Starting and Growing a Photography Business: Top 10 Tips You Must Follow To Be Professional: Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of the Top 10 Things You Must Follow To Be Professional!Along with our advice on what you need while growing your business, you will also hear stories about when we failed big time! It can happen to anyone!

We discuss marketing plans for photographers, having professional websites and email, business insurance, contracts, and Erin shares a bonus tip at the end!

Here are some helpful links to go along with what we share this week:

It’s so important to have a PROFESSIONAL website and email! Whitney loves Squarespace for its simplicity and the ability to have everything in one place:

Squarespace: https://www.squarespace.com/

Business Insurance- not only will this protect you, but many venues require it! Amanda is a huge proponent of using PPA’s business insurance:

Professional Photographers of America https://www.ppa.com/

Contracts are one of the most important things to have when working with clients! While there are many options for premade contracts, Rachel Brenke is an expert in the photography industry and business and, most importantly, a great lawyer!

The Lawtog with Rachel Brenke https://www.thelawtog.com/

You MUST have backups of everything. We have all used Backblaze for online storage.

Backblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/

For onsite backup, we love these memory cards and external hard drives:

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Seagate External Harddrive: https://amzn.to/3UgoG8G*

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Bonus Tip! Erin shares how and why you should use Google My Business. The following article gives you step-by-step instructions for setting it up!

Google My Business Profile- article on how to set it up: https://www.semrush.com/blog/google-my-business/

We’d love to hear from you! Let us know which of the tips from the last two episodes you’d like to learn more about, and we will add it to our queue!