Your 12 Week Roadmap
Lesson 8 from: How to Start a Photography BusinessPye Jirsa
Your 12 Week Roadmap
Lesson 8 from: How to Start a Photography BusinessPye Jirsa
Lesson Info
8. Your 12 Week Roadmap
Summary (Generated from Transcript)
In this lesson, Pye Jirsa introduces the concept of a 12-week roadmap for starting a photography business. He explains that the roadmap includes areas of focus such as mind mapping, competitor research, artistic development, and product development. Jirsa also provides a workbook with 15 sections that guide students through various aspects of the business, including revenue forecasting, client personas, pricing templates, and marketing strategies. He emphasizes that the roadmap is designed to be used in conjunction with the class, and that it can be adapted for different types of client-serving businesses.
Q&A:
What is the purpose of the 12-week roadmap?
The purpose of the 12-week roadmap is to provide a structured plan for starting a photography business.
What are some areas of focus in the roadmap?
Some areas of focus in the roadmap include mind mapping, competitor research, artistic development, and product development.
What is included in the workbook provided?
The workbook includes sections on revenue forecasting, client personas, pricing templates, marketing strategies, and more.
How should the roadmap be used in conjunction with the class?
The roadmap should be followed week by week, with each section of the class corresponding to a specific topic in the roadmap.
Can the roadmap be adapted for different types of businesses?
Yes, the roadmap can be adapted for different types of client-serving businesses by changing a few keywords in the copy and doing some additional research.
Lessons
Class Introduction
13:12 2Common Myths & Unknown Truths
11:42 3The Road Ahead
13:03 4Find Your Passion
06:06 5The Lin & Jirsa Journey
13:54 6Part-time, Full-time, Employed, Partners?
03:51 7Stop Wasting Time & Money
06:07 8Your 12 Week Roadmap
04:33Great Plans Still Fail
06:01 10Strategy Vs. Planning
04:16 11Mind Mapping
07:25 12Select a Focus
14:16 13Competitor Research
09:34 14S.W.O.T. Analysis
13:54 15Strategy & Long Term Goals
03:50 16Values, Vision & Mission
27:49 17Effectively Managing Your Time
15:05 18Artistic Development
07:30 19Create Your Plan
13:12 20What's Your Product
10:51 21Luxury vs Consumer Products & Experiences
11:44 22Quick Break for Econ 101
16:31 23Your Target Market & Brand Message
21:25 24What's in a Name
09:20 25Your Client 'Why'
05:43 26Crafting the Why Experience
24:17 27Document the Client Experience
08:29 28Business Administration Basics
27:03 29Book Keeping Management
06:51 30Create the Logo & Branding
07:04 31Portfolio Design
15:11 32Design Your Services & Packages
18:51 33Pricing Fears & Myths
08:46 34Three Pricing Methods
25:39 35Package Pricing Psychology & Design
06:15 36Psychology of Numbers
07:29 37Pricing Q&A
23:51 38Grass Roots Marketing
09:36 39The Empty Party
07:03 40Friends & Family Test Shoots
16:28 41Join Groups
04:32 42Second Shooting Etiquette
07:44 43The Listing & Classified Hustle
14:10 44Make Instagram Simple
13:55 45Your Automated Pinterest Plan
08:01 46Facebook Because You Must
07:37 47Giveaway & Styled Shoots
12:17 48Content Marketing & SEO
08:12 49The Monster: SEO
07:26 50Selecting Your Keywords
05:45 51Testing Your Keywords
07:53 52Grouping Main & Niche Goals
12:39 53Your Content Road Map
11:47 54Content Marketing Q&A
10:45 55Inspiration to Keep Working
07:45 56How to Craft Your Content
15:03 57Internal Linking Basics
05:30 58Back Link Building Basics
04:55 59Link Value Factos
14:38 60Measuring Link Value
04:24 61Link Building Strategy & Plan
06:10 62Link Building Plan: Vendors & Guest Writing
06:45 63Link Building Plan: Features, Directories, Comments
03:11 64Link Building: Shortcuts & One Simple Tool
14:44 65What is Sales? Show Me!
12:58 66Your First Massive Failure
05:17 67The Sales Process
07:31 68Your Second Massive Failure
05:23 69Understand Buyer Psychology
10:00 70Step 0: Building Rapport & Trust
15:14 71Step 1: Identify Need or Want
15:39 72Cognitive Dissonance
12:01 73Steps 2 & 3: Value Proposition & The Solution
14:21 74Step 4 : Close, Make the Ask
04:32 75Step 5: Follow Up & Resolve Concerns
06:13 76Family Photography Hot Seat
12:06 77Business Example Hot Seat
15:52 78Boudoir Photography Hot Seat
16:09 79The Best Sales Person
07:45 80Your Mindset, Vibrations & Frequency
06:56 81Always Positive, Always Affirming
11:55 82The Second Money & Dual Process
07:39 83Chumming the Price Waters
03:57 84Creating Want or Scarcity
09:54 85Timeless Advice on Being Likable
11:53 86Selling Over The Phone
10:59 87Forbidden Words in Sales
11:40Lesson Info
Your 12 Week Roadmap
So, your 12 week roadmap. (laughs) You either respect your time or be prepared to take 1,000 plus screenshots for the next three days. There's a lot of screenshots that they need. So, what I wanna do is cover the roadmap. Don't let this workbook freak you out. I know it's a little bit freaky. But, check this out. I'm just gonna scroll down to the right and what you see here is a full roadmap for all 12 of your next weeks, okay. So, don't freak out with it. What you're gonna do is you're gonna follow it week by week. So, if we go, look right at this first column, we're gonna see that we have a few choices to make. Areas of focus. We wanna do some mind mapping. We're gonna teach you guys about that in our next segment. We wanna do some analysis, competitor research. For artistic development, I've given you guys some kind of roadmaps here for what you can do, but you can pick your own, but have something each week for artistic development. Product development, we're not yet there. We need...
to figure out some things first. So, you just scroll down and you look at kind of all the different things that are needed and here's how the workbook works. So, look how it says, "use 04 FORECAST "for revenue forecasting." Right here. So, you simply go to 04 FORECAST. There are 15 workbooks in this document that will guide you through everything from what to purchase with all the different brands. This is your basic foundation kit with different brand representations of each one. Pick your poison. Lighting and creative kits and then full on wedding ready kit. We have your IT Guide, Software Guide, Legal Guide. Every piece of this is mapped out for you. Your competitor analysis that we're gonna piece together followed by a SWOT analysis, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. Forecasting, we're gonna build client personas. So, that you guys can actually know who it is that you're marketing to. So, we have a template built in for you. A pricing template for cost method pricing. We're gonna show you cost and demand based pricing which is gonna be where we wanna put your guys. Finding mentors, vendors to work with for grassroots marketing, templates for, this is a email for a link request which we're gonna talk about when we get to SEO and content building. Also, we started on Craigslist. It's still completely viable. We did this eight years ago, nine years ago, finding 500 dollar brides and that's how we built the entire business. So, we're gonna show you that. If Craigslist doesn't work, you can find any other local classified to post in. The content pages that you need to build on your site. We have guest publishing for, again, SEO. All of these things are built out, all the way up to tab 14. There we go. Okay. But, let's focus on the roadmap for just right now. So, you'll see that month one is really heavy on planning and strategy. What I want is, this roadmap is designed to be used in conjunction with the class, okay. So, as you're watching the class, it's gonna define out section by section. So, the first thing we'll be covering is strategy and planning. So, all those things are covered. Then, you simply look at the roadmap and see, "okay, week by week, this is my plan. "This is what I'm gonna do." Then, we'll go into the next topic, product development. And the next topic, marketing, pricing, everything, sales. So, at the beginning, it's really figuring out our focus. Once we get towards month five, we're really kind of finalizing the product. So, if you look at product development, it becomes pretty heavy. We're developing what we actually wanna sell. Then, when we get down here to the bottom right, this is where sales comes in place because you really have nothing to sell until you've gotten out and started marketing. So, we're gonna cover sales strategies and psychology and how to actually make the sale. This is the 12 week roadmap and you guys can take this and adapt it to literally anything. Switching it out to any client serving business is as simple, so if you're client serving maternity, newborn, family, all of that, that's as simple as changing a couple of keywords in your copy. Okay. But, if you are doing commercial or something else, you can adapt it and kind of do a little bit of research on your own, but use the same formulas, the same plan to kind of create your own 12 week roadmap.
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Ratings and Reviews
Armstrong Su
This class and materials are to the point and eye-opening on the business side of photography. Pye Jirsa is an amazing and fun teacher as well! Most photographers need more business classes offered to bring us who love to create art back to reality for a more successful business that makes a living on it's own. This course will definately get you started in the right direction and so cheap too! Great investment! armstrong outdoor tv case outdoortvcase Pye Jirsa is one of the best instructors that I have the pleasure to learn from. He and his team have given me so much more than they'll ever realize. Knowledge, wisdom, training, friendship, mentoring, inspiration, joy... I cannot thank Pye enough for changing my life for the better. I owe them more than they'll ever realize. Thank you, Pye Jirsa!!!
Angela Sanchez
This class has been an eye opener for me; a point of change in my vision as photographer. Pye is and AMAZING, INSPIRING, GENEROUS instructor, with an, authentic desire to help people and to share with them the best of his knowledge. I will not have enough words to say thanks to Pye Jirsa, as a teacher and as a human being, and thanks to Creative Live who allows us to benefit from the experience of such a knowledgeable, educated, well-versed photographer and instructor. 1000% recommended!
Yenith LianTy
Been following this guy forever. Pye Jirsa may be well known in the wedding & portrait photography world and if there is something that this guy knows it is how to create a business, a sustainable one. The workbook he provided is comprehensive, and I honestly wish I had this when I first started out as a photographer! I love that he talks about his failures, keeping it real and honest for anyone starting out. He is definitely one of the best instructors around, super humble, down to earth and with a sense of humor to boot. The course is worth it! THE WORKBOOK is AMAZING! SUPER DETAILED!
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