Ep 175: The Path to Profitability as a New Photographer
This Can't Be That Hard
English - August 30, 2022 06:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsMarketing Business Entrepreneurship photography business sales marketing entrepreneur entrepreneurship small business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When your first start your photography business, you need to make a plan for a period of time where you're building your client base up. It's normal to run at a loss for a year or two, but you need to have a plan in place for moving from that deficit into the land of profit. (If your profitability runway is too short, you’ll risk feeling like a failure. If it’s too long, you may never get off the ground)
There are so many things to think about when you run your own small business that it can be difficult to find the right balance between marketing, education, customer experience, and of course pricing yourself profitably.
Today, I want to spend some time talking about how to navigate being a new photographer and share some advice on how to become profitable as soon as possible.
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Listen to the Simple Sales Limited Series Podcast where Annemie teaches the 6 steps to running a profitable, sustainable photography business you love. Join the TCBTH Facebook Group - a supportive, business-focused group for photographers. Leave a review!