Are you wondering if it is time to take your business full time? Start or end a relationship? Go back to school? In this article Callie Beale, with the help of Andy Stanley’s book “Ask It” shares a question that is incredibly helpful when making important decisions for both your business and personal life.

As the weather starts to cool down and everything from coffee to ice cream and even donuts become pumpkin flavored the photography community (especially wedding photographers) breathe that big sigh of relief and welcome the “off-season” with open arms. But quickly the joy of quiet turns into thundering silence and you’re left wondering, “how am […]

When we first stated out, 5 year ago, album design used to take us forever. Between choosing the right photos, the layout and the flow, we spent hours on design time. We used to dread it. So we quickly buckled down and came up with a much simpler way to design our albums and still […]

Starting a successful photography business is hard. Extremely hard. Once you figure out how to take decent photos, you are suddenly thrown into the vicious world of business, design, sales, marketing, and SEO. Trying to figure it all out is enough to make any creative person want to vomit. Here are a few questions that […]

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In an interaction with another photographer yesterday, something happened to me. I was chatting with him and he said, “It’s refreshing to have realism. I mean you hear about the Mouseketeers or whatever being all happy and sparkly, and then when you’ve been in the industry for a while you realize that’s NOT what it’s […]

When Sarah and I first started our business our photography skills were, well, lets just say “lacking.” In spite of that- somehow we managed to book and shoot 27 weddings in our first year! “How did this happen? Why did this happen? Did we just get lucky?” These were all questions that ran through our […]

Today we close out our series on how to create a stellar client consultation experience with our final thoughts on how to close your consultations strong. Sometimes it all comes down to asking the right question. ASSUME THEY WANT TO WORK WITH YOU In his 2008 TED talk, Dan Ariely talked about the psychology of […]