#157: How This Small Town Photographer Got $30K in Portrait Orders in 3 Months!!
Worth Every Penny Joycast
Sarah Petty
5.0 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever had friends and family doubt that you could make a living from your photography?
Or maybe you've felt pressured to quit photography altogether and get a "real" job?
Kristen was in the same boat. She didn't have a support system for her photography dreams, but she still KNEW she had to keep going.
Today she's sharing how she went from a digital file photographer to a boutique photographer and ended up making $30k in just 3 months!!
Hit play to hear the full story of how she did it!
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| 0:00.0 | So the real question is how are portrait photographers like us able to run a |
| 0:07.6 | profitable business and still put our families first without selling digital |
| 0:12.5 | files for cheap and working all the time. I'm Sarah Petty your host of the |
| 0:17.5 | Worth Every Penny Joycast and I went from a stressed out overworked mama with |
| 0:22.6 | three babies to being named one of America's most profitable photographers |
| 0:26.9 | without working my kids lives away. Each week I'll show you how to find and serve |
| 0:33.1 | boutique portrait photography clients in a world where we compete with free |
| 0:36.9 | thanks to everyone having a digital camera in their pocket. Take the first step |
| 0:41.9 | to adding more joy and profit to your life by downloading your free photography |
| 0:46.9 | business tools at joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast. |
| 0:53.7 | Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. So give everybody a little bit of your |
| 1:03.2 | backstory because you're in Canada but I want them we're gonna go through how |
| 1:08.1 | you converted to full boutique but I like people to know like where'd you |
| 1:12.2 | come from where you do in digital's like what did that look like before you |
| 1:16.4 | started this because everybody's story is different and you guys remember as |
| 1:19.9 | she's talking you're listening for possibilities for yourself okay this isn't |
| 1:24.7 | about her this is about every single one of you so give us some of the back |
| 1:29.0 | backstory Kristen. Okay so I first picked up a camera about nine years ago and I |
| 1:36.8 | did officially open my business in 2016 and I was only offering digital files. I |
| 1:45.1 | did a lot of those cheap mini sessions for $175 or you give them all the |
| 1:51.5 | digital's and you just feel like basically you're making no money because you |
| 1:58.6 | aren't and then last two years I started offering prints and like just a few |
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