Featured Resources

Photography Sales

PayKit.io

PayKit.io makes it simple to create set-it-and-forget-it payment plans for your clients. Have your first payment up-and-running in just 5 minutes.

Photography Sales

21 Days to Your First In-Person Sale

Go from clueless to confident with In-Person Sales in just 3 short weeks. You'll have everything set up and running by the end of this 21 day course.

Photography Sales

Swift Galleries

Swift Galleries makes it simple to sell your work as wall art, in-person or online, by showing your clients their photos on their walls, at exactly the right size.

Other Resources

Business Management

Free Contracts and Legal Forms for Landscape Photographers

We’ve been working with an attorney to draft templates for several different contracts and forms to try and make your life a bit easier. We’re excited to announce that we currently have 4 different templates available for download! You can download these contracts and forms, fill in your own details, and start using them right away. There are no strings attached. We hope the forms will prove to be useful in your own work.

Photography Sales

PayKit.io

PayKit.io makes it simple to create set-it-and-forget-it payment plans for your clients. Have your first payment up-and-running in just 5 minutes.

Photography Sales

21 Days to Your First In-Person Sale

Go from clueless to confident with In-Person Sales in just 3 short weeks. You'll have everything set up and running by the end of this 21 day course.

Your Online Presence

Join us now for the SEO Challenge!

The Snap Society’s SEO challenge is a step-by-step, day-by-day challenge to break down SEO into a simple easy to accomplish task. This course is made up of 5 lessons and a PDF workbook designed to help make SEO as simple and effective as it can be.

Customer Service

Why Customer Service is More Important Than Great Photography in Business

To hear Melissa Ghionis, wife of one of the worlds best wedding photographers, say “customer service is more important than great photography” was a real surprise to me. In this interview, Melissa dissects what both Jerry and she do in regard to their clients and customer service. ‍

Getting Clients

Facebook Ads and The Missing Link To Successful Sales

Bernie Griffiths of berniegriffiths.com is responsible for the episode of PhotoBizX that has produced more leads, sales and discussions than any other – The Facebook Ad Challenge episode. ‍

Getting Clients

A Challenge for You to Book More Portrait Photography Sessions

Something different for this weeks episode with previous guest and photography business coach Bernie Griffiths. It’s a step by step instruction on how to book more portrait photography sessions through a targeted Facebook ad with a challenge for you to get this done. Are you up for it? ‍

Customer Service

20 Ways Photographers Can Offer Exceptional Customer Service

Let’s face it: it’s HARD to stand out in a photography market. You have a lot to think about: gear, Photoshop actions, pricing, profit, marketing, blogging, bookkeeping, social media, websites and design. Need I go on? ‍

Customer Service

Customer Service Tips For Photographers From Julia Kelleher

It happens to everyone, even pros like Julia Kelleher: An unhappy client. No one is perfect, and customer service issues are bound to spring up from time to time. No matter what’s happened in the past, here are 3 crucial tips to improve customer service and drastically improve your business. ‍

Photography Sales

Swift Galleries

Swift Galleries makes it simple to sell your work as wall art, in-person or online, by showing your clients their photos on their walls, at exactly the right size.

Photographer’s Pricing Guide Series: Overview of How to Price Photography

It’s confession time: I think that the majority of pricing guides for photographers are lame. That’s not to say that they don’t work, or that they aren’t worth the money that people sell them for. ‍

How To Create Photography Packages That Sell

As I have been helping photographers with their pricing and packaging, I’ve seen a number of common mistakes over and over again that are easy to avoid and will help boost your sales. ‍

The Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Pro Photography Website

One of the first things you need to do when starting your business is to set up a photography website that shows off your work and gives your prospective clients the information they need to hire you.Your website is your virtual storefront. ‍

How Much Does It Cost To Start a Photography Business?

They get a camera, start a Facebook page, and start shooting their friends and family for little or nothing in the hopes that they can “test the waters” before actually getting legal. ‍

How to Get Legal With Your Photography Business

I’m a little bit strange. I love spreadsheets, paying bills, tracking expenses and making sure my forms are all properly filed with the IRS. If you’re like the 95% of the rest of the world, that stuff drives you up the wall or it scares you so bad that you try to avoid it at all costs. ‍

10 Free Photography Marketing Ideas That Work Like Crazy

You’ve started your business, now how do you find clients to hire you? Traditional advertising, such as an ad in a magazine or newspaper, is mostly worthless. Don’t waste your money. I’ve tried it. They don’t work. ‍

5 Consultation Secrets Every Photographer Should Know

Consultations are the main thing people use to decide what photographer to hire, so it’s absolutely vital to do things right! Trust me. I had no idea what I was doing when I was just starting out and made lots of mistakes. ‍

How to Move Your Photography Business to a New Location

Moving to a new location is hard enough, but when it comes to moving your photography business, it is especially challenging. ‍

In-Person Sales 101: Everything You Need To Know To Make More Money

There are two main ways to make more money with your photography business. You can either get more clients, or you can increase your average sale. ‍

The Secrets to Booking the $10k Wedding Webinar

The idea of shooting a $10k wedding may have seemed unattainable – until now. In order to shoot the high end bride, you need to first establish yourself as a luxury brand. Join Scott Robert Lim as he reveals insider secrets on how to shoot $10k weddings.

20 Tasks You Can Take Off Your List Today

As a photographer and business owner, you can’t (and shouldn’t) do everything yourself. When you have too much on your plate, you are distracted from the goals you set for your business. Plus, you enjoy what you do a little less and resent the workload a little more. In our online training, Melissa Jill will share 20 things you need to outsource to maintain focus on your business and do more of what you love.

5 Branding Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making

When a couple looks for a wedding photographer, they have hundreds of options to choose from, so how do you stand out from the others? If you don't have a strong brand message that matches you and your business, you risk missing out on booking ideal clients. In our webinar, Ben Hartley will identify 5 branding mistakes you don’t know you’re making, as well as quick ways to fix them.

Skyrocket Bookings with just your Images Webinar

Have you ever wondered how to book the weddings you want... with the images that you have? In our Skyrocket Bookings with just your Images Webinar, photography duo Amy and Jordan Demos share how you can use images you've already taken to book more clients and increase your profit!

Marketing with Love Webinar

Justin and Mary Marantz will share with you simple action items to help you book more weddings. These small yet impactful marketing tasks can be implemented immediately, allowing you to experience the results right away.

Doubling your Income with a Signature Style

Whether your business is just starting or you’ve been in the industry for years, do you have a plan in place to help you reach the next level? As well as staying relevant, attracting ideal clients, and increasing bookings, how can you find quick ways to increase your income and become more of a specialist? In our webinar, Scott Robert Lim will share how to develop a unique voice and create a Signature Style for your brand, helping you double your income.

Sell Your Work, Not Your Soul: Simplifying In-Person Sales

Regardless of how many years you have been in business, selling products to your clients is a challenge. So how do you learn how to sell items to your clients, increase profit, and not sound over the top when it comes to sales? Chris Scott will share how to create an in-person sales routine that will help you sell more work and outperform your competition, without ever feeling like a salesperson.

Maximizing Facebook as a Wedding Photographer Webinar

In your wedding photography business, social media is one of the top tools for you to use to reach ideal clients. Even though you use Facebook to share your images with current and future clients, are you maximizing the additional features of this social media platform?

Profitable Album Design and Sales Webinar

The wedding album is arguably the most timeless and treasured product a wedding photographer can offer. In today's digital era, it is essential for professional photographers to know how to create album designs that are efficient and generate profit for their studio, all the while creating demand with their couples. From pre-designing, to client communication, to sales, Melissa Jill will share her knowledge on all-things-albums.

Pinterest for the Wedding Pro

From Facebook and Twitter, to Instagram and Pinterest, a solid social media strategy is foundational to a successful wedding photography business. ‍

The Secrets of Blogging for the Savvy Photographer

During this webinar, Jeff and Erin Youngren will unlock the secrets of successful blogging to attract more clients and share the tools they use in their systematized blogging workflow that helps them blog regularly and effectively. ‍

ShootDotEdit's SEO Basics for the Wedding Photographer

Find yourself lost in the world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and the process of getting your website to show up in Google? ‍

Instagram Essentials for Wedding Photographers

Instagram is fast emerging as a premier social media tool. For professional wedding photographers, learning how to harness the power of Instagram to help share images, connect with clients and vendors, and grow their business is essential.

10 Legal Traps you Might be Falling into

Does this sound familiar? You're on social media or scrolling through the web and you suddenly come across one of your images improperly credited? Or even worse - not credited at all? If you find your images incorrectly credited on someone else’s platforms, do you know what you should do next? In our webinar, Rachel Brenke, TheLawTog®, will share a step-by-step process on how to protect your images and measures to take if your copyright is violated.

Turning Vendors into Referral Engines Webinar

Imagine if you had a marketing team working for your photography business, 10, 20 or 100 people who knew the wedding industry inside-and-out, who were constantly talking to your ideal couples and loved promoting your business. It's easy to forget that your vendor relationships can be just that for your business.

Discovering Your Ideal Client

For every photographer, there is a certain and specific client that is perfectly suited for them. When you work with your ideal clients on a consistent basis, your personal and professional fulfillment will increase, along with your bottom line. But, how do you determine who your ideal client is, and then how do you attract them?

Growing Your Business Through Blogging

As a wedding photographer, it is important to attract your ideal client, each and every time. But how do you create a business where you attract the right person all of the time? Done right, blogging can play the key role in how you attract and book the right clients. But you must blog with the proper strategy! Photographer and blogger Katelyn James offers strategies for effective blogging to help you reach your target market.

The Comprehensive Guide to Social Media for Wedding Photographers

As a wedding photographer, is social media a constant struggle for you? From deciding what to share, managing a consistent schedule, and posting on multiple platforms, it can become a time-consuming part of your workflow. And, if you are only on some of the platforms, you may miss out on additional exposure for your business. In our guide, we share how you can manage your time, expand your reach, and book more clients for your business through social media.

Instagram for the Wedding Photographer

Our guide features examples and tips from photographers Jose Villa, Amy and Jordan Demos, Melissa Jill, and more! We share strategies used by the top photographers to gain followers, researched data on how many Hashtags to use, software and Programs to streamline your posting and tracking and a BONUS: 8 Quick Tips to gain more Followers.

How to Grow Your Wedding Photography Business

Between setting up strong systems and workflows, posting to social media, increasing SEO, and networking, growing your business is no easy task. Our Guide How to Grow Your Wedding Photography Business has over 50 pages of tips, tricks, and advice, pulled from over 20 successful professional photographers

The 4 Most Important Pages of Your Website

For most professional wedding photographers, their website is the primary representation of their brand to the world. It is vital that you spend time and energy ensuring that your website is maximizing your businesses potential! But in the ever-changing and rapidly evolving landscape of the Internet, where do you focus your efforts? In our latest guide, we share with you the Top 4 Most Important Pages of your Website.

The Keys to Pricing for Wedding Photographers

As a photographer, setting prices for your business can be a challenging part of your responsibilities. If your products and services are not presented in a way that appeals to your ideal clients, or your prices are too complicated, they may be less likely to work with you or add extra services to their booking. Creating set Packages or A La Carteoptions for your pricing can create a simpler decision-making process for your clients. But, do you know which model is the best for your business? Our free guide will share a few basics guiding principles to help you make a decision.

Rank #1 on Google: SEO Basics for the Wedding Photographer

Ponder this - Your website is 1 in 60 trillion that the Internet houses. So without a strategic game plan, how do you achieve a top spot on Google? The answer - SEO. By mastering the ins and outs of SEO, you can unlock the secrets to obtaining that coveted #1 spot on Google.

Facebook for the Wedding Photographer

How do you create a strategy that is effective in putting Facebook to work for your business? Our Facebook Guide for Wedding Photographers features expert advice from some of the top photographers in the industry.

The Ultimate Guide to Wedding Photography Contracts

Most wedding photographers go into the business because, well, they love photography — not because they wanted to spend their time fine-tuning legal jargon. But working without a wedding photography contract not only puts the photographer at risk, but leaves a lot of the big details of the day up to chance.

7 Branding Mistakes Wedding Photographers Make (and How to Fix Them)

Have you ever missed out on booking a client because your brand message was unclear? If you are making branding mistakes in your business, you risk missing out on working with clients who are perfect for you.

Irresistible You

Corner a photographer (or any creative), ask a few friendly questions, and they’ll light up as they tell you about their work and inspiration. That is, if you ask…in person. But too often, you’ll talk with someone, then go to their website, and think – wait. ‍

Irresistible Words

You’re sitting at your desk, hands hovering over the keys. An itchy, familiar anxiety gnaws at your fingertips: I don’t know what to say. Where do I start? This is taking way too long... ‍

Irresistible Website

Hundreds of photographers have told me their website fails to turn browsers into clients. Tell me if any of these sound familiar: I spent hours wrestling with putting the website up, but not one person has called because of it...

The Two-Part Psychological Trap That Snares Your Marketing

Like most traps, it’s got two halves. The first half: That the way clients hear something described impacts their desire to have it. Psychologists call this a “framing effect.” For example: People prefer meat labeled “75% lean” over meat labeled “25% fat.... ‍

The Guide to Marketing for Wedding Photographers

Hear from the industry's best as they share strategies to using your content to market your business, including: The 5 Step System to Marketing to Brides and Grooms, Optimizing and Refining who your Ideal Client is, 5 Quick Check-ins to ensure you are Marketing correctly, and more. ‍

IPS Mastermind Group

The home for In-Person Sales on Facebook. This active group has more than 40,000 members with the sole purpose of discussing the ins-and-outs of In-Person Sales.

Wall Art Product Reviews

Video and text reviews of wall art products from the top professional print labs around the world, from the team behind Swift Galleries.

7 Days to Your First Wall Art Sale

You're ready to start selling prints instead of files, but you have no idea where to start, right? Well, you've come to the right place!

Over just 7 short days, this challenge will take you from completely clueless to your first wall art sale! And it won't cost you a single penny.