🦠 COVID-19 Help Resources for Photographers 

First Aid 👉 getsproutstudio.com/firstaid

🔑 6 key strategies to help photographers succeed through the pandemic:

1. Harden your systems
2. Focus on relationships
3. Differentiate yourself
4. Give guidance to others
5. Get organized
6. Diversifying your revenue streams

💬 Community main discussion points

• Be overwhelmingly EMPATHETIC
• Passion projects = can lead to paid shoots
• Stop labeling yourself – don’t put all your eggs in one basket
• Find a need that is limited due to Covid-19 – how can you use your skills/resources to fill that need
• PIVOT: Wedding photography ⏩ Portrait photography ⏩ Branding photography ⏩ Product photography ⏩ Real estate photography
• Photographic subscription services to provide to local businesses (ie. restaurants, hotels, influencers)
• Think outside the box (ie. Airbnb – listing yourself as a service for hire or give an experience tour)

🔗 Community discussion links

• Adding handwritten letters to show your appreciation to clients – check out Handwrytten and AUTOMATE this process!
• Sign up for Affiliate programs (such as Amazon – you recommend these products, get paid for doing so). Sprout Studio also has an affiliate getsproutstudio.com/collabscape – get involved 😉
• Ryanne Hollies – founder of The Album Academy
• Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
• Business of Photography Podcast – Episode 426 “Generating Revenue by Teaching Photography” with Cyrissa Carlson
• Pricing Calculators
• Pricing Spreadsheet – send us a DM via Instagram with your email
• Past client album promotion with – https://www.kiss.us/
• The Stack by Shaun Austin Gordon

*Please note, we respect the intellectual property of all the speakers in our rooms as Clubhouse is an app free from recording. The purpose of these notes is to provide reference links and community-joined discussion points for listeners to recall.