Do you ever feel like you’ve become lost in your business? Your goals are fuzzy and you are not sure where you are going?
Belle Verdiglione is here to chat with us about how to reflect on your past to shape the future of your business. She is a photography coach and has great advice on how to reevaluate your goals and reflect on your past to help move your business forward.
🎙️What To Listen For:
➡️How to reflect on past experiences and use those experiences to shape your business
➡️Why it’s important to talk about YOURSELF on social media
➡️The importance of having a coach
If you are interested in learning how to step back and get a better understanding of your business and where it is going, this episode is for you!
🌐Resources From This Episode:
https://www.instagram.com/the_cameraqueens
https://www.instagram.com/belleverdiglione/
https://www.belleverdiglione.com.au/the-photography-coach
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Do you ever feel lost in your business?
Angie and Gina have been there and are here to discuss how they found their “North star", what that means and how they find happiness and fulfillment in their work.
🎙️What To Listen For:
➡️Learn how Angie and Gina found their “North star” (and what that means)
➡️How and why your ideal client might not be the highest paying client
➡️How to make your business work for YOU If you’ve been questioning your purpose with photography then this episode is for you!
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Do you ever feel “stuck” in your business?
Feeling like you have no idea what to focus on next?
Have an endless to-do list?
Or have too much on your plate that you resort to procrastinating instead of working?
We’ve all been there and today Natalie Jennings from Photo Business Help walks us through how to get some clarity when our focus becomes blurry.
In this episode we chat about…🎙️
-How Natalie pulls back the layers to see why a business isn’t growing
-How Natalie uses tarot readings in her coaching program
-Why having a mentor or coach is important to success
-What Natalie sees as the most common struggles for photographers
If you are feeling the need to find clarity in your business then this episode is for you!
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We've all been there...it's October and the sessions are rolling. You have more sessions in the next 3 months than you've had all year. What's more important than the sessions or money you are making, is your mental health. Busy season is no joke and if you don't take time for yourself or work on mindset during that time, you could end up burnt out. Renee Bowen chats with Swift team member, Whitney, about tips and tricks to not just survive, but thrive during your busy season.
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Have you ever felt overwhelmed with your business? Burnt out from spending so much time editing? Kate Hejde is here to talk to us about how soft proofing saved her business. She was questioning if she even wanted to be in business anymore because the work she was doing was taking so much time from life and I wasn't profitable enough to make it worth it! All of that changed when she started soft proofing.
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Joe Hendricks joins us today to talk about niching down to scale your photography business. He is a landscape photographer turned elopement photographer and he walks us thought how and why his business has grown so much over the past few years. Joe and his wife own Elope Telluride and they do it all, from the photography to planning and location scouting.
Maggie Robinson of IPS Academy chats with us about how to make IPS work for you.
"On behalf of all the photographers, I would say we start business thinking we're gonna do photography to have this amazing life around our family. And then a year in, it takes over the family life. We work in the day we work at night. We're literally like on call 24, 7 family suffers."
Maggie talks to us about how you can gain that freedom back by doing IPS.
https://www.ipsacademy.co.uk/
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Kaitlin Roten is here to talk to us about high volume school photos. When she realized that doing family photo sessions were taking up too much of her family time, she decided to start doing school photos so that she could work while her kids were in school.
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Do you ever get overwhelmed with the backend work of running your photography business? Angelica breaks down some MUST KNOW topics around bookkeeping and taxes so you can keep your business running legally. https://www.instagram.com/openroadsbkkg/ https://openroadsbkkg.com/
Jessica Vallia is a Colorado Springs based photographer specializing in heirloom portraiture for families and high school seniors. She explains her client experience and why the conversations with her clients before the session are so important!
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In this interview with Shaun Gordon, Co-Founder and CEO of KISS Books, Chris and Shaun discuss simple strategies for selling more albums and books to your photography clients. Shaun dives into his framework he calls "The Stack" and breaks it down piece by piece to help you get more books into more clients' homes.
Catch the video episode as well as links to Shaun's book at https://swiftgalleries.com/sell-more-photo-albums-using-the-stack/.
You know how some people seem to light up any room they enter? That's not LaJune. She doesn't light up rooms, she dazzles them.
So grab a beverage and block off some time to join us in a somewhat meandering conversation covering everything from race and diversity and inclusion to sales and branding and market positioning.
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Meghan is a portrait photographer based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota and has been in the photography industry for 20 years. Today she is bringing us her guidance and wisdom on what she calls the three pillars. These pillars are the foundation that hold up your photography business and without them your business could be in danger.
Learn more about these 3 systems at https://theartofthesale.com/strategic-af
Wondering where to focus your attention when you start optimizing your funnel? Well, first we need to figure out what data to track so we're not just guessing when we start fixing things. Here's what to track...
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How do we turn strangers on the internet into engaged "Shut Up and Take My Money" photography clients? This episode of Funnel Friday is how we start.
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In this episode of Funnel Friday we'll start talking about organizing our traffic into groups so we can share the right types of content with the right groups of people (at the right time in the client journey with our businesses).
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Do you find yourself constantly trying to stay up with the latest marketing trends in hopes that it will help skyrocket your business? Always searching for the latest tactic that will bring in more clients? We’ve all been there and done that. In today's episode, Ben Hartley talks to us about chain reaction marketing and why sound, sustainable practices to running a business long term will always be more beneficial than short term marketing tactics.
In this short episode, the first in a weekly series, we'll introduce the concept of marketing funnels for photographers and why they're (incredibly) important for your photography business.
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Do you ever feel like what we do isn't really all that important or that your work can't really be worth thousands of dollars? Give this quick 30ish Second Sales Tip a listen and I think it'll completely change your mind, just like it did mine.
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