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Staying competitive means continuously improving your skills and business strategies. Here you’ll find exclusive insights for photographers, creative directors, and all types of creatives who want to sharpen their craft and grow their business.
Whether you’re looking to improve your photography techniques, boost your brand visibility, or stay on top of industry trends, this practical, actionable advice is based on years of experience working with leading brands and publications.
From expert business strategies and marketing tips to creative inspiration and photography skills, this blog gives you the tools you need to succeed in the competitive photography and creative industries.
The Best Advice You Ever Got
I decided to do a source post to see what other talents believe the best advice they ever received was. Nadine Dumas: Don’t ever sacrifice quality for quantity. Kim Dolan Leto: Always under-promise and over-deliver. Tiffany Gaston: Step outfit of your comfort zone and...
The Seven Deadly Sins of Pitching
Ego (also known as Pride) When you pitch and you focus more on yourself instead of caring about what is important to the magazine, their staff and their readers. This occurs when your pitch is entirely self-focused as opposed to relating it to why it matters to the...
Strengthen 10 Relationships
Action item for you to do this week, and it should only take a week. Step one, write down 10 clients you have worked with in the left hand side of a piece of paper. Step two, next to each client, then write down something you could do to strengthen your relationship...
Earning Your Good Word
Have we at James Patrick Photography served you well? Since I launched James Patrick Photography I’ve truly been privileged to be able to work with so many fantastic clients. What truly fueled my business the most have been the gracious referrals from our clients to...
Become a Fitness Entrepreneur
Save the Date for FITPOSIUM 2016 happening October 1, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona. Further details will be forthcoming including our lineup of speakers, topics and valuable career opportunities. You can also subscribe to the FITposium newsletter to get updated...
How Fraudulent Talents Impact Us
I went to school for many years to learn how to be a journalist. From the age of about 15 on up to when I graduated college I learned not just about writing, but interviewing, editing, designing and more. Outside of classes I interned for local newspapers and even...
Launch of You in Focus
GUIDING FITNESS TALENTS TO BECOME FITNESS ENTREPRENEURS James Patrick Photography is proud to present to our clients business and marketing consulting from YOU IN FOCUS. Marketing consultant and photographer James Patrick, ACG, ALB is an award-winning marketer with...
The Most Addictive Thing in Business
There are few very things I find addictive. If I want to do something I do it and if I decide that I don’t want something I won’t do it. I’ve always been fairly practical in that sense and can make most things black and white. That mentality I have applies to food,...
Four Things That Make You Feel Official
It can take a long time for your side gig, your hobby, your passion project to feel official. If you do work a full time job then it is so easy to dismiss the other work, the art, as nothing more than a foolish hobby. Yet there are certain things that can make it feel...