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Strategy & Long Term Goals

Lesson 11 from: FAST CLASS: How to Start a Photography Business

Pye Jirsa

Strategy & Long Term Goals

Lesson 11 from: FAST CLASS: How to Start a Photography Business

Pye Jirsa

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11. Strategy & Long Term Goals

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Strategy & Long Term Goals

So now, this is time we've kind of identified we can look through to see this goal of where we wanna go. We defined our focus, we've analyzed the competition. We know our advantages. We know our weaknesses. Okay, now I wanna say this. Your ideal work life should also dictate your strategy and goals. You know the competitive landscape. And now it's time to decide on what you want and where you want to be three years from now, today. Five years from now, today. The reason that's important is this. He's no Fstoppers. Everybody should know Fstoppers. Lee and Patrick are two of my good friends. Lee came and toured our building. And the first thing he said to me was, "This is amazing dude. "You guys have done, I would blow my brains out though. "This is not what I would want." And I go, "Of course." Do you know why? Because at this point in the business that we've created, we can't walk away for six months and go take a sabbatical. We've got 55 employees that rely on everything that we do. S...

o we need to keep the wheels turning for everybody's sake. Now, we still take our vacations and we still enjoy our time. But that lifestyle that I have and that I like, doesn't fit into his lifestyle and what he wants. He wants freedom. He wants to make good money, but be able to just leave the studio at 12:00 p.m. to go kite surfing. And that's fantastic. But this is where we get it wrong. When we look at something and we say we envy it, we want it without thinking to ourselves, what is it gonna be like when I'm actually in those shoes? And you end up creating a business that runs yourself into the ground. So the first step is to define what it is that you actually want. Going back to that part time full time thing? This is where I'm gonna talk about it. If you love your job, and you wanna make good money, there is absolutely no reason to quit and go with this full time, until you decide down the road, you can make great money doing both things. Is that kinda of making sense? If your vision is I wanna do this with my husband or my wife, then your strategy and your plans should not encompass buying a building. Or at one point I'm gonna be this I'm gonna do this. It should be our goal is to own a boutique family studio. Let's do what we need to do to get there, okay? So this is where I'm gonna have you guys break out your mind maps again. I want you guys to actually mind map your ideal work life with your center idea being my ideal work life. Draw it out. Here's a few of ours. Our early goals for Lin and Jirsa photography, we wanted to be the best wedding studio in Southern California. We wanted deliver consistently amazing work. We wanted good income with free time for other projects. That's actually in an email from 10 years ago. This area would be great because we can make a good living and still have time for other projects. We wanted to be out of the nitty-gritty. Once again in an email from 10 years ago. To not get focused in on just post production, just one area of the business. We wanna get other people in. Which means that we have to be willing to give away some of the revenue that's coming in so that we can buy back our time.

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