#179: 5 Things You'll Hear About Starting a Photography Business that I Call BS On
Worth Every Penny Joycast
Sarah Petty
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Most of the common advice you'll hear about starting a photography business is BS!
Yet just like when I was pregnant with my twins, everyone and their mother wanted to give me some kind of advice.
Did I want that advice? No.
Was it good advice? Mostly no.
Did it irritate me like poison ivy on my eyeballs? YES!
Well-meaning people who love you, but don't know diddly squat about running a photography business will fill your ears with "advice" that's anything but helpful.
And listening to it, I'm sad to say, can actually hold you BACK!
On today's podcast, I'm going over the most common pieces of advice about starting a photography business that are BS.
Like:
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How long it takes to turn a profit
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Whether you need a studio or not
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What attracts high-paying clients
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And a lot more!
So pop in your earbuds and get ready for some straight-up FACTS that cancel out the BS you've probably been hearing!
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever noticed when you talk about starting or growing your photography business, |
| 0:05.8 | everyone wants to give their opinion? |
| 0:09.2 | Well, let me tell you, today I'm going to call BS on five things that you're probably |
| 0:15.4 | hearing and give you what the facts are. |
| 0:19.1 | So the real question is, how are portrait photographers like us able to run a profitable |
| 0:26.8 | business and still put our families first, without selling digital files for cheap and |
| 0:32.2 | working all the time? |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joycast, and I went from a stressed |
| 0:39.9 | out overworked mama with three babies to being named one of America's most profitable photographers |
| 0:46.0 | without working my kids' lives away. |
| 0:49.4 | Each week, I'll show you how to find and serve Routique Portrait Photography clients |
| 0:54.0 | in a world where we compete with free thanks to everyone having a digital camera in their |
| 0:58.6 | pocket. |
| 0:59.9 | Take the first step to adding more joy and profit to your life by downloading your free photography |
| 1:05.5 | business tools at joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast. |
| 1:14.8 | Look I get it, people love you and they want to help you. |
| 1:19.6 | They think they're supporting you by saying these things to keep you safe or whatever the |
| 1:26.7 | reason. |
| 1:27.7 | Maybe they are actually jealous or maybe they don't want you to succeed. |
| 1:31.0 | But I like to believe that people are by nature good people and they want to support others. |
| 1:37.5 | But I'm here to tell you, these things are simply not true. |
| 1:42.2 | And once you think about them, you'll be able to move past these false beliefs that have |
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