I seem to get bit in the butt too much.
Posted on July 8, 2011
I have been somewhat frustrated these past few weeks. I have come to realize that I am going to have to change the way I am doing things. It’s unfortunate and I feel as though I am almost mourning what was and what I hoped was going to work. I am going to have to put into effect a deadline for orders, and if that deadline is not met I am going to have to go with a late fee of $50 to be charged per week that your order is not received. Here is my reasoning:
I am not doing this to be a pain or to be difficult. Here is what has been happening. I will bend over backwards to schedule photo sessions, shoot them, spend many many hours preparing the gallery and loading the images. I will then have times when too many people are waiting months upon months and sometimes it creeps up to a year later when the orders will come in. The reason this is a problem is because my family counts on the income from these sessions, so after I set aside time for the session, edit the images, and create the gallery, I end up waiting without compensation for my work and in the mean time, my family and children are the one’s who feel this big delay in income. Even though this is my passion and my God calling as well as my mission to provide services free of charge for those who are sick, struggling or who can not and would not ever be able to afford pictures, it is also a blessing that God has provided my family the opportunity for me to be able to work from home. Allowing me to be with my children everyday, the ability to homeschool and to not miss a moment of these most precious children is the most wonderful blessing. However, this passion helps to feed my family and clothe my children. So, much to my dismay, I must put into effect a deadline.
The new deadline will be: From the date you receive your password for your gallery, you will have 6 weeks to place your order. Every day after that six week deadline you will be charged $7 a day until I receive the order. Your gallery will remain in my database and at anytime you will be able to order more pictures if you would like.
I am still the happy, laid back, fun loving photographer you have always know and that will stay! My butt is getting sore though from having been bit too many times.
