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How to Get Kick-Ass Testimonials
How to get Kick-Ass Testimonials! When people browse your website to see your portfolio, there are two things they want to know: How you photograph families and what other people are saying abou...
Three Tips for Location Scouting
Chances are you have a few go-to locations for shooting. They are the locations guaranteed to get you the shots your new clients have seen in your portfolio and on social media. Your go-to locations a...
Encouraging What to Wear with Your Clients
Remember back in the day when the family portrait uniform was light blue denim and a white t-shirt? Remember how awful that was? Somehow the world made a unanimous decision that this 90’s style of mat...
How To Relate To Your Clients
Relating to your clients: If you’ve grown up with a camera in your hand, you’ve probably never put much thought into relating to your clients. Chances are you started taking photos and totally fell...
How To Use Meta Data
You guys, the world of SEO is BIG and hard to understand, not to mention ever changing. In a nutshell: Search Engine Optimization is something so big that even Google employees say they don’t even ...
10 Reasons You Need A Mentor
With the launch of Unbridled Chaos: a 3-month intensive mentorship in family photography, I thought it would be a great time to talk about why it's important to have a mentor. In the photography indus...
Making Sense of Social Media
I have a love/hate relationship with social media. While I appreciate it and love it for the way you can build and connect with a community and how you can reach potential clients, it can be exhaustin...
Tips for Creating Emotive Images
The images that really stand out for the families you photograph are the ones where endearing moments are captured. You can set your family up for what you think will make the most gorgeous photo, but...