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Lesson 34 from: Building Your Photography Business for under $3,000Kathy Holcombe
Online Shopping Cart
Lesson 34 from: Building Your Photography Business for under $3,000Kathy Holcombe
Lessons
Class Introduction
06:45 2Create Your Business Plan
04:53 3Where to Invest Your Money?
27:44 4Where to Spend Your Time?
05:44 5How to be Profitable
08:58 6Write Your Personal Business Plan
16:16 7Business Plan Q & A
12:52 8Products: Overview
02:33What is Your Photography Style?
08:33 10What Products do You Want to Offer?
26:19 11Rules for Products
06:34 12Whats Involved in the Shoots for Your Products?
12:04 13How Will You Produce Your Products?
08:47 14Determine Your Pricing Strategy
06:05 15What to Charge for Your Products
18:19 16How to Use Markup Factors
07:37 17The Per Hour Sale
06:14 18Find Your Target Sale
08:25 19Pricing Strategy Q & A
22:24 20Develop a Sales Strategy
12:57 21In-person Sales Strategy
20:25 22Online Sales Strategy
23:11 23Mobile Sales Kits
18:09 24Identify Your Target Client
33:39 25Define Your Niche Market
16:10 26Develop Your Marketing Plan
14:27 27How to Increase Your Following
06:45 28Develop a Marketing Strategy
11:48 29Maximize Your Website
05:17 30What is The Purpose of Your Website?
09:33 31Website Essentials
14:13 32Website Tools to Create a Great Sale
11:58 33Online Selling Tools
11:30 34Online Shopping Cart
04:59 35Facebook Marketing Strategies & Materials
15:28 36Using Ads on Facebook
11:21 37Engagement on Facebook
08:22 38Instagram Marketing Strategies
15:27 39Define Your Brand
14:53 40Build a Solid Brand
14:46 41Maintain Your Brand through Publicity
10:39Lesson Info
Online Shopping Cart
Let's talk about shopping carts for a minute, for fine art. So, what this purpose is, is you're gonna have marketing directing your clients to a shopping cart online. It needs to be simple to use. It needs to have an image. It needs to talk about the product and the benefits and features. And then it needs to give them a prompt and a reason to buy now. Because they're gonna shop and they're gonna look at all different kinds of resources. And it's unlikely that they're going to decide right away that this is the image I have to have the first time that they see it, right? They're gonna look around a little bit more. So if they see it and they know that there's only 25 available in the entire world, then they might buy it right now. Or if it is 25% off for the next ten hours, they might buy it right now, 'cause they like it that much. So as you're thinking about shopping cart sales, notice that this is a landscape image, there's not a person in here. Because we know about the emotional r...
oller coaster. The value of an image, it goes up and it goes up and it goes up until they've seen it and shared it enough and then it tanks again. This is a little bit different. So there's not that emotional connection, as much, to your fine art images. So you need to give them another reason to buy. Alright, so just kind of keep that in mind for your shopping cart. Your fine art images, your landscape, wildlife, things like that. Okay, so for shopping carts, your product descriptions are really, super important. You need to give them the experience of holding it in their hands, virtually. You could do it through a video. You could do it through very descriptive wording. You could do it through photographs that show them every amazing detail of this product that you're producing. But it needs to have an incredible description of exactly what they're going to get. Luckily you guys are photographers and a photograph is worth a thousand words, right? So take amazing images of your products. Then, it needs to talk about how to use this product in your home. So if you're selling fine art, there needs to be something that tells your clients how to properly measure their wall for this specific piece. You really don't want them buying a piece like this, you really want them buying a piece like this. So you have to educate them on how to properly size a piece of art for the home. It could be an article that you've read online that you share as relevant information on your website. Or it could be something that you've written yourself. It doesn't really matter. But it needs to educate them on how to use this product in their home. If it's an album, maybe they haven't thought that you could display an album as a piece of art in your home with a cookbook easel and change the page. It's a varying work of art in your home. Maybe they haven't thought about that. Give them some information about how to do that. If they're a person that gets tired of a single piece of art, an album is perfect 'cause you just turn the page and it's a whole new piece. So how do they use that product in their home. And then you also have to have pricing information that's easy to understand and it guides them right to where you want to sell. Just like any other piece. So, the tricky thing for shopping carts is how are you driving traffic to your cart or to your shopping gallery. You're gonna have to place ads, probably, online. You're gonna have to get your name out to your consumers somewhere. Maybe somebody will do a news piece about the latest collection of images that you created. Maybe that will get broadcast out into the world. Maybe there's a magazine article written about you in some kind of photography magazine or an art magazine or something like that. You're gonna have to have press. You're gonna have to have media. You're going to have to have ads. You're gonna have all kinds of things that drive you to those images. Then you have to have a process, just like the sales process, that leads them to buy at your target sale. Buyers like to buy in the middle. If they have three choices, they'll always choose the middle. If they have five choices they always choose the middle. If they have four choices, they waffle between the middle two. That's buying psychology, that's how it works. And then you have to come up with an incentive to buy now. What is it that's important to make them click that button and enter their credit card information?
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Ratings and Reviews
Amanda Beck
Kathy was a wonderful instructor. She was engaging and someone who was precise and incredibly helpful. We have a full time photography business and are always looking for new ways of running our business. Her information was insightful and forced us to have conversations about our business that we have haven't had in several years. She is fantastic and someone who has the information needed to help you start or expand your business. Thank you for a wonderful class!!
Chrissie
Thank you Kathy for yet again another very thought provoking class. You are such an inspiration, teaching us the right questions to ask ourselves so we too can be brilliant photographers / entrepreneurs. I was a fulltime RVer for seven years, traversing 44 states and seeing some of the most beautiful places on our planet. It gave me a great opportunity to meet some extraordinary people and to hone my photography skills. Now I have put down roots in Stapleton - Denver, CO and am soon to launch my own Family Lifestyle Photography business. Your course has definitely given me the courage to just charge ahead and go for it!
Jeph DeLorme
Another top notch production from the amazing team at Creative Live! Kathy Holcombe, aka FAMAGOGO did a great job of covering all the basics along with the associated costs involved in starting up a photography business. However, you don't need to be a beginner to get great info from this class, it's packed with ideas and tips that even an experienced pro can put to work and take to the bank literally the next day. I highly recommend this class.
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