Running a creative business is preeetty much a recipe for comparisonitis. Unfortunately, social media can be a black hole of comparison. Those endless hours of scrolling have the power to make you (the business owner) feel like you have to do what every other business owner is doing! Whether it’s launching a new service, creating […]

As a new business owner, it’s easy to experience shiny ball syndrome when it comes to all of the fancy systems, tools and processes that are widely available. And if I’m honest, it’s easy to experience shiny ball syndrome as an experienced business owner, too! While you do want to be calculated about where you […]

If you’re like me, you likely fell (or hurdled) into the creative world with no concrete plan to start a business. At the very beginning, your creative work lit you up inside, and for a while, it was enough for it to be a side hustle, or even an unpaid hobby.  But then, things got […]

It’s always fun to look at things in retrospect, isn’t it? Being that I’m now in the 5th year of my photography business, I’m able to look back and see that there were some higher level, instrumental decisions that I made that brought me to where I am today.  I have the honor of being […]

Has your photography or business plateaued? If you’re reading this, you might be thinking, “well, I’m not really sure, actually.” And that’s completely fine! So, let’s do a quick check in with ourselves, shall we? 👇 You might be experiencing a plateau if you found your groove and rhythm after that first year or so […]

As photographers, we’ve officially entered the funky time of year between holiday fun and the start of busy season where we actually have a little break to get our house in order. Yes, I mean the piles of laundry that have been building up and the messy pantry that needs reorganizing, but I’m also referring […]

I miss the simple days of social media, don’t you? You know what I mean – the days where we’d snap a quick picture (using Instagram’s awful filters), and just upload it, because we wanted to. The days before worrying about grid curation, hashtags and algorithm changes, or whether or not we could take a […]