I've got a meeting tomorrow with my soon to be boss again about an interesting opportunity!
Last summer I working at a language centre as an activity leader taking students out to loads of cool places and doing various activities. I took quite a lot of pictures whilst doing so and these were always put up on the notice board and I let the students have copies. They were very popular so this year we got thinking about making a little photo shop within the company, framing up the pictures and selling them onto students.
Quite excited about it really! Could make a bit of extra cash doing something I enjoy! Anyway, I've been putting together a few ideas and was just wondering if anyone had any previous experience doing something like this...
I dont have access to a decent photo printer so its probably going to work out best to print with someone like photobox.com. It would be a disadvantage not being able to hand over the pictures straight away but at least the quality will be very good for a low price! Could always buy a printer at a later date if we feel its necessary. Then there are the frames, currently still looking for a local supplier but have found a website called fastframes which might be the business. Will be about £2.30 +p&p for a small alu glass frame which doesnt sound to bad. Leaving a final product to retail somewhere between £7-10.
Just got to nail down percentage profits, I've a feeling the company are going to ask for 50:50, which isnt too bad seeing as they supply the shop and students! But then It's all my own equipment & software, i'll be the one taking and processing the pictures, packaging them up and advertising + selling. So i'm still deciding on trying to get a better deal...
Hmmm, seems a bit of a mind dump post but hopefully something constructive might come out of it! Any thoughts much appreachiated.
Last summer I working at a language centre as an activity leader taking students out to loads of cool places and doing various activities. I took quite a lot of pictures whilst doing so and these were always put up on the notice board and I let the students have copies. They were very popular so this year we got thinking about making a little photo shop within the company, framing up the pictures and selling them onto students.
Quite excited about it really! Could make a bit of extra cash doing something I enjoy! Anyway, I've been putting together a few ideas and was just wondering if anyone had any previous experience doing something like this...
I dont have access to a decent photo printer so its probably going to work out best to print with someone like photobox.com. It would be a disadvantage not being able to hand over the pictures straight away but at least the quality will be very good for a low price! Could always buy a printer at a later date if we feel its necessary. Then there are the frames, currently still looking for a local supplier but have found a website called fastframes which might be the business. Will be about £2.30 +p&p for a small alu glass frame which doesnt sound to bad. Leaving a final product to retail somewhere between £7-10.
Just got to nail down percentage profits, I've a feeling the company are going to ask for 50:50, which isnt too bad seeing as they supply the shop and students! But then It's all my own equipment & software, i'll be the one taking and processing the pictures, packaging them up and advertising + selling. So i'm still deciding on trying to get a better deal...
Hmmm, seems a bit of a mind dump post but hopefully something constructive might come out of it! Any thoughts much appreachiated.
