He Lost a Job Because He Charged Too Little — 9 Years of Flickr Studio

Kweku Agyemang submitted his work for a job. They asked for a quotation. He sent one in. He did not get the job.When he dug into why, the answer surprised him. The client did not think the work he submitted was his because the price was so low relative to the quality that they assumed someone else had done it.He lost the job because he charged too little.Kweku has been running Flickr Studio for nine years. He shoots corporate headshots, real estate, events, documentary photography, and has shot for Google and UNICEF. In this episode we talk about the internal battle most creatives never discuss openly, the tension between loving what you do and believing you deserve to be paid properly for it.We also get into his approach to marketing, what he calls implied marketing, and why he has never gotten a single client from Instagram despite being a photographer. Every client comes from Facebook where his personal page reaches ten to fifteen thousand people per post.This is one of the most honest conversations about building a creative business in Ghana that we have had on this podcast.