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100.000 BAHT TO FIND ME A JOB

By AnestP, Created on: 02/02/2015, Last updated on: 21/02/2015

» I will pay 100000 Baht in cash because I dont wanna get involved with agencies. I'm located in Bangkok so I 'd prefer smt here but willing to settle elsewhere if this is the case. Experience in Los Angeles: 1) Real Estate Company 2) Worked for J.Depp in Viper - West Hollywood. Experience in London:...

• BenNallay commented : r around town and can carry a drone or three.) You set your prices* but you ought to be able to properly photograph (with your quad-copter which you can fly) 20-30 properties a week, or let's go with 100 per month. You'll soon be needing staff to cope with the demand too. Next you'll need an office somewhere in Dusit perhaps? Photograph the animals in the zoo for practice. Are you following me here? You don't need a job, my man. What you need is a drone. I'll hire you if I win the lottery, scouts' honour. Good luck. *PS: On setting prices, you've got to 1. pay yourself a wage to live on, be frugal. 2. cover costs plus growth. If you have competition, you don't have much say in prices. You have to meet or undercut the competition. If you're on the carte' blanc' scale, work out what you really, really need when you're working so hard you have no time for recreation, (my guess as a tobacco friend is somewhere around 20-25,000/mth for farang prices, minimum), and then double it to cover costs of business plus around 10% for ... well ... for sundries. That covers expenses you don't expect such as tea money, and extra profit which you can otherwise grow the business as demand requires you to hire and train staff. Then there's insurance and other diseconomies of scale. For example, if you [i:35f3mfkp]need[/i:35f3mfkp] minimum 25,000/mth which is very low, you'll need to make 55,000/mth to cover your own drawings plus expected expenses plus unexpected expenses. Round up to 60,000 for a month, then divide that by 100 jobs brings your average job price to 600 baht for standard property photos. Much of that is getting to the site, and then two dozen photos so the agent can choose the ones they like the best, m-mmm, that's real cutting-it-fine sort of pricing. Now add some cushion to make sure your customers can trust that you'll be there tomorrow. You should have no trouble with a base price of around 800 baht for two dozen professional photographs of one property. That's cost-based pricing. There's 80,000/mth for a one man band with camera, drone, motorbike and no office, minimal outgoings - you'll need a computer to touch up the images too - that's a fair price by my calculations without any research at all. Some genres of establishment will require extra photos and extra attention, at extra cost, but if you set a base standard at around 800 per job, you could still survive. Once the drone fad catches on, someone will be doing it for 400 before you can say "Steal my sunshine" but it's quality that they want, and it's quality that you can give them, so Suit Yourself, and look like you mean business. Thais dig suits. Always wear a plain white t-shirt underneath your business shirt in the warm season so nobody will see you perspire.

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