Do Your Clients Feel Nickel and Dimed?

I put out a call for open Q&A to my mailing list last week – if you’re not on the mailing list you can hop on over in the sidebar!  On to the questions: Q: I was wondering how do you deal with a client who doesn’t want to or think that they have to…

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How To Photograph Friends Without Killing Your Friendships

The road to professional photography seems littered with broken friendships. It’s starting to concern me.  Alongside our profession, it seems, is the rubble of friendships shattered on the rocks of photoshoots gone bad.  We need to put an end to it. When we start a business, it’s no surprise when we turn to friends first.…

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2 Lies Photographers Tell Themselves

It was a hot day in Tunisia when it happened.  I had flown to North Africa to study Arabic for a summer, but I admit I was perhaps less diligent in studying than I was in photo-blogging the whole adventure.  I wandered the streets photographing old mosques, kids playing pick-up soccer in empty lots, the…

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Dealing with Frequent Reschedulers? Help is Here.

As a rule, people will do whatever they want unless there is a consequence they don’t like.  Kids will throw food at will unless they know they’ll have a time out or won’t be able to join the family for dessert.  They’ll do what seems fun unless something makes it not fun. Frankly, we’re not…

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The #1 Cause of Angry Emails and Client-Photographer Frustration

We all dread it.  Casually opening our inbox one sunshiny day expecting to find a few blog comments and maybe an Amazon ad, but instead there’s a client email with a storm cloud hanging over it.  They’re hopping mad.  They’re upset that you put their photo in an ad you ran in the local school…

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