The Business Side Of Professional Photography
Building links to your site becomes important in today’s crowded internet arena. We have created an easy way to add your studio and contact information. Each studio is listed by state for quick reference. View our listing of wedding photographers and portrait photography studio listings on our site and add your studio today. Helping your…
Three tips on contracts within your studio. 1. Never sign a contract and mail it to your prospect. Main an unsigned contract, sign it after they return it with a signiture and payment, and return a copy to them. They can hold you liable with a signed contract in hand, even if you never see…
It’s November! What are you doing with your marketing and PR? I work with a lot of people. When I hear “I’m too busy to market”, I cringe. If you’re busy now, how did it get that way? Chance are you mailed out a series of brochures. Or you had several conversations with someone that…
Our first few years in business brough with it incredible amounts of stress around this time of year. You have people that get their orders in to you in plenty of time, and can complete them in November. Then you have the procrastinators. The people that place an order on December 24th, hoping to have…
Photography Business – Relying on Email I was talking with a friend today, who was very angry that she hadn’t received a response from a company she emailed two days ago. She went on and on about how rude it was not to resond in a timely manner, and she would never do that to…
I recently received a great book from Amazon.com. I’ve heard about it from many people, and have even been invited to a coaching session that teaches the philosophy. So I decided it was high time I read it, and see what it was all about. Get Clients Now, by CJ Hayden. It’s a great book…
I am a member of CIPA (Colorado Independent Publishers Association) and attended the October meeting on Saturday. As I’m in the process of writing several different books, this month’s meeting was especially interesting. An event planner from Barnes and Noble spoke, and discussed many ways for authors to get into a major book dealer like…
I just received a new product supplement from Tap. They have a compact disc folio insert, that comes in a 5×5/single size, and a double which contains 2 5×5’s plus 2 CD’s. Both of these folios allow you to place a CD on one side of the folio, and a photograph on the other. After…
Most people go into business, and hide all of their ideas from their competition. They may join industry related groups, but they keep their core ideas and concepts hidden and well protected.After you’ve been in business a while, you soon discover that there is more business out there than is humanly possible to cover with…