Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Matt Barnett of https://www.bonjoro.com is not a photographer, but he was at one stage. He worked as a photographer in London for a few years before moving to Sydney, Australia when he was 26 to start the video software company which became Bonjoro. Why video? The idea was born from a sales-hack for his second business, where he would send every new lead a personal video [...]

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Joshua Holko of www.jholko.com started photography around 12 years of age, but it wasn't for many years afterwards he turned full time professional. His passion has always been nature photography. Today, he would be classified as a wildlife photographer. In particular a polar photographer. That's right. He spends most of his year down in Antarctica or up in the Arctic. He left a corporate job to [...]

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Since the start of the pandemic, I've been asked multiple times about how to start a podcast. One of those enquiries came from PhotoBizX member and documentary wedding photographer, Simon Hawkins from the UK. His makeup artist wife, Katie Hawkins, was interested in starting not one but two podcasts. We jumped on a call and recorded our conversation, covering everything you wanted to know about starting [...]

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Sean LeBlanc of www.seanleblancphotography.com was recently interviewed for episode 358 of the podcast. It's rare to get someone back for a follow up so quickly. There's good reason! Sean is a wedding and family portrait photographer based in Alberta, Canada. In his last interview, I raved about the quality of his work for someone so new to photography - really, his work is fantastic. I was [...]

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Jenn Bruno Smith of www.boudoirbyjennifersmith.com is a full-time boudoir photographer located in Middletown, Delaware. Before photography, she was working in healthcare, paying off student loan debts as a speech pathologist. Since then, she's been shooting boudoir exclusively for five year​s​ and teaching marketing and business to the photography industry​ for the last two as part of the High Rollers Club - which covers in-person sales, Business [...]

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Humberto Garcia of www.photographytoprofits.com was a full time and profitable photographer, but today, he helps photographers grow their businesses with his full-service agency for photographers - Photography To Profits. It's a service that looks after your marketing for you. He says on his website; our missions is to provide photographers with modern digital and marketing strategies to increase business visibility, digital presence, generate quality traffic and leads. [...]

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Bernie Griffiths of www.berniegriffiths.com is a photography business coach, well known to the PhotoBizX community. The plan for this interview was to discuss what feels like stumbling blocks when it comes to utilising Facebook ads to generate leads, bookings and good sales. It turns out, everything Bernie was planning to share, was already covered in an earlier interview here: Episode 198: Bernie Griffiths – Facebook Ads [...]

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Tony Taafe of www.tonytaafe.com brands himself as Scottsdale's premier headshot photographer and he's grown a successful business by utilising a simple but genius pricing system for his headshot photography clients. In this interview, Tony shares how to build a profitable headshot photography business by allowing clients to spend more. Sounds simple right? It is, but that's what makes it so beautiful... and easy for you to copy and [...]

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Brooke Mendenhall of www.brookemendenhall.com will challenge almost everything you've heard from past guests on the podcast - photography business coaches and successful photographers - as she shares how to build a successful small-town photography business, in a way that genuinely feels right to her. I first heard of Brooke when I received this email from friend, previous interview guest, photographer and host of the Beginner Photography [...]

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Thomas Vargeletis of  www.tv.photography is a real estate photographer who started as a listing agent after earning his license to sell real estate. Following bad experiences with local photographers, he learnt how to shoot for himself. A few years later, other agents began hiring him to photograph their listings and Thomas Vargeletis Photography was born. Since then, he's released three books, on real estate, photography and business. [...]