Not Christmas eve here though, it is already Christmas day the 25th and almost noon and lunchtime. Gray, foggy, wet, cold, weather outside.
All the best for the season to everyone, here is is no holiday, just a normal working day.
>>>no matter where in its cycle it is.
Try to tell that to everyone who lost money in the dot com boom, not to mention the real estate speculation wave we now see the back end of.
I think we are talking about the same thing though as I don't believe there is only one market with one timing. One variant is the niche marketing aspect. Someone said something like; finding something new is to look in the mirror. I looked at your website and I think you yourself is a very good example of a new approach, not only selling photography, but combining it with writing and, as it looks, focusing on food and cooking. I do something similar, but with travel in Asia. Places white men never gone before.
There we have the "theme photography"/"stock photography" concept again. Not one huge bin with all photos tipped into it, you go to a place on the web, and there are heaps of photos about only food, or only wine, or only medical, etc. There could be a portal in front of them.
I also agree with you that just to look for the timing alone is not the best idea. The best is starting a market trend and the bell curve and then follow it upwards. Look at Apple and the pads -hype -hype -hype -hype -hype -hype - (Just quite a personal opinion, but i think it is expensive hyped up crap), or the "pet rock" hype.
I think that as of today there is in relative terms a very small oversupplied market for the traditional photographer-only. You just can't make a good living by taking photos only and selling them.
After I bought the Canon 5D Mk2, which can do HDTV, I have been inundated with request for making short videos, anything from cooking classes to family outings with the kids, and now a ballet school. It is used mainly in sales activities and businesses are willing to pay well for good quality work.
This has given thought to another "stock photography" idea. One of the TV stations biggest draw-cards is the news, and more and more news is international. Why not make "blue screen" background videos from different places around the world and put them on a stock video site specifically aimed at TV stations. I don't know if it exists, but I have not seen it.
The reporter stand in front of a blue screen and reporting live from Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. It looks like he was on site reporting live to the viewer.
On 25-Dec-2010 10:23 AM, Brian Yarvin wrote:
> But that is what I mean. Remember the bell shaped curve of business. The
> dot com boom and bust is a typical one. You want to jump on when it
> going up, and jump off when it is going down, but before it hits the
> rocks at the bottom. The up-side and the down-side of the bell curve.
>
> It is just that I am looking for the next opportunity, the up-side of
> the nexxt..........................?????
Rolf:
This strategy is called "market timing" and is considered the worst way to approach a
business by almost everybody who's ever commented in the subject.
A saner approach would be to see how one fits in the market no matter where in its cycle it is.
And BTW...is it Christmas Eve? Is it actually almost time for midnight mass?
Enough business talk!!
Happy holidays to everybody on the list and may the next year be your best yet.
Brian Yarvin
Author, Educator, Photographer
http://www.brianyarvin.com
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