Comments on: Why “No” Is One of Your Most Powerful Negotiating Tools http://rising.blackstar.com/why-no-is-one-of-your-most-powerful-negotiating-tools.html Professional Photography Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Collin Photographyhttp://rising.blackstar.com/why-no-is-one-of-your-most-powerful-negotiating-tools.html/comment-page-1#comment-7103 Jason Collin Photography Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:40:48 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=7858#comment-7103 Yes...there has to come a point when a photographer stops saying yes to anything, and starts only saying yes to the right things. I played hardball with a prospective client over the weekend charging much more than I would have even as recently as this past summer. I decided to risk starvation and say no I cannot do it for anything less than this price.Still waiting to hear back from that client! But she said she liked me and wanted to go with me, just had to confirm the budget.... Yes...there has to come a point when a photographer stops saying yes to anything, and starts only saying yes to the right things. I played hardball with a prospective client over the weekend charging much more than I would have even as recently as this past summer. I decided to risk starvation and say no I cannot do it for anything less than this price.

Still waiting to hear back from that client! But she said she liked me and wanted to go with me, just had to confirm the budget....

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