12sndsgood
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2010
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- www.square1photography.com
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For those of you who have been doing this for awhile. When you first started out how hard did you push your business and advertisement? Wife works at a credit union, they have a large building with a banquet facility deal where they do weddings, events, etc. She can get the lady that runs it to put my information down for people who come in which seems like a good chance of work. I personally have been slowly working my way into being in business. I had never owned my own business before so it is a lot of learning along with still trying to improve on my photography. I have done 3 weddings now where 1 was a friend, another was helping out a buddy and the third was a small wedding at the couples house that I felt at the time I could handle. I was able to do decent at all 3 but running the show I felt kept me from being as creative as I want to be for a client. If you haven't read my other post a few days ago I was just hired on this week to sub contract as a second photographer this year so I will be doing around 10-30 wedddings depending on schedules etc. So If i'm put on this list for weddings that could be going next year I could be at a point of a few dozen weddings under my belt before I took on a new wedding client.
I am also not working other then photography, so between picking up all these weddings second shooting and (fingers crossed) my business keeps increasing I'm hoping I can squeak by not having to go back to another job. or at worst maybe just a part time job during the week. So I am kind of at war with myself between taking things slow and steady and whether I should be out pounding the pavement more and giving this lady my info to be on there list. I mean if I'm on there list that just means people will look me up, it doesn't mean I have to take a wedding over my head, and as mentioned they would likely be looking at the venue for the following year which by then I'd have experience. Hopefully my ramblings made halfway decent sense.
I am also not working other then photography, so between picking up all these weddings second shooting and (fingers crossed) my business keeps increasing I'm hoping I can squeak by not having to go back to another job. or at worst maybe just a part time job during the week. So I am kind of at war with myself between taking things slow and steady and whether I should be out pounding the pavement more and giving this lady my info to be on there list. I mean if I'm on there list that just means people will look me up, it doesn't mean I have to take a wedding over my head, and as mentioned they would likely be looking at the venue for the following year which by then I'd have experience. Hopefully my ramblings made halfway decent sense.