Photo Business Success

When Life Happens – You Need A System

When Life Happens – You Need A System

If you’ve been in your photography business for any length of time, you’ll know what I mean when I say that not every day goes as well as you’d hoped. It might be a bad night’s sleep, a fight with a spouse, broken camera equipment, a client complaint, a toothache – you name it, we all face challenges daily. The…

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Weddings: How To Get The Decision TODAY, and Book Them – Fast-Action AUDIO PROGRAM

Weddings:  How To Get The Decision TODAY, and Book Them – Fast-Action AUDIO PROGRAM

Here, we are going to let you LISTEN IN on an audio program that is only available for our INNER-CIRCLE MEMBERS – but for a limited time, we will let you listen in here as well.   In this FAST-ACTION audio program, we go over EXACTLY how we get brides to make the decision to hire us as their photographer…

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How You, A Professional Photographer, Can Stay Driven, Motivated And Positive In Today’s Challenging Times In The Photography Industry

How You, A Professional Photographer, Can Stay Driven, Motivated And Positive In Today’s Challenging Times In The Photography Industry

To quote Napoleon Hill "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve. The person determined to attain success starts were he stands, making the best of whatever tools he has and acquiring whatever else he needs along the way. Start from wherever you stand – today." That's great advice, and I'm an avid…

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Six Important Policies For Maximum Profits In Portrait Photography Today

Six Important Policies For Maximum Profits In Portrait Photography Today

Do Your Potential Clients Run Your Photo Business, Or Do YOU? One of the biggest problems today in professional photography is, quite simply, a lack of confidence which then leads to photographers allowing their clients to tell them how to operate their photography business, and they end up out of control, losing money, burning out and eventually quitting. The fact…

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What’s Going Into Your Mind, And Why It’s So Important To Your Photography Success!

What’s Going Into Your Mind, And Why It’s So Important To Your Photography Success!

One of my favorite sayings is “you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. “. The late great Zig Ziglar said this many years ago and this fact has profoundly affected my life. I was just reading in my PTS time this morning one of my all-time favorite books “Napoleon Hill’s A Year Of Growing…

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How to build an extremely successful photography business on 40 hours a week or less.

How to build an extremely successful photography business on 40 hours a week or less.

I'm all about helping you make a great living, doing what you love to do, and still having the free time to spend with those you love and treasure the most. They've done extensive research, and they found that you cannot be creative a 100 hours a week. I don't care how much you love photography, you just can't be…

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The Importance Of Having A Separate “Creation Fee” For Your Portrait Photography Business

The Importance Of Having A Separate “Creation Fee” For Your Portrait Photography Business

I’ve received several questions recently about Creation Fees (the fee you charge for the CREATION of the images, and it does NOT go toward the finished photographs.  It is prepaid to reserve the session time with that client.)  There are a lot of opinions out there about this, and a lot of confusion among photographers. So let’s tackle that question…

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Passion and Discipline For FUN & Photography Business Success!

Passion and Discipline For FUN & Photography Business Success!

I am passionate about my family, and fun….  and, yes, my business. For fun, I LOVE flying remote control airplanes and helicopters.  I love the science of flight, and the discipline that it takes to fly. Years ago I got my pilots license,  just for fun, and to prove to myself that I had the discipline to accomplish it.  The…

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Live chat with members a great success!

Live chat with members a great success!

Todd Lewis here, and I’m taking over my father’s blog for this post. Today I engaged in a four hour online chat with our Inner Circle members, and the response was wonderful. We have the best members in the world. Photographers all over the country, and all over the world, coming together to make this industry the best it can…

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How To Have Substantial Photography Sales Almost Every Time!

You and I didn't go into the photography business JUST for the money. Of course not. But you DO deserve to earn a GREAT living with your images!

You and I didn’t go into the photography business JUST for the money. Of course not. But you DO deserve to earn a GREAT living with your images!

Photography marketing is not easy. It takes a lot of work to get a good, qualified person to contact you about the possibility of having you create some photography for her.

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