#173: Can Mentoring Young People Help Grow Your Photography Business?
Worth Every Penny Joycast
Sarah Petty
5.0 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Should you hire an intern? What are the benefits of having young people in your company?
Better yet, where do you find those "impressive youth," and how do you convince them to work for you?!
Today, I'll share the four BIG benefits of mentoring that I bet you've never thought of before (I certainly hadn't until I did it myself). These are HUGE bonuses for you and your photography business that you don't want to miss!
Press play now to find out how mentoring will help you build a better photography business and it will feel as good as snuggling a new baby (it's the BEST)!
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| 0:00.0 | When I reflected on my last week, a week jam-packed with coaching my high-level students, creating |
| 0:06.2 | new trainings, recording podcasts, and working with my graphic designer on the top secret |
| 0:11.3 | new project, I realized my favorite thing I did all week involved a two-hour session mentoring |
| 0:18.6 | one of my college student interns. |
| 0:21.3 | And it got me thinking about most photographers not even realizing how much this activity |
| 0:26.8 | can help their business. |
| 0:29.1 | Today I'm going to talk about why doing this lights me up, why it gives me so much purpose, |
| 0:36.1 | and I'm hoping it helps you see if this activity can help your photography business. |
| 0:40.5 | I'll share with you four unexpected benefits of mentoring, how I find and attract impressive |
| 0:46.1 | young people even in a small city, what roles they play, and how to pay them so you can |
| 0:52.1 | create these relationships too. |
| 0:57.0 | The real question is, how are portrait photographers like us able to run a profitable business |
| 1:03.3 | and still put our families first, without selling digital files for cheap and working all |
| 1:09.1 | the time? |
| 1:10.1 | I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joycast, and I went from a stressed |
| 1:15.8 | out overworked mama with three babies to being named one of America's most profitable photographers |
| 1:21.9 | without working my kids' lives away. |
| 1:25.3 | Each week, I'll show you how to find and serve boutique portrait photography clients |
| 1:29.9 | in a world where we compete with free thanks to everyone having a digital camera in their |
| 1:34.4 | pocket. |
| 1:35.7 | Take the first step to adding more joy and profit to your life by downloading your free |
| 1:40.7 | photography business tools at joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast. |
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