Stu Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Greetings. I have had an email from a local holiday lettings company asking for a price for using my images in the calendar they produce each year for their customers and owners. They have over 200 properties and a posh looking website. They mention a print run of 250. I'm not sure what price to give them and I wondered if anyone could suggest what they might consider a reasonable price. Obviously I don't want to lose the business but I don't want to give my work away. Thanks in advance.Stuart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 I would start by asking what their budget for photos is and go from there. With such a small print run, they may not be paying much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 If a small business has never licensed images before it may have no idea. For the calendar only, no other use, all 12 months plus cover, I wouldn't be expecting much more that £25-50/ image, I don't think. More if you're not doing the whole calendar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 - and if you settle at your lower end be sure to get some copies of the calendar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Hanging on my wall is a very nice butterfly calendar that someone gave me. The calendar is made up entirely of images from a certain big microstock agency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 Thanks for the replies. I did ask what their budget was via email but I have not heard back. I was thinking just that price range, and that seems fair.Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Thanks for the replies. I did ask what their budget was via email but I have not heard back. I was thinking just that price range, and that seems fair. Cheers! Reason for not hearing back? Even though they asked for a price perhaps they were hoping you would say they could have them. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Thanks for the replies. I did ask what their budget was via email but I have not heard back. I was thinking just that price range, and that seems fair. Cheers! Reason for not hearing back? Even though they asked for a price perhaps they were hoping you would say they could have them. Allan That's a real possibility, unfortunately. I imagine there isn't much to be made from publishing calendars these days. Don't most people now hang their iPads on the wall instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 People still buy calendars. ...someone even bought me one for Christmas - very nice it is too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Oops. My office one is still on January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 People still buy calendars. ...someone even bought me one for Christmas - very nice it is too! Were the calendar images credited to a microstock agency? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 I buy one every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylineboy Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 i use a generic one, no frills for date only, but do use my phones app which cycles through images as a wall one would - without the manual flipping ha ha. with regards to above someone saying - make sure you get a few copies of the calendar... is this the done-thing these days? i was told by a good old photographer friend, who since retired that he insisited on a "voucher copy" of anything his images were used in. and indeed asked me recently if i wanted any of his many books that these appeared in - as he is running short of space and thinning out. so when i started this stock biz in the past couple of years, i too thought that may be a nice way to keep track of what images are where, and also a lil bonus, having a freebie! and i have encountered nothing but resistance to the idea! is this simply an outdated practice now?? although i have added an "extra" % charge for sales, for the waiving of this freebie! successfully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 An agency won't give tear sheets nowadays, too much work, and you would find out who their customers were. You can fidn a good number of them with Google and the like- probably a third to a half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 People still buy calendars. ...someone even bought me one for Christmas - very nice it is too! Were the calendar images credited to a microstock agency? The calendar that was bought for me? Not credited at all! Calendars I've sold to recently: RM for B2B, decent price (not here). Here? Sold RM photos of calendars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 I've had five calendar sales over the years ranging from $9.60 to $161. Latest one was for $100 earlier this year, so it looks as if they are still happening. Personally, I prefer dead-tree calendars to the electronic ones and always buy two or three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Just 8 for me in all this time. I would have guessed there had been more. One for 50; one for 90 the rest 100. Remember these are huge bulk deals. That's pretty consistent with what I've billed clients myself: 50 (=600 for a whole) to 250 for a page. But those are Euros and the Alamy ones are $$ and gross. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 I've had 6. $50, $160, $150, $100, $130, and $35. The last for a page a day. All in all, prices are decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 I get 3 complimentary copies of each calendar where one of my images is used. That is from one company that I directly supply to. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyn Llun Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 A well-known photographic materials manufacturer, (real paper), asked to use two of my b&w images for their calendar some years ago. We agreed free paper for a fixed period of time. They underestimated how much I eat of the stuff so I ended up with a very, very good deal. Far more in value to me the end, than I would have obtained by a straight monetary license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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