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Amy and Tavis Guild of www.theguildgallery.com are today's guests, and one thing is clear when visiting their website or social media profiles for the Guild Gallery – they promote and sell beautiful wall art.
Everywhere you look, there are framed wall prints, canvases, albums, wall art hanging in homes, being created in-house, being hung in homes – wall art is everywhere.
They feature a big, bold byline – front and centre on their website which says:
A STATEMENT WALL ART PIECE IN YOUR HOME THAT PROMOTES FAMILY CONNECTION AND DISPLAYS YOUR VALUES FOR THE WORLD TO SEE.
Although portraits appear to be their primary focus today, it all started with weddings in 2008.
They later added family and senior portraiture. And more recently, business portraits.
Based in Yakima, Washington in the USA's north-west and working from a beautiful, old street-front gallery, their goal is to create museum-quality wall art for families and display the artwork in homes for them to enjoy every single day.
In this interview, Tavis and Amy share exactly how to make large portrait photography sales from auctions in your local area.
Here's some more of what we cover in the interview:
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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 Amy and Tavis 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 what your takeaways were, what you plan to implement in your business as a result of what you heard in today's episode.
There's nothing random about creating family portraits. We really are creating a unique art piece for each family and the value increases very quickly when you're on that track. – Tavis Guild
If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask Amy and Tavis or if you just want to say thanks for coming on the show, feel free to add them in the comments area below.
iTunes Reviews and Shout-outs
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I'm not a Lightroom user but this might interest you if you are…
PBX member and past interview guest, Dave Stewart has just released a super helpful service for Lightroom users called Lr Watermark.
They can transform your logo into a customised brush preset so you can place a watermark in the Develop module, and you don't need to rely on the clunky export-based watermarking in Lightroom or switch over to Photoshop to place a logo, so it's excellent for quick social media posts etc.
It's just launched and Dave is looking for some early adopters and is offering 50% off (on top of the current sale price) until August 7th for PhotobizX premium members, which works out at $4.99 USD and sounds like a total steal to me!
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New updates for SmartAlbums
I just received a message from Daniel Usenko of Smart Albums about some new updates to the software.
It's already a fantastic design tool and the new features look great.
More details here: https://www.pixellu.com/smartalbums/smartalbums2020/
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PhotoBizX Daily Vlog Challenge – Earlybird pricing is now available
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You can do this with video on your website, email replies with video plus advertising and retargeting with video.
There is no faster way to make a connection than you talking to your clients via video.
If you generally book most of the clients you meet with face to face, imagine building that bond earlier in your process and before other local photographers. It'll mean more bookings for you. Fantastic right? As long as you can be yourself and make the same kind of connection you do in person. And you can!
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The way it works
- Watch the daily video (with topic/Challenge included) uploaded into a separate post each day – excluding weekends.
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That's it, as simple as that. 
Links to people, places and things mentioned in this episode:
Tavis and Amy Business Coaching Website
The Guild Gallery Family Portraits
Tavis and Amy Wedding Photography
The Guild Gallery on Instagram
Guild Canvas Club Facebook Group
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
Daily Vlog Challenge registration
Lightroom Watermark App by Dave Stewart
Thank you!
Thanks again for listening and thanks to Amy and Tavis for coming on and sharing their thoughts and ideas on building a successful family portrait photography business by focussing on delivering a great service and following up with beautiful pieces of wall art to compliment their client's homes.
I am a firm believer of creating the ideal client versus always trying to attract the ideal client. – Tavis Guild
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
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