How To Create A Successful Photography Business With Solid Foundations

How to create a successful photography business with a solid foundationDespite every professional photographer wanting to run their own successful photography business, there seems to be a general lack of understanding (especially amongst, but not limited to, those new to the business) about what it really takes.

For example, I came across this question in one of the professional photography LinkedIn groups to which I belong:

What do you think is the most important aspect of a photography business?

(Incidentally, are you a member of the Photography Business & Marketing group on LinkedIn?)

Questions such as this pop up with disturbing regularity, and I find it amazing that so many photographers (mostly those who don’t belong to these types of focused groups) fail to understand that there’s really no single element of a photographer’s specific business that can be considered more important than any other part.

The idea of one magical thing we can do to create a successful photography business is really nothing more than a myth, or wishful thinking.

Are you ready to learn the real secret behind creating a successful photography business? Off we go then…

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Don’t Send Your Hard-Earned Clients Out The Door! How To Create A Photography Website That Makes Them Feel Cozy

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Are you a “department store” type of photographer, or a “boutique” type? Either way, you need to create a photography website that works for you…

Are your website visitors leaving too quickly or failing to take the action you want them to? If so, you’re not alone, and the last thing your photography website should do is send your hard-earned clients running for the door, or present them with irrelevant distractions! Instead, you should create a photography website that lets your visitors know they’re in the right place, makes them feel cozy, and wraps itself around them in a comfortable embrace.

In short, if someone visits your photography website for a specific reason (e.g. they’re looking for a wedding photographer or a commercial shooter), the environment and experience you provide for them should focus exclusively on that one topic.

If there are too many distractions, or the website content isn’t relevant to their search, they’ll simply leave to find something more relevant, or they’ll get lost browsing other areas of the website, possibly forgetting why they were there in the first place!

This is no trivial problem, because you’ve essentially lost a potential client in the process.

But there’s a simple solution to both of these problems, one aimed at making your visitors feel at home on your website and keeping them clearly focused on what they came for…

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Free eBook: The Professional Photographer’s Online Marketing Guide

Online marketing for the professional photographer can be a lot easier than many people think.

Online marketing for the professional photographer can be a lot easier than many people think.

One of the things photographers keep telling me in our coaching sessions, and in my mastermind group, is that online marketing is causing way more headaches than it should.

Too many photographers don’t “get” SEO, there are lots of misconceptions about what online marketing means, dead blogs are littering the information super-highway, email marketing has become misunderstood, and social media has become a mess of confusion, fueled even further by Facebook’s desire to keep changing things.

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Fine Art Photography Sales: 5 Critical Skills

Fine art photography: Wreck of The SS Dunraven, Red Sea, Egypt, by Nigel MerrickHave you ever been in a situation where you had someone highly interested in your fine art photography, only to find yourself unable to make the sale? Afterwards, did you find yourself wondering in frustration, “what could I have done differently to help the client make the purchase?

You’re not alone!

Almost every artist and fine art photographer has been in this situation at some point in his or her career.

Editor’s note: This is a guest article by Jason Horjes, the owner of the Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale Arizona. I also interviewed Jason on one of my special “pick our brains” webinars with a special presentation and interview from Jason on how to sell fine art photography.

While not every encounter with a potential buyer will result in a sale, you can dramatically increase your fine art photography sales by understanding the sales process.

I’ve been fortunate to work in the gallery business for almost 20 years and have sold millions of dollars in fine art, including fine art photography, during my career. By using the critical sales skills that I’ll share with you in this post, I’ve had consistent art sales year after year – despite the twists and turns of the economic climate.

Want to sell more of your fine art photography? Let me show you how…

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