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Pricing Tools and Resources

published by walter rowe on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 3:20pm

What tools and resources do you use to determine license fees? Do you simply accept the rate your are given by publications and clients? If not, how do you determine what rate to propose? Do you submit proposals in writing?

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Submitted by ADigitalKiller on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 6:11pm.

I hope to one day be able to contribute to this forum. For now I've had no luck with any publishing. Soon I'd like to be able to answer these questions!

Submitted by Will Hawkins on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 9:34am.

I now utilize fotoQuote as the guiding tool for price ranges.

Will Hawkins Photography, LLC. http://www.willhawkinsphotography.com  

Submitted by Junction10 on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 5:46am.

Great products.. but sadly suffer from some issues.. a couple of serious ones, and annoying, but not so serious.

For photographers based in the US, it's ideal - but for those outside, all the terms and conditions refer to the United States rather than the territory you're in. There are some customisable options for region, but even when choosing United Kingdom, the terms and conditions still refer to America.

There is apparently a bug in FileMaker, which is the database engine behind the product - that for unknown reasons, the currency is not always reflected by the region settings in Windows as it should be. On a UK system, invoices and quotes should show the £ symbol, but still revert to $.

There is a major issue with the importing of certain JPG's - this isn't the fault of the fotoBiz product however, but appears to be Quicktime codec related. Some JPG's just will not import, while others will.. These 'faulty' JPG's can open in anything, except Quicktime Pictureviewer, which reports an unsupported file format - even though it's just a standard 8-bit JPG saved (with or without colour profile) from Photoshop.

Hopefully these issues will get ironed out, because it's the only product I know of like this and could be REALLY useful to photographers worldwide!

J

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