#162: Attention Parents: Here's How to Navigate Summer In Your Photography Business
Worth Every Penny Joycast
Sarah Petty
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
When the kids get out of school for summer break, it can really throw a wrench in your schedule as a photographer.
How are you supposed to run your business, squeeze in sessions, all while caring for your little ones who are suddenly home 24/7?
I've got three kids, and my family navigated the summer schedule for 15 years so my business didn't have to come to a screeching halt. It can be done!
On this episode, I'm sharing the 6 rules of managing summer vacation when you've got kids and a photography business. Summer schedule stress disappears when you have a plan!
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| 0:00.0 | Just like there are seasons to the flow of your family when you're a parent, |
| 0:06.0 | there are seasons to the flow of your business when you are specifically a professional |
| 0:12.4 | photographer. Right now, you might be going through a pretty big one. |
| 0:17.6 | For me, the biggest adjustment when I had young kids was when the kids got |
| 0:23.2 | out of school for the summer. Talk about throwing everyone's schedule into chaos. |
| 0:29.2 | So should you completely push pause on your business for the next three months? |
| 0:34.3 | Well, today I am going to talk about how the petty family navigated this for 15 years, |
| 0:41.2 | so that my business didn't come to us reaching halt. |
| 0:47.7 | So the real question is, how are portrait photographers like us able to run a profitable |
| 0:53.7 | business and still put our families first without selling digital files for cheap and |
| 0:59.0 | working all the time? I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joycast. |
| 1:05.2 | And I went from a stressed out overworked mama with three babies to being named one of |
| 1:10.1 | America's most profitable photographers without working my kids lives away. |
| 1:16.0 | Each week, I'll show you how to find and serve root-teat portrait photography clients |
| 1:20.7 | in a world where we compete with free thanks to everyone having a digital camera in their |
| 1:25.3 | pocket. Take the first step to adding more joy and profit to your life by downloading |
| 1:31.2 | your free photography business tools at joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast. |
| 1:41.4 | So listen, I've been coaching photographers for years. I've been teaching business for years. |
| 1:49.1 | I love marketing. I love selling. I love all things business. |
| 1:54.4 | And in 25 years of running a profitable photography business and coaching |
| 1:59.9 | hundreds of thousands of photographers, what I know is that portrait photographers bring |
| 2:06.4 | in half of their business in the last four to five months of the year. |
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