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Picture Me Portrait Studios

Is this your company?

Fine as long as you don't let them find out you are dissatisfied with how they run things. - Studio Manager Picture Me Portrait Studios Employee Review

1.0
15 June 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you like kids and don't mind when they won't cooperate then it's great. Pay is fine but you have to work several hours as a manager.

Cons

If a child is unruly and the parents don't want to come back later you have to work with what you have. Then they have a phone survey which barely any customer takes on their experience with you and the ones who do lie to your face and say they had a good time and you did all that you could and then give you a bad score. Then the upper management looks down on you. Also, if you can't sell and average of 90 dollars per customers or better they don't want you anymore. Seriously? We are in a recession. If you work in a rich area you will do fine, but if you work in an area where people are poor you are going to struggle and be looked down upon constantly.

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5.0
17 Oct 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Love for photography, and love meeting new clients.

Cons

Not enough traffic, due to location of the business.

1.0
14 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

My local manager was an amazingly passionate woman! If she'd have never left, neither would have I. She was the only thing that worked properly in that studio.

Cons

They give everything away for free! Even if you do well, there is no reward. If you want to be an assistant manager, they will make you one, even if you don't deserve it or work for it. And even if you pawn your work off onto other employees. They will hire people with no qualifications at the same pay rate as a professional photographer. Upper management and regulation compromises photograph quality to get more appointments with less sales, rather than giving a superior product that people would pay hundreds of dollars for. Also, their dress code was counter productive! Infants do not see black well and it is 10 times as hard to get a baby to smile in black than in blue. If you're not working in film, there is no logical reason to wear black. Company does not understand child psychology. The manager and worked hard to make the studio profitable and within a month of us leaving the place had an awful reputation for being dirty and sending out a bad product. I am always so sad when I walk by and see all the unhappy customers... if there are any.

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