There is a Serious Living to be made in a Photography business. Do You Know How??

Welcome to Successful-Photographer.com! This can be the first step to making the kind of money you deserve from the business of photography. Many of us go into the photography business because we know how to make decent images. Something that no one tells us about is that for a small photo business marketing, business, sales, designing graphic pieces, Photoshop workflow, printing or prepping prints for clients and all the other stuff takes up 80-90% of our time and the actual phtography is the rest. Probably exactly the opposite of what we thought would be the reality of becomming a photographer.

"Most photographers spend their entire lives trying to capture and create the ultimate image. But, there's a major problem with these same photographers: 'What good are the greatest images of your life if nobody knows who you are?' Bob Coates, one of our industries' leading photographers, has developed the Successful Photographer Newsletter - an easy to read and understand monthly publication designed to help you pay attention to your business. It's about marketing, promotion, sales and building client relationships, just to name a few of the topics. And if anyone is questioning my testimonial here, I won't deny for a second that Bob is a close personal friend, but he became a good friend out of the respect I've grown to have for his business sense and his ability to help photographers pay attention to more than their F-stops. You've spent your entire life focusing on your camera - now it's time to focus on your business!"
Skip Cohen, President of Rangefinder Publishing and President of Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI)

Monthly Photography Business Newsletter to Help You Learn the Inside Secrets to Generating Income

Successful-Photographer Newsletter is devoted to the business of photography edited by a successful working photographer and written by marketing and business leaders in AND OUT of the photography field. You probably understand why I might tap pros in the industry, but why outside? There are a lot of businesses that provide services and sell to clients that we can learn from. I’ll be looking for more and better ways to use the ideas from outside to help make our lives as photographers better by getting us more clients easier - who will pay more money for our services.

"HI Bob, what a great newsletter! I learn something valuable from every issue. I have recently re-evaluated my phone etiquette, and combed through my Rates and Policies to change my 'No's' into income generators. Your marketing advice is spot on! Keep'em coming!"
Char Howard - Charlotte Howard Web Design, SEO & Hosting

Monthly Audio Interview With Marketing People That You Can Listen to in your Car

Zig Ziglar, a great motivational speaker, calls using your car to listen to instructional materials as “Going to Windshield University”. I've paraphrased it to attending "Car College". It’s a great way to use time that normally would be wasted. If you do any commuting at all you can start down the road to becoming an expert. An expert? Yep, you can become an expert on any subject by studying about it an hour a day for a year. If that’s your commute think of the advantage that will give you over your competition! Being a student at “Car College” has changed my commute into productive "Learning the photography business time". There's a lot of information available from marketing experts in audio form in addition to their written information to help get you on your way to higher profits.

"Hi Bob,
Thank you for this month's newsletter. If you are looking for some feedback and don't mind a few comments - I love the content and found the articles very inspiring (especially the one on systematizing your sales process. Loved reading it!"
Bob Zimmerlich - Click Chick Photography

Successful-Photographer Web Site is a Major Resource for Information and Product for Photographers

Successful- Photographer will strive to have “All things Photographic” available like speakers schedules for seminars, marketing material, books, educational materal and more. You can help support this web site and newsletter by clicking on the links and purchasing your information products through them. If you’ve found a great product that you think would be helpful to other photographers let us know and we’ll check it out. If you know of a seminar that we don’t have listed pass that info along too. editor@successful-photographer.com

"Hello Bob, I bought your two books "Strategies and Techniques for Digital Photographers and Wedding Album Design and Sales last year. Read them and liked them a lot. A couple of days ago I brought them out again from the shelves and plunged into them. Must say they are a great source of inspiration and help to me in the process of where I want my photogrphy to go. - Thanks very much for that!!"
Stig Albansson, Photographer, Gothenburg, Sweden

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