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Back Up - the number one reason for hosting outside the office
Need for Back Up - you ask some of the other photographers using ProMediaserve, we all have problems. With an expensive pile of broken hard drives and faulty DVDs sitting in the office, at least there is piece of mind the best images are sitting on servers out of my office. We can lose our laptops, have them stolen, have power failures, or worse have the office and all DVDs and backup hard drives destroyed and we still have an image collection. Back in the days of original slides , loss in the post, by clients or in the office through damage was a disaster. With digital images there is no excuse for losing anything ever.
Stock Photography - never miss a potential sale
By putting stock images online through his ProMediaserve account, clients can view and select stock images 24/7 without any input required from Tim, so he can be deep in the middle of the desert with piece of mind he is not mission sales. No more stress about being away from his desk, or making selections whilst trying to guess what the client needs, then burning a CD or DVD and heading to send it out at expensive overnight shipping rates. ProMediaserve pays for its self just with what he save in postage on sending out speculative selections.
By adding a credit card gateway, Tim can now sell stock to unknown customers who need an image immediately. And he can make small sales, where in the past the time needed to do a selection and ship out wasn't worth it for a purchase such as a website. Permissions allow, regular clients to have full access to downloads and pay at the end of the month, rights calculators give the price to invoice. For magazines, special download permission are given with agreement to pay if used to keep the relationships prior to digital in place. all this means that Tim can spend more time shooting and less time worrying about the distribution and sales.
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