303 | 10 Things We Would Do If We Were Starting Our Business in 2020

Creative Rising

English - February 05, 2020 02:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 78 ratings
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Launching a wedding photography business is daunting, no matter when you do it.

But in today's world, it can be overwhelming to know what exactly you should do to get your business off the ground.

There's a lot of you out there just starting out, so Jeff and I sat down to talk about the ten things we would do if we were starting our wedding photography business right now in 2020.

In this episode we share:

The biggest thing we would do in our first year that most photographers don'tThe tools we would invest in right away and why (+ the tools we would wait to spend money on)How to know if you should invest in paid education or not

Jeff and I started our business 14 years ago in 2006, and it's quite the understatement to say that a lot has changed since then.

When we started, the iPhone hadn't been released yet, Facebook and Twitter were brand new, and Instagram wouldn't exist for another four years. So the world we run our business in today is dramatically different than the world we launched our business in fourteen years ago.

But here's the surprising thing we discovered in this episode... Even though the world has changed, the fundamentals of starting a business haven't. Many of the same rules that we followed over a decade ago, still ring very true for today.

So while there's still some very specific things you should do to take advantage of today's opportunities, some things will (thankfully) always stay the same.

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