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Ultimate Free Photography Business Resource Guide

ultimate free resource guide for starting and growing a photography business
Looking for help starting and growing a successful photography business? Need ideas on how to get more photography clients?

You’re in the right place.

I’ve packed this post with several ridiculously amazing FREE resources that can help you grow your business, so you’re going to want to pin and share this post so you can come back to it again and again as you need help with your business moving forward.

This list of resources helps with everything from just starting out through full in-person sales methods, organization, and more.

My goal is to make starting and growing a successful photography business as easy as possible for you, so let’s dive right into this awesome list of free resources!  [Click to read more]

How to Get Clients to Stop Texting at 2am

Google Voice for Photographers

Clients often expect to be able to communicate with you 24/7 via Email, texts, Facebook messages, or any other way they find to contact us.

Some photographers don’t offer clients the ability to contact them by phone. But putting up walls for clients makes it harder for them to book you, and some people prefer to use the phone. So today I am going to share one tool that will make it easier for you to use the phone in your business, stop getting annoyed by client calls and texts at all hours of the day, and how to make it effective even if you prefer not to talk to clients on the phone.

Google Voice has been an indispensable tool for me in my photography business for the last eight years.

It’s even free, only requiring a Google account. When you sign up, Google will assign you a phone number (with some input preferences from you first).

Here is why I believe every photography business owner should be using Google Voice.  [Click to read more]

Client Management Made Simple With Boomerang

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This post is Part 6 of “Take Control Of Your Email Inbox Once And For All” series. Here’s the link to Part 1 of the series in case you missed it.

So far this email series has harnessed the power of Gmail to automatically organize emails and save time responding to emails by creating canned responses, but this still doesn’t address the times when you need to send a response in a few days but you don’t want to forget about it so it sits in your inbox and sometimes gets buried.

Today’s tool is the last big piece in the puzzle. We’ll be looking at Boomerang, which has changed the way I use email.  [Click to read more]