#171: 73 Photographers Came To Nashville for Selling Summer Camp. Here Are Their Biggest Takeaways
Worth Every Penny Joycast
Sarah Petty
5.0 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall during someone else's photography session? You know - see what they do differently.
Recently I had students in a real-life LIVE session and selling presentation, I gotta say, it made me a little nervous!
AND things did NOT go as planned!
But it was their takeaways from the day that were the REAL surprise!
It's so cool to see what these professional portrait photographers - new and experienced - picked up on as I was "doing my thing."
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| 0:00.0 | In last week's episode, I shared what went right and what went wrong when I did a live session |
| 0:07.0 | in in-person ordering appointment in one day for over 70 of my peak performance coaching students |
| 0:13.4 | in Nashville, Tennessee. This was during our two-day sales and social media summer camp. |
| 0:20.0 | This week, I want to share with you the takeaways that my students had and gosh, |
| 0:25.6 | they might not be what you expect. |
| 0:30.5 | So the real question is, how are portrait photographers like us able to run a profitable |
| 0:36.6 | business and still put our families first without selling digital files for cheap and working all |
| 0:42.8 | the time? I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joycast, and I went from a |
| 0:49.1 | stressed-out overworked mama with three babies to being named one of America's most profitable |
| 0:54.6 | photographers without working my kids' lives away. Each week, I'll show you how to find and serve |
| 1:01.6 | Routique portrait photography clients in a world where we compete with free thanks to everyone having |
| 1:06.8 | a digital camera in their pocket. Take the first step to adding more joy and profit to your life |
| 1:13.2 | by downloading your free photography business tools at joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast. |
| 1:24.3 | It's funny because I've been running a profitable photography business for 25 years. |
| 1:29.5 | I've spoken on many stages. I've created tons of videos yet |
| 1:35.4 | doing the entire process of a session through the presentation to the client in one day on a stage |
| 1:42.8 | in a city that I'm not from with three little kids' clients and a quickly moving clock to get it |
| 1:48.7 | all in. With a packed room of these photographers watching, oh my gosh, it was a little challenging. |
| 1:57.4 | While it was a little hairy scary to get everything set up on a narrow stage with someone else's |
| 2:03.1 | lights, once I got going, I blocked everything out and I just did what I do. And while it was |
| 2:10.5 | imperfect, it really was as perfect as it could be. It was a perfect training day because |
| 2:18.1 | it all happened. And that's at the end of the day, what we want is to be able to create artwork |
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