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How to Find Balance in Your Photography Business

Find Balance in 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 to the point of going full-time, you still don’t have enough time to do everything you want to do to sustain and grow your photography business in the way you want it to grow.

Personally, I’ve justified all the extra work by believing that “one day” it’ll get to the point I want it to be at and I won’t have to work as much.

It’s a lie.
The more you grow, the more time it takes to sustain, and you can’t ever really just ignore it without negative consequences.

Yet at the same time, you need to find balance. Your kids are only young once, and life is too short to work all the time. Not to mention the fact that you are utterly exhausted from late-night editing sessions so aren’t the person you want to be during the day.

So what do you do? Do you fold? Do you cut back? Do you get an extra job so that you don’t have to do photography for the income and just do it for fun?

Let’s dive in and talk about how to find balance long-term in your photography business.

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Categorized Under: Business Help Tags: Dropbox/ Photographer's Pricing Guide/ Photography Business Tips/ Photography Tools/ Photography Workflow/ Productivity/ Time Management/ Work Life Balance

3 Time-Saving Tips to Reclaim Your Life During Busy Season

3 Time Saving Tips for Photographers


Photography is very seasonal. There are busy seasons and slow seasons.

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s busy season again. It’s that time of year where we work more hours than most people could believe and spend far too many hours behind the computer when everyone else is enjoying the nice weather outside.

While having lots of business is a good thing, over the past few years I’ve found a few places that have made a HUGE difference in becoming more efficient and doing things faster. This means more time for me to do the things I really love, like spend with my family, and it means way less stress overall.

So here are my top 3 time-saving tips to help you reclaim your life during busy season.  [Click to read more]

Categorized Under: Business Help Tags: Go-To Guide for Client Emails/ Photography Business Tips/ Photography Tools/ Productivity/ Time Management/ Work Life Balance

Don’t Miss the Good Stuff

My son "packing" for our camping trip.

It is so easy to spend every extra moment you have working on growing your business.

If you’re not careful, it will end up taking over your entire life, sucking away the moments that are truly worth living.

We’ve all been there – the late night editing session, the tax-season craziness, working over lunch breaks.

But if we’re not careful, we’ll end up making this business more important than the things that really matter in our lives.  [Click to read more]

Categorized Under: Business Help Tags: Photography Business Tips/ Work Life Balance

How to Juggle a Photography Business, a Full-Time Job and a Family Without Dropping the Ball

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It’s the photography industry’s dirty little secret. Most professional photographers are not making their living entirely from photography.

This is how most people start out, including myself. We’ve had a lot of people ask us about how we do it. We have three young children (one of which was born since starting the business) and until June when I leave to finally do this full-time, I am still working a job in the corporate world that takes up about 50 hours a week.

It certainly isn’t easy, and it takes lots of hard work and determination. However, it is possible to accomplish and there’s much joy in the process.

Here’s how we’ve managed to build our photography business to the point of replacing our entire household income in only a few years while working full-time and not neglecting our family.

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Categorized Under: Business Help Tags: Photography Business Tips/ Time Management/ Work Life Balance



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