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How To Double Your Sales Without Marketing To New Prospects

Today I’m really excited to announce my newest ebook on one of my most favorite topics - How To Double Your Sales Without Marketing To New Prospects. As we were building up our business, we hated the idea of selling. It always brought to mind the used car salesman image, and that’s the last thing we wanted to portray. We wanted our photography to sell itself. We wanted people to call or email us excited, ready to sign on the dotted line with very little effort. We wanted there to be so many “knocks” on our door, we would never have to sell again. This ...

The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals

It seems as if everyone with a camera is setting up shop and marketing themselves as a true professional. But can everyone with a camera be a professional? Can you command professional prices just because you love taking photographs? The answer is a definite no. Lots of people love photographing nature, but there’s only one Ansel Adams. Lots of people taking portraits, but there’s only one Annie Leibovitz. So what is the difference between an amateur and a professional? How do you know when you’ve reached professional status? 1.You think like a professional. Amateurs want a photography business to give them a reason to buy ...

Photographers On Twitter – 80+ Photographers You Should Be Following

New to Twitter and not sure what to do or who to follow? Here’s a list of 80+ photographers on Twitter to help get you started. We went out with a recent question to our followers, asking what photographers they follow. Below is the list based on your responses. The first 19 listed below were the overwhelming responses we heard over and over again, and all had well over 2000 followers. While this isn’t meant to be a complete list of all photographers, this will give you a great place to start. Have any additional suggestions? We welcome your additions below in ...

21 Photoshop Tutorials And Resources

Photoshop is a program by Adobe loved and used by photographers around the world. From highly skilled professional photographers to novice shooters, Photoshop allows amazing creative results. Yet Photoshop is such a complex program, it can be a daunting task to learn how to use it to its fullest extent. If you follow us on Twitter, you get dozens of Photoshop tips every single day. We picked out some of the more popular ones and thought we'd share them with you today. Here are a 21 Photoshop tutorials and resources that will keep you busy for hours. How to Create Professional HDR Images High Dynamic Range (HDR) have become ...

Coaching

What if you could have an expert photographer help you build your business? What if you could get the blueprints they used to grow their own successful business? Now you can. We have a variety of materials ready to help you along the way. Each of these blueprints we used to help design our own business, and have tested again and again. Ready, set ... let's begin! Coaching How To Start Up Your Photography Business Just in the starting stages of getting your business up and running? Wondering if you can really make money as a photographer, and where you should start? Start with our ...

10 Photography Tips for Better Outdoor Portraits

I've been a professional photographer for over 20 years. Even though I have a ton of ideas and styles, sometimes I find going back to the basics creates portraits that clients truly love. Here are some simple solutions that everyone can benefit from when capturing your next outdoor portrait session. Select a location Locations are very important and should be thought out in advance. Look for locations that bring interest and enhance your session. Parks, lakes and other open spaces offer natural scenery and tend to be the first places people think of. But don’t forget about architecture. Buildings and other structures bring ...

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Want To Succeed As A Photographer? Three Ways To Embrace Change

If you’ve been a photographer for any length of time now, you’ve seen the world of photography change drastically. From film to digital. From paper proofs to digital files. From traditional marketing to social marketing. With so much change is so little time, how do you know what to do to make sure you are successful years into the future? 1. Accept... [Read more...]

The Good and Bad of Facebook’s Photography Service

Read a great article today – Pros and cons to Facebook’s fast growing role in digital photography. According to this article, estimates are that 42 billion photos will be printed worldwide in 2013, a third fewer than the 63 billion printed in 2008. And if it maintains its momentum, Facebook will probably host the biggest share of these images. Because... [Read more...]

Selling Framed Photographs Increases Your Profit And Your Professionalism

How do your photographs leave your studio? Do you pile the paper prints in a box or envelope? Do you frame your images? Or do you do a combination of the two? It may seem like framing will actually put you into an entirely different category of business – you’ll end up with a frame studio AND a portrait studio. But in reality, it will actually turn... [Read more...]

Building A Photography Blog: It’s More Than Just Pictures

When someone mentions the word “photography blog” what do you think of? Blogging has morphed over the past few years into an easy way to get content out to your prospects, and to have an easy way to connect up with people from anywhere in the world. But the one underlying problem I’m seeing with blogs is the lack of understanding. And usually... [Read more...]

WPPI Tradeshow Fast Tour

WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) 2010 was a great event this year. Over 14,000 photographers attended this 9 day event. Speakers from all over the world presented in master and platform class formats. Amazing artists and photographers spoke during this event included: Bambi Cantrell, Kevin Kubota, Ken Sklute, Clay Blackmore, Jerry... [Read more...]

6 Reasons To Shoot Video As A Photographer

With many of the top SLR cameras coming out today having video capabilities built in, it’s easy to see where the industry is heading. In the very near future, digital, video, and presentations will all be created and displayed via the Internet and other output devices for viewing on a personal level. So how can you incorporate video into your business?... [Read more...]

Wedding Photography: It’s Not About Taking The Pictures, It’s About The Ultimate Experience

It’s confirmed. After chatting with many of today’s top wedding photographers from around the world, two things are certain. 1. Wedding photography is not dead. 2. It’s not about the output; it’s about the experience. With the economy down, and many, many photographers hitting the streets trying to make a quick buck by shooting a few weddings... [Read more...]

7 Ways Make The Most Of Attending A Tradeshow

This week is all about weddings and portraits, thanks to Andrew attending the WPPI (Weddings and Portrait Photographers International) tradeshow in Las Vegas this week. With around 11,000 photographers in attendance, row after row of tradeshow exhibits, and photographers scrambling to get a seat in some of the best training sessions around, it’s turning... [Read more...]

3 Ways To Take A Better Business Portrait

Remember back in grade school where you would wait patiently in line to have your class picture taken? You would hop up onto a bench in front of a backdrop, smile at the camera, and be presented with one of the worst pictures possible a few weeks later? That’s the business of taking quick, class photographs. But it’s not the business of taking a... [Read more...]

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