Advice for Portrait Studio

[Hani Eid]

I'm planning to open a professional portrait studio in Cairo. The market in
Egypt is not well developed and there is a good potential for extra ordinary
portraits, as opposed to the typical "Say cheese" ones. Should I focus on
the high end of the market and charge high, or is it better to charge normal
rates and go after the already crowded mass market.

Any suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks,

Hani

[digital]

if this is your start of putting together a studio in cairo, then your in
trouble............but my suggestion would to be go after the high end if you
are able to do that type of work..................

[zeitgeist]

I think you have answered your own question.

If you can work with the high end, then you will enjoy more artistic
satisfaction.

There seems to be two profitable markets, high end or low, the middle ground
is where most of the competition is.

the low end requires a high investment in equipment. the high end requires
an investment in social skills and situation.

Hani Eid wrote in message <7e87hr$rv...@news1.emirates.net.ae>...

[Jerry Hammond]

[This followup was posted to rec.photo.technique.people and a copy was
sent to the cited author.]

Swirl? You're Ziggy...to be honest, I'm startled!

Jerry
In article <7e9d57$rdp$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, ziggy_was_my_dog@my-
dejanews.com says...
> Thats funny my stero cost more then you make. And i have never posted a
> negative word about anyone in this room. I just respond too you. P.S. I have
> a transport FS: http://members.aol.com/swiral/home2.html
>
> digita...@mindspring.com wrote: no can do, because i know that just
> sitting here ignoring you and ole dog breath, and then going to the studio
> (which neither one of you will ever be able to afford) and getting to use
> state of the art digital equipment (which the two of you will never be able
> to afford) and shooting images of the beautiful people (which the two of you
> will never get to do) and then getting paid money (which the two of you will
> never get to do) just eats the hell out of you...................
>
> so with that said just remember every time you and ole dog breath make a nasty
> rude ignorant post about me or anyone else in here, i get to do all that fun
> stuff and you are doing nothing but making me enjoy it that much
> more...................
>
> so please keep on posting, i am just gonna sit back ignore them and laugh and
> have fun.................when you all grow up maybe you can have what i
> have................
>
>
> so with that i laugh at
> you.......................hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
>
> no need to reply you have been filtered..............
>
>
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[ziggy_wa...@my-dejanews.com]

[Bernard]

ziggy_wa...@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Thats funny my stero cost more then you make. And i have never posted
> a
> negative word about anyone in this room.

Room? What room? This is an NG, ziggy-dogfart! You must be spending your
days in AOL chat rooms....

Bernard.

[JMessina]

Remember Ziggy is Swirl and from what I have read about Swirl it is not good.

[digital]

nope.................

ERIC IS JUST ERIC...............................

i have never hid behind any fake name....................

Alan wrote:

> JMessina <jmes...@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:19990405132752...@ng-cf1.aol.com...

> > Remember Ziggy is Swirl and from what I have read about Swirl it is not
> good.
>

> Ok let me see if I understand this,
>
> Ziggy is Swirl
> Eric is Fotoguy
> Gyrlyr is GyroGearlooses brother in law
>
> What's with this identity crisis? This is very confusing...

[Courtney Edwards]

Ok guys..can we call a truce or something....

[Alan]

[Classic Photo]

In article <npeO2.2$YG...@newse2.tampabay.rr.com>, ajac...@tampabay.rr.com
says...

>Ok let me see if I understand this,

>Ziggy is Swirl
>Eric is Fotoguy
>Gyrlyr is GyroGearlooses brother in law

>What's with this identity crisis? This is very confusing...

<g> I'm no internet sleuth, but if you review their respective
writing and punctuation styles, it makes sense to me :)

[Fotoguy]

In article <37097DF1...@mindspring.com>, digita...@mindspring.com
says...

>nope.................

>ERIC IS JUST ERIC...............................

>i have never hid behind any fake name....................

Bull friggen shit. Pay no attention to the idiot behind
the curtain :)

[Pete Dixon]

Okay. Instead, why don't you just talk dirty to us?

Courtney Edwards wrote in message

[Willis B. Boyce]

Hani,

Good advice for any business is to be cautious and start small. What you
want to do is produce much better work than your competitors for more or
less the same price or maybe a little more. Once you have a steady stream
of revenue, you can experiment with raising your prices and testing the
demand at each price level.

Think about it this way: if you enter the market at the high end, you're
going to be competing with people who are probably at least as good as you
are and who have established reputations. There may not be room in that
market for newcomer. But if you price yourself lower, you'll be competing
with people who probably aren't as good as you are. It'll be much easier
for you to get business that way, and as your reputation grows, you can
raise your prices until you reach a comfortable level.

Willis

Hani Eid <han...@emirates.net.ae> wrote in message
news:7e87hr$rv...@news1.emirates.net.ae...

[digital]

come on now pete, if she talks dirty to you then you want need to call
my sex line anymore..................

eric