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Todays interview is double pronged… Not because I have both Jamie and Natalie Hosmer of Jamie and Natalie Photography in Colarado Springs on the show.

Becasuse, there are two parts to this interview…

First up, these are the guys who won the competition to trial outsourcing a complete wedding or portrait photography shoot with the Image Salon. The deal was shoot a job as you normally would and send the files away to be processed.  Hear all about the experience – good and bad – in the first part of the interview.

Secondly, we'll be getting all personal and talking business, marketing and sales which was a big request of mine after visiting Jamie and Natalie's website – one of the best I've seen.

With blog post titles like…

“4 COLD HARD NIPS… ERR—TIPS—FOR A COLORADO WINTER WEDDING”

And

“THE POWER OF A WIENER: SHOULD YOU EAT BEFORE YOUR ENGAGEMENT SESSION?”

Plus

Page titles like … “FREE BEER”

This is not only a fun interview, it's full of fantastic ideas about attracting clients and growing a business fast. These guys are photographers to watch (or listen) and learn from.

Here’s some of what we cover:

  • Getting into a photography business with no photography background
  • Why start a photography business?
  • Should you hide you have a 2nd job and a wedding photography business?
  • How Jamie and Natalie learned their photography skills so fast
  • Thoughts on outsourcing photography work to someone else
  • Workflow and file handling after a wedding shoot
  • Why you should be adding keywords to your photos before culling
  • How many wedding photos are delivered to clients?
  • Outsourcing to The Image Salon for the first time
  • What is it like to work with The Image Salon having never outsourced before?
  • Image Salon's pricing and what's included in their packages
  • How uploading images for outsourcing works
  • Communicating with your image editor at The Image Salon
  • Who chooses which photos get treated for what look?
  • How to establish and communicate the kind of look you want from your images
  • How The Image Salon manages your preferred presets
  • Turnaround times when outsourcing – better or worse than self editing
  • Will Jamie and Natalie outsource again?
  • Considerations to make before outsourcing your photography post-processing
  • Is it necessary (or cost effective) to cull photos before outsourcing?
  • Thoughts about the final images after receiving them
  • Why Jamie and Natalie moved to Wordpress for their website

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What’s on Offer for Premium Members

If you’re a premium member, you should have received an email with links to your version of this episode where you can hear lots more content and we dive deeper into some of the earlier topics plus some new ones that I pushed hard for and include:

  • The importance of showing your personality on your About page
  • Where Natalie draws inspiration with the content on their website
  • How to write an effective About Me page
  • Adding personality and attitude on your site guarantees bookings
  • Generating leads via free wedding guide download
  • How clients find Jamie and Natalie's photography business
  • How Jamie and Natalie advertise their services with Facebook ads
  • Why Jamie and Natalie didn't do in-person sales and why they do now and love it
  • Strategies Jamie and Natalie use for successful in-person sales sessions
  • Jamie and Natalie's pricing and packaging
  • Running a successful wedding photography business from your home
  • The benefits of working, booking and doing sales sessions as a team

If you’re on the fence about becoming a premium member, join with the $1 trial today and get access to the FULL interview with Jamie and Natalie, get access to an amazing back catalogue of interviews and ALL future interviews delivered automatically to your phone or tablet.

Plus, access to a members only Secret Facebook group where you'll connect with other members and interview guests to help, support and motivate you to take what you hear in each episode and put it into action. You will not find cooler, more motivated and caring photographers online.

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What is your big takeaway?

Following this interview, I’d love to know what your biggest takeaway is – what is the one thing that you’d like to implement or learnt from what was shared? Let me know by leaving your thoughts in the comments below.

The best thing we've done for ourselves is to not worry about what our clients think about us – Jamie Hosmer

If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask Jamie and Natalie or if you just want to say thanks for coming on the show, feel free to add them below.

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Winner of the Bittersweet Design Boutique Competition

Congratulations Caroline of www.carolinedyersmith.com in Switzerland (great website by the way) – you are the winner of the $100 gift voucher to use with the Bittersweet Design Boutique!

Caroline left a comment following the Ross Simmonds episode and says, “Also excited to hear about the Design by Bitter Sweet competition – LOVE their ‘Venice – Wedding Photography Marketing Magazine’ – I’ve been wanting to create a magazine to give to my clients as a welcome gift, this would be just perfect.”

Email me at andrew@photobizx.com and I'll fill you in on how to claim your prize.

Make sure you let us see what you come up with once you've finished your design  -I'd love to see it.

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Is Your Website Mobile Friendly?

I was chatting with Ben Whitmore of benwhitmorephoto.com in the blog comments area and the topic of SEO and ranking came up.

Ben is quickly outranking older competitors for some competitive keywords because of the weight Google is giving mobile friendly websites – which his is.

Ben says, “… which is great for my local area because there are so many wedding photographer sites that were built 10 years ago that, because of their older algorithms, were automatically ranked higher locally. They won’t be now because they’re not updated frequently or mobile friendly – Google are penalising this as we speak.”

Ben went on to share a link to easily check and test if your site is indeed mobile friendly at:  https://www.google.com.au/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

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Shoot The Frame – Photo Competition

A couple weeks ago, Tristan Hewat from “Shoot the Frame” a monthly online photography competition site asked me to be a guest judge for the month of May.

First thing I did was check the site and loved what I found – a well laid out, attractive and easy to navigate website with beautiful photography. Initial thought… I'm in, this should be fun!

Tristan and I got talking and I asked if there's anything he could offer PhotoBizX listeners if I mentioned the whole judging thing on the podcast? He said ‘yes' and came up with a great offer if you want to enter your photography into the competitions.

Head to shoottheframe.com/photobizx to enter and you'll get 3 entires for $10 (usually $15).

Also, you can submit any combination of portraits, landscape or wildlife with your three photos and Tristan's guys will sort them into the correct categories. Usually entrants need to choose which contest to enter, PBX listeners can enter a combination for the $10.

At the very least, head over and have a look at this gorgeous gallery for the 2016 portrait winners – these are fantastic!

Oh yeah… If you enter, you can let me know but don't tell me anything about or show me your entry. Better yet, let me know after I've judged the competition.

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iTunes Reviews and Shout-outs

Each week I check for any new iTunes reviews and it's always a buzz to receive these… for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, it's confirmation that I'm on the right track with the interviews and that they really are helping you improve your photography business. That's awesome!

Secondly, iTunes is the biggest search engine when it comes to podcasts and it's your reviews and ratings that help other photographers find PhotoBizX. More listeners means more interviews and ultimately a better show.

If you have left a review in the past, thank you!

If you haven't and you'd like to, head to https://photobizx.com/itunes and you can leave some honest feedback and a rating which will help both me and the show and I'll be sure to thank you on the show and add a link to your website or blog if you let me know the URL and your name like these photographers did:

Love it

In iTunes by Jenna Myers of JMY Photography in Canada on April 19, 2016

You're blowing the other photography podcasts out of the water in my opinion. I love listening to them and always come away from them with a slightly different perspective, or new idea.

In other podcasts I feel like the advice they give is very, very broad and vague and could be interpreted in different ways. I also feel that other podcasts exist as a platform to sell another product, or guests products, and I feel like yours is an insanely great resource, not a series of sales pitches.

Absolutely essential

In iTunes by Patric Pop of Patric Pop Headshots in Geneva Switzerland on April 20, 2016

Subscribing to this podcast has helped me expand so much as professional photographer.

Andrew Hellmich brings in a rich variety of the best in their fields, everything from wedding, to newborn and pet photographers, portrait and specifically headshot photographers adding to the content.

Is it worth paying for the premium segments of the podcast? HELL Yeah! Worth every single penny. It is a sheer pleasure to discover other professionals sharing their insights.

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Links to people, places and things mentioned in this episode:

Jamie & Natalie Photography Website

Jamie & Natalie Photography on Facebook

Jamie & Natalie Photography on Instagram

The Image Salon

VSCO Presets

Mastin Labs Presets

Pro Photo

Pro Photo Designs by That's Kinda Cool

Molly Marie

Model Call by Molly Marie

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Thank you!

Thanks again for listening to the show and thanks to Jamie and Natalie for coming on and sharing what you did. It was terrific to hear about their outsourcing experience and the marketing, website copy and personal stuff was just gold. Loved every minute of the chat.

And thanks to Jean-Michel from The Image Salon for helping make this episode possible by putting up the offer of outsourcing.

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