Daily FRO: The Term "INVESTMENT" In Photography
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Jared Polin
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🗓️ 11 February 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This is the Daily FRO for Feb 10th 2018.
Today I talk about why I hate the term investment as it pertains to wedding photography.
I'd love to hear your thought on this one, so if you have some and I know you do, call me and leave a voice mail. 2674546376
Thank you for listening and enjoy this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Jared Polin Froano's photo.com and this is your daily fro for February 10th, though it already |
| 0:09.3 | has ventured into February 11th. It's currently 12.12 a.m. on the 11th, but this counts for my daily |
| 0:16.6 | fro. So if you're new to the daily fro, it's where i sit down and talk about what's on my mind |
| 0:21.8 | today and it's kind of like a journal like i give the time and the date just so that it's stamped |
| 0:29.2 | and i know when it was if i ever go back and listen and it's just a fun thing for me to do and i think |
| 0:34.3 | you guys are enjoying it as well and if if you are enjoying it, I keep giving |
| 0:38.0 | my phone number 267-4546376 is the number to call if you want to just share a story about your |
| 0:45.3 | photography, about you, about how something I've done has helped you out and whether you like |
| 0:50.4 | the Daily Fro or not. So, yesterday or today, whatever it is, I put up the video that said, |
| 0:59.1 | stop saying, quote, unquote, investment for wedding photography. |
| 1:04.3 | Now, I wanted to dive a little deeper into this because it is really one of those things |
| 1:08.4 | that I hate seeing. |
| 1:10.3 | I, okay, hates a strong word, right, |
| 1:12.5 | as Stephen's mother would say, but I don't think that investment is the right word for wedding |
| 1:18.5 | photography. Now, let's go to the definition of investment as the dictionary says when you |
| 1:26.6 | Google investment definition. It says the action or |
| 1:30.7 | process of investing money for profit or material results. Hmm. I should have left out that or |
| 1:39.7 | material results part. And then we could have just stuck with the for-profit part. |
| 1:46.0 | But I don't see, yes, let's look at it like this. |
| 1:50.0 | Yes, I see you are investing in your photography for your wedding. |
| 1:55.0 | I get it. But when you think about investment, you're trying to cover up the fact that that's the paying |
| 2:02.2 | part, and you think that by saying investment, it means that you can charge more because it carries |
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