Happy New Year and welcome to a special episode of the podcast to kick off 2023. For this episode, I asked some of my favourite photography business coaches to contribute and share their thoughts on how this year will shape for photographers running their businesses following Covid and bad economic predictions.

Here's exactly what I asked each of them…

I'm putting together a podcast episode for a new years release of PhotoBizX and would love to feature you and your thoughts on how you see photography business shaping up for 2023. 

To participate, I'll need a 5-10 minute (strictly no more than 10 minutes) audio recording. 

If you're up for this…

Start the recording with an intro saying who you are, your business's name, and briefly what you do. Most listeners will already be familiar with you from the podcast. 

Then share your thoughts and predictions for photography business in 2023. 

Feel free to focus on any of the following… marketing and advertising trends, sales, branding, social media, declining or expanding markets, the need to shoot multiple genres or double down on a single genre, what photographers will need to do to succeed or a prediction that things will return to how they were pre-Covid. 

Take this where you like. 

Finish your recording with where the listener can go to learn more.

You'll see a list of contributing photography business coaches below, and where you can learn more about them and what they do.

Hope you enjoy and get something from this New Year episode. Let's get into it!

Bernie Griffiths – Photography Business Coach

Bernie Griffiths

Bernie Griffiths Website

Bernie Griffiths Conference 2023

Business Plan Call with Bernie

Bernie Griffiths on Facebook

Bernie Griffiths on YouTube

Episode 136: Bernie Griffiths – A Challenge for You to Book More Portrait Photography Sessions

Episode 30: Bernie Griffiths – Photography Business Success Coach

Episode 198: Bernie Griffiths – Facebook Ads and The Missing Link To Successful Sales

Episode 231: Bernie Griffiths – How to Make the Successful Leap to Pro Photographer

Episode 271: Bernie Griffiths – Your Photography Business Questions Answered plus WanderSnap

Episode 322: Bernie Griffiths – The importance of shooting saleable images in your photography business

Episode 363: Bernie Griffiths – Business growth for wedding and portrait photographers

Episode 326: Marcus Anthony – This is how you run a successful portrait photography business

Episode 350: Brian Kellogg – Making the move from wedding photography to profitable portraits

Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown – The Photographer's Mentor

Help!! My Photography Website Needs MORE Customers: Create a photography website to capture customers, using the proven Scroll to a Sale method by Jeff Brown on Amazon

Episode 261: Jeff Brown – How To Positively Influence Photography Buying Decisions with Your Social Media

Episode 313: Jeff Brown – Leveraging LinkedIn to proactively generate more photography clients

Episode 425: Jeff Brown – How to use LinkedIn for photography lead generation

Johl Dunn – The Mindset Coach

Johl DunnJohl Dunn Website

025 Premium Only Episode: Johl Dunn – Facebook Ad tactics with competitions and third party alliances

330: Johl Dunn – How to create a money making portrait photography business

Katie Kolenberg

Katie KolenbergKatie Kolenberg Website

Katie Kolenberg on Facebook

Episode 112: Katie Kolenberg & Jeremy Byrnes – Putting Your Heart and Hard Work into a Great Portrait Photography Business

Episode 402: Katie Kolenberg – Take control and thrive with your photography business during the pandemic

Episode 470: Katie Kolenberg – Profitable photography book projects Q&A

Special: Katie Kolenberg – Profitable photography book projects

Kim Marie

Kim Marie BB CoachKim Marie Website

Kim Marie on Instagram

Kim Hamblin on Facebook

Episode 420: Kim Hamblin – How to build a photography business to sell

Kirstie McConnell

Kirstie McConnellKirstie McConnel Website

Kirstie McConnel on Instagram

Kirstie McConnel on Facebook

The Pet Photographers Club

Freebies for pet photographers

Luci Dumas

Luci DumasLuci Dumas Coaching

The Profitable Photographer on YouTube

The Profitable Photographer on Instagram

Episode 253: Luci Dumas – Working with Community Groups to Rapidly Grow Your Photography Client List

Episode 314: Luci Dumas – How to make larger wall portrait sales in your photography business

Mark Rossetto – Photography Business Coach & AIPP Master Photographer

Mark Rossetto Website

Mark Rossetto on Facebook

007 Premium Only Episode: Mark Rossetto – 8 Steps to the Ultimate Client Experience

Episode 184: Mark Rossetto – Get Serious about What You Want from Your Photography Business

Episode 316: Mark Rossetto – How to create and use a 12 month photography marketing plan

Episode 487: Mark Rossetto – Shady marketing practices, pricing for profit and a game changing welcome video for photographers

Nicole Begley – Pet Photographer

Nicole BegleyNicole Begley Website

Hair of the Dog Academy

Nicole Begley on Instagram

Hair of the Dog Academy on Facebook

Hair of the Dog Academy on Instagram

Hair of the Dog Podcast

Hair of the Dog Academy on YouTube

Episode 273: Nicole Begley – How to generate pet photography sales from silent auctions

Episode 410: Nicole Begley – Why every photographer needs an email list and what to say to your subscribers

Paula Brennan

Paula BrennanPaula Brennan Website

Paula Brennan on Instagram

Episode 416: Paula Brennan – Conversion and nurturing trumps photography lead generation numbers

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What is your big takeaway?

Following this interview, I’d love to know if you're taking anything away from what the photography business coaches shared. Is there something you heard that excited or motivated you to the point where you thought, yeah, I'm going to do that!

If so, let me know by leaving your thoughts in the comments below; let me know your takeaways and what you plan to implement in your business due to what you heard in today's episode.

If you have any questions we missed, or a specific question you’d like to ask me, feel free to add them in the comments area below.

Thank you!

Thanks again for listening, and thanks to Bernie, Jeff, Johl, Katie, Kim, Kirstie, Luci, Mark, Nicole and Paula for coming on and sharing their thoughts, ideas and strategies for your successful 2023 in business as a working photographer.

If you have any suggestions, comments or questions about this episode, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post, and if you liked the episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post!

That’s it for me this week, hope everything is going well for you in life and business!

Thanks and speak soon

Andrew