Photo Field Notes Podcast: Career Advice for Photographers
Stories and career inspiration from professional photographers
Today on the podcast, I’m sharing ten easy ways to make your images look more high end.
Do you have other tips or ideas for how you make your images stand out? Message me through @photofieldnotes for a chance to be featured on a future episode.
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This week I’m sharing my experiences and perspectives around photo contests. Are they worth it? Should you pay for them? How should you approach them?
If you missed last week’s episode about how to sell more photo products in your business without adding any more meetings to your plate, check it out here.
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Today’s show is a special episode—this is essentially the audio version of the Facebook Live webinar that I’m putting on with Design Aglow to walk through my four step process for selling more products to my clients without using in person sales. Listen in for quick tips, or jump over to the Facebook Live recording to see me, see the visuals, and leave questions.
Want the full step-by-step directions to set up your virtual sale and the customizable style guide to share with your clients?
Get the Course: Virtual Product Sales for Wedding Photographers
At the end of the course, you will:
The course includes:
What about portrait photographers?
A lot of you asked for a separate Style Guide Magazine template for portrait sessions, so you now also have the option to get the Portrait Style Guide Magazine that I’ve been using in my business for years – with a spruce up from the amazing designers at Design Aglow (click on “Options” to see this option). Here’s what it includes:
This whole system has been a game changer for me over the past few years, and I’m excited to finally share it with you.
And if you act fact, you’ll get $50 off the full course.
Jump on over to check out the details.
I’m so excited to be a part of big changes for your new year.
Today I’m sharing my top photography business goals for 2019, including what I want to focus on, what I’m going to experiment with, what I’m going to change, and areas that are still big question marks.
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Be sure to mark your calendar for January 10 at 4:00 PM ET. I’ll be hosting a webinar on Facebook with Design Aglow about how to make more product sales in 2019 without in person sales. Sign up below to get the link when it goes out, along with other updates.
Today on the podcast, I’m talking about the steps I take to plan for a successful new year in my photography business, including balancing my books each month, budgeting, and setting up my calendar to make sure that I know how much work I need to book and when I’m willing to work.
Download my free profit planning worksheet to follow along with this episode.
Today on the podcast, I’m hanging out with Britt Hyatt and Kelsey Christine, co-founders of the virtual branding studio, Launch Your Daydream.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
Get $100 off your custom brand + website design package, or get $25 off a brand + website audit through Launch Your Daydream. Use the referral code FIELDNOTES in the contract form.
I took a last minute trip to Rome in November, and being in a foreign culture gave me a big “aha” moment about how our clients often feel when they head into a photo session with us as photographers. Listen to the full episode to hear what I learned and how it can be applied to our clients to make sure they have an amazing experience that keeps them coming back (and recommending us to others).
Katie Norris is a Dallas-based photographer and filmmaker who took a leap of creative faith when she founded the nonprofit Fotolanthropy six years ago. Fotolanthropy has produced more than 20 films that share the inspiring true stories of remarkable people who have defied great odds. Katie is the producer of 2 award-winning films Travis: A Soldier’s Story and The Luckiest Man and she is currently working on her new documentary project titled 7 Yards. Katie is also the founder of the Fotostrap, a beautiful genuine leather and customizable camera strap that also supports the mission and work of Fotolanthropy.
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Related Episode: Easy Ways to Give Back with Your Photo Business with Derek Cookson
Today I’m talking with Troy Christopher Plota, creator of the Plotagraph, about the future of photography. What do we as photographers need to do and know to keep up in ever changing and ever more competitive markets?
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Today on the podcast, Chris Scott from Swift Galleries and I are chatting about what it takes to create an “About” page that truly stands out from the crowd and helps you to attract your ideal clients from the get go.
This episode was inspired by a question from Katie Bosler (@kaboslerphotography). If you’d like to have your questions answered on a future show, message them over to me @photofieldnotes on Instagram.
The beta version of my course collaboration with Design Aglow is launching tomorrow. The course is called Virtual Product Sales for Wedding Photographers. Here’s what it’s going to include:
Access to the beta course is going to be extremely limited. If you’d like to grab a spot in the beta course before they sell out, be sure to sign up to get email alerts, and check your email at 12:00 PM ET on Thursday, November 8 for the link to the course.
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