Articles tagged with: business ideas for photographers
Business Ideas for Photographers #39
Business Ideas for Photographers #39 – Keep your language simple Photography business ideas in less than 2 minutes.
Starting your photography Business
I had a few people email in recently asking about general tips when it comes to starting your own photography business. A while a ago contributor James Spencer put together and wonderful series looking at exactly that.
Training – an investment into improving your skills
This article is part of our Starting your own Photography business – Tips and Tricks from a working pro series from contributor James Spencer. Training – invest a decent amount of your budget in training and improving your skills.
How do I get customers and get my name out there?
This article is part of our Starting your own Photography business – Tips and Tricks from a working pro series from contributor James Spencer.
This is a key subject area and again too big a topic to cover in just this blog entry, but key areas you can target to gain customers include
Search Engine Optimisation – Where do I start?
This article is part of our Starting your own Photography business – Tips and Tricks from a working pro series from contributor James Spencer. Once you have a website you then need to make sure it is appearing in search engine results for searches for keywords that you decide are key for your business.
Websites – I am a photographer not a web designer
This article is part of our Starting your own Photography business – Tips and Tricks from a working pro series from contributor James Spencer. The website, well this is again a huge topic area which is covered really comprehensively on this website in other posts, but the key things you will need for a website are
Building a portfolio of images and work
This article is part of our Starting your own Photography business – Tips and Tricks from a working pro series from contributor James Spencer. You need some nice portfolio images to start your business in all the relevant markets and services you offer.
Payment Methods – do I need a card machine?
This article is part of our Starting your own Photography business – Tips and Tricks from a working pro series from contributor James Spencer. In the early days probably not, you can take cash or cheque or offer bank transfers or take card payments by paypal.
Pricing – how do I price my services?
This article is part of our Starting your own Photography business – Tips and Tricks from a working pro series from contributor James Spencer. This is a large subject and one I won’t be able to cover in this blog in the detail needed to do it justice.
Accreditation – do I need to be qualified?
This article is part of our Starting your own Photography business – Tips and Tricks from a working pro series from contributor James Spencer. Obviously the more training and level of accreditation with photography bodies you have the better really, but you don’t necessarily need to get all this upfront.
