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Successful Senior Photography: Specializing within the Senior Market

Photographers can choose to specialize and become experts at a particular type of photography – and people are willing to pay a premium to work with experts. If you specialize in senior pictures, that’s a good start, but specializing within the senior market is even better!

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Successful Senior Photography Tips: Breaking into the Market

Senior photography can be a very profitable business, but it can also be a difficult market to break into. There are plenty of high school seniors out there but it can be a challenge figuring out how to reach them. But there is one very important key to reaching seniors…

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Be More Productive: Making Email Templates For Photographers

Learn how to cut down on your time spent writing and responding to e-mails, so you can have more time to take pictures.

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How to Become a Professional Photographer

When it comes to photography, the difference between a hobby and a profession is whether or not you’re making a living as a professional photographer.

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Why Photography Studios Should Specialize

If you are a photographer trying to make a go of it as a full time or even a part time career, the lesson for this post boils down to this: Find what you do best, focus on it, and eliminate the rest. You will be happier, your clients will be happier, and you will be more successful.

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3 Secrets to Keep Clients Coming Back

Get photography clients through three simple steps. Create amazing images, develop an amazing experience and stay in front of your clients all year.

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How To Make More Money By Selling Custom Photography Products

Make more money by providing your clients with the products they will love and share with others. Custom photography products make the difference.

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Effective marketing tips for photographers

If you want to get started as a photographer, there are a few things that you should know in terms of how to promote yourself in such a way that will win you the admiration of future clients. Here is a set of tips that will guide you on your way to becoming a full-time professional photographer.

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9 Reasons Your Studio Is FAILING at Facebook

Photography studios often struggle with ways to have an effective strategy on facebook. This article explores 9 common mistakes that are made.

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Are You Making Mistakes Regarding Watermarking Your Photos?

Most photographers add a watermark or logo on their photos. Is this the best thing to do? Or are you making a mistake? learn now!

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How and Why to Have a Post-Processing Workflow

Why having a written post processing workflow is non-negotiable.

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The Art of Blogging for Your Photography Business

  Blogging and photography go hand-in-hand – after all it’s one of the best (free!) marketing tools for your business. That is, as long as it’s used to its full potential. But just how exactly do you make the most of your blog? While showcasing your talent, sessions and images is important, your blog shouldn’t…

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3 Tips for Creating Your Own Behind-The-Scenes Photo Shoot Video

I recently published a Behind the Scenes video to Vimeo of a fashion photo shoot I did at Motor City Casino in Detroit.  After the emotional high wore off from producing it, I sat down with my creative team to begin planning the next video.  We spent a lot of time discussing the types of…

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5 Plugins Every Photographer Should Be Using

There are so many WordPress plugins for photographers out there.  No matter what people say is the best, including this article; the key is to find the ones that work best for you. Of course, all I can do is recommend and hope that you take the advice and roll with it. In this article,…

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3 Tips For Generating Article Topics for Your Photography Blog

In this article, I am going to discuss three different methods for coming up with content ideas for your photography blog.  You will read about tools and also something that every photographer should be doing already using engagement. As the main blogger for a company who develops WordPress themes for photographers, it can be challenging…

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Battling the Resistance Monster Hurting Your Photography

If you lack self-confidence and deal with a resistance monster in your head, here are ways to banish it forever.

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Shooting For YOU! Creating A Portfolio That Reflects Your True Style

Don’t shoot your images because you have to, photograph the subjects you want to. Here’s tips to help you build a portfolio you will be proud of.

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7 Tips on How To Become a Food Photographer

What type of Photography Do You Enjoy? Almost immediately, I knew that I didn’t want to be a portrait or wedding photographer. It just wasn’t as exhilarating for me as taking photos of my favorite sushi. Recently, I made the decision to begin my adventure into the professional food photography world. I want to encourage…

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How To Use Social Media To Expand Your Photography Business

  This is a social media guest post, by Doug Cohen of Frameable Faces, about his approach to social networking for he and his wife’s photography studio. Learn from their experiences.  Providing a complete how-to on all of the social media platforms could easily be a 3,000 page book. So instead I’ll summarize our experience…

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Overcoming Information Overload: Time-Management Tips

Are you a victim of information overload? Do you have trouble completing what you started?Get better time management skills now

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5 Reasons Why You Should Rent Your Next Lens

In the past 10+ years I have always bought camera equipment as I had the funds for it. Often times, I would sell one lens that I no longer wanted to pay for a different lens. Since most lenses retain a high % of their value, I acted as my own lens rental company, buying…

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