Promo code BDAY takes 50% off the merit badge, making it $44.50 for today only!

So, go buy the Projection and Sales Merit Badge if you’re the slightest bit curious about how to nail in-person portrait sales.

Oh, and we have FABULOUS prizes from peeps we love at Brand Camp headquarters!  Just leave a comment telling me which prize you’d like to win and why!

Totally Rad Lightroom Presets will revolutionize your workflow, smack your images in the face with color, make your black and white conversions easy-peasy AND make you giggle at their names.  All in a day’s work for the best Lightroom presets on the planet.

Easy as Pie and Pastry School, the companion follow-up guide, have set the bar for portrait pricing in the photographic industry.  Alicia Caine shares her pricing strategies, her tips and tricks for time management, and common sense ways to do what’s best for YOUR business in her best-selling e-books.

Get Schooled is the It guide for those of you interested in making school portraiture fun, hip, creative, and profitable.  Courtney DeLaura shares step-by-step methods for getting the school gig, making it memorable, and turning the traditional school photo on its head.

Thanks to all of you for your support, encouragement, love, Twittering, Facebooking, and sharing here at the Brand Camp blog!

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Want to read it on the blog? HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRAND CAMP BLOG!

One of the most rewarding experiences of my career has been working with Alicia Caine as the grammar and pretty-fying fairy on her Easy as Pie cookbook and the followup book, Pastry School.  She’s gracious enough to call me a chef, but it’s her mastery of common sense practices that make the cookbook so utterly fabulous.

I can’t say enough good things about Alicia, this sale, or the fact that

THE EASY AS PIE AND PASTRY SCHOOL COMBO IS ONLY $99 FOR THE FIRST 100 PEOPLE TO USE PROMO CODE PIF100 AT CHECKOUT.

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The Easy as Pie chefs are used to receiving emails thanking us for increasing portrait sales by 100% in photography studios across the country, but we realize the first step is the hardest. You’re not sure of your pricing, you’re unfamiliar with our methods, and you’ve been waiting for your tax refund check to buy the case of wine that will finally drown your business sorrows. We get it.

And so…

We’re paying it forward with a once-in-a-lifetime special on the purchase of our Easy as Pie cookbook, complete with Pastry School bonus PDF! Save $100 on the combo, which is just $99 for the first 100 copies sold or through March 12, 2010, whichever comes first. (This deal will also be announced at the WPPI PIF party, so copies will be gone quickly!)

Get to know Alicia Caine’s common sense pricing strategies for the modern portrait photographer. Learn how to create highly profitable portrait collections, the secrets of a la carte pricing that will lead to collection sales, how to price your session fee effectively, and the answers to the age-old ‘what about the digital files?’ questions we all have. In addition, Alicia shares her personal schedule, pricing, portrait collections, and tips for moving up the sales ladder in Pastry School, the PDF that accompanies Easy as Pie.

We’ve NEVER received a negative review of our cookbook, which creates the kind of a-ha pricing moments Oprah can only dream about.

Save $100 with promo code PIF100 — buy now!

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Next Tuesday, it’s Strip Club, part II.  Sorry to go all crazy salesgirl on you, but this is an unbelievable deal that you’d half to be bananas to pass up.

Want to read it on the blog? EASY AS PIE PRICING COOKBOOK ONLY $99!

And the reason it’s called Easy as Pie?  Alicia’s methods make so much sense — are so simple, logical, and easy to implement — that you’ll be astonished at what you can do for your portrait-photographer-pricing in such a short time.  So, if you’d rather bodysurf over cut glass than fine-tune your portrait pricing, you’ve found your solution.

But before you buy it — why not win it?  Comment below with a pricing woe of yours, and one random commenter will be hooked up with the Easy as Pie pricing guide for photographers.  Friday at Noon Eastern — I’ll post the winner!

Want to read it on the blog? WIN EASY AS PIE PRICING GUIDE!

A tale of two Moms, today:

MOM A: I’m  a stay-at-home Mom interested in generating income from my fledgling photography business.  I work whenever I can nab a moment between diaper changes, tantrums, episodes of lousy kids’ shows, and nap times.  I work from my living room, as this allows me to babysit while working.

MOM B:  I’m a stay-at-home Mom interested in generating income from my fledgling photography business.  I work Monday through Friday from 11-1:30 while the kids are at daycare (read: Grandma’s house), and have a dedicated space for my little startup.  (It’s just an Ikea desk with front doors added to contain the chaos.)

Whether Mom A works 3 hours or 30 hours per week, I guarantee she isn’t going to be as productive as Mom B.  Why? Mom B isn’t multi-tasking, she’s giving the business her undivided attention.  Likewise, she isn’t ‘trying to fit business in,’ but actively making room for business to happen.

These are, of course, simplified cases, but the premise remains the same: what would happen if you carved out time for your fledgling business, whatever it may be?

This week, make time and space for your business to grow. Rearrange your desk. Pencil yourself into your own calendar.  Hire a sitter for a few hours’ worth of uninterrupted concentration.  And if you haven’t dusted off your business plan in the past six months, take a look.  Examine your goals, and identify simple ways to work toward them.

If you don’t have a business plan and you’re a photographer, go here and buy this now.  If you have a business plan, but need help with pricing your photographic artwork, go here and buy this now.  If you’re not a photographer but still need help, check out The Creative Entrepreneur.

Want to read it on the blog? IT'S BUSINESS TIME.