End of the trial – Facts and Figures

DAY 113 OF 1825 // MONEY - £551.00

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Today, the facts and the figures.

*drum roll* I made £1,120 profit over running costs (rent paid, consumables bought and wages given)

You can see a day to day break down here, on a basic ledger I made earlier in the year.

Please note: The Paper stock is hard to measure, I spent about £60 on paper and had loads left over on certain sizes, the next week I had to top up different sizes, I rounded it up to £100 for safety.

If I include my wages into my profit, I would’ve seen 100% return on my investment, which is amazing, however, I did already own quite a lot of the equipment to start with. Future studios will need about one and half months to clear it’s own investment fully, which is not bad going, with a bit of a tweak I reckon I could get this down to one month.

Facts & Figures – For 6th of April to the 18th of April
Turnover: £3,605.50
Outgoings: £2,485.00 (Rent, Wages and Consumables)
Profit: £1,120.50
Photos Taken: >5000 / 103GB worth
Customers served: Exactly 100
Customer Complaints: 1
Average Customers per day: 7.6 (Over thirteen days, we was closed for one day)
Average spend: £36.00
Biggest Customer: £85.00
Biggest Combined family customer: £120.00 (3 orders from the same set of photos)
Easter Eggs given out: 57 / 60 (Mostly bribes to get kids to sit still)
Juggling balls stolen: 1
Times asked if we had a website: <20
Times asked if we do house calls: <10
Times asked if I bought into a franchise: 2
Times asked to work for next to nothing for other companies: 3
How many times new born babies puked: 3
Youngest new born: 4 weeks old

Best Moment: Photographing this young family, they came well dressed, they knew what they wanted, they posed and got amazing photos – They spent 15 minutes getting photographed and spent £65 – perfect customer. (click thumbs for bigger images)

Worst Moment: Photographing a mother and her two children, they was playing up, they weren’t going to play ball ever. I had a bottle of oasis, sitting behind the monitor where people view and edit the photos. The kid picks it up and starts shaking it, O.K it’s mine, but if it’s going to keep him happy then it’s all cool.

A few photos later with an oasis bottle in shot… the kid motions he wants to drink my drink, he hands it to his mother who proceeds to open my drink for the kid to consume.

What does the kid do? Shakes it up and down, sending sticky Oasis everywhere, all over the photographer who was helping me for the day, over the plastic trail and the backdrop.

She spent £30, didn’t say ’sorry’ or ‘thank you’ and they walked off with my drink, not that I would want it back after the kid has been drinking from it.

I managed to keep my cool, smiled, played along, but situations like this make me fear for the human race, let alone my own personal sanity.

Tomorrow: What i learnt, my views on the idea, what i need to change.