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Start a Wedding Photography Business

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About Start a Wedding Photography Business

Course Outline

Why Wedding Photography?

Your First Year Objectives

Gear Overview

Required Gear

Smart Gear Choices

Adobe Lightroom

Master the Basics First

Practice Every Day

Set Up Your Own Photoshoots

Get Legal

Prepare Your Contract

Bookkeeping

Set Up a Filing System

Credit Cards and Insurance

Second Shooting

Pricing Your First Wedding

Shooting a Family Wedding?

Advertise for Wedding #1

Your First Client

What To Do Next?

Website Principles

Choose a Business Name

Choose a Domain Name

Choose a Web Host

Choose a Wordpress Theme

Your Home Page

Your Portfolio

The All-Important Blog

About Me and Contact Pages

Why You Need a Pricing Page

Pricing Weddings 2-10

Keeping Track of Your Clients

Summing up: Weddings 2-10

Marketing Overview

Social Media Marketing

Build a Referral-Generating Engine

Paid advertising

Pricing Principles

Album Design

How to Price Albums

Album Sales Process

Prints

Pricing in Year 2 and Beyond

Best Practices Part 1

Best Practices Part 2

What You Will Learn?

  • Thinking of starting a wedding photography business but you're not quite sure where to start?.
  • Confused about pricing, marketing, sales, wedding albums, etc.?.
  • If so, you're not alone..
  • This course will take you through a proven, step-by-step system to start a profitable, sustainable wedding photography business..
  • You'll learn:.
  • how to smartly spend on the gear you need.
  • how to build a starter portfolio.
  • how to book your first wedding.
  • how to set up your business infrastructure.
  • how to build a website and blog that bring in customers.
  • how to build wedding packages for maximum profit.
  • know when to raise (or lower) your prices.
  • how to market your business.
  • social media tips.
  • how to sell wedding albums.
  • best practices.
  • I'll take you by the hand and lead you step-by-step through the entire process of getting a wedding photography business started. If you have any questions, my goal is to answer them within 24 hours whenever possible..
  • What the course will not cover: This is not a course on the art and technique of photography (lighting, composition, posing, etc.)! While that's an important topic for another day, this course is focused like a laser beam on the business of wedding photography..
  • Who is the course for? The course is for students just starting or thinking of starting a wedding photography business. I take nothing for granted and start from the very beginning. However, it's also a good primer on the basics of running a photography business and I'm sure even intermediate level photographers will pick up useful tips..
  • What are the course requirements?  I'd suggest that students come to this course with a basic photography kit (camera, lenses, flash) and a good understanding of basic photography: how to take sharp, well-exposed, and well-composed photographs..
  • We all need to start somewhere. But why struggle on your own? Take this course and give your wedding photography business a head start!.