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Teaming up with a videographer for weddings?


11 years 11 months ago #228197 by MagsWPhoto
I have a friend that has shot a couple weddings and wants to start working with me. I'm a little apprehensive because I don't want to be responsible for his end of things. I know I can sell us as two separate entities but at the end of the day, I still think his work will reflect on me and I'm not sure of how good he is. From what I've seen he's fine, but he's still pretty inexperienced.

Any suggestions?
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11 years 11 months ago #228230 by No Show
Although I don't shoot as many weddings as most do on this board. I will shoot about 6 or 8 weddings a year. I have a videographer that I use, but I have that as a separate line item, and more as a referral to the client. Therefor they have a direct relationship with the videographer. It works out good, we refer business to each other.
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11 years 10 months ago #230283 by MagsWPhoto
Hmm. Yes definitely want to use him more as a suggestion than a "partner" per say. But still the issue remains, do I hurt my reputation if he messes up or does poorly?
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11 years 10 months ago #230734 by kalistaimaging
I go about about this as a vendor referral. Nothing more. I will not accept responsibility for the other persons work unless they are my employee and trained my our studio.
When working with clients I will give them a short list of options of vendors, without pushing any one in particular. This way, I know the client cannot be upset with me if something goes wrong on their end. But to go along with this, no matter who the vendor is, friend or not, if they mess up, I never offer their name again.
Make sure they have the Indemnification Trust too, to prevent any possible lawsuits in the worst case scenerio.
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11 years 9 months ago #241116 by MagsWPhoto

kalistaimaging wrote: I go about about this as a vendor referral. Nothing more. I will not accept responsibility for the other persons work unless they are my employee and trained my our studio.
When working with clients I will give them a short list of options of vendors, without pushing any one in particular. This way, I know the client cannot be upset with me if something goes wrong on their end. But to go along with this, no matter who the vendor is, friend or not, if they mess up, I never offer their name again.
Make sure they have the Indemnification Trust too, to prevent any possible lawsuits in the worst case scenerio.


Good point. I have used him at one wedding with a laid back budget-type client as a tester and so far so good.

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