Mmmmm... get your own iPhone app/port for only $249!!

Oh, as a point of reference. I try to stay in the B2B world. I do very little retail portrait work. I do not see this as overly handy for retail photographers. But freelance, corporate, etc..etc. I see it working a lot better.

Mark1 wrote in post #9874971
Oh, as a point of reference. I try to stay in the B2B world. I do very little retail portrait work. I do not see this as overly handy for retail photographers. But freelance, corporate, etc..etc. I see it working a lot better.

As a business to business photographer, that'd be even less useful, IMHO.

Retail I see mainly as once a year customers. Christmas shots and maybe easter shots. And seniors are a one time deal. However corporate work is continual. There is always a new product coming out, or updates to an existing product. You have the marketing mailers that are at least quarterly, "company propaganda"... the posters they put on the wall as internal advertising, trade show handouts, The trade show signs are changed all the time, events they host, product launch partys, the list is endless. You got to stay in the front of the list to get the jobs!!

My "day job" is in a lab for a bio-med company. (Lucky I am second shift so I can run my photography during normal business hours) There are 4 of us that do photography on the side. We do almost all the work for the US division. And it just does not end. The 4 of us basically volunteer out time to the company. GASP!!! I know!! but it gets us out of the lab for a while and keeps us in practice.

Mark1 wrote in post #9875093
Retail I see mainly as once a year customers. Christmas shots and maybe easter shots. And seniors are a one time deal. However corporate work is continual. There is always a new product coming out, or updates to an existing product. You have the marketing mailers that are at least quarterly, "company propaganda"... the posters they put on the wall as internal advertising, trade show handouts, The trade show signs are changed all the time, events they host, product launch partys, the list is endless. You got to stay in the front of the list to get the jobs!!

My "day job" is in a lab for a bio-med company. (Lucky I am second shift so I can run my photography during normal business hours) There are 4 of us that do photography on the side. We do almost all the work for the US division. And it just does not end. The 4 of us basically volunteer out time to the company. GASP!!! I know!! but it gets us out of the lab for a while and keeps us in practice.

In that case, shouldn't the client buy the app and have the photographers install it on their phones instead? You know - to let them know DING! "hey I have a new product I need shot!" DING! "'Nother one!"

That would be nice. Only problem is the product manager is the one who has to let marketing know the product is ready then they have to OK it with accounting, who will send a memo to purchasing, who calls me........ you get the idea. The app gives them all touch points that may not directly make them come to me (consciously), but it hope it does improve the chances(subconsciously​).