Starting a Photography Business: Top 10 Tips You Must Follow To Be Professional! Part 1

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Starting a photography business? There are so many mistakes that you can make- and we’ve made them! In this episode, we share our top tips for starting out in your photography business so that you don’t have to make the same mistakes we did!

This week’s episode was so packed full of information that we decided to split it into two parts!

Begin with these first five tips—they’re enough for you to get going this week! Then, laugh along with us as we swap horror stories of the times we’ve messed up and learn from us.

We want to see you thrive!

Here are some helpful links to go along with what we share this week:

Do you need to brush up on your photography skills? Whitney’s favorite place to learn is Creative Live! Bonus—it’s not just for photography—you can also learn all sorts of creative practices here!

https://www.creativelive.com/#?page=1

Do you have your business license yet? If not, this guide from NerdWallet has links to all 50 states, so you can find out how to get one in your state!

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/sm...

Erin shares how important it is to know your cost of doing business. And this is her favorite calculator!

https://www.biblino.com/cost-of-doing...

BACK UP GEAR! You must have it. We don’t have links to every piece of backup gear you may need, but after listening to this episode, you will definitely want several of these in your car and camera bag: https://amzn.to/4aU27NW
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P.S. Do you know a photographer in their first few years of business? We’d LOVE it if you send them our channel so we can help them work through these beginning years!

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💬 We'd love to hear your thoughts! If you’ve been in business for a while, what advice would you give for someone starting out?

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Have ADHD or just want a tool to work efficiently while you work on your photography business? This visual time aid helps you focus while you can visually see what time it is! Whitney discusses this tool in our second episode on Productivity for Photographers!

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This is Erin’s Favorite CRM for her photography business! She shares all the different ways she uses Dubsado in our episode about CRMs for photography!

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Apple iPad for note taking with GoodNotes ➡ https://amzn.to/49tRHEl (any will work if you can use an Apple pencil!)

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