{"id":7850,"date":"2021-03-08T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=7850"},"modified":"2021-03-08T21:38:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T21:38:27","slug":"sales-in-photography-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/sales-in-photography-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales in Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a small photography business as a side-job since 2015, specializing in family, seniors, events, couples, and weddings. As my business gained attraction on social media, simply from posting pictures, I found my “sales” increasing at a steady rate, yet most of my clients were not from around my hometown. What I came to recognize, though, was that the need did<\/em> exist for photography within my hometown, but the cost<\/em> to fulfill that need was far greater than anybody in my hometown was willing or able to afford.<\/p>\n

My goal throughout business was never to make as much profit as possible, but rather to enjoy what I was doing and do so with a kingdom-minded perspective. I loved meeting and spending time with people, no matter how much I was being paid, so I chose to become what I called a donation-based business, meaning that people “donated” to me what they could, what they wanted, or what they thought I deserved, other than for weddings. I charged a (cheaper) fixed fee for weddings, because of the time-commitment that they required of me. I received checks ranging from anything between $20-$300 for any other photoshoots, whereas a typical photographer would cost between $200-$1000+. My sales sky-rocketed within my hometown and the surrounding areas, certainly due to the minimal costs I charged, but I believe also due to understanding the audience I sought to reach. I think a large part of sales is doing exactly that – understanding the people you’re aiming to serve and meeting their needs in a valuable way.<\/p>\n

I have continued to do this throughout college, but have taken much less business and enjoy doing photography as a hobby more than anything!<\/p>\n

Check out my Instagram page for a little bit more about what I do!<\/p>\n

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I’ve had a small photography business as a side-job since 2015, specializing in family, seniors, events, couples, and weddings. As my business gained attraction on social media, simply from posting pictures, I found my “sales” increasing at a steady rate, yet most of my clients were not from around my hometown. What I came to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,256,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsentertainmentphotography","category-businesssales","category-sales-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7856,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850\/revisions\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}