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Starting
Your Own Photography Business
If
you’ve reached the point where you’re tired of dreaming of starting
your own business, and are ready to take action and actually
start your own business, congratulations!
My
husband and I started our photography business a little over
17 years ago. We were young and thought starting a business
was just as easy as buying a few business cards. Our families
came from the “job” mentality, so we had no true role models.
But we new we could succeed.
After
7 years of trying everything, then choosing a mentor and starting
on a true plan to success, we began to see what entrepreneurship
is all about. After all those years of struggling, we discovered
a successful business owner has three characteristics that distinguish
success.
- Mentorship.
A successful businessperson never goes it alone. She realizes
the key to success is to join others that have achieved success,
and follow in their footsteps. When trying to create a successful
business, reinventing the wheel takes way too long. And with
so many people out in the business world willing to share
how they got where they are today, why reinvent the wheel!
How do you find a mentor? Look for industry leaders that have
made it to the top of your chosen path. Want to photograph
weddings? Who do you admire? Love commercial work? Find the
best, and follow their patterns. Also find successful business
people that can make the most of your time. Find marketing
consultants, lawyers, accountants and business coaches that
can cut your learning curve and the time you spend on menial
tasks down to nothing.
- Education.
A successful businessperson always looks for educational opportunities.
Have you ever heard the phrase:
When you’re green, you’re growing. When you’re ripe you rot.
This phrase speaks to all entrepreneurs very seriously. Over
60,000 books are published every year. Millions of articles
are written every year in the thousands of magazines, newspapers
and publications published. Information is constantly being
updated, changed and reported. Hundreds of training classes
are going on all around you every week. There is always an
opportunity to take what you know today, and expand on it
to create a stronger understanding for tomorrow.
- Time.
There is no such thing as an overnight success. Your road
to becoming an overnight success may take you a year. Or three.
Or ten. No matter how fast it comes, it comes when you are
ready for it. You learn as things happen, and grow by taking
action. Every day is a new opportunity.
Learn.
Read.
Find
a mentor.
And
wait for success to find you!
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"I absolutely
LOVE your site - thanks for bringing me such a wealth
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Michelle
"I've
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