Category Archives: Business Savvy This is the fifth post in my six-part series, “How I Sold $100K My First Year in Business.” Takeaways #7 & #8 from my first-year success in the wedding photography business are: #7. I trusted my instincts. When I first started my photography business, I shot and sold in the way that felt right for […]  This is the fourth post in my six-part series, “How I Sold $100K My First Year in Business.” Looking back on my first year of photography business success, my fifth and sixth takeaways are: #5. I was in a right-sized market. My initial home base had a population of 1.6 million people, providing sufficient prospects […]  This is the third post in my series, “How I Sold $100K My First Year in Business.” My next takeaways, looking back on my first year in wedding and portrait photography, are: #3. I surrounded myself with successful peers & got their referrals. One of the charms of wedding photography is that there are only […]  This is the second post in my series, “How I Sold $100K My First Year in Business.” When I look back at my first year—as objectively as possible from six years hence—and I ask myself how I sold $100K in the first 365 days, the first two things I see are: #1. I specialized in […]  Recently, I asked the Facebook-verse what they’d like to know most about business. My cousin-in-law, the first responder, said, “I’d most appreciate honesty, rather than bluster about how someone became successful.” Her comment was dittoed by several others, and so here we are, where I will share my story of business success, more specifically how […] |
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