Sales Room 38: Planting Seeds for Years Down the Road

Yes, we all plant seeds during a session for THAT session BUT what about planting seeds for YEARS down the road.

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Sales Room 37: Lessons of The Year

Since it’s the 1st of the year, I thought it was right to showcase some lessons of the year.

These are observations of those I

Sales Room 36: Experiment!!!

This video is VERY important and I am afraid it will be ignored.

THIS alone is responsible for my incredible sales success….. I honestly never

Sales Room 35: We Can’t Decide Tonight Problem

Ok…. I think we have all experience this…. we do the session, we do the sales session, and hear “but we can’t decide tonight, can

Sales Room 34: Never PreJudge

Listen to me carefully… in fact REPEAT this… “I will NEVER EVER Prejudge ANYONE. I will ALWAYS do my BEST for ANY CLIENT no matter

Sales Room 33: Sales Plan

Oh boy, as I have discovered of the year of teach and coaching, I have discovered MOST people do not LEAD sales OR have a

Sales Room 32: Prejudging Your Clients + Daddys

This video has TWO points…

1. An overriding philosophy to follow. The temptation is to THINK you KNOW what someone will invest! Last nights session

Sales Room 31: Story Telling

What ONE thing can make you more money in photography?

It’s making an emotional connection with your clients! Period! Hands Down!

Whats the BEST way

Sales Room 30: Are You Making THIS Mistake In The Sales Room??

Are you saying things in the sales room that sabotages sales?

Are you starting your powerful artistic suggestions with an APOLOGY?

Confidence is REQUIRED to

Sales Room 29: Be Sensitive

The truth is… its important to ALWAYS be sensitive to your clients needs. Not everyone can afford to spend thousands and thousands on portraits.

That

Salesroom 28: Preparation & Expectation Troubles

Ok Ok Ok…. not every situation works out as you want it to.

Sometimes you have to adjust “how you sell”. Here is a session

Sales Room 27: Trust

Trust MUST be established BEFORE any sale can take place. That is… IF…. you want a nearly effortless sale that happens easily and quickly without

Sales Room 26: Creating Multiple Image Collection for Projection

Want to make more money?

Sell more portraits! Especially wall portraits.

I like to sell them as a collection.

Here is how I create them

Sales Room 25: Confidence

Want to make more money?

You need TWO kinds of confidence….. Listen to this with an open mind and heart.

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Sales Room 24: Clients who want to “match” a previous order

We all have it… clients who bought X product two years ago and now wants to “match” it BUT… what they want to match is

Sales Room 23: Off Menu Items

Guess what? No EVERYTHING you want to SELL needs to be ON your price list.

Not having everything on your price list actually gives you

Sales Room 22: How to Use BluePrints

Have you ever tried to install a multiple image wall collection BUT couldn’t get everything straight?

Imagine the frustration YOUR clients feel when they are

Sales Room 21: Sometimes, You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do

Sometimes folks, you gotta think fast on your feet and salvage a sale.

I went from a “we need to go home and think about

Sales Room 20: Sell the Same Image More Than Once

You know, I just love teaching photography sales training. Thank you for being a member! Truly.

I KNOW FOR FACT, that if you have been

Sales Room 19: Sales Room Suggestions & Theatre for Photographers

Ok, believe it or not, you are in the entertainment business too.

We elevate the commodity known as “pictures” to a service by being photographers

Sales Room 18: Signature Album Unveiled

Album sales is critical to my averages. I prefer NOT designing an album but I want an album with IMPACT.

How do I do it?

Sales Room 17: Listen to a $4670.98 Sales Session

PLEASE leave a comment below. I REALLY want to know what you might have picked up in this training.  Did anything surprise you? Did you

Sales Room 16: Ruffling Feathers & a $4000 Order

Time to Ruffle Some Feathers…. if this video is speaking to you – LISTEN and CHANGE.

Watch “Ruffling Feathers” Video 1: (Don’t listen to if

Sales Room 15: How I added $1030 to my senior averages by STOP selling one product!

Doing this ONE thing has bumped my senior average to $2800 from $1700! Multiply that over 50 seniors I will shoot this year and that

Sales Room 14: Senior Family Promotion

My goal is to do MORE family sessions from my seniors! Its a natural fit – the senior is leaving the house, the last time

Sales Room 13: Wedding Email Inquires

I get this question from time to time.. how do I respond to email inquiries for wedding pricing.

They all want pricing and I WANT

Sales Room 12: My $500 8X10

Guys, this is subtle but IMPORTANT in my opinion.

Its hard for us to SAY our prices than it is for our clients to PAY

Sales Room 11: Selling Multiple Wall Portraits

This months training video covers TWO things:

  • Implementation – Are you applying what you are learning??
  • Selling Multiple Wall Portraits: This is one GREAT way

Salesroom 10: Custom Framing Upgrade

This is a new product upgrade I am offering….

WHCC (my lab) now offering limited custom framing. There are four frames you can pick from.

Salesroom 9: Online Sales Training & Tips for Photographers

From time to time we are forced to place our images online and make a sale.

I want to show you how I do it.

Sales Room 8: Changes I have made to my pricing!

This is more of an update with some training thrown in.

I made a few changes to my primary price list.

I also made chances

Sales Room 7: How I Price Wedding Photography

I have tried several methods to pricing weddings. I came to these conclusions…

  1. You can never create the prefect package.
  2. Brides want to move things

Sales Room 6: Pricing Your Product

This is the first set of videos on pricing your product.

This lesson should show you how to be price your product with some SCIENCE

SalesRoom 5: Control Your Emotions

I love to tell great stories about my sales but this one is embarrassing but I promised to share all and put it out there.

Sales Training 4: To Negotiate or Not

Negotiating Prices

Do I negotiate my prices?

Well no.

Its either full price or complimentary.

BUT, I have been known to give items complimentary to

Sales Room 3 – Preselling

Preselling is HUGE to making EASIER & BIGGER sales.

Most of my sales sessions last 30 – 45 minutes. According to my photography friends, that

Sales Room 2: “I don’t like anything larger than an 8X10 on my wall”

We ALL have clients that say “I don’t put anything larger than an 8X10 on my walls.”

I use to say to myself, “crap, there

Sales Room 1

I am going to start off the Sales Room series with showing you MY price sheet and explain why I do what I do!

My

Picasso

A woman was strolling along  a street in Paris, when she spotted Picasso sketching at a sidewalk cafe.

The woman asked Picasso if he might