Thrive Photo Community by Swift Galleries

What a perspective shift, right?
We don't want everyone to say yes.
The wrong photography client saying yes doesn't do you or the client any good.
A no can be good.

🌟8 Phrases For Photographers To Use For Selling Prints! ✨

Use these phrases throughout your client experience, from the first phone call the final meeting.

1. "This image will look absolutely stunning in your living room."
2. "Imagine walking past this photo every day; it'll bring so much joy to your home!”
3. "I can already picture your session beautifully displayed in your space."
4. "This will be the perfect piece to bring life to that empty wall."
5. "You’ll love seeing your portraits every time you enter the room."
6. "This photo will tell a beautiful story in your home."
7. "You'll be so proud to display this print to all your family and friends."

Save this post for later to look at before your next client meeting!

🎉Whew. This one cuts to why selling prints (and not just digital photos) is so important.

What do you think? Do you currently sell or want to sell printed products to your photography clients? Do you struggle to find clients that want to buy prints?

Let’s discuss in the comments!

Have a burning photography question that you want answered? 🔥

🌿We are here to help! 🌿

As a growing community of professional photographers, we believe in lifting each other and helping in our respective areas of expertise! 🌟

There are two ways to have a question shared on the IG account (follow us if you’re not already!)

You can leave your question in this thread ->
OR you can DM us with your question!

We will then share your question as a post here for anyone to answer! Chris and I will share our answers (if we have good ones :) ) so everyone can learn.

What about that question you’re a tiny bit embarrassed to ask? Then we can post it anonymously for you! But make sure you DM that question instead of post here. :)

Details on asking a question:

- we will share questions in the order they are received
- it may take up to a week to have the question shared, depending on how many we get
- the question should be photography, business, sales, or photography business sales related

Details on answering a question:

- we want to hear from you!!! There is power in a variety of answers and ways of doing things
- even if you are just starting, feel free to answer questions when you have value to add! Sometimes, being new in an industry can give you insight that many of us long haulers may have lost :)
- answer questions with kindness. No one should be made to feel bad about themselves or a question they’ve asked, and we will delete comments that do.

SAVE THIS POST so that you can come back and ask any questions that come up in the future!

📸 Help a photographer out by sharing your thoughts in the comments!

This question was asked by someone who is switching from shoot and burn to in-person sales. How do you handle inquiries when they are just asking for prices? 🏷️

I know there are a lot of strategies when it comes to answering new client inquiries. Share yours below!

🥳 We are beginning a new series where we want YOU to help each other out with your advice and answers to questions!

There are many ways to reach our goals, and learning from each other can help us make the best decisions for our business. ✨

"How will this work?"

When you have a business question, send us a DM, and we will create a post with the question! When I share the post, the comments will be open for anyone to answer your question. 🙌

The post can be anonymous if you want - so don’t be afraid to ask (almost 😉) anything.

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is with us today to answer your questions!

She went from nothing on the books to so busy she needed to lease a studio in less than six months from moving to a new market!

In our interview over on the Swift Galleries Youtube channel, Ambreia shared how she used Instagram, Facebook, SEO, and Ads to become booked. She also shared about running a business that attracts luxury clients and her passion behind what she does!

Let her know in the comments what you are wondering about! I already have my question ready :) Be sure to tag her so she sees it!

Let’s go, comment below!

Want to attract clients who are looking for prints to hang in their home, not just digitals? We share here 5 ways to do just that! Swipe through to discover how to showcase your products, set expectations, and attract the right clients from the start.

If you are finding these posts helpful, let us know in the comments!

If you don’t like sales, you’ll love this process for selling more print products! We call it the AEDD framework:

Attract
Optimize your online presence for print loving clients

Excite
Create anticipation and excitement for their final products

Delight
Have a seamless sales experience that delivers on your promises

Deliver
Exceed expectations with after-sales support.

When you implement each of these steps into your business, your clients will not only be thrilled with the artwork they purchase from you, but they will also feel taken care of and excited to share your work with others!

Tomorrow, we discuss the first phase of our framework, Attract, and detail how you can attract the right clients to your business!

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Alright Photographers- You are going to succeed this year! You know where you are going and I believe in you and can’t wait to cheer you on!

-Whitney

We have our North Star. We have our year-end goal. We have our quarterly checkpoints.

Now, we need to work on our monthly projects.

Define a primary objective that aligns with your quarterly goal for each month within the quarter. If your Q1 goal is to increase revenue, your January project might be ‘Revamp Pricing Strategy.’

Outline Key Actions:

What are the critical steps needed to achieve this monthly objective? List them out. For a revamped pricing strategy, actions might include market research, analyzing past sales data, and creating new pricing packages.

Setting Monthly Projects:

Focus: Each month should concentrate on one major aspect of your quarterly goal.
Clarity: Be as specific as possible with what you want to achieve by the month’s end.
Flexibility: Be prepared to adjust as you go along. Some projects might need more time and effort than anticipated.

Finally, don’t go into the nitty gritty YET. That’s our next step!

And don’t forget to grab a workbook (sign up for newsletter to receive the download for free!)

Do you have your monetary and time goal for the year set?

Simply put, how much money do you want to make this year, and how much do you want to be working?

Let’s take this example.

$100k in revenue by December 31st, working 4 hours a day, 4 days a week.

Now we are going to apply our Goals to Done Framework to make it happen, starting with our quarterly goals.

So, we just need to make $25k each Quarter, right?

Well… yeah, but… how realistic is that?

If we only made $25k all year in 2023, can we really expect to hit that same goal in the first quarter of 2024 (in our slow season, no less)? Nah, let’s build ourselves a bit of an onramp, instead.

With a goal like the one above, I’d say you should try something like:

Quarter 1: $10,000 in revenue working 6 days a week, 5 hours a day
Quarter 2: $20,000 in revenue working 5 days a week, 5 hours a day
Quarter 3: $30,000 in revenue working 4 days a week, 5 hours a day
Quarter 4: $40,000 in revenue working 4 days a week, 4 hours a day

This allows us to build our way up to that goal we’ve set while taking advantage of the compounding effect of all the work we’ll put in throughout the year.

Things are starting to look more achievable this way!

Now you need to go and take your goal- and write out your quarterly checkpoints- do this today!

Because tomorrow, we are going to move to our next step of figuring out each month.

Do you have any questions? Let me know in the comments!