Bill Bachmann: Ardently Rights-Managed - Part 1

Posted on 12/1/2009 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (3)

Travel photographer Bill Bachmann is an ardent advocate for basing stock image pricing on usage (the rights-managed model), not on file size (the royalty-free and microstock models). In 2009, Bachmann is on track to earn almost $1 million from licensing his travel and lifestyle images.

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Bill Bachmann Posted Dec 1, 2009
Thanks, Jim. Your interview questions for Part II should also help others see the possibilities of success if we maintain the premise of not giving our images away for almost no dollars.

I want to help others any way I can. This has been a GREAT profession I have had and I want to leave it to the next generation as a CAREER rather than a part-time hobby for future photographers. The only way photographers can do that is with sound business systems and practices.

You offer a great service to allow others to look into those possibilities. That is why I allowed you to interview me for both parts of our long talk. I hope the Q&A in PART II really helps open some people's vision to a road that we all can take rather than letting clients buy pictures for $1 ---and later have no career because we gave our work away.

Keep having this "Selling Stock" vehicle to expose us all to other ideas, systems and progressions.

Bill Bachmann
Orlando, Florida

Gerard Fritz Posted Dec 1, 2009
Bill Bachmann shows that not all photographers see each other as mere competitors, chasing ever lower fees to the bottom of the barrel. As long as there are "Walmart Photographers" willing to sell at the lowest price, stock will only limp along on life support. We all need to learn to say no to sales not worthy of one's work.

Mary Kate Denny Posted Dec 2, 2009
Excellent article to give everyone a boost at staying positive and unique.
Thanks. Mary Kate Denny

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