In This Episode I talk to Alex Peterson who is a wedding and newborn photographer from New Jersey. She is half of the Husband and Wife Team behind Idalia Photography and also runs the popular Facebook group "Blogging for Photographers". She talks about how she grew her photography business to shooting 30 weddings while still working a full time job as a teacher. She shares some of her favorite tools and tips to balancing working a day job and growing your photography empire!
In This Episode You'll Learn:
How a 365 photo a day challenge started her photography career
How the cold winter months sparked Alexs creativity
How blogging gave Alex a huge head start when she went full time
When Alex decided it was time to leave her career to go full time in photography
How important it was for Alex to switch to wordpress to start blogging more
What Alex was doing to prepare to go full time
How Alex gets inquiries without paying for advertising
Some of the workflows Alex has in place to keep organized
How Email templates save Alex tons of time
Tips on what to write in your blogs when you hate to write
An easy way to write 60+ blogs a year
How often photographers should be blogging
More blog ideas for photographers
Where you can get a cheat sheet with the best tips to running your photography as a side hustle!
