Lessons
Day 1
1Class Introduction
03:45 2The 9 Areas of Mastery
30:28 3Focusing and Applying the 9 Areas of Mastery
43:47 4Meet the Mentors: Lori Patrick
21:32 5Meet the Mentors: Nikki Closser
13:16 6Meet the Mentors: Heike Delmore
17:28 7Meet the Mentors: Joanna Ziemlewski
06:52Meet the Mentors: Emily London Miller
10:26 9Meet the Mentors: Tammy Zurak Allen
09:51 10Meet the Mentors: Bethany Tubman Johs
06:51 11Meet the Mentors: Shauna Lofy
07:21 12Meet the Mentors: Tatiana Lumiere
06:55 13Pricing Evolution
12:49 14Pricing Challenge and Valuing Yourself
41:24 15Pricing Case Study: Nikki Closser
16:35 16You are in Business, Act Like It
37:57 17Taking Ownership
17:37Day 2
18A Thank You For Sue
06:58 19The Reveal Wall
43:36 20Sales and the Reveal Wall
34:44 21Selling Yourself
43:44 22Selling Yourself: Networking
10:54 23Selling Yourself: Referrals
09:49 24Mentor Testimonials
36:59 25Words of Advice from the Mentors on Starting Your Business
12:50 26Sales and Selling Yourself
30:35 27What Products to Sell
13:42 28The Cost of Printing at Home
05:58 29Digital Sales
16:26 30Contracts and Payments
15:33 31Confidence and Ownership
07:48 32Shameless Self Promotion
37:10 33Being a Male Glamour Photographer
04:42 34What's in it For Me?
06:26 35Where do You Start?
18:30Lesson Info
Meet the Mentors: Tatiana Lumiere
My last mentor is Tatiana. What I love about Tatiana is Tatiana's entire brand has gone sort of past glamour to some degree and into more creative artwork and creative fine art, so she's very much held to her truth in what she wants, which is one the hardest things to do. Based in Philadelphia, she shoots glamour, fine art, portraiture, and conceptual photography, so out of the mentor, she's, her and Tammy do the conceptual work and the fine art portraiture work more than I do. My fine art work really is always for myself, not for my client. My clients really just want beautiful glamour portraits and to feel really good about themselves, so I find the fine art aspect is not something I've ever solved, and I don't know that I want to, I definitely separate the two as being my love and passion versus my work, so I keep them apart for a reason. Tatiana creative, illustrative portrait, finding, refining unique photographic style served with an empowering self-acceptance. Where have you fou...
nd your biggest hurdle in building your business, and where have you found your greatest joy? Well the joy definitely photography itself, connecting with women, seeing transformation, and noticing that acceptance of beauty on outside, transferring to beauty inside, it's kind of, now you see, ah? Amazing, right, it's amazing. It's amazing with every client. It's amazing to me that you can, that I spent the first 12 years of my career putting makeup on people and taking photographs, back when people would just associate with it as glamour, or they'd be like, that's what you do for a living? And I'm like, yes, and I thought what I did was very shallow, and I thought when I was that what I did was really pointless and shallow, and I didn't understand the power of it. I don't know why when we look good on the outside we feel good on the inside, and then we feel good on the inside when we look good on the outside and when we feel good on the outside, we look good on the inside. It seems to me to be so cyclic that it's not, it's not a cycle, it's actually connected. And what's your hurdle been? Well initial it was studio, I couldn't wrap my head around having studio in my house. It just, I wanted to separate my personal life and business life, but finally I said, I have to do it, and I have studio in my home, it's in basement, it's very dark space, so we had to build something unique to mimic natural light. So I'm shooting using mixed light, you will see in pictures, my studio is very unorthodox, and second one was price and product. For first two shoots, my price were ridiculously low. I was doing only a la carte, 50 per print, so I did it, and I sit down and like, okay, it doesn't make sense. I felt bad. Because it's nice print, but it's not framed, and, you know, I don't know. I wanted to provide a better product. I love canvasses, so, and definitely they need to cost more. And you know I put my heart and soul. That's amazing because I hate canvasses. Like I purposefully took, there are no canvas, if somebody even says the word canvas in my studio, "Do you do that on canvas?" I'm just like, can I get you a glass of water and just walk out. (laughing) I don't even know what to say to that, and so here you are going I love canvas, I wanna sell canvas. I love, canvas is in my packages because I want people to have canvas on their walls. And that's what upped the price? That's not the reason because I spend lot of time with portraits, you know, really, I value them that much. What we do is incredible, and I want people to value that as well, and pricing is a filter. I want people in my studio who value portrait photography as much as I do. So that tells me that when you decide what your product is, then you decide what your price is. Your product has to reflect your price in the sense that it has to be worth the price, but it also has to be a cost of doing business. You have to be able to afford the product and make a profit on the cost of it because that's product and pricing. So that's why I put product and pricing together in the next segment because I feel like once we lock that down, all we have to do then is learn how to get out of our own way selling it. This is Tatiana's studio. That does not look like a basement My props. (laughs) Those are our mentors, these are the photographers that work tirelessly in In Bed with Sue, they work tirelessly in suebryce.com, they work tirelessly on their own business. I am proud of every one of these photographers and what they are building. I watch each of you, I'm gonna watch each of you fly over the next couple of years, and I'm so excited to watch that. I have struggled when teaching watching people come into their own, and let go of the idea that I don't have any control over where they're going. That is decided by you. I am going to show you how to price yourself. I'm gonna show you the evolution of pricing, so you can kinda gauge where you are. I'm going to ask the mentors their advice and how they feel about what I'm saying. I'm going to talk to you about products and pricing, and then tomorrow we're gonna talk about selling it, so I honestly am standing here today because I taught a workshop three years ago, and you guys built a business out of it, and the pride that I feel right now is extraordinary, and you need to really give yourself some props because there are people struggling in a whole other different ways that you can now help and empower, and what an incredible gift to the world you all are, and what an extraordinary amount of courage you have to move forward in your own selves. I feel like that is the greatest gift I could have given anybody, and the fact that you've done it just overwhelms me.
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Ratings and Reviews
Sandra Sal
How glad I am that I have purchased this course! Sue is just wonderful woman, photographer, business person and life coach. This course is so informative, inspiring, educating and just AMAZING!! Simply a must have! Don't even think "should I get it" just buy it and you will be blown away! I loved every second of it and will keep re watching it many times more! Thank you to Sue, wonderful mentours and Creative Live!!
Laura Captain Photography
As a person that is new to portrait photography and to starting a portrait business, this class has been extremely valuable to me and well worth my time. It is also very helpful to hear from the mentors. I have a lot of respect for Sue, her work and her wisdom. She is genuine, has a passion for her work and has a wealth of information to share. I believe this class will actually allow a person to achieve their goals and build a business. I now feel more knowledgeable and more confident about pursuing a photography business. Thanks so much Sue and thanks to CreativeLive for providing wonderful online education.
Janice S.
i just finished watching this workshop. though i'd seen sue's name on the list of creative live workshops, this is the first one i've done. to me, she is effectively partnering life coaching with photography education. which is awesome. between being an ER nurse for almost 20 years, as well as arriving at my late 40s not unscathed, i can relate to much of what sue has said and would like to think that i'm in a better position to tackle the business of business ownership than i would have been 20 or 30 years ago. the other thing i noticed was hints of rhonda byrne. this may or may not actually be the case, but it seems like it. the power of positive thinking essentially. i loved the whole thing. though i'm not really close to implementing the business practices taught here, i wanted to watch the whole thing before moving on to her glamour photography workshop. i wanted to understand what i would be moving toward as i go through my technical education. i believe i will be adding 28 days to my class list too. thank you sue!