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Kevin hang tough. Things are starting to come together. Everything takes time. Been there and done that. Actually still do. It will all come together.

 

After doing photo retouch work from a Flea Market booth (after my commercial customer business was drying up with the bad economy), I quickly learned that any custom work that is done for the general public required that you get at least 60% of the money "up front", because many of them will either forget that they ordered it, won't have the money when it's ready, or have changed their minds and don't want it anymore, but won't come back and tell you. At least, if you get the 60% up front and have priced the job correctly, you have roughly covered the materials costs and your labor costs, but you haven't made a profit. When they didn't come back for their work, I just used their photos as advertising  by printing a "before" to display with the "after" and wrote it off as a "break even". I made sure that I never "lost money" doing work for anyone. No money in advance = no work, and I looked for the next paying customer.  

 

Charley

Makes sense Charley

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Kevin hang tough. Things are starting to come together. Everything takes time. Been there and done that. Actually still do. It will all come together.

 

After doing photo retouch work from a Flea Market booth (after my commercial customer business was drying up with the bad economy), I quickly learned that any custom work that is done for the general public required that you get at least 60% of the money "up front", because many of them will either forget that they ordered it, won't have the money when it's ready, or have changed their minds and don't want it anymore, but won't come back and tell you. At least, if you get the 60% up front and have priced the job correctly, you have roughly covered the materials costs and your labor costs, but you haven't made a profit. When they didn't come back for their work, I just used their photos as advertising  by printing a "before" to display with the "after" and wrote it off as a "break even". I made sure that I never "lost money" doing work for anyone. No money in advance = no work, and I looked for the next paying customer.  

 

Charley

Makes sense Charley

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