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Why Should You Sell Your Prints

Lesson 68 from: Launch a Successful Photography Business

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

Why Should You Sell Your Prints

Lesson 68 from: Launch a Successful Photography Business

Philip Ebiner, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

68. Why Should You Sell Your Prints

Next Lesson: Choose a Printer

Lessons

Class Trailer

Chapter 1: Introduction to Starting a Photography Business

1

Welcome

02:26
2

Why Do You Want to Start a Photography Business

04:40
3

What Kind of Photography Business Do You Want to Start

05:38
4

Important Personal Note from Instructor Will

02:25
5

Case Study Starting a Photography Business

07:43
6

Quiz - Chapter 1

Chapter 2: Basics of Starting a Photography Business

7

Introduction to Basics of Starting a Photography Business

00:52
8

Choose Your Business Name

05:29
9

Choose Your Business Structure

06:12
10

Register Your Business Name

01:47
11

Get Your Federal Tax ID

01:39
12

Get Your Business License

01:16
13

Get Your Business Bank Account

02:16
14

Register Your Online Accounts

02:17
15

Branding Your Business

02:18
16

Set Your Prices

12:56
17

The Photography Gear You Need to Start a Business

03:42
18

Case Study - Business Basics

24:42
19

Case Study - Equipment

10:05
20

Quiz - Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Get Your First Paying Clients

21

Intro to Getting Your First Paying Clients

00:44
22

You Need to Prove Yourself

01:30
23

The Best Place to Find Your First Clients

02:36
24

What to Charge for Your First Clients

02:44
25

On Set - Partnering with Other Creatives

01:57
26

On Set - Getting Work in a Competitive Environment

02:38
27

Use Your First Shoot Wisely

01:20
28

Case Study - Getting Your First Clients

07:55
29

Quiz - Chapter 3

Chapter 4: Create Your Photography Business Website

30

Introduction to Create Your Photography Business Website

01:05
31

Why You Need a Website and Platform Options

04:30
32

What Needs to Be On Your Website

07:32
33

Design the Perfect Portfolio

03:17
34

Case Study - Looking at Photography Websites

12:56
35

Quiz - Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Expanding Your Online Presence

36

Introduction to Expanding Your Online Presence

00:55
37

Use Instagram to Grow Your Business

02:29
38

Use Facebook to Grow Your Business

01:21
39

Get Listed on Google

03:53
40

Get Listed on Yelp

03:20
41

Get Listed on Review Sites

04:06
42

Using Craigslist to Get Work

03:01
43

Case Study - Expanding Your Online Presence

13:16
44

Quiz - Chapter 5

Chapter 6: The Photography Business Workflow

45

Introduction to the Photography Business Workflow

00:54
46

Step 1 - Meeting Your Client

03:32
47

Step 2 - Booking Your Client

05:53
48

Step 3 - The Shoot

02:28
49

Step 4 - Editing Your Photos

06:34
50

Step 5 - Delivering Your Photos

01:05
51

Case Study - Business Workflow

15:54
52

On Set - the Shoot

02:50
53

On Set - Backdrop Placement

01:13
54

On Set - Paper Backdrop Rolls

02:01
55

On Set - The Back Light

00:46
56

On Set - Interacting with Clients

04:58
57

Quiz - Chapter 6

Chapter 7:Scaling Your Business with Better Infrastructure

58

Intro to Business Infrastructure and Continued Growth

00:46
59

Productivity Tools to Make Your More Efficient

06:21
60

Get Business Insurance

03:55
61

Accounting Tools & Tips

04:20
62

Business Tax Tips

03:38
63

Scaling Your Prices Up

02:56
64

Use Conventions and Meet Ups to Grow Your Business

04:01
65

Case Study - Business Growth

11:04
66

Quiz - Chapter 7

Chapter 8: Selling Your Prints

67

Intro to the Selling Prints Section

00:56
68

Why Should You Sell Your Prints

02:18
69

Choose a Printer

02:59
70

How to Price Your Prints

05:33
71

Selling Your Prints Online

08:06
72

Selling Your Prints in Person

02:38
73

Wrapping up This Section

01:26
74

Quiz - Chapter 8

Chapter 9: Conclusion

75

Tips for Personal and Creative Well Being

04:38
76

Conclusion

01:45

Final Quiz

77

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Why Should You Sell Your Prints

So selling prints like why? What does this mean? This means that we are taking our photos, we are printing them, we're potentially framing them and we are selling them. Now, this is kind of a smaller section in our class because this is actually very difficult to be very successful at. You can sell a print here and there and make a little bit of money, but this won't necessarily be a huge business unless you've coined some sort of really, really interesting and fantastic market where you're selling them. This is incredibly difficult, but it can be done, it can definitely be done. And I've seen people have a lot of success at it or do it in combination with the other photography business. The problem with selling prints is it's a whole different structure than actually shooting if it's just prints and it's just fine art. You have to kind of find a niche in a market for it. I'm gonna take the example in Los Angeles. There's a lot of photographers out here that specialize in different sty...

le of photography. It's very artistic. There's a photographer that only takes pictures of lifeguard houses and in that market along the beach community where people have houses near the beach, They want to put photos up of that. So he's kind of sticks to that area and is able to sell that another good market that I've seen is people taking pictures of dogs or of specialty items like they'll go around doing a single sort of photo of skylines and they'll sell those skylines in that specific city or you know, they'll go around doing specific street art photography and they'll go sell them near people who are interested in buying more artistic street art. You really have to kind of find your market for it and then stick to that sort of genre of photography. Um It's gonna be really hard if you're all over the place just trying to sell random prints. You want to try and find a market that would really work for what you're shooting and who is going to actually buy a physical print and hang it up. I've seen photographers get to the point where they're selling prints for thousands of dollars. I'm not talking like a couple of $000. I'm talking like tens of thousands of dollars. There are people out there who will create whole galleries of all their art and be able to sell them. But this is a very long road and it is a very specific way of doing a business and shooting. So let's talk about the basics of that to get started even though it may take you a while to get to the point of making millions of dollars

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