Have you ever had someone say (or infer) to you that they absolutely LOVE what you do… …But they just can’t justify the price? Or maybe that’s how you sometimes feel when you’re in a “funk.” Like YOU wouldn’t ever spend that much on photography, why would someone else? I…

A warm feeling waterfalls in my face and chest while I look through each joyful family photo in my image box. There’s a tingling behind my nose and eyes – whenever these photos from 3 years ago turn to memories playing in my mind I get this feeling. It sometimes…

The Fourth part of this hugely useful series (yes modesty isn’t a strong suit for me) covers one of THE most important keys to putting your incredible ideas (or stealing one of mine) into action and making a profit from it. Now to be fair, I could have shared this…

My studio smelled like dirty animal. You know, the smell of wood chips + animal poop, kind of like how your 3rd grade classroom smelled when you had Gerry the pet gerbil. The reason for this? Baby chicks. 8 cute, soft, utterly adorable — baby chicks. But worse than the…

Yesterday we talked about why we feel like the freedom has been sucked out of us this time of year – because the phone doesn’t ring when it’s the subarctic, post-holiday time of year. Today we’re coming up with irresistible ideas for slow-season sessions, and in the next lesson we’ll…

My bloated heart nearly shattered into a bazillion shards when one of you emailed me this recently, “I need to start making money with my business now, or else get a “real” job. Not because I felt bad for you, but because I’ve been there. Truth be told, we’ve all…

***Prefer video over text? Watch the 2 minute 59 second video on the Facebook page *** Have you ever been excited for the weekend, to take some time off from your photography business, and then Saturday morning you start having work anxiety creep in? The “shoulds” creep up… The “oh…

I used to feel like a TERRIBLE human whenever I did one of those “what’s your WHY” exercises. Because literally, my favorite thing was high school seniors, and I can say in all honestly I loved to photograph high school seniors because I felt CREATIVE and loved getting dramatic skies…

Hey ~Contact.FirstName~, Have you ever thought, “I’m not getting the IMPORTANT stuff DONE!” or “UGH I feel overwhelmed…i have so many marketing ideas and goals and I just went to Imaging and watched a Creative Live and went to this online event thing and…and…and….. WHERE DO I FREAKING BEGIN!” Dude…I totally…

I was watching TV on my elephant-enormous Vizio TV, and the My Pillow infomercial came up. “My Pillow changed my life,” said one of the people. I rolled my eyes and jizzled my head, then became 3-year-old curious as to how they would attempt to make me believe a pillow…

If you were a lawn mowing company, what would you do to stay busy in the winter? You may or may not have guessed right….. You start a shoveling business! That’s right – you shovel snow. Many seasonal business do this. When they have an “S” curve business where there’s…

***The Perspective of 9 industry-wide experts I was 22 and fresh out of photography school. The world of portrait and wedding photography was mine for they taking (as they say), and I envisioned rainbows, sprinkly-cupcakes and puppy dogs in my photography endeavor. I had the technical skills (YEEHAW F-stops and…