Mind Your Own Business: New Year, New Plans!

Photofocus Podcast

Welcome to Mind Your Own Business, the podcast that helps photographers improve their business and their lives! Today Skip and I have a detailed discussion about what photographers can do to make 2021 (and 2022, actually) better than ever. "Growth only happens outside your comfort zone" We discuss:

• The theme for 2021 is diversity in your specialty
• Diversity in your skillset
• Video and storytelling
• Clean up your website - bio and galleries
• Direct mail personal letter to all your clients
• Community involvement
• Keeping your website images fresh
• Online education
• Make yourself different from your competitors
• Polishing your online presence and looking good on camera for online meeting
• Your blog - More people are online than at any time in history - your blog has the potential to help you grow
• Be helpful
• Alliances/partnerships with other artists
• Use the phone - talk to people
• Special offers and promotions
• Considering new gear you need to grow
• Get outside!

https://soundcloud.com/photofocus/mind-your-own-business-tom-curley-discusses-sowing-the-seeds-for-an-amazing-2021

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