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5 Automation Strategies For Wedding Photographers

At ShootDotEdit, we know how precious time is for wedding photographers. You don’t just have weddings and engagement and proposals to photograph, but you also have queries to answer, clients to onboard, make contracts, post on social media, stay on top of your marketing strategies, etc. There’s a lot on your TDL every single day. And when there’s so much to do on a daily basis, adopting the right automation strategies can help get things done and make them seem less daunting too. From automating client communication to your Instagram posts – there are various aspects of your wedding photography business that you can set and forget. Just invest that little time to set things on your choice of a customer relationship management software and voila! You then get more time to actually book and photograph more clients. 

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How To Find A Wedding Photography Mentor

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A photography mentor can genuinely help you make advancements in your journey as a wedding photographer. They can help you hone your photography skills or learn photography techniques and even teach you things from the experiences they’ve had in their career. As a business owner who already has plenty of tasks lined up on a daily basis, finding a mentor might seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be that hard. If you follow the steps we have listed below, finding yourself the perfect mentor might not be as time-consuming or difficult as you might think. Before you even start your search, make the whole process easier for yourself by thinking about why you want to be in a mentorship program. Once you understand your goals better, finding a mentor program will become easier. 

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5 Effective Communication Tips For Wedding Photographers

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Your wedding photography skills are what is going to attract potential clients to your brand, but the way you communicate with them is what’s going to turn them into leads and make them stay and refer you further. Effective communication is an essential part of any business that directly deals with people, including yours. You might have the best business and marketing strategies, but if your communication strategies are not client-friendly, then you might not be able to establish strong relationships with them. Whether it’s about onboarding new clients or keeping in touch with old ones – your communication skills can be the deciding factor behind excellent customer service, an expanding client list, and high referral rates. And in this blog, we tell you all about communication with clients and why it’s important to do it right. 

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How To Send Payment Reminder To Your Clients Via Emails

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As a business owner, chasing your clients for payments could be one of the trickiest parts of your work. And we sincerely hope that you don’t have to walk down that lane. However, sometimes, when things don’t go as planned, following up with your clients for payments becomes inevitable. Many businesses give a fair amount of time to their clients to pay the outstanding bills, and sometimes this could, in fact, become the reason behind clients pushing the invoice to the side. Now, you don’t want to keep waiting for your payment or come to a point where you have to hand it over to a collections lawyer or agency. Sending a payment reminder to your clients could prevent you from finding yourself in such a scenario. You can send a reminder to your clients via text message, a phone call, or even snail mail, but a reminder email reaches your client instantly and can have all the bills attached. So, when should you send a payment reminder email? And how do you put across your point firmly but politely? Read on to find out!

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Photographing Couples In A Forest: Inspiration By ShootDotEdit Customers

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Whether or not your couple is getting married in (or near) a forest, they are still one of the most beautiful places for couples portraits. Come rain or shine (or snow), wedding or engagement photos in forests have a magical, fairy tale vibe. Lush greens, a mix of red, yellow, and orange, or just the bare trees buried beneath a blanket of snow – photographing your couples in a forest has the ability to stand out no matter what time of the year or day. Of course, the golden and blue hours offer great lighting, but it’s all about the vibe you and your clients are going for. Dark and moody or light and airy, it can all be done in a forest. And while it’s a great place for couples portraits, there are some things you need to keep in mind before you head out into the woods. Keep reading to get those tips!

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5 Ways To Go The Extra Mile For Your Couples

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Excellent customer service is an important part of the backbone that helps you run a successful wedding photography business. And sometimes (or always) going the extra mile for your couples is a part of giving them that exceptional customer service. In a market where there is no dearth of wedding photographers, how you treat your clients can help you stand out and attract more clients to your business. While you might be an exceptional wedding photographer, you might not be able to expand your clientele if your customer service is just average. So, make your brand exceptional too. Find creative or classic and surprising ways to impress your clients who will then go on to recommend your outstanding services to their friends and family. Without your clients, your business doesn’t exist. So prioritize them and go the extra mile without spreading yourself too thin. 

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Setting Up A Sustainable Business: 5 Tips For Wedding Photographers

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There’s so much that you have to do when you start your wedding photography business and as you keep climbing up that ladder. Having a solid business plan, networking with other professionals from the wedding industry, constantly evolving and honing your skills as a wedding photographer, etc., are just some of the strategies that could help you turn your wedding photography business into a sustainable venture. Eventually, it’s all about setting up effective systems that work for your business. Starting a wedding photography business is no easy task, but running it in a way that ensures that your business thrives, in the long run, takes a lot of work too. In this blog, we will take you through some business practices that you can focus on to make sure that yours sustains. 

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Setting Boundaries With Wedding Photography Clients: The Why And How

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How many times have you worked to the point of exhaustion because a client requested you to do something and you couldn’t say no? It’s hard to turn down a request from a client when you are running your own business, but it’s an important part of setting boundaries and protecting yourself from burning out. Loving your clients and establishing strong relationships with them is integral to your job as a wedding photographer, and setting healthy boundaries will go a long way in protecting those relationships and your mental health. Like we said, it’s not always easy to draw the line and stand your ground, but in this blog, we bring you some tried and tested ways to set boundaries without putting a dent in your relationship with your clients. 

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Stormy Skies Photo Inspiration From ShootDotEdit Customers

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Renowned philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson had once said, “The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.” And we can only nod in unison! The sky could indeed double up as a canvas for a photographer to paint a mosaic of many different shades, moods, and pictures. And the stormy skies seem to be especially befitting for many dramatic and moody photography themes. More and more, photographers have been intrigued by these natural phenomena and have been keen on incorporating them in their photographs to capture the stormy feels and add to the mood and tone of the story they want to narrate. If you too are eager to fuse a similar sense of aesthetics and feelings into your craft, these stormy sky images from ShootDotEdit customers could give you some photo inspiration. Take a look!

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Tips To Improve Local SEO & Get More Wedding Photography Clients

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Local SEO is something that can help you increase the visibility of your brand and business on search engines once someone in your area or local community looks for (searches online) services similar to yours. It basically is a way to be relevant to customers and market your services to potential clients that are in your physical proximity. From on-page optimization for location-specific searches to setting up your account on local business pages, local SEO practices and strategies can put your business on your potential clients’ list of local vendors to consider. This can, especially, be important if yours is a business that operates on a local or regional level. It would also help you drive more traffic to your website, attract more leads, and get conversions. A focused local SEO strategy could also be instrumental in neutralizing the impact of national-level brands serving in your area and getting your business recognition among your target audience. Now, if you are wondering how you can improve local SEO and get more clients for your wedding photography business, we’ve shared some amazing tips for you here.

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