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Quality Enhances Perception of Value

When you are looking into offering printed photo books to your clients or you are thinking about marketing your photography business a bit differently, one of the things that you are going to want to be sure of is that the perception of value of your work is high. Simply put, the higher the perception of value that consumers attach to your work, the more that you are going to be able to charge appropriate prices for portrait sessions, weddings, events and even retouching work.

When you’re using printed photo books, you’ll find that you are able to increase the perception of value of your work - provided, of course, you make an effort to use high-quality printed photo books. You’ll want to be sure that you’re choosing books that are well-bound, that have great color and that are built to your specifications.

In other words, in order to enhance the perception of value of your work, you are going to find that it’s a good idea to focus on the quality of your work and the quality of the ways in which you share that work with others. Whether you are creating a photo book as an album for your clients or you are looking for a better way of marketing yourself, keep in mind, the perception of value is going to have a huge impact on your ability to get work and grow your business.

Perception of Value: Using Photo Books to Organize Contact Sheets

When it comes to simplifying the process of having a client determine the best shots for printing, it’s important to let them see all of their options. That’s ultimately the reason why you use contact sheets - a chance for them to see all or the shots in one place.

When you start looking at ways to increase the client’s perception of the value of your services, consider the benefits of organizing your contact sheets into a photo book:

  1. When you create a photo book that includes all of the shots from a sitting, your clients are able to have a copy of all of the photos.
  2. When you are able to create a photo book, you’ll find that you’re able to have a better dialog with your clients about the photos that they choose to have printed and about others from the shoot.
  3. When your clients have a photo book with all of the contact sheets from a session you’ll find that your clients are able to get in touch with you if they want more prints down the line.

In other words, when you’re using photo books as a tool for presenting your work to your clients, you’ll find that their perception of the value of your services increases as well.

Perception of Value: Showing Your Clients Why Pro Photo Books Are Better

There’s always going to be discussion amongst your clients that leads them to believe that they can create their own photo books provided you give them digital copies of their photos. As a result, it’s up to you to improve their perception of value.

As a photographer, it’s up to you to show your clients the difference between professional photo books and those photo books that they can go online and make for themselves.

If you plan to offer professional photo books to your clients, one way of encouraging your clients to recognize the value of your photo books is to have copies of the pro photo books that you have to offer and those that they could order for themselves.

When you’re able to show them the greater quality of your pro quality books in comparison to those that they could buy online, their perception of value will improve. They will recognize that while you may charge more, they will be getting a whole lot more for the money.

Perception of Value: Are Your Services Worth Paying for?

Part of running any successful business comes down to the way that your clients or customers think of your service. As a photographer, the perception of value of your work will be based on:

  • The quality of the photos you take;
  • The number of people who have been exposed to your work - in the case of art photographers, how many galleries have you shown in? In the case of photojournalists, which papers and magazines have used your images to compliment a story?
  • The price that you charge for a sitting or for prints;
  • The type of camera you use and where your studio is located;
  • How easy it is to book you for an event.

Each of these things is something that you can have a bit of control over, but each also tends to come down on the buyer’s opinion. Therefore, once you’re doing your best work, it’s up to you to display it well.

Printed photo books that display your best work with a unique layout can be an ideal way of changing the way people look at you as a photographer. Whether you use a photo book as a marketing tool, a display book or as a striking portfolio, you’ll find that you’re able to draw more attention from your customers.

What Is Your Client’s Perception of the Value of Your Services?

You may be the best photographer within 50 miles, but that doesn’t mean that your clients see the value of your work. You may be offering some of the best portrait session pricing in town, but if prospective clients don’t know what you can do for that price, they aren’t likely to use your services.

It all comes down to perception of value: what do your clients - current and prospective clients - see as the value of your services?

Professional photo books can create a greater perception of value: with them, you can enhance the image of your services, show customers your best work and show clients why your services are the right ones for them - why your photographs are the ones that they want to have captured, why your photos are going to be the ones that they share with family and friends.

With a pro photo book, you’ll be able to offer a great service to your customers - coffee table books that capture an event that you were hired to shoot. You’ll be able to set yourself apart, market your work and show others why you’re the only photographer that they’ll want to work with.