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Here you will find useful information for taking your very first steps in starting your business.

Telephone & Email Etiquette Part 3 - Email & the Written Word

With the internet a fundamental part of business life, many clients and prospects like to communicate by email. 4 the yunger generation, it mite b cool to shorten your words, but older people will probably prefer to see things written out properly. Read on for some tips on how to effectively use email in your photography business. . . . keep reading

Telephone & Email Etiquette Part 2 - Receptionist or Answering Machine?
Some callers expect to get an answer immediately or they will simply phone another photographer. How are you going to deal with this? Read this article for some tips for your Photography Business! . . . keep reading

Invoices, Terms & Getting Paid Part 3 - Chasing Payment

Wedding and portrait photographers can have finished albums or portraits sitting in their studios for months waiting collection. Advertising and commercial photographers can wait for 60, 90 or even 120 days to be paid. However, while all businesses will experience bad debts at some stage, there are things you can do to reduce bad debts. . . . keep reading

Invoices, Terms & Getting Paid Part 2 - When To Get Paid
In the photography industry, there is a wide range of payment terms. Payment terms refers to how long your client has in which to pay you. . . . keep reading

Invoices, Terms & Getting Paid Part 1 - Smart Invoices
One of the best parts of finishing a photo shoot is that it's time to create an invoice and get paid. Probably the best way to do invoices regularly is to use a simple accounting program like MYOB. MYOB allows you to create your own custom invoices and while the process of creating the template might be a tad laborious, once finished you can use it for ever and a day. . . . keep reading

Accounts, Software & Accountants Part 4 - Bookkeepers & Accountants

Most successful business owners don't keep their own accounts. Their time is better spent in marketing or photography, so bookkeepers and accountants are employed to keep the books up to date. Bookkeepers and accountants are not the same. A bookkeeper ($20-$50 an hour) is like a photographic assistant, an accountant like the photographer ($150 to $400 an hour). . . . keep reading

Accounts, Software & Accountants Part 3 - Software to Keep Accounts

At a pinch, you can use a spreadsheet program (like Microsoft Excel) to keep your accounts, but when you take into account sales tax, staff wages and producing reports regularly, we would only recommend buying an accounting package. . . . keep reading

Accounts, Software & Accountants Part 2 - What Accounts Look Like

Accounts can be prepared in many ways. It's perfectly legal to keep handwritten accounts in a ledger book, but not very sensible. Computers have made the process of collecting numbers and adding them up relatively painless. Certainly the days of incorrectly adding up columns of numbers have passed. . . . keep reading

Accounts, Software & Accountants Part 1 - Why Keep Accounts?

The most boring part of running a business is keeping your accounts. Boring it might be, but it is fundamental to building a successful photography business. . . . keep reading

What Do You Need to Know Before You Design Your Own Logo?
Everyone's got 'em. You likely see the "Nike swoosh" logo everywhere you go. And you know the Texaco station at the corner by its distinctive "star." So, you're thinking, "My company needs a logo, too . . . keep reading

A Career in Photography. Is it Right For Me?
A career as a photographer opens many different doors for you, and gives you the options for a whole variety of different photography careers. . . . keep reading

Competitors - Your Enemies, or Your Best Friends?
Unless you live in a very small town, the chances are that there will be many other photographers in your area. Don't let this get you down - in fact you can use this to your advantage. If you take the time to analyze your competitors, you can find out what works and what doesn't without having to learn painful lessons yourself. . . . keep reading

Don't Quit Your Day Job...Just Yet!
The thought of starting your own full-time photography business can be a bit daunting. But what many people don't realize is that there is a lot of preparation that can be done before quitting your day job to ensure that you hit the ground running when you decide to run you photography business full time. . . . keep reading

What sort of person does it take to be a Professional Photographer?
The top 5 attributes of people who successfully start and run their own photography business . . . keep reading

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