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Frequently Asked Questions / Terms & Conditions

Some of the questions answered below on this page include:
1  What is this service all about?
2  What company runs this service? Where do all of the job contacts come from?
3  What happens when I purchase a Subscription?
4  What is the best subscription for you?
5  Can you upgrade your subscription?
6  How do you get the photography contacts and job quotes sent to you?
7  How do you make the payment to this service?
8  What happens after you receive the job contacts?
9  Do you get to keep all of the clients that you make contact with?
10  How much does it cost and why do the prices advertised on this website change?
11  Do you get any guarantee that you will get any photography job prospects?
12  What sort of photography work will you send my way?
13  What happens to the profits from this website?
14  Do you provide refunds?
15  How many photography job requests / quote requests are sent out to you?
16  What time of the day are the photography job requests sent out generally?
17  What information is included with the photography job requests when they are sent?
18  Who should join this service?
19  Are there any plans to provide a similar service for photographers in other capital cities in Australia?
20  How do you get paid for the Photography jobs that you do?
21  I have never heard of this GetPhotoJobs.com service before..... Can I trust you?
22  Our tips and tricks to be successful……
 

What is this service all about?
You pay to join our Photography Subscription Service for either 3, 6, or 12 months. Once your payment has gone through, you are a member and we send you an email to welcome you. After that, we send you the Names, Phone Numbers & other Contact Information of clients and customers who are looking for the services of a Professional Photographer in Melbourne, Australia. You also get a brief description of the type of photography job that is needed and what the client requires. After that, it is up to you the photographer to contact those clients and customers that we send you, to convince them to use your services, show them your folio, provide a quotation on the photography job and book the work in and win lots more new clients. And hopefully, you keep those clients forever for all of their photography jobs and requirements and turn them into very profitable customers.

If you're a Photographer in Melbourne & need extra work........  we can help!
You would only have to win one of the photography jobs that we send you, for you to recoup your full Subscription cost back and make a profit.

What company runs this service? Where do all of the job contacts come from?
We are a well known successful medium size Photography Studio in Melbourne Australia.
Not only are we competent photographers in what we do with our cameras and lighting, we are also particularly successful at marketing and advertising our photography business and therefore generally work 6 days per week already. We advertise in front of individual people in the general public, to busy graphic designers, to business owners and managers, to highly targeted art directors and marketing firms, to the top end of management in large corporations such as CEO’s etc

In fact we are so good at marketing photography services and photographers, that we have to regularly turn away customers and clients. Mainly due to the fact that we have far too much photography work for just one company and also because we get a lot of requests for types of photography that we don't really specialise in or do ourselves. And so this service was born from our marketing success. That company is GetPhotoJobs.com It is a company that provides photography work, industry contacts and new clients for photographers in Melbourne, Australia.

Every year our company spends in excess of around AUS$11,000+ just in advertising and marketing and because of this, we are one of the busiest photography studios in Melbourne, Australia. We generally work 6 days per week and could easily spread our excess of work over 7 days per week if we really wanted to. Mostly our work comes from the Yellow Pages books, advertisements in local papers, ads in trade magazines and other highly targeted promotions. We have tried and tested our advertising methods tirelessly and we know exactly what works and doesn’t work. We know where to spend our money for best results and where not to waste our money on duds when it comes to marketing and advertising. It has taken many years and many, many thousands of dollars to tweak our advertising campaigns down to a finely tuned balance that gets spectacular results and keeps us incredibly busy.

However, we felt that it was a great shame to generate so much photography work and interest in our services, only to regularly have to say "Sorry we are too busy right now" or "Sorry we don't do that sort of photography." We all know how hard it is to get the work, and even harder to then turn perspective clients away for whatever reason. So now other photographers in Melbourne can benefit from our expansive advertising with guaranteed results, without having to outlay thousands upon thousands of dollars in advertising and without the learning curve that goes with this sort of advertising campaign.

We do not disclose the name of our Photography Studio or the identity of any of the Photographers that are associated with our company. It makes no difference to your subscription or the quality of the service that we provide to you. We know you are curious to know, but we must reserve the right to safeguard our highly successful advertising and marketing campaigns and our business methods, so they cannot be copied and duplicated.
If you do not like this policy or if it bothers you, then please do not join our service. We provide a highly targeted and very professional service that gets results. This is reinforced by the fact that 85%-90% of our members Upgrade and continue their subscriptions for another 12 months after their membership lapses.

GetPhotoJobs.com is the only unique service of it's kind in Australia.

What happens when I purchase a Subscription?
After you make your purchase, you will be sent an automatic email to confirm your payment, normally within 30 minutes. That email will be from a company called Paymate, the company that processes our online payments. You will then receive an email on the next business day when the payment has been processed. Shortly after that you will get an email from us to welcome and notify you that you have been included into the current Subscription Service.

From that point onwards, you will start receiving photography job quotes and requests for photographers services as soon as they become available to us. Normally, you will receive a large number of job quotes and photography requests at the same time as you receive your welcome confirmation email. This is a one time only initial send out of some of the jobs that have been sent out to our members recently within the last few weeks that we believe may still be current. We do this so our members are sent maximum amount of contacts as soon as they join and also so you get the idea of how our service works and so you can familiarise yourself with the system. Please be aware that these initial Photography job requests that are sent to you straight after you join, may already have a photographer confirmed and booked in for the job, as we are unaware of any current negotiations between the client and any of our members.

What is the best subscription for you?
For the most cost effective way to subscribe to our service, we recommend the 12 month subscription service every time. Some quick simple equations on your calculator will tell you that our 12 month subscription service is by far the most economical subscription and will also give you the broadest range of job contacts too because of seasonal cycles, economic cycles and other time sensitive factors such as the end of the financial year, Public Holidays and Festive Seasons etc. No matter what sort of Photography that you specialise in, you would only have to win one of the photography jobs that we send you, for you to recoup your full Subscription cost back and make a profit. Please be aware that the prices for our Subscriptions are subject to change without notice according to the demand for this service.

Can you upgrade your subscription? What happens when my subscription runs out?
If you would like to join our subscription service for either 3 or 6 months to trial it and make your decision on whether it is for you or not, you always have the option to continue & upgrade your subscription to the standard 12 month period after your initial subscription runs out. It is however, a little less cost effective this way, rather than buying a 12 Month Subscription from the start. When your subscription eventually runs out, you will be notified by GetPhotoJobs.com and prompted to purchase an Upgrade Subscription and continue for the next 12 months, providing that you are happy with our service obviously and that you wish to do so. Around 85%-90% of our members Upgrade and continue their subscriptions for another 12 months after their membership lapses, because they are so happy with the results that they get from GetPhotoJobs.com

How do you get the photography contacts and job quotes sent to you?
All contact between you and The Melbourne Photographers Subscription service is by email.
You should make sure that all of your Email Filters, Safe / Block Email Lists and Spam Management Systems are set to allow all email from our services and the domain of getphotojobs.com to ensure that you do not miss any important Photography Job requests from us. You should also remember to inform us if your email address changes for any reason. If you forget to notify us of this, you will not receive email from our service.
To email us directly from this website - Click Here

How do you make the payment to this service?
All payments are taken online via Credit Card only (MasterCard, VisaCard or BankCard)
The online transactions are made by Paymate.com.au using 128 Bit Secure Socket Layer SSL Encryption for the safest online transactions available on the web today. (Same as all Banks use for Internet Banking) Payments are finalised and completed within 1 working day.
We do not accept payment by cheque. To purchase a Subscription now - Click Here

What happens after you receive the job contacts?
After you receive a job contact from us by email, it's all up to you. If you would like to follow up on it you can, or if it is not the sort of photography job that you are interested in doing, then that's ok too. We can only send you information about the jobs and the client, we can't win the jobs for you or guarantee anything after that point. Nobody can do that in business. It is up to you to phone the client and introduce yourself, show them your folio if requested or applicable, send them a quote for the job and then follow them up and try to convert them into a real customer and genuine sales. All that we do is provide you with a perspective client and their contact info and job requirements who are looking for a professional photographers services. This is often the hardest thing to achieve in a photography business and indeed any business in general. Many photographers find it easy to do the work, but difficult to get the work.

The factors that influence you winning the photography job or the new client are no different to any other circumstances: Your Prices & fees that you charge, quality of your Folio and Photography Services and your sales ability combined with the overall package that you offer them. Some customers want to spend less and are not so bothered with the quality so long as it is cost effective, whilst others will pay premium prices for your services, so long as the quality is incredibly high and they get exactly what they want. That's life and just the way the world works. It's no different to any other business model in the world for any industry.

Do you get to keep all of the clients that you make contact with?
Yes you do. It should be your ultimate aim once you have acquired a new client or customer, that they are so impressed with your photography and service that they contact you time after time when they require a Professional Photographer. That is when a client is a truly profitable client, when they come back for more and refer other people / companies to you as new customers because they like your services so much. Plus there is no way for us to stop you from contacting a client after we have sent you their contact details.

How much does it cost and why do the prices advertised on this website change?
For the same cost as a good memory card you can join this service for a year and have regular photography work requests sent to you by email from real people who need the services of a professional photographer. If you are a professional photographer, think about that for a second........ For the cost of a good memory card, we will send you the contact information of people who are currently looking for a photographers services. No matter what sort of Photography that you specialise in, you would only have to win one of the photography jobs that we send you, for you to recoup your full Subscription cost back and make a profit. Do we have your attention yet?

Prices of the Subscription Services do change from time to time, depending on how many photographers have joined the service at any given time. The more photographers that are subscribed to our service, the more expensive it becomes, and similarly, if we have some members who do not renew their membership because it is not for them, the prices will drop and be cheaper. Whilst we do not ever have a maximum number of members or quota in this subscription service, we do reward our existing subscribers by making their competition (other photographers who want to join this service) pay higher prices for the privilege of being able to join up. This is why the prices do vary sometimes. It helps to reward existing members already subscribed with less competition and also helps to cull the demand for this service by price increases on a sliding scale basis. That is why prices for this service are subject to change without notice.

GetPhotoJobs.com is the only unique service of it's kind in Australia.

For current Pricing to the Melbourne Photographers Subscription Service, Click Here.
Below is a comparison of advertising prices for our Photography Subscription Service.

** Prices of comparative services listed above are approximate guides only and based on our own company experiences & costs of advertising in those particular mediums during the year of 2008. Prices may and will vary depending on the advertisement, sizes, colour or plain black type, distribution areas & numbers etc etc

Do you get any guarantee that you will get any photography job prospects?
Yes you do. Unlike when you buy an advertisement in the Yellow Pages or the Local Newspaper or any other advertising medium for that matter, there is no guarantee whatsoever that you will get even one single lead or interested person from those ads. Not even from the most expensive ads for a 10 cm Yellow Pages Ad or a 1/2 Page Newspaper Ad can give you that guarantee. Sometimes your Ads will work and mostly they don't work, or at the best case scenario, you get a few people interested but still do not even recoup the large costs of your actual advertisements, which means your ads are constantly running at a loss.

With the Melbourne Photographers Subscription Service, it is different. When you buy a subscription with us, you are not buying an advertisement to lure customers and clients, you are paying us to send you actual contact information of real people, customers and clients who are actually looking for a professional photographer at the time that we send them to you. The contacts that we send you are already pre-qualified and known to be looking for Photography Services because they phoned us or contacted us asking for more info and prices. All you have to do is just convince them to use your services. You would only have to win one of the photography jobs that we send you, for you to recoup your full Subscription cost back and make a profit. Remember, we guarantee to send you the contact details and information about photography jobs and prospective customers and clients looking for the services of a Professional Photographer. "However, we obviously cannot guarantee that you will get that work or win the job."

What sort of photography work will you send my way?
We are a well known successful medium size Photography Studio in Melbourne Australia.
Within our own Photography business, we generally shoot work such as Commercial, Advertising, Catalogues, Product, Corporate, Industrial and Editorial types of jobs. So generally when we get enquiries for this type of work, we shoot it ourselves, time permitting. Subsequently, our Subscribers will receive very little to none of this type of photography  unless we are really seriously over-run with too much work. Any photographers looking for more of this type of photography work specifically are not advised to join this service.

It is the other areas of work that we are either too busy to do or do not specialise in that type of photography, that we pass onto all of our Subscribers. Some of the types of Photography that we pass onto our Subscribers are: Weddings, Model Portfolios, Actors Portfolios, Traditional Individual and Family Portraits, Fashion, Parties, Engagements, Children, Graduations & School Formals, Pets, Sports, Photo Journalism, Documentative, Functions & Conventions, Babies, Glamour Portraits, Public Relations (PR) and many other miscellaneous sorts of photography. We believe that any photographers looking for more of these types of photography work would be well advised to join this service and expected to find it very beneficial to them. The more areas of interest out of these photography sectors they are prepared to work and participate in, the more benefit they would gain from our service.

The table below gives more detailed information about the types of photography contacts and opportunities that get sent out to you as a subscriber of this service.

What happens to the profits from this website?
When new subscribers join the Melbourne Photographers Subscription Service, some of the profits go towards the maintenance of this website and its administration costs, and the rest of the money is put back into our advertising campaigns. Naturally, by the very nature of how GetPhotoJobs.com works, any extra photography work that we cannot do or are not interested in doing as a result of those extra advertising dollars, means that it is our Subscribers who benefit and get that extra work sent to them by email. So ultimately, your payment goes towards our advertising campaigns, which in turn feeds our subscribers and keeps the process snowballing. It is one of the major reasons why this service works so well and recycles its own success.

Do you provide refunds?
This service is provided as is and there are strictly No Refunds
You cannot get a refund for a Yellow Pages Advertisement, a Promotion in the Newspaper or any other form of advertising. Our service is no different, but will almost certainly give you much better results................  and it's far cheaper. Draw your own conclusions.

How many photography job requests / quote requests are sent out to you?
This is a hard one to answer as it varies greatly. On average, you could expect to get 3-5 contacts per week sent to you by email, but can sometimes be up to 10-12 contacts per week depending on different circumstances. Sometimes, you may not get any photography contacts sent to you for say 7 or 8 days, but then all of a sudden you may get 5 sent to you in one afternoon. It simply depends on the market place and how busy we are and how many enquiries that we get, and this does vary quite a lot. Between 15 - 30 Photography Jobs are emailed out to our members per month as a good rule of thumb. Generally, we send out contacts to our Subscribers as soon as they become available to us, time permitting.

What time of the day are the photography job requests sent out generally?
Contacts are sent to you by email at any time of the day, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, all year round. As soon as we receive the requests, we try to pass them onto our subscribers as soon as physically possible. You could quite possibly even get contacts sent to you by email at 3am in the morning! All subscribers to our service are on an email mailing list system and receive contacts by email at exactly the same time, whatever time that happens to be. We suggest checking your email as often as possible to give you the best chance to follow-up on the photography contacts that we send you. Checking your email twice per day would be recommended, but checking it more often than that would be more of an advantage to all of our Subscribers and give you the best chance of winning the most amount of photography work that we send out.

What information is included with the photography job requests when they are sent?
When we receive contact from a client asking about a Photography Service that we either do not have time to do ourselves or do not specialise in or cater for, we send all of the client details to our Subscribers. The following information is what will be sent to you via email:

Clients Name:
Clients Email Address:
Clients Company Name: (If Applicable)
Clients Phone Number:
Clients Mobile Phone Number: (If provided to us by the client)
Clients Location: (If provided to us by the client)
Description of the Photography work required:
Approximate Number of Photos needed:
How the Photos will be used / Final Output:
Date/s the Photography needs to be completed by or to take place on:

After, you receive this information about the client and the Photography Job, it is up to you to contact the client directly and clarify their exact requirements and offer them a quotation for the job at hand. Good Luck!

Who should join this service?
This service is for anyone who is a Professional Photographer, Amateur Photographer or Photography Student who live in Melbourne, Australia and wish to receive contact information from prospective new clients who actually need the services of a Photographer. All photography work that is sent to you is from real people and companies in Melbourne and Victoria only who are looking for the services of a professional photographer.

The Melbourne Photographers Subscription Service is not intended to generate a 6 days per week type of working environment or income stream for any photographer. It is meant to add extra work on top of their existing work commitments, or top up their client list or kick start a bit of a "quiet time" within a photography business. It is also a great way to provide a faster start for Photography students and new Professional Photographers with not many contacts or who have low advertising budgets. This is often the case after shelling out thousands of dollars on cameras, computers and lighting which are all of-course necessary, but somewhat redundant if the photographer has no work coming in and little prospect of doing so when they have little or no advertising budget. Remember, it doesn't matter how expensive your cameras are, or how good of a photographer you are, if you don't have any work coming in and nobody knows about your services. It is a well accepted industry fact that most Professional Photographers today are quite good at photography, but lousy at the actual business of photography which includes marketing and advertising. This is where GetPhotoJobs.com can help.

How do you get paid for the Photography jobs that you do?
You get paid from the actual client / customer, just as you normally would. You do not get paid by GetPhotoJobs.com and you do not pay GetPhotoJobs.com any other commissions when you win any of the jobs. The only payment that you make to GetPhotoJobs.com is your membership cost, that's it. Once you contact the client from the details that we provide you with, it is up to you to give them a quote and try and win the job. If you do win the job, it is an agreement between yourself as the photographer and the client / customer on the amount and payment terms, exactly how you already do things in your Photography business. You would only have to win one of the photography jobs that we send you, for you to recoup your full Subscription cost back and make a profit.

I have never ever heard of this GetPhotoJobs.com service before....... 
It sounds too good to be true. Can I trust you?
GetPhotoJobs.com is a very new and unique service that only started in early 2006.
We do understand some peoples hesitations about our service and the fact that we are new and probably the only one of its kind in Australia. It is run by a well known Photographer in Melbourne and is one of the most professional and innovative new services to enter the Australian Professional Photographic industry in the last decade. All of our members agree that it is a great idea and is run in a very professional manner and generally delivers substantially more than what they might have expected before joining up with the service. Our best recommendation is to send us an email with your contact phone number, and we will phone you back to discuss our services at our earliest convenience. We generally find this puts most peoples minds to rest about our service when they can speak to the actual person that runs the operation and have all of their questions answered by a real person rather than repetitive and non personalised email responses.
We answer all emails personally by telephone, as this gives the best personal service to our customers, and is also the most informative and professional way of doing things.

To send us an Email & have us phone you back - Click Here

Are there any plans to provide a similar service for photographers in other capital cities in Australia other than Melbourne?
No, not at this stage nor is it likely to happen in the future. It is only suitable for Photographers in Melbourne, Australia. We cannot provide similar services in other capital cities of Australia as requested by many people, as our advertising programs do not extend into those areas.

Our tips and tricks to be successful……………..
- Check your email as often as possible. The more often you check your email, the better chance you have of being the first photographer to contact the client and impressing them and hopefully winning the work.

- Always Phone the client first to introduce yourself and make personalised contact and clarify the job requirements. It makes it easier to quote, provides better communication, it is  quicker and it is also much easier to win a job and try and close sales when discussing it on the phone than by email and waiting for a non personalised reply etc.

- Be prepared to do as many different types of Photography as possible. Whilst it is entirely up to you which clients you contact and what sort of work interests you, the more jobs and customers you phone, the better your chances of landing the extra work. The more types of Photography work that you are prepared to take on, the more quotes you can put in and the more successful you will be in the long run and the more beneficial this service will be to you.

- Purchase a 12 Month Subscription Service. Not only is it the most cost effective choice by a long way, but you will be able to get the most out of our service and be less affected by slower periods at certain times of the year. Often it is hard to forecast in advance when work will be busy and when work might be a little slower in terms of being contacted by clients. For example, if you join our service in December on a 3 months only subscription, experience tells us that late December and most of January is traditionally a fairly slow time for people looking to book a Photographer. Whereas, we find September, October, and November to be very busy as a general rule as well as the lead up to Easter and other various other particular times of the year.

- You should make sure that all of your Email Filters, Safe / Block Email Lists and Spam Management Systems are set to allow all email from our services and the domain of getphotojobs.com to ensure that you do not miss any important Photography Job requests from us. This is especially so for members who have a Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail or similar email address, as often these free services can ditch good emails out into their junk folders without your permission and without you ever knowing it. You should also remember to inform us if your email address changes for any reason. If you forget to notify us of this, you will not receive email from our service.

- Always print out your job contacts on your printer as a hard copy as soon as you get them in case you accidentally delete them from your email box. You should also have a folder or section within your email program that just stores your quotes etc so you know what you have received, what you have quoted on and what still needs to be quoted on.

- Don't hit the reply button to send the client a quote! This will send us an email at www.getphotojobs.com your quote and not your new prospective client, which probably won't win you many photography jobs. You need to forward the email with the clients email address copy and pasted into the TO: field or just start a new email from scratch.


 

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