Client Update 2024
Without exception, all of my clients seem to be doing great right now, which makes me very happy. I’m grateful to be part of your growth and to assist you in reaching the next milestone each quarter and each year.
Your growth accelerates my growth in return, and as my client base continued to expand past critical mass last year, I started the process of finding someone to help me with editing and retouching.
After several trial runs with different individuals, I’ve finally contracted an editor who will be assisting me with upcoming projects. Kuba is someone I found far outside the local market, but is a brilliant editor who works in a similar style to me and also has incredibly high standards for his work. This is a huge step, as it finally expands my business from a one-man operation into a creative collaboration that will work much more efficiently for everyone.
I will still handle the final pass on every image, so the only difference you will see or feel within that process is an increase in the quality of both process and outcome: I will have more time to communicate with you on the front end and more brainspace to fine-tune your images on the back end.
As with all growth, there is an economic change coming as well. In addition to the above, this email is also a forecast of an increase in pricing, as well as changes in the booking process for architectural and commercial work, effective for all work booked after June 1st 2024. There is a document attached to this email that has all the new pricing laid out, as well as some notes on how scheduling, payment and revision process will work after June 1st.
Growing a business and improving my product doesn’t happen in a vacuum. The level of work that I would like to offer will require more moving parts in the coming year, but these changes are all for the business to service you better and more efficiently.
I take great pride in doing good work, but at the end of the day, images are an investment you make into your own business, to raise your revenue and grow your business. Every professional decision I make, such as hiring an editor to help, is to invest in your goals as much or more as my own.
As always, I am grateful to you for your continued support and friendship since the launch of the business in 2018, through the dark time when it was on life support in 2020, and into the prosperous present where we can all breathe a little easier and have fun in the process.
Please feel free to call or text me with any questions you have about the changes.
All the best (and only the best),
Steven