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This Can't Be That Hard — 368 episodes

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368 - Airtable for Artists: Tech that Works With Your Brain with Ashley Rose

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367 - The System Behind Your Tech Stack

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366 - Lower Prices, Higher Profits with Naomi Boyer

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365 - The Low-Ticket Lead-In

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364 - Keeping More of What You Make

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363 - There's More Than One Way to Win the Pricing Game

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362 - The Wicked Witches of Business (Sales & Marketing)

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361 - Eliminate your Marketing Speedbumps

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360 - SEO in the Age of AI with Corey Potter

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359 - Big, Bold Marketing Moves

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358 - March Marketing Madness! Guest host: Dayna Schaaf

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357 - Financial Organization: Peace of Mind is Priceless with Tiffany Bastian

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356 - Internal Organization: Building Your Business Brain with Stacey Rolfe

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355 - External Organization: The Secret to Client Confidence with Erin Wissig

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354 - The Importance of Organizing your Business with Ashley Pendergraft

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353 - Building a Repeat and Referral System That Creates Consistent Income

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352 - Inquiries → Bookings → Happy Clients: Your Sales & Fulfillment System

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351 - Showing Up Without Burning Out: Build a Marketing System

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350 - Reflections, Milestones, and the Path Forward

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349 - Finding Freedom with Better Sales and Pricing

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348 - Smarter, Simpler Marketing for Photographers with Kim Box

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347 - When Technology Meets Creativity with Colie James

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346 - A Steadier Way to Grow Your Photography Business with Kimberly Espinel

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345 - The Art of Building a Business That Lasts with Leah O'Connell

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344 - Advice to Your Past Self (Reset)

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343 - Systems over Motivation

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342- Outside-the-Box AI Ideas for Photographers with Jessica Martin

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341 - Celebrating Your Wins

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340 - Photographer's Horror Stories

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339 - From Finance to Full-Time Pet Photographer with Ina Jalil

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338 - Get Found First on Google with Lydia Fine

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337 - Handling Difficult Clients with Confidence

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336 - Running Successful Brand Sessions with Emily Kim

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335 - Turning Busy Season Clients into Next Year’s Revenue

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334 - Amplify your Voice; Amplify your Business with Laylee Emadi

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333 - What to Do When Your Busy Season Isn’t Busy

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332 - The Gathering Effect with Michelle Franzetti

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331 - The Future of Marketing with Dayna Schaaf

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330 - Networking like a Pro with Angelica Pompy

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329 - 4 Time-Saving Automations for Photographers with Melissa Rich

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328 - 4 Creative Ways to Increase your Value (and your Sales Average)

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327 - Taking a Human-First Approach to AI with Kinsey Soderberg

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326 - Breaking Into Brand Photography with Karen Williams

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325 - Pricing is More than a Number: It's a Strategy

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324 - How to Offer Destination Photography Sessions with Kellie Llewellyn

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323 - Three Signs You’re Doing Better Than You Think

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322 - How to Become the Most Valuable Person in the Room with Miles Witt Boyer

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321 - Marketing Isn't a Lottery Ticket

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320 - Letting Go To Make Space for New Opportunities with Sabrina Gebhardt

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319 - Building your Photography Business as a Side Hustle

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318 - Instagram Strategies for Photographers with Kimberly Espinel

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317 - The 3 Offers Every Photographer Needs

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316 - Why Your Website Isn’t Converting (and How to Fix It) with Caitlin Teixeira

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315 - Setting Boundaries Without Losing Clients

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314 - Grow Your Photography Business with Blogging with Kate Wark

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313 - 3 Pricing Mindsets Required for Success

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312 - Build a Business Clients Rave About with Natasha Sewell

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311 - Your Marketing Credit Score

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310 - Building a Business That Lasts with Stacey Rolfe

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309 - Double your Marketing Mileage

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308 - 6 Steps to Stay on Top of Your Taxes (and Finances!) with Danielle Hayden

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307 - How Photographers Can Use AI to Automate & Elevate Their Marketing with Colie James

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306 - CYA the Legal Way: Protecting Your Photography Business with Braden Drake

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305 - Using a Studio to Grow Your Photography Business with Michelle McAfee

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304 - Woo Your Clients with Emails

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303 - Planning Predictable Leads with Rachel Traxler

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302 - Google Ads for Photographers with Lindsay Herkert

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301 - The Power of Personal Work with Trish Chong

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300 - The Simple Sales System: Real Photographers, Real Results

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299 - 7 Things to Leave Behind in the New Year

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298 - Quit or Commit? Real Talk for Photographers

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297 - The Sustainability Series: The Recipe for Success (Part 4/4)

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296 - The Sustainability Series: Marketing Smarter (Part 3/4)

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295 - The Sustainability Series: Systems and Streamlining (Part 2/4)

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294 - The Sustainability Series: The Importance of Sustainability (Part 1/4)

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293 - The 15-Hour Work Week with Brittnie Sturm

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292 - Breaking Free from Overwhelm with Maddie Peschong

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291 - Ennegram x Photography with Ellie McKinney

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290 - The Power of Community with Kim Box

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289 - The Case for Systems

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288 - Photographer Horror Stories

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287 - Including Fido with Monica Adalsteinsson

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286 - 5 Reasons to Run a Holiday Sale This Year

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285 - Stamina and Slow-Growth Marketing with Leah O'Connell

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284 - New Business Blues

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283 - My Client Privacy Update

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282 - The Unexpected Benefits of Failure with Alison Hatch

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281 - Betting on Yourself with Rebecca Hunnicutt

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280 - A Real-World Cautionary Tale

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279 - Finding (and Selling) Your Artistic Magic with Ash Kaplan

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278 - Boost your Bottom Line

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277 - Diversifying Your Photography Portfolio with Tiffany Crenshaw

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276 - Business Lessons from the Garden

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275 - A Unique Approach to Marketing with Bobbi Barbarich

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274 - Inquires Down? Consider this first...

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273 - Maximizing Mini-Sessions with Paula Brennan

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272 - Pricing Mindset with Kristin Sweeting

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271 - Injecting Personality into Your Website with Inkpot Creative

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270 - Optimize Your Workflow with Imagen AI with Noella Andres

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269 - Overcoming Unconscious Programming with Renee Bowen

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268 - The Transformative Power of the Simple Sales System with Mackenzie Romagni

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267 - Embracing your Hot Mess Success with Jessica Arden

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266 - Broad Work vs. Deep Work

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265 - Simplifying Your Instagram Workflow with Angela Shae

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264 - Finding Your Marketing Superpower with Casey Fatchett

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263 - Photography: A Love Story

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262 - Website Design Secrets with Kelsey Christine

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261 - Getting Started with a Virtual Assistant with Rick Liston

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260 - Intersecting Skills with Amanda Dudzik

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259 - Dealing with Difficult Clients with Rachel Utain-Evans

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258 - How I'm using Pic-Time's new AI feature in my Family Photography Business

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257 - Tech Your Business Needs Right Now with Dayna Schaaf

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256 - Increasing Print Sales with Wall Gallery Mockups with Sharisse Rowan

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255 - Successfully Transitioning out of the Slow Season with Sabrina Gebhardt

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254 - What Stays the Same

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253 - Accommodating Neurodivergence with Stacey Feasel

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252 - Welcome to the Simple Sales System

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251 - The Power of Affiliate Marketing with Dayna Schaaf

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250 - Pivoting Like a Pro: Starting Over with Alison Bell

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249 - The No-Mistake Mindset

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248 - Designing the Life (and Business) You Want with Kristin Sweeting with Kristin Sweeting

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247 - Adding Flash to Your In-Home Portrait Toolkit with Kim Hildebrand

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246 - The Ten-Minute Commitment

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245 - Your Five People

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244 - Budgeting & Forecasting for Increased Profitability with Danielle Hendon

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243 - Expense or Investment?

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242 - Same Day Sales

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241 - Unlock your Marketing Magic

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240: The Six Levels of Freelancing Life with Brian Hood

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239: How to Bring on Associate Photographers with Jill C Smith

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238: Keeping Your Photos Fresh

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237: My Son's Senior Portraits

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236: Neurodivergence and Inclusivity in Photography with Rose McAvoy

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235: 4 Ways to Use Loom In Your Photography Business

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234: Leveraging Podcasts to Grow Your Photography Business with Christina Lenkowski

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233: Rewriting the Rules of Your Photography Business

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232: Photographers using AI for SEO with Sarah Landa

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231: Shameless Selling

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230: Communication Strategies for Difficult Clients with Melody MacDonald

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229 - Charitable Marketing with Nicole Begley

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228 - Stories that Sell with Jude Charles

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227: Staying the Course with Briana Tresko

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226: Mastering the High-Season Madness with Jaye McLaughlin

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225: Auditing Your Website to Increase Bookings

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224: Finding Success as a Part-Time Photographer with Lydia Fine

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223: Is a Mastermind Right for You? with Elena S. Blair

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222: You Aren't Charging Enough with Bonnie Sindelar

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221: A Client's Perspective

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220: Lessons from 1,000 Students

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219: Striving for Stability

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218: Business Tip Road Trip

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217: Make it Easy for Them

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216: PR Made Easy with Gloria Chou

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215: The Psychology of Time

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214: Book More Clients with Brooke Jefferson

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213: The Experiment Mindset

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212: Photographer's Nightmare Scenarios (and how they help us grow)

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211: Maximize Your Mini-Sessions with Alison Amick Brett

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210: The 3 Systems Mistakes Photographers Make

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209: The 3 Systems Every Photography Business Needs

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208: A Better Way to Do Model Calls with Daisy Zimmer

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207: Diversifying Your Life with Nikki Closser

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206: My New Favorite Productivity Tip

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205: Setting Yourself Up for Immediate Success with Elin Azganun

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204 - The Do's and Don'ts of Outsourcing & Automating

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203: The Art of Fine Art School Portraits with Lindsey Turner

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202: Cultivating Confidence with Sabrina Gebhardt

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201: Seeing The Light with Caro Cuinet-Wellings

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200: Ask Annemie Anything

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199: Love Is (Almost) All You Need

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198: SEO for Photographers with Meredith's Husband

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197: A Different Approach to Business Decisions with Natalie Jennings

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196: When Things Go Wrong

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195: Managing Meteoric Growth with Hannah Smith

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194: Welcome to the Consistency Club!

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Ep 193: The Journey Map

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Ep 192: The Photographer's Work Wheel

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Ep 191: Launching a Photo Membership in a Niche Market with Monica Adalsteinsson

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Ep 190: Tales from Facebook Jail with Megan Lacy

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Ep 189: Keeping Up with Social Media Trends with Cassidy Lynne

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Ep 188: Blogging to Increase Your SEO with Melissa Arlena

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Ep 187: Lessons from Lasso

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Ep 186: How to Rebrand Yourself with Rachel Greiman of Green Chair Stories

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Ep 185: Reframing Burnout with Krista Marie Lynch

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Ep 184: Bookkeeping for Photographers with Tanya Hirschy

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Ep 183: 5 Reasons to Run a Holiday Sale This Year

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Ep 182: The Myth of the "Overnight Success" with Carmen Bridgewater

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Ep 181: How who we are shapes what we do, with (my brother) Evan Berding

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Ep 180: VIP Days for Photographers with Jordan Gill

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Ep 179: Keep Your Eyes Open

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EP 178: Avoiding Data Disasters with Ryan Hamic

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Ep 177: Booking Clients WITHOUT a Phone Call (Student Success Stories)

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Ep 176: Unusual Marketing Strategies for Photographers with Raymond Hatfield

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Ep 175: The Path to Profitability as a New Photographer

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Ep 174: Seven Strategies to Reduce Business Stress with Heather Lahtinen

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Ep 173: Marketing in Hard Times

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Ep 172: Check Your Tech with Colie James

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Ep 171: Preparing for the Economic Storm Ahead

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Ep 170: Purposefully Part-Time with Erin Brown

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EP 169: An Idea for Capturing Ideas

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EP 168: Preventing Problems with TheLawTog® Rachel Brenke

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EP 167: Breaking the Rules

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EP 166: The Business of Filmmaking with Courtney Holmes

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EP 165: When Should You Raise Your Prices?

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EP 164: Clone Your Best Clients with Heidi Thompson

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EP 163: The Importance of Taking a Break

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EP 162: The Four Types of Buyers with Courtney Fanning

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EP 161: What Waiting Costs

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EP 160: Being a Catalyst for Creativity with Paige Ray

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EP 159: If You Hate Selling, You're Doing it Wrong

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EP 158: Investing In Yourself with Cassidy Parker Smith

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EP 157: Money Doesn't Make the Model

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EP 156: Life After Photography with (my fiance!) Riley MacLean

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EP 155: Riding the Financial Waves with MicKallyn Elis

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EP 154: Navigating Niching Down with Tavia Redburn

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EP 153: Connecting with Clients

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EP 152: Better Business Boundaries With Sabrina Gebhardt

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EP 151: 3 Ways to Increase your Income WITHOUT Raising your Prices

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EP 150: Getting the Byline with Carolyn Fong

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EP 149: Defending your Art with Cornell Watson

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EP 148: Pitching Yourself with PR Expert Gloria Chou

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EP 147: What's Holding You Back in your Business?

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EP 146: Bonus! Student Stories

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EP 145: Work-Life Balance is a Work in Progress

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EP 144: Three Ways To Make A Living as a Photographer

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EP 143: Possum Clients with Aisling O'Brien

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EP 142: Waking Up Your Website with Carolina Guzik

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EP 141: Setting your Salary as a Solopreneur

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EP 140: Best Of The Podcast In 2021, Part 2

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EP 139: Best Of The Podcast In 2021, Part 1

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EP 138: Setting Goals For The New Year

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EP 137: Six Business Metrics I Look At Every Year

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EP 136: Your Clients Don't Know What They Want

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EP 135: Content Marketing Like a Boss with Julie Christie

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EP 134: Showing Gratitude To Yourself

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EP 133: The Value of What We Do with Kami Vanous

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EP 132: The Newborn Retreat with Lisa DiGeso

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EP 131: Reinventing your Business with Melissa Arlena

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EP 130: Tales from the In-Person-Sales Crypt

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EP 129: Business Brainstorming with Colie James

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EP 128: Five Client Gift Ideas (That Won't Break the Bank!)

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EP 127: Intentional Transitions with Mary Otanez

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EP 126: A's to Five Very Common Photography Q's

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EP 125: High Prices in a Low Priced Market with Elke Van den Ende

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EP 124: Me and Money - A Brief History

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EP 123: Mirrorless Mayhem Part 2 - the Final Decision

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EP 122: 10 Reasons Why People Buy

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EP 121: The Facebook Complain Train

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EP 120: Creating, Funding, and Publishing a Photography Book with Amanda Thorson

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EP 119: A New Way to Think About Client Communication

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EP 118: Email Marketing 101 with Sobrina Pies Crawford

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EP 117: Mirrorless Mayhem Part 1: An interview with B&H Photo

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Ep: 116 Five Ways to Repurpose the Content in your Client Prep Guide

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EP 115: The Power of a Value Ladder

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EP 114: Chain Reaction Marketing with Ben Hartley

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EP 113: Marketing 201 - an Advanced Strategy

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EP 112: Revenue on Repeat - stories from my students

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EP 111: Building a Successful Video Strategy on IG with Natasha Samuel

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EP 110: Colonoscopies and Customer Service

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EP 109: A Top-Notch Sales and Marketing Team Your Photography Business Can Actually Afford

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EP 108: Mini-Session Success with Rebecca Rice

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EP 107: Our Favorite Business Tools

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EP 106: Helping Photographers and Clients Connect with Lachlan Shum

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EP 105: How Automations Help You AND Your Clients

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EP 104: Building a Community with LaShawn Wiltz

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EP 103: [MM] Switching Target Audiences with Susannah Storch

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EP 102: Raising Your Prices as Painlessly as Possible

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EP 101: [MM] Dialing In Your Messaging with Marc DeCarli

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EP 100: Surprise!

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EP 099: [MM] Donkey or Workhorse? with Candra Schank

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EP 098: Don't get Dragged Down by Price Anchors

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EP 097: [MM] How to Know What You're Doing Wrong (or right) with Klayne Rolader

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EP 096: Brand Photography With Vicki Knights And Eddie Judd

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EP 095: [MM] So You Built It And They Didn't Come (Right Away)... What Next? With Evelynne Gomes-Greenberg

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EP 094: News and Announcements and Freebies, oh my!

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EP 093: [MM] Managing a Business and a Chronic Illness with Donna Craddock

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EP 092: Studio Manager Magic with Amy Sanusi

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EP 091: [MM] Getting Clients To Make The Leap with Cara Burk

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EP 090: Managing Your Money Mindset

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EP 089: [MM] Intentional Simplification with Kate Thompson

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EP 088: SEO Strategies for Photographers with Sarah Landa

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EP 087: [MM] Making a Transition Plan with Ashley Gliss

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EP 086: The Simple Sales Addition

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EP 085: [MM] Pricing & Marketing in a New Area with Tara Fjetland

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EP 084: An Insider's Insight

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EP 083: [MM] Diversifying your income and your brand with Emily Hines

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EP 082: A Meta-Call to Action

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EP 081: [MM] Transitioning from Part-Time to Full-Time with Tiernae Salley

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EP 080: Being the CEO of your Business with Sabrina Gebhardt

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EP 079: [MM] New Town, New Baby, New Marketing Plan with Megan Lacy

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EP 078: Creating a Video for your About me Page

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EP 077: [MM] Mind your Marketing Mentality with Nikki Shefchik

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EP 076: New year, new goals, & a New Format for The Family Narrative with Kate Thompson & Posy Quarterman

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EP 075: [MM] Tweaking the System with Melissa Dorman

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EP 074: Marking a Year With Lessons & Successes

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EP 073: [MM] Marketing From Scratch with Anouk Briere-Godbout

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EP 072: Real World Branding Strategies with Erica Benson

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EP 071: Looking Back, Looking Forward

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EP 070: Holiday Special feat: We Are Photographers

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EP 069: Holiday Special - Rewind Edition

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EP 068: Holiday Special feat: Shoot Edit Chat Repeat

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EP 067: Holiday Special - Rewind Edition

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EP 066: Holiday Special feat: The Tog Republic

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EP 065: [MM] Getting a Different Perspective with Kristyn Miller

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EP 064: Kahran & Reg Bethencourt and Their GLORY-ous New Book

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EP 063: [MM] Keeping long-term clients happy when your business changes with Jaye McLaughlin

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EP 062: Are You Overcomplicating Things?

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EP 061: [MM] An Unschooled Post-Mortem with Dreama Spence

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EP 060: Creativity in the face of Covid

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EP 059: [MM] Adding a High-end Line to your Mid-Range Business Model with Martin Knowlesess model to your existing brand without rocking the boat.

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EP 058: The Win-Win-Win $1000 Year-End Challenge

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EP 057: [MM] Booking Boundaries with Amy Sanusi

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EP 056: The What/When/Why of 1:1 Coaching with Maz Pedersen

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EP 055: [MM] How to know when it's time to bump your prices with Angie Wynne

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EP 054 - Putting a Price on Privacy

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EP 053: [MM] Getting Good Referrals When You're New to Business with Tristen Aque

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EP 052: The Bookkeeping Big Picture with Amanda Evans

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EP 051: [MM] Getting to the Next Level with Briana Averwater

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EP 050: This One's Dedicated to You (yes, YOU)

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EP 049: [MM] Switching from All-Inclusive to the Simple Sales System with Lyndsay McNiff

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EP 048: The Decision Maze

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EP 047: [MM] How to Run Profitable, On-Brand Mini Sessions with Dana Walsh

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EP 046: How to Spend Your Education Dollars Wisely with Kate Thompson & Posy Quarterman

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EP 045: [MM] How to introduce a big price increase to your existing clients w/Melissa Jeffcoat

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EP 044: Little Lessons from Big Business

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EP 043: [MM] Questions about Questionnaires with Jess Koehler

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EP 042: Running a Successful Donkey Business with Amanda Thorson

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EP 041: [MM] Taking the Marketing Long View with Paige Daniels

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EP 040: The 5P Alignment Approach

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EP 039: [MM] Time Management During Quarantine with Carolyn Soling

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EP 038: The Donkey, the Workhorse, and the Unicorn

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EP 037: [MM] Niching Down with Ana Vallejo

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EP 036: Landing and Planning a Solo Art Exhibit with Cornell Watson

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EP 035: [MM] Starting Over in a New Location with Andrea de Anda

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EP 034: 10 Lessons I've Learned in 10 Years in Business

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EP 033: [MM] Managing Problem Clients with Rachel Castro

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EP 032: All Things CRM, Part 2, A Roundtable Discussion

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EP 031: [MM] Understanding Print Credit and Sales with Kayla Kohn

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EP 030: All Things CRM, Part 1 with Colie James

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EP 029: [MM] Connecting with New Clients after a Price Jump with Kendra Greenberg

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EP 028: Good Customer Service vs. Bad - a How To

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EP 027: Fixed vs. Growth Mindset with Caro Cuinet Wellings

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EP 026: Five Rules for a Profitable Product Portfolio

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EP 025: How an hour a month can bring you a steady stream of leads with Carolina Guzik

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EP 024: A Cheap, Easy, and Effective Marketing Must

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EP 023: The Four Quadrants

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EP 022: What Do I Say Now? Authentic Messaging with Nick North

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EP 021: Fundraising With Your Photography

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EP 020: Enantiodromia and the Both, And with Yan Palmer

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EP 019: The One Pricing Rule You Can't Break

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EP 018: Setting Boundaries with Leslie Kershaw

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EP 017: How I Unintentionally Pandemic-Proofed My Photography Business

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EP 016: The Band-Aid and the Cure

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EP 015: What Do I Do Next?

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Ep 014 - You Know What Assuming Does, Right?

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EP 013: Stop Waiting For Life to Get Back to Normal

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EP 012: A Conversation with Kate Thompson & Posy Quarterman

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EP 011 - What if Your Business Came Out Even Stronger?

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EP 010: Interview with Elena S. Blair

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EP 009: Managing Photo Clients During the Coronavirus [bonus]

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EP 008: This Has to Change

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EP 007: 3 Tools Every Photographer’s Business Can Benefit From

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EP 006: Check Your Map

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EP 005: Marketing Done Right

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EP 003: The Importance of Trust

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EP 004: "Charge your worth" is terrible advice

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EP 002: Success without Scale

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EP 001: Welcome to the Podcast