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Paying a pro photographer to come take a few shots of the place pays off immensely in the number of bookings. It's just good marketing.
by grinich 16y ago
Paying a pro photographer to come take a few shots of the place pays off immensely in the number of bookings. It's just good marketing.
- samd 16y agoI'm just surprised hosts have enough marketing wherewithal to do that on their own. Though maybe AirBnB makes a point of telling people to get professional photos done.
- Alex3917 16y agoWhy don't any of the major dating sites have contracts with a pro photographer in each city to do head shots for cheap or free? It seems like such a slam dunk idea given the economics, and yet none of the major dating sites want to do it. (Having emailed the staff of some of these sites with this idea a couple years ago on behalf of a photographer friend and receiving no response.)
- theDoug 16y agoMajor dating sites likely still largely pull revenue from advertisement and pay-to-message hurdles. As a photographer, however, I can attest that there is a market for people looking to pay to have a better Facebook/LinkedIn/Dating-Site profile photo.
- Alex3917 16y agoIf a good photo dramatically increases the amount of people who want to send you messages, then wouldn't subsidizing your userbase to have good photos be enormously profitable? Especially since getting just 2% of your users to take advantage of the service could make the other 98% much more likely to become paying users.
- elvirs 16y agoactually in Istanbul there was a studio that offered a service of making photos that look like shot in different parts of the world, partying with friends, on a sandy beach with cocktails in hand, etc. for people who otherwise never gets to be in those places and envy others on social networks that do :)
- brown9-2 16y agoA user who does this and is successful will no longer have a need for the dating site profile, or to pay the monthly fee for the site.
- RK 16y agoDepends on what they're using the site for (e.g. random hook ups means repeat customer).
- sunkencity 16y agobecause the prevailing style of personal photo is "Internet Disease" :P "Internet Disease means displaying old, faded, blurred or otherwise non-descript photographs of oneself, taken with bad lighting and at awkward angles" - in order to hide obesity and acne. I'd give a link to the encyclopedia dramatica definition of it if it were not for the popups on that page.