Build and Bloom Photography Podcast With Jessica Whitaker

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3 Innovative Ways to Grow Your Instagram (Your Competition Is Scared to Do This) with Val Lis May 18, 2020

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Valarie is an Instagram marketing expert with her bachelors degree in marketing. In this episode Val shares 3 innovative strategies to organically grow your Instagram account specifically if you run a photography business.

Click here to sign up for Val’s Instagram Marketing 101 online course: http://www.jessicawhitaker.co/val.

Follow her on Instagram at @valerie_lisitsyna for daily tips + tools on how to grow your business via social media marketing.

Photography contracts: http://www.jessicawhitaker.co/photographycontracts

Blog tool to cut your workflow in half: http://www.jessicawhitaker.co/blogtool

How to Open, Run, and Rent a Photography Studio with Champagne of Bookha Studios May 12, 2020

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Champagne is a fashion and beauty photographer in Los Angeles, California. In addition to her photography, she is the co-founder of Bookha Studios in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The space is a colorful lifestyle photo studio available for rent that’s fully equipped with a kitchen, beauty room, giant windows, and diverse backdrops. It’s also female owned and operated!

In this episode of the Build and Bloom podcast Champagne talks about how she took her dream of running a photo studio and translated it into a reality. She also walks us through the backend process of running a studio. We get into all the logistics: from customer service, contracts, insurance, rent, security systems, parking, how to find a space, how to pitch companies for furniture…all the things she wishes she could’ve had simple answers to when she opened Bookha Studios a year ago.

For show notes and information on how to rent the space for yourself, click here or visit jessicawhitaker.co/blog/champagne

Champagne's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/champagneunicorns/

Bookah Studio's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookhastudios/

Bookah Studio's website: https://bookhastudios.com/

Photography contracts: http://www.jessicawhitaker.co/photographycontracts

Blog tool to cut your workflow in half: http://www.jessicawhitaker.co/blogtool

Can't Afford to Outsource? 4 Things You Can DIY Instead Jan 06, 2020

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There's so much talk lately about the benefits of outsourcing tasks in your business. But so many of us are on a tight budget and can't outsource or hire someone to help us just yet. This episode will fill in the gap with 4 easy (AND FREE) things YOU can do in your business to save you TIME in lieu of outsourcing.

My podcast is brought to you ad-free thanks to my online photography business workshop. If you’re a photographer & have found yourself on this page, chances are you might need a little more help with pricing your photography. My 6.5 hour workshop covers everything you need to know about running a sustainable photography business from A-Z, including a hefty chapter focusing on pricing with worksheets, downloads, templates, photoshop files, and so much more. Click here to learn or head to JESSICAWHITAKER.CO/WORKSHOP

Resources mentioned:

My client management software (click) or at http://www.jessicawhitaker.co/honeybook

Daily tools + tips: https://www.instagram.com/jessicawhitaker/

Photography facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildandbloomjessicawhitaker/

10 Instagram Business Tips To Get You BOOKED Dec 23, 2019

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10 ways to rev up your Instagram business profile so you can start working with what you have + who is already logged in.

My podcast is brought to you ad-free thanks to my online photography business workshop. If you’re a photographer & have found yourself on this page, chances are you might need a little more help with pricing your photography. My 6.5 hour workshop covers everything you need to know about running a sustainable photography business from A-Z, including a hefty chapter focusing on pricing with worksheets, downloads, templates, photoshop files, and so much more. Click here to learn or head to JESSICAWHITAKER.CO/WORKSHOP

5 Day Instagram Challenge for your BUSINESS: http://www.jessicawhitaker.co/blog/instagramchallenge

Daily tools + tips: https://www.instagram.com/jessicawhitaker/

Photography facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildandbloomjessicawhitaker/

Why Is Hiring A Creative SO Expensive? Dec 17, 2019

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Why is photography (or hiring a florist, or having your hair cut, etc) SO expensive? Sharing the costs of 4 different categories photographers have to pay to stay in business, both full time and part time!

Daily tools + tips: https://www.instagram.com/jessicawhitaker/

Photography facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildandbloomjessicawhitaker/

4 Major Mistakes That Are Costing You Clients RIGHT NOW Dec 06, 2019

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If you can stop and avoid doing these FOUR things that are harming your business, you will be able to book more clients. My podcast is brought to you ad-free thanks to my online photography business workshop. If you’re a photographer & have found yourself on this page, chances are you might need a little more help with pricing your photography. My 6.5 hour workshop covers everything you need to know about running a sustainable photography business from A-Z, including a hefty chapter focusing on pricing with worksheets, downloads, templates, photoshop files, and so much more. Click here to learn or head to JESSICAWHITAKER.CO/WORKSHOP

"People in my town won't pay my rate." Let's talk PRICING + raising your rates, wherever in the world you're at Nov 04, 2019

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“People in my area just won’t pay more…”
“It’s hard to raise my prices and expand my business because people in my town don’t value my work…”
“There are others in my hometown that are charging much less than what I do, and getting more business because of it…”

I am going to give you some tough love in the form of a 4-part checklist (a reality checklist, if you will) on WHY it’s so hard to raise your rates in episode #2. If you can tick each box you will find it easier to raise your prices, wherever in the world you’re at.

How Do Social Media Influencers Make Money? May 13, 2019

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6 years into digital media marketing I have been on both sides of the fence. I am sharing 7 ways that social media influencers make a profit off of their posts and how you could turn your Instagram into an income as well!

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