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Kim Ortiz of www.kimortiz.com is a family, senior and pet photographer based in Austin, Texas – USA.
Kim is a PhotoBizX Premium member, and we were recently chatting on messenger about her pet calendar fundraiser. Her recently completed campaign achieved a series of results that piqued my interest and led to me asking to record this interview.
- She generated over $6000 in sales.
- Raised an additional $6500 for the local dog rescue group.
- She gets her known in the local community and brought in new clients.
I then learnt that Kim has been implementing this strategy for the past nine years!
In this interview, Kim shares how to set up a profitable pet photography calendar project to raise money and support your local dog rescue organisations while creating an avenue to generate terrific wall art sales for your dog photography business.
Here's some more of what we cover in the interview:
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If you have a passion for animal rescue and you want to help, you should do a pet calendar if you're a dog photographer. – Kim Ortiz
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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 Kim 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.
If you're doing a fund raiser and you give away to every contestant a family portrait with their dog, you can sell a lot of wall portraits. – Kim Ortiz
If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask Kim 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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Thank you!
Thanks again for listening and thanks to Kim for coming on to share her thoughts, ideas and experience on creating and setting up a dog photography calendar project to not only raise money for dog rescue shelters but bring in a terrific income from the following wall art sales.
I've been doing the calendar for 9 years. For me it's not so much about generating business but giving back to the community, the animal rescue groups especially the small ones. – Kim Ortiz
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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