{"id":282,"date":"2013-11-24T06:33:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/?p=282"},"modified":"2013-11-24T06:33:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T19:33:11","slug":"my-current-struggle-with-fotrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2013\/11\/my-current-struggle-with-fotrel\/","title":{"rendered":"My Current Struggle with Fotrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started Fotrel back in 2008. Fotrel is a web gallery with shopping cart for wedding photographers.<\/p>\n

The idea is that a photographer makes photos available for viewing on the web after the wedding. Guests view photos. Some of them buy prints. The photographer makes money by keeping margin.<\/p>\n

Results so far: I have 30 clients. Fotrel brings about $400 per month. Not bad but not great either.<\/p>\n

What I find is that wedding photographers are not really excited about the whole idea. I have no proof, this is just my gut feeling.<\/p>\n

Also, 10 of my clients didn’t upload anything in the last 3 months. So they pay for my system but don’t use it. 20 of my clients didn’t get any sales in the last 3 months.<\/p>\n

It looks like Fotrel doesn’t solve the real pain for photographers. I’m yet to find this pain point.<\/p>\n

What to do?<\/h1>\n

I have an idea: change Fotrel to make it useful for kids photographers. I had a couple of clients who took pictures of kids at kindergartens. And they were getting a lot of orders.<\/p>\n

Also, few kids photographers looked at Fotrel but didn’t start using it because it didn’t have features that they wanted.<\/p>\n

One piece of advice I got is to speak to 50 kids photographers before adding those missing features.<\/p>\n

The next question is how to reach kids photographers? I tried cold calling – that didn’t work because people were convinced I was trying to sell them something because of my accent. Now I’m thinking of other ways to reach kids photographers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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