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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!.