Snack-sized sessions to help photographers improve, market, and build their photography business. Kevin Patrick Robbins provides professional photographers of all genres — advertising, editorial, family, weddings, and more — with advice, tips, and actions that they can take right away to build their studio.
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#42 | So you’re starting to shoot video and you’ve got some footage but now you need to put it all together and create an edited video. In this episode, I’m going to talk about the programs that are available to you from basic, entry-level editors to professional-grade editors.
Getting Started with Video Editing
Video Editing Software
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#41 | On the last episode, I issued a challenge for you to create 20 videos this year and outlined why video should be an important part of your photography business in 2021. In this episode, I tell you what you need to get started shooting video and what you do not need to get started. I’m also going to give you some suggested parameters for your first video.
The Gear You Need to Start Shooting Video
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#40 | In 2021, it is going to be more important than ever to have a motion section in your portfolio and to offer video services to your clients. In this episode, I talk about why you need video in your portfolio and what you need to do this year to move ahead of your competition.
Why You Need to Have Video in Your Portfolio
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#39 | Outside of straight-up business goals, I always make sure to set personal goals. I’m not a big fan of resolutions but I do believe in the power of habits. In this episode, I take a look at three habits Warren Buffett recommends to help you achieve success.
3 Habits You Need to Start Doing Today
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#38 | There are a lot of website options out there for consumer photographers. In this episode, I outline my picks for the best three website platforms for consumer photographers.
Best Website Platforms for Consumer Photographers
SEO for Photography Websites
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#37 | In this episode, I take a look forward to what’s in store for 2021, for this show, for Studio Builder, and photography as a profession and an industry.
2021 and the Future of Photography
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#36 | There are a lot of options out there for photographers to put websites together. I’m going to outline the key features needed for a commercial photography website, what the best options are out there.
Best Website Platforms for Commercial Photographers
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#35 | If you’re considering expanding into other genres and markets, you need to think about how to market your new work. Should you add a section to your website? Should you build a whole new website? Should you create a whole new brand identity and start from scratch? These are important considerations but I think the answers are pretty easy, albeit not necessarily straightforward.
How Many Websites Should You Have?
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#34 | With the new year fast approaching, we’re all thinking about what business is going to look like next year. We’ve got questions. We probably all have an idea about what we want our year to look like and we’re thinking about resolutions, for ourselves and for our businesses.
But how often have we set resolutions at the beginning of the year and then fail to follow through within the first month? First week? Maybe even the first day? I used to be one of those people. That was before I discovered the power of SMART goals.
Get SMART with Setting Goals
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#33 | I took a couple of weeks off and quick frankly I needed it. We’re a week into December and somehow 2020 has felt simultaneously like the longest and shortest year of my life. Thanks, COVID.
November 2020
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#32 | Every business has seasonal cycles, either due to weather, holidays, or other external factors beyond our control. These troughs in our business cycles are the perfect times and opportunities to focus our attention inward for a change, to assess what’s helping our business and what's hurting our business.
Is This Helping or Hurting
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#31 | I love to have a plan for my photoshoots. But I also have enough experience to know that things don’t always go to plan. So, when I plan for a shoot, I plan for two things: success and failure.
Best Laid Plans
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#30 | We want to work with people who want to work with us. I’d argue that we want to work with people who are fans of what we do, who love what we do, and who want us to have a positive impact on their lives. It’s why we need to define our ideal client and create work for the people we want to help and make sure we focus on reaching those people.
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#29 | In order to improve my business and quality of life, I want to make sure I’m focused on serving my ideal clients. Before we can determine who our ideal clients are, we need to first determine what our goals are. We need to think about and put down on paper what it is we want, for our business, but more importantly, for our lives.
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#28 | If you know who your ideal client is, you know who to target in your copy, your designs, your emails, your brand colours, brand voice, and every aspect of your marketing. You need to know who to target because we can’t be everything to everybody. In fact, we don’t even want to be. I explain why in today's episode.
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#27 | We don’t talk enough about the physical toll our bodies endure as photographers. Long days, often with little or no breaks — bending, slouching, squatting, lying, hovering, twisting, and more. In this episode, I look at how I've overcome some of my physical limitations, chronic pain, and how I've developed habits that allow me to continue working as a photographer.
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#26 | In this recap of October 2020, I reflect on recent episodes, shooting a wedding for 20 people, and address how some changes I’m making to my pricing. I would love it if you take a minute to review Studio Builder on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, and Podcast Addict.
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#25 | Love it or hate it as a social media outlet, Facebook undeniably has the best advertising platform in the world right now. It also has a few other great tools you might not know about. In order to take advantage of any of them, you first need to create and connect a Facebook Pixel to your website.
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#24 | Now that you’ve got a kick-ass blog that’s great for SEO and your clients, in this episode I give you three ways you can use the power of your blog to harness your social media content strategy without actually having to do much work.
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#23 | A major part of my SEO strategy, and something I think should be part of your SEO strategy, is blogging. In this episode, I outline some awesome ways to maximize your blog’s potential and how to create posts that automatically update themselves over time.
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#22 | When you’re creating posts for your blogs, you want to do so in a way that creates value for potential clients and also improves your position in search results and increases the number of impressions your website gets. This doesn’t need to be complicated and, contrary to popular belief, you do not need to write paragraphs of information for every single post.
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#21 | As photographers, our websites are image-heavy, but Google indexes images differently than it indexes text. So, we want to make sure we also feed the search engines some text to inform it about which keyword phrases to rank us for. That's where blogging comes in.
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#20 | How do you develop best practices for creating and maintaining good SEO for your photography website? It's actually pretty simple. In this episode, I outline five things you need to do to develop a good SEO practice for your website.
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In this episode, I'll talk about why their attempt failed, how to secure all of your social media accounts and websites, and why you need a password manager like LastPass to secure your accounts, financial data, and even your own identity.
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In this episode, I tell you what you need to do to get your My Business listing up and running on Google and what you can do to make your listing shine, including a couple of things that could help improve your SEO rankings, and why you absolutely must at least claim your business listing on Google.
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In this episode, I discuss my Digital Asset Management (DAM) system and workflow, and how you can set up a system that saves you money and gives you peace of mind.
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In this episode, I examine the concept of "the right way" vs "the wrong way" to create a photograph, and why your choices should be driven by intention, not what someone on YouTube or in a Facebook comment tells you "wrong."
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In this episode, I spill the tea about my feelings toward my colleagues, my competitors, and the other members of our community, and give you a few tips on how you can become a pillar of your own community.
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Looking for ways to grow your photography studio that don't require undoing everything you've already built? Want actionable advice that you can easily implement in a easily digestable episodes? I hear you. Studio Builder is a snack-sized podcast that helps photographers grow their business and get to the next level one step at a time.
Starting Aug. 31, join me, Kevin Patrick Robbins, a professional photographer, teacher, and business nerd, as I provide you with tips, advice, and action you can use right away to improve your photography business — episode by episode — whether you're a full-time studio owner, part-time pro, or aspiring startup.
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