051: Alex Peterson - Success Tips For Running Your Photography as a Side Hustle

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! Resources Alexs
Website Alexs Facebook Alexs "Blogging for Photographers" group
Alexs Instagram 17 Hats Client Management Software The Cheat Sheet
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