The past four years have been nothing but magical for my wife Suzy and I. In addition to shooting forty weddings every year, we also opened The McGee House wedding venue in Kentucky, and started the Chasing Lockets client gifting service, all while still sleeping at least nine hours a night. Much of that success […]

Julie Story joins us on the show to give her top 7 brand secrets. She also shares how to get a copy of her free new e-book. Show Links Get the E-Book

Justin and Mary join us live to talk about their approach to pricing. Learn how they structure their pricing and why it works well for their business. Show Notes: Congratulations to Jennifer Manzi and Karlyn Bennett on winning The Guide from Justin and Mary. Get your own copy of The Guide by Justin and Mary […]

How many times has this happened to you on the wedding day: You have a gorgeous couple, the light has just reached epic proportions and you are leading them out to the most stunning location that you spent hours and lots of gas money to find, when the bride's cell phone rings, it's her mom/wedding […]

Are you wondering if it is time to take your business full time? Start or end a relationship? Go back to school? In this article Callie Beale, with the help of Andy Stanley’s book “Ask It” shares a question that is incredibly helpful when making important decisions for both your business and personal life.

As the weather starts to cool down and everything from coffee to ice cream and even donuts become pumpkin flavored the photography community (especially wedding photographers) breathe that big sigh of relief and welcome the “off-season” with open arms. But quickly the joy of quiet turns into thundering silence and you’re left wondering, “how am […]

When we first stated out, 5 year ago, album design used to take us forever. Between choosing the right photos, the layout and the flow, we spent hours on design time. We used to dread it. So we quickly buckled down and came up with a much simpler way to design our albums and still […]

Starting a successful photography business is hard. Extremely hard. Once you figure out how to take decent photos, you are suddenly thrown into the vicious world of business, design, sales, marketing, and SEO. Trying to figure it all out is enough to make any creative person want to vomit. Here are a few questions that […]

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In an interaction with another photographer yesterday, something happened to me. I was chatting with him and he said, “It’s refreshing to have realism. I mean you hear about the Mouseketeers or whatever being all happy and sparkly, and then when you’ve been in the industry for a while you realize that’s NOT what it’s […]