Tag Archives: motivation
COMIC RELIEF.
It’s easy to get caught up in the STRESS of running your own business and juggling your personal and professional life. You need to laugh, peeps! Being a kids’ photographer, I don’t know *anything* about those kinds of kids. After you’ve laughed, enjoyed, and generally had a break from stress, the next challenge: how and [...]
REMEMBER TO BREATHE.
It’s worth remembering: there will be bad days. Customers will freak out, ask weird questions, demand unreasonable things, or forget to show up for appointments. Your inbox will have 60 new e-mails three hours after the last time you emptied it, and your schedule will landslide itself right into Crazytown. It’s easy to lose a [...]
BEING A PHOTOGRAPHER SUCKS.
Ok, being a photographer doesn’t suck, from a life-fulfillment and pure-awesome level. But, on a financial level, it sucks. Big time. If I were a painter, I wouldn’t be like, ‘OH DEAR GOD, DID YOU SEE THE NEW BRUSHES BEING RELEASED NEXT WEEK? THEY’RE SO RAD, AND ALL THE PRICES OF THE OTHER BRUSHES WILL [...]
REVOLUTIONARIES REQUIRED.
In today’s business climate, it’s not enough to be exceptional. Extraordinary, even. You must be REVOLUTIONARY to succeed.
STICK TO YOUR STRENGTHS.
Let’s say you love painting. Every time you bust out your acrylic set, throw some Indie Rock/awesome sauce on the iPod/radio/stereo and get to art-ing it up, you’re in heaven. And then someone asks you to paint their dog. Do you paint it? If you have a grumbly spouse, who doesn’t understand how painting a [...]
DIY MARKETING.
Ten easy ways to promote your business, DIY-style.
HOW A RODDICK ATTITUDE CAN HELP YOUR BUSINESS.
I did not marry a sports lover, so I’m not used to spending three hours at a clip watching sports. But, since tennis on TV looks just like Wii Tennis, I knew enough about what was happening in the Wimbledon Finals to keep up. And the commentators were absolutely, positively STUNNED that Roddick, the Underdog [...]
IT'S BUSINESS TIME: PART II.
Okay, so on Tuesday, we talked about carving out time for your business to happen. You scoffed and thought, “DUDE, I am so far ahead of you. MY desk is perfectly organized and MY calendar is full of business time and MY business plan is in working order and has recently been revisited.” Kudos to [...]
IT'S BUSINESS TIME.
Before you have a brand, you need to have a business. 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 [...]
THREE FREE WAYS TO BUILD YOUR BRAND
With all the talk of recession-this and unemployment-that, it’s easy to think that you can’t afford to build your brand. It’s true, a new identity package may not be your top priority if cashflow is down, but there’s no shortage of simple and free ways to keep your brand afloat. 1.) First, last, and always: [...]
