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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 subscribing to and reading each time they post. This is the third annual list, and I’ve used a super-secret rating algorithm to give you only the best.

This year, I’ve decided to only include blogs in the Top 10 list that specifically help you grow your business. If they don’t talk about the business of photography at all, they weren’t considered. And while I think this blog (The Modern Tog) is the best, I thought it’d be biased to include myself on the list, ha! So only other blogs were considered.

It was incredibly hard to narrow it down to just 10 photography business blogs, but I’ve painstakingly done so to bring you only the best. These blogs will help you make more money, get more clients, and learn how to best run a photography business. [Click to read more]

Top 10 Photography Business Resources of 2012

Every year I put together my Top 10 Must-Read Photography Blogs to help you waste less time and know which blogs are worth following, and I thought it might be helpful to do the same thing with my favorite photography business resources out there.

Right now is a great time to pick up a few of these to take advantage of tax deductions for 2012 and reduce your tax bill. Then set aside some time after the holidays to learn from them and implement them to make as much as possible into your business for 2013.

Less taxes to pay in 2012 + more profit in 2013 = Pure Awesomeness!

So let’s dive in and look at the Top 10 Photography Business Resources of 2012!

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Best of the Rest: Must-Read Articles From Around the Web!

Back by popular demand, here’s another edition of the best resources from around the web that will help you grow your business.

No fluff; just useful information that will help you grow. I even found some great freebies: a free boudoir posing guide and a free second shooter contract! Sweet!

I highly recommend checking them out (as well as all the other good posts in the list) and sharing the links on Facebook or Twitter if you find them useful. Enjoy!

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Top 10 Must-Read Blogs for Photographers in 2012

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You can find our most recent picks for best photography blogs in 2013 by clicking here, thanks!

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a full year since creating my first list of Top 10 Must-Read Blogs for Photographers, and I had no idea how popular it would be (right now it’s the 3rd most read post on my entire blog!)

I’ve decided to make this an annual list. There’s more and more blogs for photographers starting up every day, and so I want to help you cut through the fluff and find the blogs that will really help you grow your business.

It was incredibly hard to narrow it down to just 10 blogs, but I’ve painstakingly done so to bring you only the best. [Click to read more]

Best of the Rest: Seriously Helpful Resources From Around the Web

It’s time for another “Best of the Rest” where I sort through all the fluff on the web for the best photography-related articles that will help you grow your business and be a better photographer.

I’m just going to dive right in because there’s so much awesome stuff to share today. [Click to read more]

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

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 Bay put together this awesome guide about how to market your business using the web. He shares how to put together a website, how to use social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and other super-important web marketing strategies (like email marketing, which is where the money is really at when done correctly) that make this a great place to start if you’re not sure if you’re really using the web well or not. Use coupon code TMT to get $5 off before October 21st.

2. It’s not sexy, but you need it. – Brand Camp Blog hits another one out of the park with this awesome tip for getting you more customers that’s shockingly simple.

3. How to deal with criticism – Brooke Snow tackles this straight on. Read it.

4. How to Photograph Your Friends (and Why it’s Super Important) – Photography Concentrate speaks to the elephant in the room about how to work with friends who you once shot for free but now you’re a professional. It’s not about pricing so much as how to enjoy the process and embrace working with friends.

5. Click: How to take Gorgeous Photos of your Kids – While this book is written for people who are either photography enthusiasts or newer pros, I thought it was an incredible resource anyways and picked up a number of good tips about how to get good photos of kids (both mine and other peoples’ kids).

It’s shockingly inexpensive for all its content, only $19.99 right now increasing to $29.99 on the 19th. Your purchase before the 19th also enters you to win a $1000 dslr camera, so that’s pretty sweet too! Totally worth checking out.

Happy Birthday to me = Awesome sale for you!

Today I turn 30 years old. Scary to move into a new decade!

In celebration, I’m offering a crazy 50% off sale on all my products, good until midnight tonight (October 14th) MST. The discount will be applied automatically in your shopping cart.

Check out the Photographer’s Pricing Guide Workbook and our awesome Photography Client Questionnaires!

If you found this post helpful to your business, please pin it on Pinterest or Like us on Facebook! Thanks!

Best of the Rest: Other Awesome Photography Resources

I got such amazing feedback from people last time I did this, so I figured it was time for another round of amazing links from around the web.

1. 5 Things To Do Right Now if you Haven’t Already – Quick things you most definitely want to do!

2. 10 Lightroom Shortcuts and Clickables You Don’t Know About – I even learned a few shortcuts and I’m pretty Lightroom savvy. Good stuff.

3. Google+ What does it mean for your Small Business? – Excellent things to consider about how this may change things for us small business owners.

4. The 21st Century Neanderthal’s Guide to Social Media – I’m thought this was a helpful article about how to use all those social networks well.

5. How to Write a Fabulous Bio – Because I know you’re fabulous. So now, go learn how to write a good bio for your website that reflects how amazing you are.

6. One of my Favorite Business Purchases – This is not a link to another blog, but I thought I’d share one of the most practical and awesome things I have in my bag. And they’re cheap. They last longer than any others I’ve seen, and they hold their charge for months. It goes especially well with this little piece of equipment. Enjoy.

The Best of the Rest: 5 Must-Read Posts From the Web

Confession: I read a LOT of blogs. While there’s some really great stuff out there, I also see a lot of fluff as well. I thought I’d save you a bunch of time by sharing my 5 favorite posts from the last few weeks.

Read them. They are fantastic.

5 Ways to Make $1000 – Ridiculously simple ways to add $1000 to your bottom line at the end of the year. It’s a must-read for sure.

Getting Your Clients to Buy More – Sarah Petty shares 4 awesome tips for selling more products.

A Surprisingly Easy Way to Handle Client Workflow – I do something similar to this, only using Excel. I should probably use their suggestion though as I don’t open the document often enough and so I fail to really use it how I should.

Red-Carpet Posing Tricks – Just a few quick tips for posing women to make them look their best.

The Ultimate Twitter Guide – Everything you want to know and more about Twitter. It’s seriously exhaustive, and something that I plan to read more in-depth so as to satisfy those of you who have been so kind as to follow me on Twitter.

Have a post that you’ve read lately that is super-helpful? Share a link to it in the comments so we can all learn from it as well! Bonus points of honor if you share your favorite link from The Modern Tog with your Facebook friends or Twitter followers.

Top 10 Must-Read Blogs for Photographers

When I got the idea to start this blog, I started researching the various blogs for photographers that were out there. I wanted to make sure that The Modern Tog wasn’t simply doing the same thing that everyone else was already doing.

Along the way, I’ve collected a large number of blogs that I follow that have helped me to grow my own photography business. Here’s a list of the Top 10 Must-Read Blogs for Togs that will help your photography business (other than this one, of course!):
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