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How To Make Money In Photography

You recently finished a shoot. The client hired you, and paid your nominal session fee (somewhere in the range of $50 – $250, most likely). You spent hours editing the 125+ images you shot. You showed them the images, and, as you were flipping through your beautiful work, they told you they were on a [...]

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Top 10 Must-Read Blogs for Pro Photographers in 2013

As a photography business owner, you don’t have the time to search the internet high and low and find the best photography blogs out there. With more blogs starting out every day, I wanted to present you with a list of the best photography business blogs with the best advice, products, and the ones worth [...]

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3 Tax Audit Tips Every Photographer Should Know Before Ever Being Audited!

How would you feel if you found out you were getting audited tomorrow? When most people think of going through a tax audit, panic sets in. They fear a scary government agent coming to steal from them or find some costly mistake that will cause lots of stress and anxiety for them or their family. [...]

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3 Easy Tips for Stress-Free Photography Accounting

A psychologist teaching a stress management course raised a glass of water and inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?” Answers ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz. She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. [...]

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How to Get Legal With Your Photography Business

I’m a little bit strange. I love spreadsheets, paying bills, tracking expenses and making sure my forms are all properly filed with the IRS. If you’re like the 95% of the rest of the world, that stuff drives you up the wall or it scares you so bad that you try to avoid it at [...]

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Creating A Photography Experience They’ll Love

I’ve been there. Have you? Client complains. Stomach sinks. “Obviously I didn’t make that detail very clear, did I?” (I didn’t even think I had to.) If you haven’t ever been in this situation, consider yourself eternally lucky. If you have, then you know the feeling. You would do anything to go back in time [...]

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Don’t Make These 5 Mistakes When Starting A Photography Business

I never intended to start a photography business. Like many people, I became interested in photography and the business just sort of fell into my lap. While we’ve come a long way since then and I was able to leave my day job to do photography full-time, I made several mistakes when starting out that [...]

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Why You Should Delete “I’m A Photographer” From Your Vocabulary

If you, me, and everyone else reading this post were jammed into a room at a networking event, I can almost guarantee you that 75% of the crowd’s introduction would go sorta like this… “Hi! I’m so and so. I’m a photographer, and I shoot enter subject here.“ It’s when there’s hundreds of us all [...]

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Photography Business Insurance Coverages Every Photographer Should Have

This week’s post is a guest post from Rachel Brenke. Running a business is serious..business. It is super exciting to get a new prop, lens or spend money on education but there are a few areas that small business owners sometimes overlook. Safeguarding your business through insurance policies is a major one. You may as [...]

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How to Focus When Your Photography Business is Overwhelming

This post is a guest post by Tanya Hirschy. Starting a photography business is often a bit awkward. When I first timidly started my photography business a few years ago I would frequently hear, “I didn’t know you took pictures.” “Me neither” my response would be, followed by nervous laughter. This showed my lack of [...]

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How to Find Balance in Your Photography Business

Are you working too much? I’m guessing the answer is “yes”. You are not alone. It’s incredibly difficult to find balance while running a business. Most new photography businesses are started by people also working another job or who are stay-at-home parents who have a full-time job (plus some!) raising children. Once you do get [...]

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