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Worth Every Penny Joycast

#185: How 4 Clients Paid Tabitha $23,000 and Freed Her from the Day Job Grind!

Worth Every Penny Joycast

Sarah Petty

Entrepreneurship, Business

5.03.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever think , "I'm too new a photographer to charge more" or "there's no way people will pay more for my photography?"

Tabitha Henderson was letting these EXACT thoughts keep her stuck in a photography business that was going NOWHERE.

If this is you, make sure you listen now for a big ole cup of inspiration. 

 

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0:00.0

I know a lot of you who are here today feel like you've tried so many things in your photography

0:05.3

business. Maybe you started out doing a lot of free sessions to build your portfolio and then

0:10.4

maybe you got the confidence to charge a little bit and things changed. You realize that,

0:14.9

hey, this is a lot of work. What? Photography makes me happy but now that I'm getting some success, is it worth it for the

0:22.4

little bit that I'm making and the amount of time and all of myself that I'm pouring into this?

0:29.4

As the challenges have stacked up and you may even question, is this at all possible for me?

0:36.3

Well, today, I'm excited for you to meet Tabitha Henderson.

0:40.3

She's a Mobile Alabama photographer who was working two part-time jobs as she tried to build up her photography business in anticipation of, I don't know, starting a family in the future.

0:53.3

Yeah. But for years, the money just wasn't there

0:56.9

until she worked with my team and I to make the change to boutique. Now she's had four clients pay her

1:05.9

$23,000 in total and she's been freed from the day job grind.

1:13.6

I'm so glad you're here and you're not going to want to step away for one second.

1:20.6

So the real question is, how are portrait photographers like us able to run a profitable business and still

1:29.6

put our families first without selling digital files for cheap and working all the time?

1:35.7

I'm Sarah Petty, your host of the Worth Every Penny Joycast, and I went from a stressed out

1:41.7

overworked mama with three babies to being named one of America's

1:45.5

most profitable photographers without working my kids' lives away.

1:50.9

Each week, I'll show you how to find and serve boutique portrait photography clients in

1:55.6

a world where we compete with free thanks to everyone having a digital camera in their pocket. Take the first step to adding

2:02.8

more joy and profit to your life by downloading your free photography business tools at

2:08.3

joyofmarketing.com forward slash podcast. Welcome, Tabitha. Thank you for joining me because your story has to be heard.

2:22.7

Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. I'm so excited you're here. So share a little bit about your

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