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Servolia Releases Online Platform to Find Photographer

Its vision is to empower the creator and creative economy player in Indonesia

SocioBuzz, an endorse service company delivers its new innovation by introducing Servolia, a site to help those who are looking for photographer in a fast way and at affordable price. It is for those millennials who like to capture moments or business in need for photographer.

The CEO & Co-Founder Rade Tampubolon in the press release said the need to take the best and attractive photos is increasing, either for business or millennials. An ineffective searching process and one by one selection from existing portfolios become an obstacle.

"In this current social media era, the need to take the best and attractive photos is increasing, not only for business but also millennials. However, looking for a photographer online has its own challenge where we have to check on every site or social media and contact them one by one to ask for the price list, also negotiate," Tampubolon explained.

SociaBuzz saw an opportunity to provide solution by introducing Servolia. To those in need for photographer service, only have to enter the site and fill a short questionnaire, furthermore they will get up to five price listings from the interested photographers.

So far, there are not much marketplace for photographers. An existing one and quite mature in Indonesia is Frame A Trip, a service for tourists to get easier access for a photographer in a destination cities, including overseas. Either Servolia or Frame A Trip has the same vision, to help consumers, on the other side they also help those photographers in getting easily find and being hired.

Servolia is off with a vision to help customer and photographer. Consumer can easily get a photographer match to the budget, they can review the details of consumer's need and budget before proposing a deal. Servolia is trying to cut the negotiation oftenly happened between consumer and photographer. Currently, Servolia provides several photography needs such as pre-wedding, products, company profile, traveling and also typical selebgram photos.

"SociaBuzz mission is to advance the creative economy players and creators in Indonesia by using technology. We are making the best effort in realizing our mission by providing products as SociaBuzz, Pixamola (photo selling service) and Servolia," he said.

– Original article is in Indonesian, translated by Kristin Siagian