People are often surprised to hear that the majority of my working hours are not spent behind my camera out at events and shoots. As a wedding photographer, I actually spend most of my work time in my home office running the back end of the business! I really love working from home because it offers […]

Ah, failure. A lot of people don’t like to talk about it, but let’s be real….who hasn’t failed in one way or another? We’re all human, and unfortunately, human beings tend to be prone to making mistakes. It’s just in our nature. You might think that the more established you are as a business owner, […]

Photographers talk about client experience all the time, but what a lot of people don’t realize, is that client experience is so much more than just the ribbon you use in your packaging or the pretty client guide you send out. The biggest key to creating an amazing client experience is how you make people feel!   Recently, I read […]

If you’re a social media savvy small business owner, you probably heard about the big change to Instagram coming soon. Yep, they’re finally changing our feeds from chronological order over to ones organized by that whole mysterious algorithm thing that frustrates Facebook Page admins to no end. You know the one, right? The one that makes […]

I can’t believe I’m writing this, but this year will actually mark FOUR years since I left my full time job. I was lucky enough to be able to leave my desk job a little over a year after shooting my first wedding, and as scary as it was to take that leap, I think […]

Business Book Club has already been so great for me! I’ve read two more business books in the past two months than I did all of last year, despite having all of the best intentions and meaning to read a few. (If you’re keeping score, I read none last year, so it wasn’t too hard […]