Welcome to this next lesson in expanding your online presence in this lesson. I want to just briefly mention expanding your horizons to other sorts of review sites, but they might be more specific to your industry now, I'm using wedding as an example because it's a popular industry and they have this set up for the wedding industry, two sides the knot dot com and Wedding wire dot com. These are places that brides and grooms, anyone getting married can go and it helps them plan their wedding, they can find local vendors, they can create a wedding website, a registry, all kinds of stuff. But if you go to the knot dot com for example, you can just find local wedding photographers. So let's go ahead and again, site look for san luis Obispo. Now this isn't where I live, but this is if I want to have another wedding with Isabel renew our vows, maybe we'd go up to slow. It's a beautiful, beautiful place. So again, just like yeah, just like google when you search for wedding photographers, dif...

ferent ones are going to appear. So you need to create this profile. Some of these are featured. I'm not sure exactly what featured means based off of their algorithm. But even on the not not many of these companies have that many reviews, I am sure that most of these results and the ranking of the results are based off of reviews as you go down, there are some lower reviews but at the top, it's a lot of five star reviews and so you want to make sure that you're asking your clients to leave reviews for you. So just like any of these other places you're gonna have your about section details, even pricing. So a lot of the stuff that's on your website, you can also add here. So definitely add your business here at the location, at your about section front that you took from your website. And then similarly, wedding wire is basically the same exact website. So if you go under vendors, you look up photography, we will again look up san luis Obisbo. I'm curious to see if they are going to be the same results or not. So it looks like wedding wire. Um, I'm not sure which one is more popular because I think both of them are pretty popular. Seacrest wedding photography 100 40 reviews. So maybe wedding wire is a little bit more popular. I don't see Seacrest in one of the top results here. No, so maybe they have a not profile. Maybe they don't, but that's why it's important to set it up on these sites. So, again, this one looks like with wedding wire, there are pricing prices on there. Sorry, I scrolled through that really fast and just want to make sure how you can actually set up your vendor down at the bottom. If you click on, learn about wedding wire for business. Some of these things cost though on a place like wedding wire or the not. Um, sometimes there's a free option if you want to be featured, you might have a paid spot and that might be something you do later on your in your business, when you reinvest and you into your business and you want to do that kind of advertising. So now is the time to go out. Set up your profile on those websites. If you are a wedding photographer, if you're not a wedding photographer, there are some other sites for general photography that you can set up a profile. One of them is scoop Shot dot com. Um this is a place where people can find professional photographers and you can again, if you're a photographer set up, set up a profile here. You just never know when people are going to be using a site like this to find a photographer in their area and you might as well have a profile ready. If someone is alright, see you in the next lesson.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

15 Tips: How Your Photography Business can be Adapted to Online Services

Start a Photography Business

Workbook

Worksheet

buy this class

$00

Buy Class

Sale Ends Soon!

starting under

$13/month*

Unlock this classplus 2000+ more >

79.7K Students

99% Recommend this Class

00 Student Work

0 Video lessons in HD
00h 00m of class content
Exclusive bonus content
Lifetime access, anywhere, anytime
Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
Download and offline access with class purchase
Offline sync with our iPhone & iPad apps
100% satisfaction guarantee

Philip Ebiner

Professional video & course creator, photographer & teacher to 1mil+ students; 10+ years experience with 1000+ videos.

SEE INSTRUCTOR'S CLASSES

Will Carnahan

11+ years experience as a cinematographer, camera operator, and photographer. Working with Disney, Nike, ESPN, PredPol and many others.

2,000+ classes ranging from fundamentals to advanced techniques.

Get Listed on Review Sites

Get Listed on Review Sites

Lesson Info

41. Get Listed on Review Sites

Lessons

Welcome

Why Do You Want to Start a Photography Business

What Kind of Photography Business Do You Want to Start

Important Personal Note from Instructor Will

Case Study Starting a Photography Business

Quiz - Chapter 1

Introduction to Basics of Starting a Photography Business

Choose Your Business Name

Choose Your Business Structure

Register Your Business Name

Get Your Federal Tax ID

Get Your Business License

Get Your Business Bank Account

Register Your Online Accounts

Branding Your Business

Set Your Prices

The Photography Gear You Need to Start a Business

Case Study - Business Basics

Case Study - Equipment

Quiz - Chapter 2

Intro to Getting Your First Paying Clients

You Need to Prove Yourself

The Best Place to Find Your First Clients

What to Charge for Your First Clients

On Set - Partnering with Other Creatives

On Set - Getting Work in a Competitive Environment

Use Your First Shoot Wisely

Case Study - Getting Your First Clients

Quiz - Chapter 3

Introduction to Create Your Photography Business Website

Why You Need a Website and Platform Options

What Needs to Be On Your Website

Design the Perfect Portfolio

Case Study - Looking at Photography Websites

Quiz - Chapter 4

Introduction to Expanding Your Online Presence

Use Instagram to Grow Your Business

Use Facebook to Grow Your Business

Get Listed on Google

Get Listed on Yelp

Get Listed on Review Sites

Using Craigslist to Get Work

Case Study - Expanding Your Online Presence

Quiz - Chapter 5

Introduction to the Photography Business Workflow

Step 1 - Meeting Your Client

Step 2 - Booking Your Client

Step 3 - The Shoot

Step 4 - Editing Your Photos

Step 5 - Delivering Your Photos

Case Study - Business Workflow

On Set - the Shoot

On Set - Backdrop Placement

On Set - Paper Backdrop Rolls

On Set - The Back Light

On Set - Interacting with Clients

Quiz - Chapter 6

Intro to Business Infrastructure and Continued Growth

Productivity Tools to Make Your More Efficient

Get Business Insurance

Accounting Tools & Tips

Business Tax Tips

Scaling Your Prices Up

Use Conventions and Meet Ups to Grow Your Business

Case Study - Business Growth

Quiz - Chapter 7

Intro to the Selling Prints Section

Why Should You Sell Your Prints

Choose a Printer

How to Price Your Prints

Selling Your Prints Online

Selling Your Prints in Person

Wrapping up This Section

Quiz - Chapter 8