What stresses you out? What keeps you up at night as a photographer? For you the issue might be, “How am I going to get more clients?” Or it could be, “How am I going to manage my time so I’m not spending every waking hour working in my business?” Whatever it is for you it comes back to this: How …
How to balance your photography business and your family so both sides win
How can a real estate or architectural photographer find a balance between their business and their family, and do it in a way that both sides win? We know what it’s like being a photographer – you shoot all day, then you get back home and handle the editing, the emails that you’ve missed, your social media posts, your invoices …
How can real estate & architectural photographers get clients in a saturated market: The Build A Photography Business Show
How do real estate and architectural photographers get more clients when you’re in a busy market with a lot of other photographers? This is a big issue for a lot of photographers, and it can be really hard to stand out and even get noticed, so let’s work on a plan for what you can do to make a real …
The roadmap to real estate photography success: The Build A Photography Business Show
How do you find success as a real estate photographer? I’d suggest that there are 7 areas you really need to work on, and in this video I’ll show you what those 7 areas are, and how to maximize them in your business. This will give you clarity and confidence regarding the things you need to do, but what’s important …
The Build A Photography Business Show: Be prepared for the quiet season
Real estate photographers: do you typically have a quiet winter in your business? I know that in some places during winter, especially when there is snow around, the whole real estate industry slows down and there just isn’t a lot of activity happening. Or maybe your slow season is at another time of year when, for whatever reason, very few …
The Build A Photography Business Show: What’s the biggest barrier in your business?
In this episode: Interview: We had a chat with real estate photographer Jon Kreider from Naples (Florida) about his background in photography and why he’s passionate about shooting homes, and the importance of deciding what type of photographer you are and how you position yourself in your market. You can check out Jon’s website, or find him on Facebook and …
The Build A Photography Business Show: Episode 2
Download: Click on the image to download the PDF: “Balancing My Photography Business” I’ve put together a PDF that you can download and print. Give yourself a score for each category: Download that PDF, fill it in as accurately and as honestly as you can (don’t overestimate your own abilities … but at the same time, don’t be too harsh …
The Build A Photography Business Show: episode 1
This episode of The Build A Photography Business Show featured: An interview with Kansas City photographer Samantha Ward Training: Should you outsource your photo editing? Outsourcing your photo editing for real estate photographers: In the video above I go into a lot more detail into this, but here’s a quick overview of what I covered … The two main arguments against …
Photographers: You need to work on this right now if business is quiet
Photographers: What’s the mindset you need to adopt if you want your photography business to thrive in a chaotic world?
Photographers: The mindset you need in a chaotic world
Photographers: What’s the mindset you need to adopt if you want your photography business to thrive in a chaotic world?
Real estate photographers: How to compete against really good photographers
Real estate photographers: In this video I give you a 5-step plan for how you can transition from part-time to full-time photography. This process will work through your reasons for changing, provide objective criteria by which you can determine when you should make the switch, and give you certainty around what you need to do beyond just ‘getting more clients’.
Real estate photographers: How to move from part-time to full-time
Real estate photographers: In this video I give you a 5-step plan for how you can transition from part-time to full-time photography. This process will work through your reasons for changing, provide objective criteria by which you can determine when you should make the switch, and give you certainty around what you need to do beyond just ‘getting more clients’.
Real estate photographers: How to increase your monthly revenue
In this video I share a plan that you could use to increase your revenue from, say, $2000 per month to $9000 per month in just one year. This is a month by month plan that details the exact number of jobs you need, when to initiate a price rise, and how many hours to commit to marketing each month.
Get more clients for your real estate photography business – offline marketing
What would I do to get more clients for my real estate or architectural photography business? This process of building connections with your dream clients offline is an important one, so in the video below I’ll share some tips for what you might like to do. It’s not necessarily easy, which is why a lot of photographers don’t put the …
Get more clients for your real estate photography business – online marketing
What would I do to get more clients for my real estate or architectural photography business? Well, I’d want to develop both an online marketing plan and an offline marketing plan. Our online marketing plan is going to feature four main elements, and in this video I look at how these elements fit together, and how you can optimise each …
What are your goals for your business, and how do the various departments impact on each other?
Architectural and real estate photographers: What are the goals you have for your business? And when you set goals for one department in your business, such as revenue, how does that impact upon the other departments within your business? This is something that a lot of photographers miss, and that’s because they tend to look at the different areas in …
How do you compete against cheap photographers?
Architectural and real estate photographers: What do you do when really cheap photographers enter your market? In this video we’ll look at 8 ideas you can use to compete against your cheap competitors!Video sponsor: Urbanimmersive They provide business solutions for real estate photographers around the world, including scheduling, payment, photo delivery and single property websites. For more details visit their website: …
A 3-step action plan for photographers
If you’re an architectural or real estate photographer, are you waiting for things to happen to you, or are you making things happen for you? In this video I’ll walk you through a simple 3-step monthly action plan that I’ve created for photographers just like you. If you can complete this action plan each and every month you’ll start accomplishing …
Raise your prices
Architectural and real estate photographers: you probably need to raise your prices. I know a lot of photographers feel very nervous about a price increase because they feel that they will lose too many clients. In this video we’ll look at the difference between elastic pricing and inelastic pricing, and I’ll show you how you can calculate the value for …
Photographers: love the process of photography & business
If you own a real estate photography or architectural photography business, you need to love taking photos but you also need to love the process of being a business owner. So in this video we’ll look at why that matters, and then I go through 3 things you can do to help develop that love for the process if you’re …