Originally Posted by
ricktas
Consider this. Facebook announces that it is going to charge everyone for their business pages, along with requiring each business page to provide their ABN. Say the fees for business pages were going to be $25.00 per month (under 1000 likers).. up to $300.00 per month (1 million likers or more). After all Facebook is advertising. If you advertised your business on TV or radio it would cost you. How many photography business pages do you think would disappear in the first month because (a) they did not have an ABN and (b) they did not want to pay cause essentially they are not a fully fledged professional business.
How many of them have a gmail contact email address, rather than a @businessname.com (.au) address. Every good photographer who is running a successful business has a website in their business name, but again, this costs money to create, run, maintain. Most of the FB photographer business pages are simply there cause it is easy to create one and it is free.
A good business will have a FB page as an adjunct to their website, and other business advertising plan. It would not be their primary/only advertising. Their business plan would include in the budget an allocation for advertising and promotion.
The vast majority of FB photographer pages are not owned by true professional photographers.