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I don’t care if you’ve been in business for 2 months or 20 years; this is something that is always of concern to small business owners.  And, for those people who feel comfortable in their pricing, it is a short-lived comfort.  Pricing must always be examined and re-examined.

Photo courtesy of Laurel McConnell Photography

Are you priced appropriately?

Take a look at the following factors and consider how they impact your pricing:

• the median price of photography in your region and target market
• your specialty, your niche
• the value that you bring to the client
• your education, your experience, and your on-going training
• your artistry and talent

But, in the photography world there is one major component of pricing that is often forgotten: YOU. What about your TIME, your LABOR?

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You don’t become known as the “elephant photographer,” receive a “Best of ASMP” award in 2008, and get your series featured on Nikon’s “Learn and Explore” page without being a great photographer. But an outstanding branding and marketing campaign doesn’t harm either. So, how did San Francisco-based fine art photographer Carol Stevenson do it?
She did it with some help from a great consultant, a liveBooks website and tools provided by other vendors, like Moo. You can read our recent case study, in which Carol shares some of her online and offline branding secrets, or hear more about her work with Moo by listening to a snippet from our podcast with Carol below. To listen to the full podcast, click here.

A SPECIAL OFFER FOR YOU: As a “thank you” to Carol for all her help with this case study and podcast, we’d like to extend a special offer to you, which will benefit the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, the organization with which Carol works. By signing up for a new liveBooks website for $39 a month, and using promo code lbcarol5, you will save 5 percent on the initial cost of your site. In turn, we will donate 10 percent of the proceeds of that purchase to the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation.

Carol Stevenson on Brand [Short] by liveBooks

If you’d like to hear the full podcast, click here.

Download the Case Study on Online/Offline Brand that talks more about Emilie Inc and Carol Stevenson.

We recently spoke with Emilie inc. photography founder Emilie Sommer to learn how she has successfully marketed and branded her photojournalism wedding studio over the past seven years. Now, we’re sitting down with commercial advertising photographer Jeff Thayer of  Jeffrey Thayer Photography, a studio based in Los Angeles, California, to pick his brain about how he has integrated his online and offline brands.

Jeff, who is a liveBooks customer who also works with our partners Agency Access and Moo, says, “Having a strong personal vision and having consistency to your brand is what’s going to get you jobs.” He attributes much of his success to his use of Moo business cards. Click below to briefly listen to what Jeff has to say.

Jeff Thayer on Brand [Short] by liveBooks

If you’d like to hear the full podcast, click here.

We are moving to sharing business stories with podcasts, so you will hear first hand what photographers and creative professionals are saying on a range of topics with relevant, easy-to-implement tips and tools to make their businesses more profitable!

In this story, we caught up with Emilie Sommer, the founder of emilie inc photography, a photojournalism wedding studio based in Portland, Maine, to learn how she developed her brand and integrated it across all online and offline channels.

We’ve posted a quick snippet of Emilie’s podcast below. If you’d like to learn more about how she developed her chocolate brown and pink polka dot look or what she’s doing to grow her business, click here to listen to the whole podcast, which is housed on our “Success” page.

Hear more about what Emilie has to say about online and off line Brand integration here.

Brand – Emilie Sommer – Sound Bite by liveBooks

Brand – Emilie Sommer – Full Interview by liveBooks