This Can't Be That Hard

Three years ago, fine art portrait photographer and body positivity advocate Amanda Thorson got an idea for a photo book. As of two weeks ago, that idea officially became a reality when she crossed the goal line on her Kickstarter. The photos are made, the book is designed, the funding is there... now all that’s left is to go to print! I chatted with Amanda about the whole process - what’s fun, what’s hard, what she’s learned and - of course - how much it actually costs to self-publish an art book!
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You may have heard the marketing term "Value Ladder," and while the concept of encouraging new business with small offers that lead to progressively larger ones is pretty simple, translating that into a strategy for your photography business might not be. In this episode, I am talking about value ladders: how to build one in your business and how to make sure you don’t fall off.
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EP 003: The Importance of Trust

The Simple Sales System Masterclass

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A well-done photography client prep guide is a thing of beauty: it is a fantastic, professional way to represent your brand to your new clients, it helps reassure them that you know what you're doing and are going to be a trustworthy guide through the process, and it helps you avoid lots of time spent answering and addressing common questions and concerns. But putting a good guide together is also a HUGE investment of time and energy, and it seems like a waste that it only gets seen by those people who actually hire you.
What if your beautiful prep guide could be turned into a great marketing tool, too? A way to help prospective clients find you and trust you before they ever reached out. And what about the parts of the prep guide that no one ever seems to read... is there a way to strategically drip those out so that your clients are more likely to actually follow your guidance?
In today's podcast, I'm giving you some general pointers about prep guides - what they should include and how they should be structured - then I'm giving you five recommendations for how you can take the content that you've already created and put those to good use in other parts of your business... the goal - always - is working smarter, not harder.

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When is good customer service most important? When things are at their MOST uncomfortable... think colonoscopy-level discomfort.

The good news? Even something as unpleasant as a painful medical procedure can be remembered in a better light if the experience ends well. And if that’s true for a colonoscopy, imagine the possibilities in our photography businesses!

Today, I’m sharing some lessons from Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Dan Kahneman, along with my three-step system for how to appropriately assess and address frustrated or disappointed clients. These strategies can help you rescue even the most dire customer service situations and turn them into rave reviews and clients for life.

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Henry Ford once said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses.’” I hear a lot of photographers who feel stuck doing or NOT doing, selling or NOT selling certain things in their businesses based largely on what their clients tell them they want or what they see other photographers around them doing. And as much as I know that it’s important to keep an eye on the market and to listen to what your clients tell you, today I want to talk about how the key to your success (and your happiness!) may well be to periodically ignore all that and think BIGGER.

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