Photographers are some of the most generous, caring, and philanthropic people on the planet.

We have huge hearts and we are givers. So how can you give back to your community and the

causes you love even if your business is small? That's what this episode is all about.

So the real question is how are portrait photographers like us able to run a profitable

business and still put our families first without selling digital files for cheap and working

all the time? I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joycaste, and I went from a

stressed out overworked mama with three babies to being named one of America's most profitable

photographers without working my kids' lives away. Each week I'll show you how to find and serve

a boutique portrait photography client in a world where we compete with free thanks to everyone

having a digital camera in their pocket. Take the first step to adding more joy and profit to your

life by downloading your free photography business tools at joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast.

One of the core values of my team and of our students here at the Joy of Marketing is to

lift as we climb. It's something our whole team gets behind and it's a value I know we share with

many of you. In fact, we reward our students with a 1k pin when they raise a thousand dollars for

charity. So this doesn't mean they cut a check for a thousand dollars. It means they partner with

a local charity to grow their business and possibly they add in another local business or two,

but they're raising funds for the charity and in return they're getting exposure to donors and

supporters of that charity and of that other small business. And so it's a win-win situation for

everybody, but it teaches our students that we don't have to wait until we're retired and we

have a big pile of money in our lives to be able to make a difference in the world. Over the years

together with our audience of photographers, we've raised a lot of money for charities whose

missions we love and we lifted as we climbed. Like Operation Smile get this we raised over 50

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