Tampa Bay photography and design service lines to be overhauled this weekend - Service rates to be adjusted in October with the possibility of the introduction of a new tiered rate system for select services.

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Friday, August 11, 2006 - Service Line Work

We have more work on our service lines this weekend than we have done in five years. Our business advisory board has ordered an overhaul of our service agreements and legal contracts. We will be meeting with our attorney and our legal team in downtown Tampa Saturday to go over these changes and sign off on them Current pending contracts will be grandfathered in, and existing contracts will be honored.
Policy changes are in effect, too, with a "comp card" rule applied to stock photography model eligibility requirements (matching a 45% forced decrease in stock photography resource allocations due to a conflict with our other service lines - Stock photography agreements will now be offered as a post-service option for our other service lines as an alternative to straight-out stock bookings). Qualifying models for booking consideration of any stock photography session or commercial photography session will include a reference evaluation on every photographer they have worked with, and references will be checked in the booking process.
We will be using a "25" or college student qualifier rule for consultation qualifying screening, and there will be an overhaul in our paperwork, our CDS, and our client tracking system. For the first time, we will begin promoting our allies at Independent Modeling and the benefits of our collaborative packages in all consultations and service line bookings, and as a result we will dramatically increase in support and financing to our modeling resource site friend. We will be increasing our support of Independent Modeling and the Independent Sites by over 400%, as we have reduced confidence in doing business with Tampa Bay based model and talent agencies. Independent Modeling and the Independent Sites will see an incredible level of updates in the next three weeks.
We will be streamlining how we do business and will be adopting our 2007 standards this fall. Our main portfolio will be redone and new forms will be created to support business operations.
Referrals from satisfied clients and subsequent bookings have recently exceeded the bookings that we get from conventional marketing efforts. This may be the start of a trend in our model portfolio photography and actor/ talent head shot photography services. There are also indications that an increasing number of models who are represented by Tampa Bay and Orlando model and talent agencies are passing over the photographers that agencies try to force on them and they book us for what they need. There is evidence that this is a growing trend, too.
A new tiered rate system for model portfolio photography services and actor/ talent head shot photography services was unveiled today, and may be adopted soon as our new standard. Our rates will be adjusted in October. Our CDS (Client Delivery System) will be adjustable and scalable if any rates are adjusted, as CDS terms are included in set service packages and the client, not us, pays for them.
Work in the studio will be done this weekend, too. Our main computer has over 100 Gigs of photographs on file, and many of those files need to be archived and purged from the system to support increased bookings (and maybe we will be able to finally locate Ingrid Suchit’s pictures while we are at it). We will be cleaning computer hard drives, adding physical file cabinets for paperwork, will be working on our client services telecommunications system (at night, when we don’t get constant calls), and will be adding tracking cards and an organized client paperwork system designed to support initial and continued client contact.
Some of this maintenance is long overdue and is a result of our busy nature as the Tampa Bay photography and design services market leader. Some of our agreements and service contracts were quickly put together and worked into use as we began to book a lot of work five years ago. The overhaul is now needed, as business will dramatically increase along with our transition to a focus on commercial photography services within the next year.

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		NEWEST IMAGES NEWS - DEVELOPMENTS AND UPDATES ALERTS - OFFERS Client Testimonial "As far as I am concerned, your people are the smartest in the business and some of the most talented professional photographers in Florida..... " -Niki, a model from Tampa Bay, Florida Friday, August 11, 2006 - Service Line Work We have more work on our service lines this weekend than we have done in five years. Our business advisory board has ordered an overhaul of our service agreements and legal contracts. We will be meeting with our attorney and our legal team in downtown Tampa Saturday to go over these changes and sign off on them Current pending contracts will be grandfathered in, and existing contracts will be honored. Policy changes are in effect, too, with a "comp card" rule applied to stock photography model eligibility requirements (matching a 45% forced decrease in stock photography resource allocations due to a conflict with our other service lines - Stock photography agreements will now be offered as a post-service option for our other service lines as an alternative to straight-out stock bookings). Qualifying models for booking consideration of any stock photography session or commercial photography session will include a reference evaluation on every photographer they have worked with, and references will be checked in the booking process. We will be using a "25" or college student qualifier rule for consultation qualifying screening, and there will be an overhaul in our paperwork, our CDS, and our client tracking system. For the first time, we will begin promoting our allies at Independent Modeling and the benefits of our collaborative packages in all consultations and service line bookings, and as a result we will dramatically increase in support and financing to our modeling resource site friend. We will be increasing our support of Independent Modeling and the Independent Sites by over 400%, as we have reduced confidence in doing business with Tampa Bay based model and talent agencies. Independent Modeling and the Independent Sites will see an incredible level of updates in the next three weeks. We will be streamlining how we do business and will be adopting our 2007 standards this fall. Our main portfolio will be redone and new forms will be created to support business operations. Referrals from satisfied clients and subsequent bookings have recently exceeded the bookings that we get from conventional marketing efforts. This may be the start of a trend in our model portfolio photography and actor/ talent head shot photography services. There are also indications that an increasing number of models who are represented by Tampa Bay and Orlando model and talent agencies are passing over the photographers that agencies try to force on them and they book us for what they need. There is evidence that this is a growing trend, too. A new tiered rate system for model portfolio photography services and actor/ talent head shot photography services was unveiled today, and may be adopted soon as our new standard. Our rates will be adjusted in October. Our CDS (Client Delivery System) will be adjustable and scalable if any rates are adjusted, as CDS terms are included in set service packages and the client, not us, pays for them. Work in the studio will be done this weekend, too. Our main computer has over 100 Gigs of photographs on file, and many of those files need to be archived and purged from the system to support increased bookings (and maybe we will be able to finally locate Ingrid Suchit’s pictures while we are at it). We will be cleaning computer hard drives, adding physical file cabinets for paperwork, will be working on our client services telecommunications system (at night, when we don’t get constant calls), and will be adding tracking cards and an organized client paperwork system designed to support initial and continued client contact. Some of this maintenance is long overdue and is a result of our busy nature as the Tampa Bay photography and design services market leader. Some of our agreements and service contracts were quickly put together and worked into use as we began to book a lot of work five years ago. The overhaul is now needed, as business will dramatically increase along with our transition to a focus on commercial photography services within the next year. NEXT NEWS - PREVIOUS NEWS - NEWS DIRECTORY ______________________________ SPECIAL OFFERS - ALERTS
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