The Podcast for Pet Photographers
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S3E13 | Ditching the Session Fee with Nicole Begley
Nicole Begley requires no introduction. She’s the founder of the online community that we all know and love, the Hair of the Dog Blog and creator behind the online education membership for pet photographers at Hair of the Dog Academy. Today she joins us on the podcast for the second time, to dive deeper into business as a pet photographer, particularly pricing structures.
S3E11 | Finding Your Niche within a Niche with Claire Garrett
Multi-award winning photographer Claire Garrett of Petography in Perth, Australia, has been exclusively working with pets for 10 years now. She’s the author of Tails of Perth and incorporates a unique spin on traditional pet photography with her Haute and Hound photoshoots.
S3E09 | The Six Steps to Phone Call Success with Mark Rossetto
Australian photographer, Mark Rossetto is regarded as one of the world’s best photography business coaches. He started shooting in the UK, moved back to Australia to establish his dream studio where he shot 500 families per year. He has since sold his studio, which is still successful and now pours his heart and soul into coaching photographers. He mentored our recent guest, Sarah of Serata Equine Photography, showing her the steps to a 6 figure business within 18 months.. a common story among his students.
Today we asked Mark all about answering that question we are always faced with as photographers.. “how much is..” as well as so much more.
S3E05 | Building a Six-Figure Equine Photography Business with Sarah Mounsey
Sarah Mounsey of Serata Equestrian photography is in the first year of her business and has already turned over $150k! She offers something a little unique, with a rural studio to capture beautiful natural portraits of horses with their riders.
You can see from checking out her website that she spends time working on her business as well as in it, and that she’s a master at implementing what she learns!
S3E04 | Quick Tip - Three Easy Ways to Pretty Your Packaging
In this week’s Snapshot, Caitlin shares three easy ways to pretty your packaging (without breaking the bank).
To dive a bit deeper into the topic of Client Gifts and Packaging, don’t forget to watch our full 20 minute video episode and join in the discussion online with our members in The Pet Photographer’s Club on Facebook.
S3E03 | Part-time Venture to Full-Time Career in 3 Months with Cat Race
Cat of CatsDog Photography has built a loyal fan base with her bright, colourful photography and even brighter personality. She launched her business back in 2013, growing it from a part-time venture to a full time career in just three months and six years later business is booming with a team of six members.
S3E02 | Quick Tip - Client Gifts
This week’s Snapshot is about the strategy of gifting your client before they’ve placed their order.
To dive a bit deeper into the topic of Client Gifts, don’t forget to watch our full 20 minute video episode and join in the discussion online with our members in The Pet Photographer’s Club on Facebook.
S3E01 | Publishing and Personal Projects with Craig Bullock
Craig Bullock from Furtography in New Zealand, has been photographing pets for over 15 years, is a multi-award winning accredited master of photography, author of three bestselling books and the photographer behind the amazing Dog is Love series. He is New Zealand’s Portrait Photographer of the year and a Fuji X ambassador. In our interview he shares his experience with working with publishers for personal projects, and so much more!
S2E12 | The Best 18 of 2018 - Changes in Business this Year
In the final episode of the year, co-hosts, Caitlin of Ragamuffin Pet Photography and Kirstie of Bitsa Bernard Photography discuss the best 18 changes that they’ve made to their pet photography business in 2018.
S2E11 | Facebook Messenger Automation with Iain Sim
Iain Sim from Nice Chat, Let’s Book shares all things Facebook Messenger Automation.
S2E10 | Quick Tip - How to Sell Gift Vouchers
Coming at you this week with a mini episode: How to Sell Gift Vouchers? Caitlin is a big fan of selling gift vouchers with a hands-free, automated system, whilst Kirstie likes to create a special gift experience by presenting and packaging hers beautifully
S2E09 | Partner Networking for Big Sales with Luci Dumas
Luci Dumas is a master photographer who specialises in heartfelt portraits and has been running a successful portrait business for 36 years. Her super power is selling multiple large portraits per client and she generating a consistent flow of new clients with her networking strategies.
S2E08 | Quick Tip - What's in our camera bags?
Coming at you this week with a mini episode: What’s in our Camera Bags? Kirstie and Caitlin share their three favourite lenses for pet photography sessions - to watch the full episode, where we take you through EVERYTHING in our camera bags, just join the Club!
S2E07 | Commercial Photography with Jamie Piper
Jamie Piper of Cowbelly Photography has over fifteen years of experience working with editorial and commercial clients; everyone from pet insurance companies, to animal magazines, to dog food businesses. She specialises in creating modern, authentic images that help her clients get away from that stereotypical ‘stock photo’ look: a mission which led her to creating the Fetch Stock company. On top of all of this she also shares a tonne of eduction resources through her website Commercial Photographers’ Resources.
S2E06 | Quick Tip - Online Gallery Deposits
Our latest question of the week is bouncing off some recent discussions we’ve been having in the Member’s Only Mastermind Group on Facebook about implementing pre-paid Online Ordering Deposits. Caitlin created this strategy earlier this year and it’s been working really well (particularly for the Tails book sessions), so we wanted to share how you could also use this strategy to encourage action and orders for Online Galleries.
S2E05 | A Dog Blogger's Guide to Getting Seen Online with Beth Patterson
BETH PATTERSON | DAILY DOG TAG
Inspired by the love of dogs, Beth Patterson created the online space, Daily Dog Tag which focuses on professional photography, rescue and quality products for dogs and the people who love them. Over the last six years Daily Dog Tag has grown into one of the top - if not the number one - blogs showcasing gorgeous pet photography from around the world and in today’s interview, we asked Beth all about it.
S2E03 | Automation with Caroline M. Wood
Caroline M Wood helps photographers spend more time behind the camera and chasing their pets around, and less time chasing clients for signatures and payment. She specialises in bringing personal touch to automation and creating quiet business strategies to make any introverted heart sing!
S2E01 | The Importance of Originality with Ewan Cheyne
Whether he’s shooting in his studio, or exploring the Scottish highlands on an outdoor adventure session, Ewan Cheyne of Mutley’s Snaps is the master at creating playful, quirky, personality-filled pet portraiture. In todays episode we spoke all about originality for pet photographers and more.