"What's Next for SportsShooter.com"
Earlier in the week a thread popped up on SportsShooter.com that made me laugh. You can read the thread here
I laugh because most of the people who participated in that thread are delusional as to what it takes to run a popular website let alone a full fledge photography workshop of 500 attendees, speakers, sponsors and all of the stuff in between.
One average I work about 12 - 15 hours a day between my newspaper job and SportsShooter.com. I'm not complaining I love what I do and have fun doing it I just hate people who add work onto others. In the thread above people want the site expanded or zoned to their geographic area. They want an exhausting photo workshop to travel to their area. They want more merchandise in the site store. They want this. They want that. JESUS!
Lets talks about workshops.
First running a workshop of any kind is a massive undertaking. Securing a sponsor willing to take care of the hotel and conference area is incredibly hard as this is a major expense. We've been extremely fortunate to have Nikon USA support us over the years and we are grateful for this. Then you need speakers and their lodging. You need vendors for the trade area. You need volunteers and LOTS of them to handle the set up and shadow the speakers/presenters of the individual workshops. This photo shows those of us who ran the last SportsShooter Workshop and Luau. and there are many who are not in the photo too. The workshop is a huge undertaking with countless hours spent my many in various forms.
And I'm not even sure where pulling a 5 to 10 thousand dollar profit comes from according to the thread comes from. These things are never that profitable. Just take a look at the NPPA Northern Shore Course numbers that are terrible and they have a far more experience running workshops then SportsShooter.com
Lets move on just everyday SportsShooter.com site stuff.
People don't seem to understand that for everything they want means hours of time on the backend doing the work. Most of this falls directly in the lap of the incredible Jason Burfield whose coding abilities are just amazing. The rest on Grover Sanschagrin also an amazing web creator. Then there is hours of testing and feedback by Brad Mangin and myself. Understand though that SportsShooter.com isn't the only product the admin staff is involved in. Photoshelter.com is taking off and will continue to do so. Then you have S2F.com hosting service and a few other projects in there too.
The point is we are stretched to our limits and are moving in baby steps these days. The more people the more emails, financial work, new member applications and administrative issues that come along with it. Adding anything is going to be a long shot under the currently structure. What we need is a buyer. The first BILLION takes the site. See me for more details.
I laugh because most of the people who participated in that thread are delusional as to what it takes to run a popular website let alone a full fledge photography workshop of 500 attendees, speakers, sponsors and all of the stuff in between.
One average I work about 12 - 15 hours a day between my newspaper job and SportsShooter.com. I'm not complaining I love what I do and have fun doing it I just hate people who add work onto others. In the thread above people want the site expanded or zoned to their geographic area. They want an exhausting photo workshop to travel to their area. They want more merchandise in the site store. They want this. They want that. JESUS!
Lets talks about workshops.
First running a workshop of any kind is a massive undertaking. Securing a sponsor willing to take care of the hotel and conference area is incredibly hard as this is a major expense. We've been extremely fortunate to have Nikon USA support us over the years and we are grateful for this. Then you need speakers and their lodging. You need vendors for the trade area. You need volunteers and LOTS of them to handle the set up and shadow the speakers/presenters of the individual workshops. This photo shows those of us who ran the last SportsShooter Workshop and Luau. and there are many who are not in the photo too. The workshop is a huge undertaking with countless hours spent my many in various forms.
And I'm not even sure where pulling a 5 to 10 thousand dollar profit comes from according to the thread comes from. These things are never that profitable. Just take a look at the NPPA Northern Shore Course numbers that are terrible and they have a far more experience running workshops then SportsShooter.com
Lets move on just everyday SportsShooter.com site stuff.
People don't seem to understand that for everything they want means hours of time on the backend doing the work. Most of this falls directly in the lap of the incredible Jason Burfield whose coding abilities are just amazing. The rest on Grover Sanschagrin also an amazing web creator. Then there is hours of testing and feedback by Brad Mangin and myself. Understand though that SportsShooter.com isn't the only product the admin staff is involved in. Photoshelter.com is taking off and will continue to do so. Then you have S2F.com hosting service and a few other projects in there too.
The point is we are stretched to our limits and are moving in baby steps these days. The more people the more emails, financial work, new member applications and administrative issues that come along with it. Adding anything is going to be a long shot under the currently structure. What we need is a buyer. The first BILLION takes the site. See me for more details.
1 Comments:
Wow. I didn't even realize you had a blog! How lame am I!!!!
I may need to bring mine back and we can have blog-offs. :)
-- Jason
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