June 17, 2023
at 9:00am -
5:00pm
Why would an established, award winning, professional studio owner give up upscale seniors, weddings and family portraits to shoot daycares? Three words…WAY MORE MONEY.
Mark admits he never thought it would work when his accountant suggested he go full time with his children’s portraits. He says he was as wrong as wrong gets.
Boutique, themed, volume photography is a little known, but highly profitable form of photography that has very little competition and an extremely high profit margin. Think themed studio sessions, done quickly at public outlets, parent’s day out programs, daycares and early learning centers.
See how HallMark Professional Portraits performs at $1,000-$3,000 per shooter hour daily.
*See all of Mark’s tricks for producing themed children’s portraits very quickly, and Mark’s lighting quick workflow.
*We’ll give you the websites to find the jobs, how to book 'em, and then use a hidden trick to keep 'em.
*Get $10 above the package price with one simple idea.
*Proofs back to the school 2-3 hours after packing up.
*Fraidy cats? No problem! We have a slick solution that calms a frightened child almost every time.
*Like the Santa Experience look and feel but hate the long session times? We've turbocharged the Santa Experience, getting crazy sales with mall Santa workflow by spending just a few minutes with each child, then automating the artwork. Yes!!! You can automate this look!
* Get Santa to work for you cheaper than his normal rate and use him to springboard into the school’s spring photos as well as the following fall.
*Where the cheap backgrounds and props are, or...design your own.
*See our inexpensive Photoshop USB keypad, originally designed for the gaming industry but flipped to supercharge your workflow.
*Get the parents to call you instead of the school or sport league in the event of a mix-up. Keep the school out of the loop regarding complaints.
*Spending a lot of extractions for sports photos? Photoshop will extract all your sport images automatically without outsourcing them. See our process for batching extractions with PS.
*You don’t need the newest or highest resolution cameras or high dollar equipment to shoot this genre’. 10 megapixels is plenty, and results in faster workflow.
*Simple, simple lighting anyone can do.
This program is geared toward the booking, shooting and selling of boutique volume photography to schools multiple times a year, as well as contract sports, there’s also lots of real-world business advice.
750 Garden of the Gods Rd, Ste #110
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
United States
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