#180: How a Small Town Couple with 5 Kids Stopped Selling Digital Files & Had $12,620 in Photography Orders 53 Days Later
Worth Every Penny Joycast
Sarah Petty
5.0 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Are you considering closing your photography business?
If you're tired of doing everything you can to find clients, only to realize that the hours you're spending aren't worth what you're getting paid, this episode is for you.
Before you close down your photography business and start applying for jobs, you need to hear Andy and Danielle's story!
This husband-and-wife photographer team with 5 kids live in a town of just 1,000 people. They started taking on side jobs when their photography business of 6 years started to slide.
The decided to do something drastic and only 53 days later…
They got a $12,620 client order!!!! Hit play now to listen to their story!
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| 0:00.0 | Six years into being photographers, |
| 0:03.0 | Andy and Danielle felt like their photography business |
| 0:05.6 | had won its course. |
| 0:07.4 | The calls weren't coming in like they used to, |
| 0:09.6 | and they had to pick up odd jobs to make ends meet. |
| 0:12.8 | They just couldn't get enough business |
| 0:14.7 | in their small town. |
| 0:16.4 | Then they made a big decision to go boutique |
| 0:19.2 | and 53 days later. |
| 0:22.4 | They had a $12,620 photography order. |
| 0:27.4 | Today you'll hear their story of how they went |
| 0:29.5 | from $450 sessions that included all the digital files |
| 0:34.1 | to where they are today doing a minimum of $1,000 per client. |
| 0:41.9 | So the real question is, how are portrait photographers |
| 0:45.3 | like us able to run a profitable business |
| 0:48.4 | and still put our families first |
| 0:51.0 | without selling digital files for cheap and working all the time? |
| 0:55.3 | I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joy Cast, |
| 0:59.4 | and I went from a stressed out overworked mama with three babies |
| 1:03.4 | to being named one of America's most profitable photographers |
| 1:06.9 | without working my kids' lives away. |
| 1:10.2 | Each week, I'll show you how to find |
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