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How to Prepare for Wedding Season

Tomorrow marks my first “regular season” wedding of 2016 and I couldn’t be more excited! This will be my SIXTH season as a wedding photographer and my fifth doing it full time. It’s crazy to think about how fast the time has gone by since I started my business. It feels like it was just […]

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Making Your Clients a Priority

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 […]

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Snapchat as a Business Tool

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 […]

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5 Things to Consider Before Going Full Time

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 […]

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Working out & Business

I kind of think it’s hilarious that I’m even writing this post. Me, of all people! I was basically allergic to exercise for my entire life up until a couple years ago. I’m really not athletic at all, and I never lifted so much as a 3 pound dumbbell before a couple years ago. I […]

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3 Tips for Streamlining the Packaging Process

One of the things I have always worked hard on behind the scenes has been taking care of my clients by sending them fun surprises throughout their experience with me. I love getting and sending mail and think having a tangible piece of the “experience” to provide is so important, especially in these super digital […]