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<p>Has anyone here paid for an enhanced listing on the Production Paradise website and if so<br> did you get any business from the listing ?</p>

<p>I am looking for the best<strong> full screen</strong> Wordpress themes currently available. There are so many out there I would like to hear from people in this group with your experiences. Thanks. <br> I did do a search in the archives (or tried to at least!) and got linked through to Google. </p>

<p>I have paid for Google Adwords on and off over the past few years but found that I was paying a lot of money (about $300-400 per month ) with very little in the way of results. I planned my keywords carefully and eliminated those which I thought were attracting useless click-throughs. I would love to hear your experiences and all suggestions will be appreciated. (I did a search for this topic and much to my surprise, found nothing)!<br> <strong>Please note that I did search the archives on the subject, most of the threads are five or ten years old or older so I would like to have fresh imput on this subject. Thanks.</strong></p>

<p>I would like to hear from my professional photographer colleagues and serious amateurs about the current favorite point and shoot camera. I would probably still go for the Canon G16 or Canon Sureshot S120. Your suggestions please ?</p>

<p>I have been in the business for over forty years and have usually left my stock sales up to the agencies that handle <br> sales and pricing. I don't usually do a lot of direct sales, certainly not on the scale that I will describe here. I have been contacted directly by a major international advertising agency who would like to purchase licensing rights<br> for one of my images with the following criteria: </p> <p><em>"We are seeking a quotation for usage rights of one of your landscape images. The requirement would be for 3 years, global usage for use by an international bank. Use to include large display billboard/posters in airports, press, online so basically all media usage except TV. 3 year period must be exclusive for this image. Kindly provide a quote for this usage. Thank you".</em><br> <em> </em><br> I have gone online to a couple of the big stock agencies and could not get a very good idea of what I should charge for this - I am sure I would have to speak to one of their reps to get a clear idea as the websites just don't allow for all of the details of the request for usage that I have been sent.<br> Anybody ready to give me a fairly solid idea of what I should be asking?</p>

<p>In the past I have used Modern Postcard in Carlsbad, CA to print and mail my promotional postcards. Considering the <br> premium prices they charge I have not been all that pleased with the results in the past year or so . Recommendations for online printers who also do mailings would be most appreciated. </p>

<p>Hello,</p> <p>First of all, thanks to all of you who have posted comments here.<br> Further, to be blunt, for those of you who have faulted me for going ahead on the work without having received my advance , I have this to say -<br> I love my work which for the most part is taking photographs of beautiful buildings. Perhaps your work is so boring and mundane that you only do it for the money. Too bad for you. I was in the country, I knew where the two properties were and I knew they were both interesting structures. That is just why I do architectural photography.<br> In fact I sent a gentle reminder to the accounts department and two days later my advance posted to my bank account. Still no word from the people I met with but that is OK. I will now send samples of the work done so far and not proceed with further shooting until I hear from them.</p>

<p >A few months ago I received a request for an estimate to photograph two buildings in the Arab Gulf . The architects who contacted me are based in Singapore. I submitted my offer and heard nothing from them for a month or two when I happened to be in Singapore on assignment. I called their office and asked if I could pass by for a short meeting, thinking in fact that the job I had bid for was already taken by someone else. Very nice, obviously successful office where I met two very agreeable people including one of the studio's principals. We chatted for a while and they informed that the job I had bid on was still open. I asked what I needed to do to clinch the work and they told me it was mine. A few days later I sent my standard work agreement form with a clause for 35% advance, etc,etc. Waited a week or more and heard nothing. I had also requested that they send me a letter of introduction (by email of course) to forward to the management of the two properties to be photographed in order to gain permission to do the work. I also asked for any particular comments on what they were looking for. Waited a few more days and heard nothing. I had been emailing only the principal I had met with. After this long wait I then copied all correspondence to the other architect who was in on our meeting. Within a day I received a signed copy of the agreement form but was told that my advance could not be paid until later in the month as the person responsible for payments was out of the country (that always sounds fishy to me when I hear it).<br />In the meantime I have traveled to the location where I had other work during which time I put in about a day of doing exteriors of their projects for which I did not need permissions which still had not been forthcoming.<br /><br />So, it has now been almost two weeks since the payment should have come through to my bank account and nothing has been sent. Also, no reply to any of my several of my emails.<br /><br />I have been in business for over forty years and have never had to deal with something quite like this.<br /><br />What would you do? (I have not tried phone calls as I figure they will not take my calls if they are not answering my emails. Also, to be honest, I would find it humiliating!)</p>