Comments on: When Copycats Come Calling https://daredreamer.com/when-copycats-come-calling/ The Sites & Sounds of Creative Expression Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:29:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Ron Dawson https://daredreamer.com/when-copycats-come-calling/#comment-2021 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:29:28 +0000 http://daredreamermag.com/?p=6894#comment-2021 In reply to happytearsproductions.

I can understand the feeling. We were in a similar situation with the photogs who contacted us. They weren’t in our market and the fact that they called and asked showed some class.

]]> By: happytearsproductions https://daredreamer.com/when-copycats-come-calling/#comment-2020 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:24:45 +0000 http://daredreamermag.com/?p=6894#comment-2020 Excellent timing Ron! I found just last night that there’s a local photographer who seems to be leaning toward marketing my very specialized genre. I expected this eventually, it’s not practical to assume that others won’t want to pursue a similar interest, especially since I’ve spent so much time and effort getting my name out and my brand recognized. What I think is unprofessional, is the look and feel of her website is extremely similar to mine! I will admit when I was starting out, I often networked with professionals already in this field and one in particular had a similar style to mine and a great way to organize information on her website that was similar to what I planned on including in mine. The difference, as you mentioned above, is that I called to make sure that she was ok with the similarities. We were already networking and her business is not geographically close to mine, so it’s something that we were both ok with. It’s not that I feel my market is threatened, it’s just that it seems unprofessional when I’ve spent so much time, money and effort getting my brand known in the community for another artist to have a strikingly similar look. Thanks for the thoughts, as usual! 🙂

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