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I have a pizza shop with Trendsoure. Whats the secrete to success with this one.. thanks

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Simple. Follow the instructions...

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Make sure you do not cut off any of the pizza in the picture and take a picture of the entire pizza in the box. They are extremely picky about their pictures.

Yes what gigi said, make sure your photos are the correct size. If you crop them don't make them smaller then the required size.

Shoppers can be 'identified' as a shopper, and then disallowed from shopping the client. To protect your status, block your phone number when calling, use a fake name, and pay with cash. For delivery, you kind of take your chances on a long life, unless you get deliveries to various addresses.

No body parts in the photos, either

I will echo what everyone is saying about the pics, they are picky and I would suggest taking a few extra in different lighting in case the picture you thought looked good is too blurry for them.

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ok. cool thanks for the good advice

If they are still requiring the 90 degree photo, stand over the pizza but out of the light and shoot straight down on it. Keep your feet and your shadow out of the photo and take a bunch of them.

And when you crop the side view be sure not to crop too much. They are very specific about pixel size.

Unless you are very tall, for the 90degree photos put the pizza on a bench or low coffee table. It will be easier to frame the entire pizza for the downward shots.

~~*~~*~~*~~ kal ~~*~~*~~*~~
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just forget to load the film.

We are making it sound so much harder than it actually is. After you do one you will be able to do these in your sleep. The shops are so easy and the MSC pays so fast. The hardest part will be eating the pizza.

~~*~~*~~*~~ kal ~~*~~*~~*~~
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just forget to load the film.

Good luck on the pizza pics! I applied for one of these but didn't get the shop. Maybe next time.

By the time you take all the pictures the pizza is cold and gross. I hate doing this shop. Only couple of times I have attempted this when they gave me a $20 bonus.

I hope they drop this picture requirement.

I like these but the I don't do the delivery only carryouts. The pizza place that delivers to my house isn't with this MSC. I did one delivery to my church once, but that was a pain. Now I just wait for the ones that are a few miles outside of my delivery range to become carryout shops because no one ever else in my area ever takes them as delivery. More pizza for us and it's my son's favorite. I've had to train him to be patient and wait for me to finish getting my pics though. Tough for a starving teenager lol I've never had one rejected *knock on wood* and I love that this MSC pays like clock work.

sbrahma, I don't know how long they had been requiring pictures before I started 4 years ago, but it's highly unlikely they will drop them. Occasionally, they are offered without, but then the "fee" is the free pizza, YUCK!

I did these monthly at the old MSC and loved them after they hit $20 to $25 and could be picked up. 4 to 6 shops could be done in just a few hours and I had the photos down to 5 minutes per pie. Since I always took the pics in the same place with the same lighting I never even took extra photos, 3 and done. My neighbor's 3 teenage boys were really fond of the shop and never really minded what the pizza looked like or that it was cold!

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I hear you and I think the picture requirements are also better now. I won't do them unless the bonus is at least $20. I hope you know that there is more than 1 company doing the same client. Maybe you can pick up more of these shops.

I know which companies have them. For some reason this chain has always used multiple companies. I did a few for one of the others. It's a company I like, but the fees never got high enough so the few I did were more of a favor. I've also heard too many horror stories about photos from shoppers who had completed them for CORI without issue and all of a sudden were having shops invalidated by NSS and maybe even Trendsource. Those kind of hassles are just not worth it for me.

If you can stomach eating the pizza after you lifted it up, flipped it over, turned 2 pieces upside down, get the right angle. light, shot...UGH!

I won't do it again because I don't like to eat molested pizza...

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