Important Announcement About Web Media Content

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Announcement from Gerber Global Media Content (Gerber GMC) in cooperation with PhotoBizCoach Beate Chelette Feature Story Submission invitation for Web Media Content to all photographers!!     Zurich/Los Angeles June 1, 2013 Livio Gerber (zapaimages) and PhotoBizCoach Beate

Photography Business Success Through Social Media

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In our LinkedIn Group Photography Business, we asked our members what they need the most help with. Social Media had the most requests after Word of Mouth Marketing, which I just covered in our last TipSheet. Even some of the most successful Internet Marketers and Businesses struggle to get their

The PhotoBiz Bootcamp Is Open

For the third time we are opening the FREE 7 Step Video PhotoBiz Bootcamp. Registration is now open. Please sign up here We have put over 2000 photographers through the Bootcamp thus far and this time we want to up the numbers. Please help us to spread the word and share this information with

Pricing Photography - Fourth Edition!

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This is great book and its in it's fourth edition! When I first started out I used it and always thought it was a great reference. Pricing Photography, Fourth Edition The Complete Guide to Assignment and Stock Prices By Michal Heron and David MacTavish $29.95, 11” x 8 ½”, 160 pages

Business Networking - Where do I find people to business network with?

Business networking provides lots of opportunities to not only build your own business, but to help others as well.  When you are networking, you are building up a stable of business partners who may or may not be customers, but who you can recommend to people to help with whatever problems they

I Need Your Help

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I am not beating around the bush, I need your help. I am about to go into the studio to record new videos. Yes, I've listened to you about wanting me to put a bit more effort into the visuals. So I am. I've got an entire day at the fabulous Siren Studios in Hollywood. But, here is my problem, I am

Mindless Marketing in the Photography Business

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It happened again. Some person who I do not know from somewhere where I don't live has invited me to do something that I neither want or need. For example like their page and go to some weight loss neighboorhood event in Texas (I live in Los Angeles.) Or how about finding THE ONE when you already

Business Networking - One bad apple

What do you do when you're in a business networking group and you realize that one of the members is not living up to expectations?  Here's what you don't do - nothing about it.  Why?  Lots of reasons come to mind, but let's start with this one.  A business networking group depends on getting

Do You Want To Find More Clients (and how that really works...)

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Earlier this week I examined what many photography professionals commonly do when they want to find more clients. They license the rights to use a list and send things to people they don't know. Most likely these people don't want to get what you send them and the whole thing more often than not is

How Do You Find Clients For Your Photography Business?

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How do you find clients? This is the number one question I get from photography professionals just like you. It is also the reason why I created the Photography Business Intensive., an online video and live coaching course that I facilitate only three times a year.  If you are a follower you may

Business Networking for Photographers - Don't confuse your partners

In business networking, don't try to be all things to all people, or you'll be nothing to no one.  As a hot shot photographer, you can probably do any kind of shooting you want to.  You can narrow that down some by leaving out things you don't enjoy or that don't pay for your time.  Now you're

Photoshelter's "Photographer’s Outlook on 2013"

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Photoshelter released their Photographer's Outlook on 2013 and it's free! With insights from over 5,000 photographers it give great vision into the photography business in this upcoming year. With sections on expected revenue, business challenges, and marketing ideas it is a fantastic resource. you

BUSINESS NETWORKING – How can I help my networking partners?

One thing you may find difficult is a most important aspect of business networking.  That is how to help your networking partners. There are several ways to do this: 1-    The best, of course, if you can refer your own customers to them for a complementary product or service.  For some of

Photography Business Networking - How long does it take to get results?

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One of the big questions new photography business networkers have is how long will it take to get results?  Although the answer is “It depends”, I can give you an idea of the process and how long it typically takes. Some times you will meet someone & right away they will give you a

Is photography about seeing or being looked at?

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by  guest blogger Cristiano Burmester from Brazil The first time I heard that question I immediately thought about the relationship between a photographer and a model during a photography session. A simple portrait is a good example of how photography is not a one person statement. What I

PhotoBiz TipSheet Posted

Liberty And Freedom For All TipSheet posted - -Download it here First, let me thank you for being a follower, a critic, and also for your friendship. The quiet time that comes with this part of the year invites us to go deeper inward. This is our time to probe, search, and put change into

When Bad Things Happen In Your Photography Business

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Some aspects of the photography business are, (lets face it), rather boring in truth. That doesn’t mean you can ignore them though and in fact you do so at your peril. I’m talking about and important photography business item -  insurance for photographers. A post by guest blogger JR

Communication and Negotiation in the Photography Business

It's not easy to be great at communication and negotiation. Often it takes years of practice to get good at the business part of the photography business. Communication feels fake and unnatural. You feel as if you are selling. Yikes. What can you do to get better? Just yesterday I was on the

Business Networking - How do you treat your networking partners?

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Guest blogger, David Coblitz. If you've been following my blogs here on business networking, you've already found why to network, where to network, and how to network as well as what an ideal networking relationship looks like and with whom you should seek that.  Now we'll discuss some issues

How I learned To See Through Travel Photography

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(c) by guest blogger Cristiano Burmester from Brazil Throughout my personal journey, travel photography has played a special role in my life. It taught me to see. To see in such a way that I can understand the world, the environment, the people and how it all relates with one another. I