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Chris Scott of www.flauntwhatyougot.com and www.swiftgalleries.com was a full-time wedding and boudoir photographer with his wife Adrienne for eight years until founding Preveal, an iPad app for portrait photographers. A few years ago, Preveal gave way to Swift Galleries, a wall art sales tool for pro photographers. In this interview, Chris shares fantastic ideas, strategies and tips on how to improve your sales, price your photography correctly and generally run a better, more successful portrait photography business.
Some of the most asked questions by photographers is how much should I be charging, how do I know if my prices are right, how do I sell more wall art and ultimately, make more money as a photographer. I put all of these big questions to Chris who goes into detail on each, breaking them down into understandable, actionable chinks. It should be no surprise at how easy he shows this can all be – not only was he doing it with his business, today, Chris and Adrienne's main focus is on business solutions for photographers. This guy knows his stuff.
Here’s some more of what we cover in this interview:
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Everywhere someone sees your work, they need to see the product that you want them to buy – Chris Scott
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Joining a Mastermind Group (encouraged by Andrew) has been incredibly valuable and fun, I look forward to connecting with my group members every week. Jina Zheng, Premium Member and Melbourne Children photographer.
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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 Chris 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 todays episode.
I’m a huge proponent in having even at least a 25% cost of sale, if not better than that – Chris Scott
If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask Chris or if you just want to say thanks for coming on the show, feel free to add them in the comments area below.
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Key Moments
I recently heard about a new service being offered by Sydney wedding videographer, Dave Cowling of DnM wedding Films – Key Moments. Key Moments is a new concept offering wedding video as a wholesale product to be offered through photographers and venues.
The idea is as a photographer, you don't lose potential clients looking to hire a videographer along with their photographer, if video isn't something you offer. In addition, this is a way to offer another service, generate more income and service your clients more effectively.
The product/service is a wholesale deal that is not available to brides and grooms directly. It's available to photographers and venues only.
The completed video can carry your branding and is designed to be simple and seamless for you, the photographer.
Our aim is to make booking video as easy as checking a box on your price-list – Dave Cowling
You can hear more from Dave in todays episode and learn more here: www.keymoments.com.au
New online photography magazine – PHOTO Live
Enthusiast and experienced photographer Rob Jenkins has just launched a new online photography magazine for photographers on the platform Issuu. It's free and packed full of interviews, articles and great photography.
You'll find it here: https://photobizx.com/photolive
The magazine is beautifully laid out, easy to read and I'm sure there is something for every photographer!
Links to people, places and things mentioned in this episode:
Chris Scott Photography Website
Salesographer – In-Person Sales Course
Allie Siarto – sample photographers with wall art
Amanda Waltman Photo – sample photographers with wall art
Professional Photographers of America: PPA
KeyMoments – Wholesale Video for Australian wedding photographers
Thank you!
Thanks again for listening and thanks to Chris for coming on and sharing so much about his business, marketing ideas, strategies and thoughts on building a more successful boudoir photography business.
Make it work then make it better – Chris Scott
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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