customer.

tittietinsel · 29/12/2018 11:50

I'm not pretending I don't understand it, I don't know what the venture is that they were taking about. The poster was trying to convince me that all marketing plots are not the same, meanwhile talking about a venture, which generally means the absolute opposite of something safe and dependable.

Florabella · 29/12/2018 12:28

Venture is the name of the best known national chain of photographers in the UK that uses the model that you and others mention in this thread - luring people in the a free session or competition win, then having a minimum spend of £200 or so for a tiny print and then hard sell. The vast majority UK photographers hate them for giving the industry a bad band in this respect.

Florabella · 29/12/2018 12:29

Bad name - not bad band!!

tittietinsel · 29/12/2018 12:35

Sorry I picked you up incorrectly. I have never heard of venture.

They are however not the only photographers to filollow this model con

birdsdestiny · 29/12/2018 13:15

Yes my experience was a small local photographer.

Crunchymum · 29/12/2018 13:18

Did you go OP? And did they give you the hard sell?

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AveAtqueVale · 29/12/2018 20:02

I did go! Heavily dosed up... No hard sell. Have made an appointment to go back and look at them in a couple of weeks once he’s had a chance to go through and edit, and choose which ones we want prints of. We get five prints, one biggish one and four smaller ones. Can all be different pictures if we want so I’m happy with that. There was no pressure last time when we only ended up buying a couple so I’m not worried about that. Suspect I’ll look pretty grim in most of them but hopefully there’ll be a few nice ones of the boys taken before DS2 had the tantrum to end all tantrums and we gave up.

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