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Jessie of The Focus Collective talks about simple marketing for photographers

How to Make Marketing Simple for Photographers? | Online Business Manager

Let’s talk about marketing for photographers in a way that doesn’t make you want to close your laptop and pour a glass of wine at 2pm. Here’s what you need to know: you are not bad at marketing. You are just busy and don’t have a CLEAR and actionable plan in place.   You’re photographing […]

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5 Evergreen Blog Topics Every Photographer Needs | Online Business Manager & Virtual Assistant

You’re growing your marketing strategy and building out that funnel. One of the core components of that is blogging. You know it brings up your SEO, magnetizes aligned leads from Google and showcases your best work. But beyond describing recent work, what can you use it for? Educating your audience and showing them you’re an

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Drop Dates vs Locked Contract | Virtual Assistant for Photographers

One of the things I go over with you when we first speak on the phone is drop dates vs being locked in for a certain length of time on services together. As a virtual assistant for photographers, I have seen both business models commonly used, and I wanna break down what they mean! What

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3 Workflows for Six-Figure Photographers | Virtual Assistant

Let’s be honest—running a booked-out photography business isn’t for the faint of heart. You’re balancing sessions, editing queues, social content, emails, DMs, contracts, invoices, timelines, and somehow still trying to eat lunch and remember where your phone is. (Check your left pocket.) And this is why I have 3 workflows for six-figure photographers that I

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What Photography Business Model Do You Have? | Virtual Assistant

Let’s talk photography business models for a sec. Not the boring, textbook kind—but the real-life way your photog business actually runs.   Something that can be realllllly helpful to identify is what kind of business are you running?  The way I see it, there are two “main” models of business. While plenty of options exist

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3 Ways to Manage the Mental Load | Virtual Assistant for Photographers

3 Ways to Manage the Mental Load as a Photographer (Especially if You’re a Parent) Being a photographer is more than showing up with a camera. You’re the creative director, the editor, the marketer, the social media manager, the client concierge —and if you’re a parent, you’re also keeping small humans alive while doing it

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Are You Ready for a Virtual Assistant? [part one]

As a photographer, I bet you have asked yourself the question: are you ready for a virtual assistant? As your business is whirring forward, and things are blowing+going… it can be really hard to determine if that’s the best investment for your business or not. And then, if so: how do you find someone that

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How to Pick The Right VA | Virtual Assistant for Photographers

If you’re trying to figure out how to pick the right VA for your business, this is for you. I jumped into the Virtual Assistant space after being a photographer myself for 10 years. Cue realizing there are soooo many different types of VAs (not to mention online business managers). It’s really easy to get

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How To Set Up Mini Sessions in Honeybook | VA for Photographers

While there are a lot of differing opinions out there, the truth is: Minis can be an amaazzinnng addition to your photography business, but only if you have them set up to save you time. So how to set up mini sessions in Honeybook? I’m glad you asked! As a virtual assistant for photographers, we

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