From Nothing to Profit

In this episode of from Nothing to Profit, A Photographer’s Podcast, Matt and Kia interview Jamie Swanson, who is really leading the personal brand photography market.  Jamie is actually starting a new podcast about building a personal brand so make sure to listen in. She also has a Facebook group for personal brand photography you should go join now. In the beginning, 2011, Jamie really focu...

If you love Kia Bondurant, you’ll love this podcast episode! Matt interviews Kia about her New Year’s tradition. Kia chooses a word of the year, every year. Kia tried it first with her best friend in 2011, then her husband, Andy and the first time was totally off the cuff. Her first word was “create”. Her second year/word was “stewardship” to step up her care of things. Listen in to hear more of K...

Today’s podcast features Jeff Richardson ( @Richardsonstudios ), who has been in the industry for 24 years and considers himself a maverick. Listen in to learn about Jeff’s upbringing and how that’s translated to his business, such as how being homeschooled caused him to question everything. He’s all about attention to detail and creating extremely good, high end content; including content for our...

In this podcast, Kia interviews Matt about goal setting. He compares goal setting to creating a road map so you know what opportunities to take throughout the year. He recommends brainstorming everything you want to accomplish for 5 minutes, dreaming huge and small. Think about where you want to be 3 months, 3 years, and a lifetime from now to give you short term and long term goals. Listen in to...

Today’s podcast we talk with Shalem Kitter, who owns The Studio in Anchorage, Alaska. He and his husband, Mitch, also started, and are continuing, the Love is Love Project. Shalem specializes in senior portraits with fashion projects on the side. He tells us about how he doesn’t think he’d still be in business (due to being in year four of a recession) without the strong systems they’ve built. The...

This week, we talk to Darty Hines, co-owner of SYNC, Senior & Youth National Conference (See Below for a Discount Code).  Both Kia & Matt attended Darty’s classes back when they were first starting their businesses. Darty has been in the industry for 25 years. 15 years ago, he was known for doing cool sets with high school seniors. In more recent years, he’s known for social media marketin...

Today Vicki Taufer tells about what is working now in her business. Vicki has been in the industry almost 20 years now. She focuses on artistic portraiture, located in Morton, Illinois (pumpkin capital of the world). Vicki teaches internationally and values work life balance. Work life balance constantly changes and just being aware of trying to be balanced is important. She went from 300 sessions...

In this episode, we talk to Heather Bookout.  She specializes in story themed session experiences.  You may have heard about the Santa experience but she does something similar to it all year long and at a whole other level.  She has a really unique way of making sure she has quality clients as well as quantity, don’t miss it. She also has the most amazing way of dealing with the stories we tell o...

In this episode, we talk to Lori Nordstrom. Lori started her first business at 16 years old. She’s been a photographer for over 20 years and recently intentionally began to downsize her photography business and start teaching/coaching more. However, she discovered a hole that needed to be filled, which is personal brand photography. Awesome to have her perspective on this niche in addition to Scot...

Today we interview Scott Wyden Kivowitz.  Learn about his story of working full time at Imagely, the wordpress photography people ( https://www.imagely.com/ ) and part time as a photographer.  It is important for Scott to continue to love photography, which is why he keeps it part-time. Scott is starting to shift his business to personal brand photography, a fast growing genre. He says, “There’s t...

Ever sold an iPhone picture in an album?  Maybe you should. John Pyle explains why… In this episode, we talk to John Pyle. John Pyle specializes in senior portraits, lifestyle photos and model work. He’s been a photographer for over 10 years and recently became a licensed drone pilot. You’ll love this episode because John has a psychology Masters degree and has some really fascinating views...

Today we interview Rose Coleman.  Learn about her story of growing up in the industry and after years, switching from a boutique photography studio model to a volume studio based on club sports.  She said no to overhead and yes to profit. It is important for Rose and her husband to stay debt free.  She shares some great ideas on how to have less debt and more profit.  As Rose says in this episode,...

www.matthoaglin.com www.allisonragsdalephotography.com @allisonragsdale   In this episode Matt Hoaglin talks about how running paid instagram, Facebook and Snapchat ads is making a huge difference in his business.  Tune in to learn how he is converting these ads into paying customers. Here is a free video on what he is doing:  https://get.matthoaglin.com/get-clients-now-video/   Matt als...

In Episode 001 we interview Kia Bondurant.  Kia Bondurant has been a full time professional portrait photographer for over 20 years. With her experience of owning a large successful business and recently starting a new portrait studio from scratch, she wants to share HOPE for the photography industry! One of the first things we talk about is what seniors are looking for today.  You may be surprise...

In this Episode, Matt and Kia tell you a little about why they started the podcast and what to expect. Read Full Transcript TRANSCRIPTION: Transcription was done by Temi.com which means it’s an AI generated transcript. The transcript may contain spelling, grammar and other errors, and is not a substitute for watching the video. Intro: [00:00] Welcome to from nothing to profit, a photographer’s pod...