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Office and On-Location Systems: Redundancy and Security Beget Peace of Mind
John Harrington’s Best Business Practices for Photographers, published in 2007 by Thompson Course Technology, covers the focal points of best practices — best practices in interacting with clients, best practices in negotiating contracts and licenses, and best practices in business operations. Harrington wrote this book not only to help photographers see the significant intrinsic value in the work they produce and to minimize their need for validation by photo credit, but also to help them see how they can evolve their business model.
An excerpt from Chapter 20 of this book, titled “Office and On-Location Systems: Redundancy and Security Beget Peace of Mind,” appeared in the Toolbox section of the Spring 2007 ASMP Bulletin. The full contents of Chapter 20, with segments on Redundancy, Communications Networks, Firewalls and System Security, Port Forwarding and more, is offered for download in this PDF file.
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About the book
A truly successful photographic career means not only financial success, but also personal satisfaction and fulfillment. The goal of Best Business Practices for Photographers is to help you achieve success in each of these areas. This book is not a guide to taking better pictures or selling your photography. Instead, it explains how photographers can meet important business objectives. It covers the focal points of best practices: best practices in interacting with clients, best practices in negotiating contracts and licenses, and best practices in business operations. It provides a roadmap for successfully navigating these — and many other — issues facing photographers today.
Features include:
Comprehensive real-world examples illustrate the author’s points, with clear explanations on sometimes seemingly complex matters
A comprehensive guide for working photographers who want to apply best practices to their existing business in order to maximize revenue and client satisfaction
Focus on the need to treat photography as a viable and profitable business — not as a sideline hobby — in order to be successful
Harrington writes in his introduction, “At best, I hope this book helps photographers so that the work they do becomes a more profitable and personally satisfying experience. At the least, I hope this book helps photographers remain in business so that, in the long run, they hopefully can achieve the former objective.”
About the author
John Harrington has built a photography business that has been successful, with income having risen ten-fold since he started. He is a teacher that can communicate to an audience. He has spoken in the past at courses and meetings of The NPPA’s Northern Short Course, The White House News Photographers Association, Smithsonian Institution, Corcoran School of Art and Design, American Society of Media Photographers Capital Region, University of Maryland, Northern Virginia Community College, Trinity College, and the Northern Virginia Photographic Society. He has worked for over 16 years as an active photographer in Washington DC and around the world, working with both editorial and commercial clients. Editorially, his credits have included the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The National Geographic Society, USA Today, People, MTV, and Life. For corporate and public relations clients, John has successfully placed images with the wire services (Associated Press, Reuters, Gannett, Agence France Presse, and UPI) over three hundred times. Commercially, John has worked with well over half of the top fortune 50 companies, and even more of the top 500. Ad campaigns for Seimens, Coca Cola, General Motors, Bank of America, and Freddie Mac, to name a few, have been seen worldwide.