145: How to Build an Associate Photographers Team and Scale Your Business with Grace Troutman
The Heart & Hustle Podcast
The Heart University
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re talking straight to you, photographers! If you’ve ever felt stuck in your photography business and wondered how to continue to scale and grow or if you’re a photographer feeling overwhelmed or exhausted by all the behind-the-scenes business portions of the job and just wanting to go out and do what you love: SHOO! Today’s episode is a freaking goldmine of information. We’re chatting: Associate Photography Teams with the incredible Grace Troutman!!!
Now if you don’t know her, Grace is a Midwest-based destination wedding photographer and business educator, who’s traveled to Iceland, Ireland, Hawaii, Colorado, California, and Washington to shooting destination weddings. Over the years as she desired to scale her photography business, she slowly built a powerful team of associate photographers to shoot under her business Grace Troutman Photography. When she’s not out shooting with her team or teaching other creatives, she’s typically sipping sour beer with my husband or playing with her two-year-old daughter, Pfeiffer.
Grace is such a gem and on today’s show, she firehosed tips, tools, information, and ideas on how to scale a photography business by building an associate photography team. She covered how she got into associate photography in the first place, the mindset hurdles you have to overcome, where to find quality and trustworthy team members, what to look for in them, how to train them to match your client experience, and how to market them to potential clients in a way that adds value to your overall experience.
This is a JAM-PACKED episode, and we’re so excited for you to learn from the queen herself. So if you’ve ever wondered how to get out of the hamster wheel cycle of trading your time for money, we’re about to dive into how to build a team of photographers who shoot under your brand so you can serve even more clients while scaling your photography business.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Heart and Hustle Podcast, where your hosts Evie Rup and Lindsay Roman. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to the freaking party, my friend. We are so so excited to have you here today. |
| 0:11.6 | We're excited every day, but today we are especially stoked |
| 0:15.6 | because today's episode is about to blow your freaking mind. |
| 0:20.0 | We are about to talk straight to you photographers. |
| 0:23.5 | If you have ever felt stuck in your photography business |
| 0:26.0 | and wondered how to continue to scale and grow |
| 0:28.8 | and you're feeling trapped with just trading your time for money, |
| 0:32.0 | or if you're a photographer feeling overwhelmed or exhausted |
| 0:35.4 | by all the behind the scenes business portions of the job |
| 0:38.2 | and you're just wanting to go out and do what you love, |
| 0:40.9 | which is shoot, then today's episode is a freaking gold mine of |
| 0:45.0 | information. We're chatting Associate Photography Teams with the |
| 0:48.7 | incredible Grace Troutman. Now if you don't know her Grace is a Midwest-based destination wedding |
| 0:54.7 | photographer and business educator who's traveled to Iceland, Ireland, Hawaii, |
| 0:59.6 | Colorado, California, Washington to shoot destination weddings. |
| 1:03.4 | Now, over the years, as she desired to scale her photography business, |
| 1:06.8 | she slowly built a powerful team of associate photographers to shoot under her business, |
| 1:11.3 | Grace Chautman Photography. Now Now when she's not out shooting with |
| 1:14.2 | her team or teaching other creatives, she's typically sipping sour beer with her husband or |
| 1:19.5 | playing with her two-year-old daughter, Fyfer. Now, Grace, guys, is seriously such a gem. |
| 1:25.8 | And on today's show, she freaking firehosed, |
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