PBX660: Drew Forsyth – From Small Portrait Jobs to High-Profile Commercial Photography Clients
What does it really take to move from smaller portrait jobs to high-profile commercial clients? In this interview, Drew Forsyth shares the mindset shifts, pricing lessons, and relationship skills that helped him make that transition — plus why he believes his biggest competition isn’t other photographers, but being forgotten.
PBX659: Rebecca Schmidt – From $34k to a $3M Boudoir Photography Business in Just 3 Years
Rebecca Schmidt of www.boudoirbyrebeccalynn.com recently joined the PhotoBizX Membership, and we got chatting on Messenger, where she mentioned she runs a high-volume boudoir photography studio in Washington State, USA. Naturally, I asked the obvious follow-up question… when you say high volume, do you mean a few sessions a week? Her reply stopped me in [...]
PBX658: Jo Lyons – $2,500 Average Sales from a Rural Pet Photography Studio
Jo Lyons of www.jolyonsphotography.com is someone I could have asked to be interviewed 10 times over. Each year, I've seen her taking steps in her business via the PhotoBizX Premium Members' Group, but it was a recent video of her beautiful studio and property that had me sending off my request. In 2018, she was [...]
PBX657: Jo Menneer – From $800 to $2,250 Average Sale in Her Photography Business (Without Working Weekends)
Jo Menneer of www.divinedivas.co.uk was first interviewed on PhotoBizX seven years ago — in person — inside her stunning studio in Bath, UK. And when I say stunning, I mean a converted Methodist church, complete with its own private (and revered) car park. It really is as incredible as it sounds. Back then, the [...]
PBX656: Julie Comfort – Design a Client Experience People Can’t Stop Talking About
Julie Comfort of www.theexperientialwedding.com is a wedding photographer turned experience designer. If, like me, you're asking yourself what an experience designer is... I read it’s someone to help you design a client journey that turns every interaction (from inquiry to delivery) into a memorable, relationship-building touchpoint. It should be applicable to photographers of all genres [...]
PBX655: Richie Schwartz – Partner With Pet Businesses to Book 10–20 Sessions a Day
Richie Schwartz of www.petsphotography.com has shaped the pet photography industry more than most photographers will ever realise. Based in New York, he has one of the longest-running and best-known pet photography businesses in the US, and he's been shooting for over 40 years! He has photographed close to 100,000 pets (literally) and built one of [...]
PBX654: Gary Williams – How 100 Short Weddings Became a Calm, Profitable Photography Business
Gary Williams of www.garywilliams.photography appeared on episode 581 of the podcast and was a total hit with listeners. In that interview, Gary shared how his personal project of photographing business owners in his local area — Camden Passage in London — led to a beautiful photography book and becoming very well known in his [...]
PBX653: Jamie Booth – From Panic to a Booked-Out Photography Business in 90 Days
Jamie Booth of www.tellingtailsstudio.com is a dog photographer based in the UK. If you take a look at his website and socials, you'll see fantastic photography, both in studio and outdoors. His Instagram feed is consistently updated, and you'll find a ton of glowing 5-star reviews from very happy clients. All this to say... do [...]
PBX652: Emily Cummings – How Dating Photography Became a High-Value, Year-Round Revenue Stream
Emily Cummings of www.emilycummingsphotography.com was introduced to me by Nidhi Dahiya in Episode 637 of the podcast. In an email, Nidhi told me that Emily is having amazing success in her photography business and that her revenue is on track to hit half a million this year. I jumped over to her website to [...]
PBX651: Stephanie Hill – Building a $200k Photography Studio On Two Days a Week
Stephanie Hill of www.totalcapture.com.au is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to photography business and life! She founded her Adelaide photography business, Total Capture Photography, at the age of 19! She says she was originally driven by “a fascination with light and a passion for capturing people’s stories.” Today, she has a team of [...]
PBX650: 2026 New Year Special – Photography Business Predictions by the Coaches
Happy New Year, and welcome to a special podcast episode to kick off 2026 — The photography business coaches' predictions for this year. This style of episode has become a regular feature ot kick off the year, but this year, there's a twist. Instead of asking for each coaches prdictins for the year, I've given them a specific [...]
PBX649: Vincent Peters – The Courage to Stop Imitating and Start Seeing with Your Photography
Vincent Peters of www.vincentpetersstudio.com doesn’t just capture moments — he reveals something deeper about the people we think we already know. He's a German-born photographer, artist, and visual storyteller whose images have graced the pages of Vogue, GQ, and Harper’s Bazaar, and whose work for fashion houses like Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, and [...]
PBX648: Raphaëlle Granger – Building a $200K Wedding Photography Business with Fewer Weddings
Raphaëlle Granger of www.raphaellegranger.com has a background in photojournalism and fashion. Based in Canada, she spends her time shooting weddings both there and Europe. She originally trained with the goal of becoming a war photographer — chasing adrenaline and intensity — before discovering a very different kind of intensity in documenting love stories. Now [...]
PBX647: Ben Potter – How Fundraising Replaced Facebook Ads in His Portrait Studio
Ben Potter of www.bpportraitart.com.au is someone I’ve known for a long time… and known of for even longer. We’ve messaged and emailed back and forth plenty of times over the years — there’s still a lot I didn’t know about him until this conversation. Here’s what I do know. Ben loves photography — the [...]
PBX646: Brittni Schroeder – How to Streamline, Systemise and Scale Your Photography Studio
Brittni Schroeder of www.brittnischroeder.com first joined me way back in Episode 337. Before shifting into coaching, she spent more than ten years as a professional photographer, named one of the most influential photographers of 2016, with features in the Wall Street Journal, Good Morning America and a stack of industry publications. Today, Brittni helps [...]
PBX645: Stacey Brown Randall – The Referral System Every Photography Business Needs
Stacey Brown Randall at www.staceybrownrandall.com is the undisputed expert in generating referrals for a photography business. You probably already know, one of the best feelings in business is when a new client gets in touch and says, “My friend told me I had to book you.” That’s gold. You didn’t have to run an ad, discount your [...]
PBX644: Bruce Vincentiis – From YouTube Tutorials to a Luxury Hotel Photography Business
Bruce Vincentiis of www.bdv.photography brought something refreshingly different to this interview — and it’s one I was excited to dig into. Bruce is a long-time listener of the podcast, which had me scratching my head at first… because he’s a luxury hotel photographer based in Southeast Asia, not a wedding, portrait, headshot or branding [...]
PBX643: Nik Buttigieg – The Low-Pressure Strategy Filling His Studio With Ideal Clients
Nik Buttigieg of www.nikbuttigieg.com is someone I feel like we’ve all been on the journey with as he’s built an incredibly successful portrait photography business. He’s been a listener — and an active PhotoBizX member — since 2018. I first brought him on in 2021 for the Coaching Diaries series. Back then he was living [...]
PBX642: Danilo & Sharon – From €50 Weddings to a Global Luxury Photography Business
Danilo & Sharon Vasic of www.daniloandsharon.com are a husband-and-wife team based in Italy but travelling the world to photograph stunning weddings! Incredibly, they met at age 7, started dating at 14, have been married for more than 10 years, and have 2 kids. Their roots are in fashion & advertising, where they were regularly [...]
PBX641: Jason Guy – How 4 Clients a Month Became a $200K Photography Business
Jason Guy of www.jgboudoir.com is a US-based boudoir photographer with 10 years of experience photographing women. In an email exchange, he told me that after listening to a bunch of interviews with other boudoir photographers, his processes differ from what he'd heard. He told me he'd never been interviewed before but would be happy [...]
PBX640: Yaneck Wasiek – The Simple Systems That Built a $600K/Year Headshot Photography Business
Yaneck Wasiek of www.wasiofaces.com and www.wasiodigital.com is today's incredible guest! While travelling recently, I shared that I had visited Poland in one of the emails I sent to PhotoBizX listeners and members. That email prompted a response from Yaneck, who I learned was originally from Warsaw. He grew up there and left Poland at [...]
PBX639: Natalie Martin – £3.6K+ Wedding Photography Bookings by Leading with Albums, Not Digitals
A couple of months ago, I interviewed a UK-based photography business coach, Kenny Martin — also known as The Studio Doctor. His recipe for success was to shoot portraits, focus on the numbers, get people in front of your camera as often as possible and give them the chance to spend more. He and [...]
PBX638: Trevor Dayley – Building a Thriving Photography Business Without the Social Media Grind
Trevor Dayley of www.magnetmod.com and www.trevordayley.com posted something interesting on Instagram recently - it was titled “If I Were the Devil Trying to Ruin a Photographer’s Career.” He told me (and I can see) it blew up—and in rolled the DMs, shares and comments. Turns out a lot of photographers are feeling what he [...]
PBX637: Nidhi Dahiya – Taking Headshot clients to $14K Family Portrait Sales
Nidhi Dahiya of www.nidscreations.com sent me a DM, which led to this incredible interview. She said in that message: Hi Andrew! I just had my biggest month for portrait revenue in May, with USD$123.3k in sales. Nidhi first appeared on the podcast for episode 462 in 2022. At the time, she was working a [...]