📣Let’s talk props, sets and what’s included in the cost of your shoots ❌ you should not be running around last minute to get these request from these clients without them previously paying you for your time and energy and creative genius ❌ they should not be getting cakes for “free” or props for free unless you have already included that in the cost of the session ❌ your gas and time are valuable so you should be up charging for all of these additional things people want ❌ i

Know the Four types of social media posts for small businesses: 40% 📣Educational/ tutorial “How to do…” “Let’s learn about this.” “I’ll show you my tricks” BTS, hands-on 40% 📣Informational Stats, numbers, methods and teaching/workshops- talking about something 10% 📣Portfolio Slideshow/carousel of images/work/latest products “See my latest work” “So privileged to shoot/work with” 10% 📣promotions/sales -coupon codes/ sales/ specials for holidays …📣bonus posts: reposting or

Can’t find time to grow your business daily? Feeling overwhelmed about the amount of things that you need to do every single day? Everyone has 30 mins. To grow, engage and get their likes, shares and followers up to grow their business organically. Your goal should be posting 5-7 days a week on social media - not including stories- that can be 1-3 times per day (you can share other people’s people’s content or reshare old posts) ✅ search people in your market group through lo

Can’t find time to grow your business daily? Feeling overwhelmed about the amount of things that you need to do every single day? Everyone has 30 mins. To grow, engage and get their likes, shares and followers up to grow their business organically. Your goal should be posting 5-7 days a week on social media - not including stories- that can be 1-3 times per day (you can share other people’s people’s content or reshare old posts) 👉🏼👉🏼GROWTH: 5-10 minutes a day ✅ search peo

In 2011, when I came into the Hampton Roads Area- I knew no one! Instead of paying for ads- I got busy being seen in places I was already going- for you- that could be your school, your soccer club, your kids’ ballet club. Have your camera and your business logo shirt on at all times. Have cards on you at all times. Be Social on Socia media- friend everyone you see around you online. Ask for their contact info. Invite them to your business page. Post helpful content weekly- g

Can’t find time to grow your business daily? Feeling overwhelmed about the amount of things that you need to do every single day? Everyone has 30 mins. To grow, engage and get their likes, shares and followers up to grow their business organically. Your goal should be posting 5-7 days a week on social media - not including stories- that can be 1-3 times per day (you can share other people’s people’s content or reshare old posts) 👉🏼👉🏼GROWTH: 5-10 minutes a day ✅ search peo

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❤️❤️❤️This is my very favorite Christmas card I received this year❤️❤️ . . It was from the time that we flew out to a remote area in Honduras and worked with a children’s organization for an entire week. . We shoveled concrete . we hauled rocks . we played with children . we laughed . we cooked . we Hiked . we documented beautiful moments with our lenses. . I will never forget about teaching them how to make a s’more for the first time. . Or when I teared up after showing eve

. When I was in grad school I remember reading the newspaper about a fellow student. He had pretty much figured out that by the time you got to college that one: he needed a job to provide for himself to pay for college and . two: a lot of his local roommates and dorm mates had no idea how to do laundry, nor the time to do it. . So he came up with this genius idea. For five to $10 a load depending on the size of the load, he would go door-to-door and collect peoples laundry a

Do you have a lot of passwords do a lot of different software programs and clients? When you first started getting a computer and the Internet then if you post it notes and notepads would suffice. Now you have 14 different passwords all with different capital letters, multiple symbols and  numbers and it’s so hard to keep track of! Please don’t do it one of my business clients did they keep track of all his passwords- stick them on post it notes and have them all over his fri

Hey everyone! I don’t believe that I’ve introduced myself properly here. . . My name is Christal Marshall, I am almost 34, and a mother of three kids and three cats and husband that can play literally any instrument. . . I have a Masters of Education and I couldn’t find work 9 years ago. Then I got pregnant with my first child. Instead of wallowing in self-pity and decided to teach myself everything there was to know about creative arts and media. . I taught myself graphic de