Photographers, How To Get Your Models (Clients) To Be On Time
Wait time fee is a per-minute charge which starts a few minutes after a driver arrives at your location and continues until the driver starts the trip. The fee helps to compensate for the driver’s efforts and time spent waiting.
This is what modern taxis do. What I mean by modern taxis is the new transport services with the use of technology like Uber, Bolt, Yango and Taxify. You compensate the driver when you delay, or to simply put, you are charged a fee when you delay. As the old saying goes: “Time is money.”
The Lombardi Time
Vince Lombardi, the football coach was known for his punctuality. Lombardi time was defined as “fifteen minutes before the scheduled time.” If the bus was scheduled to leave at 9:00am, all the players were trained to be there at 8:45am. If you weren’t there, the bus would leave without you.
How Can Photographers Practice This
Simple. Make sure you communicate this in your contract or when you are speaking to any potential client. Be a pro! Make it known that your time is useful to you and you don’t want any time wasted.
When time is wasted, when the client delays your time, they are charged a fee. Determine what amount you would want to charge. You are to be compensated for them delaying you.
What I Have Come To Realize
Humans automatically care for their money. Horrible humans care for their money more than other humans. What do you do? Target their monies. People do not like to be fined. For this reason, when their monies are targeted, they tend to comply with the rules and regulations.
A Traffic ticket
A traffic ticket is a notice issued by a law enforcement official to a motorist or other road user, indicating that the user has violated traffic laws. In Ghana, nobody is ever issued a traffic ticket, at least, not that I know of. For this reason, they drive haphazardly and easily run red lights. When their monies are targeted, to pay some fines when they disobey road signs and rules, they will be more careful.
People generally care for their monies and do not want to pay more than needs to be paid.
Communicate this with your client. You delay me by 10, 15, 20 minutes, you’re going to have to pay me this much. Do this with free photo sessions.
What do you think, photographers, leave your thoughts in the comment box below.
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