Starting a photography business
If photography has always been a passion for you; one that you would love to make into a full time career, maybe its time to make that dream a reality. Maybe you've been photographing your friends and family for years, and they've been telling you to go into the business. Or maybe you're having a harder and harder time going to that job every day that just doesn't seem to have a purpose. Why should you work for someone else when you can build something lucrative on your own?
The truth is over 75 percent of people contemplate starting their own business at some point in their life. And of those 75 percent, one in three will actually take the steps necessary to start their own business.
Will you be one of them?
You see, it takes a special personality to decide to go into business for him or herself. You have to realize that it takes more than a love of what you do. It also takes commitment because a business doesn’t grow by itself. It takes work.
The cold hard facts are most business owners will go out of business in a short period of time. Over 66 percent of business startups fold after only four years.
But there is a way to give you an edge over other business owners. It's a "secret" that every successful business owner has followed over the course of his or her own entrepreneurial life. And I'm going to share that secret with you … in just a minute.
Does This Really Work?
First, let me introduce myself. My name is Lori Osterberg, and I've been a successful entrepreneur for almost 20 years now. But I didn't start out that way. In fact, I would say I was taught to be anything but an entrepreneur.
I came from a traditional family: two kids, dad worked 9 to 5, mom stayed home. I was pushed to go to college and get a good job; one that would take care of me throughout my life.
Can you relate?
After watching my dad struggle to keep his job the last few years before retirement, I discovered having a "job" wasn't the risk-free thing to do. So together with my husband, Andrew, we started our first photography studio.
And what an amazing business it turned out to be. We did astonishing things with that business. We would double – even triple our sales year after year. We were recognized with some of the finest awards in local, national and international competitions. We discovered the power of the Internet in the 90's, and became one of the premier photography studios online (which means we flew anywhere our clients wanted us to be).
As we became more recognized, we started having other photographers ask us, "How'd you do that"?
And that's when we discovered "the secret".
What is "The Secret"?
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