Photography Business Building Tips & Ideas

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #26: Five Great Ways To Market Photography Today

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #26: Five Great Ways To Market Photography Today

Photography marketing is one of the most important areas of your photography business.  You must become as effective with your marketing of your photography business as you are with the photography itself. Here are five excellent, proven methods of marketing your photography business today: 1. Website – yes of course all businesses have a website of some kind. The key…

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Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #25: The Best List To Market Photography To!

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #25: The Best List To Market Photography To!

Photography marketing is all about getting qualified people to hire you to create their photography, rather than having them go to some other photographer in your area, or doing nothing at all. Did you know that there is a group of people who are by far the BEST people to market your photography services to? If you market to these…

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Photography Marketing Secret: How To Get Free Exhibits To Market Your Photography Business

Photography Marketing Secret: How To Get Free Exhibits To Market Your Photography Business

Photography marketing is critical to your photo business success. If you market correctly, you prosper, because the photography industry is full of artistic people who don’t know much about marketing. (I didn’t know ANYTHING about marketing when I first got going in photography.) So once you start marketing very smartly, using proven methods, you will grow and prosper extremely quickly.…

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Photography Marketing & Selling Secret: The Amazing Power Of The “Gift Plaque”

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret: The Amazing Power Of The “Gift Plaque”

You work hard at marketing photography. Indeed, your photography marketing is probably one of the most challenging parts of your photography business. So when people respond to your photo marketing, you want to be SURE you don’t lose someone who could have ended up being an excellent client of yours. Believe it or not, if you do things right, you…

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Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #23: Never Post Your Prices On Your Website

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #23: Never Post Your Prices On Your Website

Photography marketing is a lot of work. You put so much time and effort into the marketing of your photography, don’t screw everything up when someone responds to your marketing and visits your photography website. Never, ever post your fees on your website.  If you do, you’re (at least) cutting your cash flow and profits in half! This is a…

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Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #22: Project Your Images – Never Show Them On A Computer Monitor

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #22: Project Your Images – Never Show Them On A Computer Monitor

I urge you to never show your images on a computer monitor! Instead, project the images into a 40×50 or 40×60 frame, over a sofa! Most photographers don’t realize that the single, biggest decision of their career is how they present their images to their clients.  It’s way more important than what camera to use, or what version of PhotoShop…

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Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #21: Never Let Your Original Images Leave Your Photo Biz

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #21: Never Let Your Original Images Leave Your Photo Biz

Never let the original images (“proofs or thumbnails” or whatever) leave your photography business.  And, by the way,  that includes posting them online, too! This is a HUGE mistake I see photographers making all over the world right now, and it’s costing them thousands of lost dollars, pounds, euros, etc. Here’s an important sentence to remember always:  “Just because we…

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Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #20: Photo Biz Layout & Design Secrets To Increase Profits Fast

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #20: Photo Biz Layout & Design Secrets To Increase Profits Fast

Whether you have a store front photography studio on main street or work out of your home, here are eight key points to making top money with your photography business. Marketing & Selling Key Point #1.  You sell what you show. This seems so obvious, but unless someone constantly reminds you of this, you can forget it. In our photo…

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Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #19: Portrait Policies For Profit

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #19: Portrait Policies For Profit

Question: Are you running your photo business, or is it running you – and how’s it working for you? One of the biggest mistakes I see photographers around the world making is they don’t have very specific, carefully determined policies which they adhere to – no matter what, regarding the running of their photography business. In my opinion, here’s the…

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Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #18: Put as much time into presenting & selling your images as you do into creating them!

Photography Marketing & Selling Secret #18: Put as much time into presenting & selling your images as you do into creating them!

There’s a huge mistake most portrait and wedding photographers all over the world are making these days that is costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars. Do you know what this mistake is? Are you making this mistake yourself? Here it is: most photographers put a huge amount of time and effort and talent into creating their photographs, but then…

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