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4 Lessons Learned From Our Builder

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This week’s post is a guest post from Matt & Katie, Queensland, Australia wedding photographers. I asked them to share this story with you after hearing it as I thought it was an amazing post that you might enjoy and learn from! Over the last few months Katie and I have been putting in a [...]

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2 Tips To Grow Your Photography Business Faster

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Building a successful photography business takes tons of time and hard work. As much as I’d like to be able to tell you it’s fast and easy, it’s not. However, there are a few things that can help you get there more quickly. These tips won’t get you there overnight, and it will still require [...]

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Don’t Make These 10 Email Mistakes With Clients

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Your emails directly affect how many clients you book. Really amazing response times and well-written emails can help you book clients by making people talk about how great you were to work with. However, you can lose clients and garner a lot of negative word-of-mouth advertising if you’re making these 10 common email mistakes with [...]

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Photography is a Luxury Business, Not a Discount Store

Photography Is A Luxury

Photography is one of the worst types of businesses start if you’re simply looking to make some extra money. It’s based on your time, which is limited, so your potential income is limited. Even if you start a studio and hire additional photographers, you’re not truly scaling your business very far. There’s a low barrier [...]

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How to Stay Productive When You’re Burned Out

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Are you as exhausted as I am? My wedding season just finished up, but I’ve got a backlog of editing to do, orders to fulfill, gear to get fixed, and clients to consult with. That’s just the start of the list and doesn’t include the blogging, marketing, networking, or other activities I do to promote [...]

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The Best of the Rest: Photography Business Resources You Can’t Afford to Miss

Best of the rest

Back for the third time by popular demand, here are some of the best resources from around the web that I’ve seen in the past few months. Three blog posts and two ebooks that everyone should read, not to mention a birthday celebration event at the end! Enjoy! 1. Photographers Web Marketing E-Book – William [...]

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Don’t Let Your Photography Blog Suck

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Let me start by saying this: Your blog is not that great. Your blog doesn’t stand out from the rest. Your blog is sometimes (maybe even often) boring. I’m sorry. But somebody had to break the bad news. The wedding photography world is filled with full timers looking for more clients, part timers wanting to [...]

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How Bobby Pins and Band-Aids Get Me Business

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I’m going to tell you a valuable business secret. It’s one of the best ways to get new clients and referrals from current clients, and it’s super easy. People will love you even before they see your photos, and clients won’t be able to stop raving about you. It’s also one of the best ways [...]

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Don’t Waste Your Money: 6 Regrettable Photography Business Purchases

Don't Waste Money

We all have them: things we bought that we regret buying and wasted our hard-earned money on. There are so many things out there for photographers that it can be hard to know what is worth the money and what isn’t. I’ve already listed out several essential purchases for photography businesses, but here’s a list [...]

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The Secret to Creating a Successful Photography Business

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No, it’s not by buying some expensive marketing package or showy website. Those artistic & vintage photoshop actions that you love? They won’t get you there either. In fact, you’ll probably ditch them in a year or two. Trust me. Just like that “amazing” shirt you picked up awhile back that was so cute then, [...]

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Is Your Photography Business a Magnet for Difficult Clients?

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You know the type of client I’m talking about. The discount-demanding, “Could you just…”, never happy clients who sap the joy from your soul and make your business life miserable. How you run your business may be attracting these clients to you like a vulture to roadkill. Here’s 3 sure-fire ways to significantly reduce the [...]

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