Business Life
There Isn’t A Market For What I Want To Do! Now What?
Tell me if this sounds familiar: “There isn’t a market for what I want to shoot.” “Who would pay money for ____?” “I have to _____ because you can’t make a living at _____.” You’re not alone if you’ve ever thought that. Many photographers find their passion in weddings or newborns. But some would really…
Read MoreHow to Get People To Hire YOU, Even When You Charge More
Let’s say you went on a month-long vacation to the south of France. (You like this blog post already, don’t you?) But before you hopped on the plane, you were so busy dreaming of sunflower fields and private cooking lessons with famous French chefs that – whoops – you forgot to hire someone to take…
Read MoreHow To Stop Template-Hopping And Find A Web Design You Actually Love
I feel a little guilty about Tuesday’s post. Because when I was brand new to photography, I got so. darn. sick. of people telling me “Oh you don’t know what your brand is yet, it’s going to change, just keep evolving, figure out what you want to do first….” It’s not that I disagreed, but…
Read MoreResponding to Clients Who Kindly Ask You To Violate Your Policies
Clients. We love them. We’re constantly thinking about how to get more of them. But once we do….we find a whole new set of issues cropping up! Most of the issues aren’t horror-story-esque, but the subtle difficulties are often the hardest to handle. One reader sent in a question asking what to do in situations…
Read MoreWhat Van Gogh Will Teach You About Being A Photographer
I spent this morning under a beach umbrella reading some collected letters of Van Gogh. Shadows of seagulls grazed the sand around me, and my feet slowly slid outside the shade into the sun, but I was so breathtakingly absorbed in Van Gogh’s journey that I hardly noticed them baking into a lobster hue. Van…
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