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Annual Exclusive: 30-Minute 1-1 Kickoff Call With Paul Weaver
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Through every step of the way, we'll help you integrate the systems you need to streamline your business management.
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Work With Brands is a half-day workshop covering the complete framework for building a photography business around brand clients — from how to position your portfolio for the work you want, through outreach, pricing, production, and long-term client relationships.
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Leading photographers choose TFP to teach their methods.
Positioning
Positioning allows you to carve out your own lane in the freelance industry. We'll take you step-by-step through developing messaging that speaks to your target clientele, allows for you to charge premium rates, and sets you apart from other photographers.
3 Sections
15 Lessons
9hr 37m
Portfolio
Design a well-thought-out portfolio that does the heavy lifting for you. We'll help you understand all of the necessary components to include and perfect on your website and social media channels so that brand decision-makers can quickly understand that you'd be a good fit for their projects.
4 Sections
19 Lessons
10hr 33m
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Pitching
Pitching can be light and fun. We'll show you strategies that allow you to showcase the value you provide to brands and charge premium rates for your services. Get ready to fall in the love the process of landing new clients.
7 Sections
29 Lessons
15hr 7m
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Pricing
Our approach to pricing involves tailoring your rates to the project at hand. We do this by providing our members with overall benchmarks, and then helping them craft bids based on their skill level, comparable references within our client portal, and the unique scope of the projects. We also help you implement proven upsell strategies to unlock bigger profits.
3 Sections
14 Lessons
13hr 1m
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Production
We'll help you navigate everything that happens after you book a project. Learn the best industry practices for talent scouting, location scouting, hiring contractors, getting insurance, charging fees, managing schedules, overcoming conflicts, and even asset delivery.
2 Sections
5 Lessons
3hr 1m
06
Partner
Everything we do is focused on long-term relationships. We've designed an end-to-end client experience you can steal for your own business to seamlessly transition your favorite one-off clients into retainers that pay you monthly or quarterly for consistent content and campaigns.
2 Sections
14 Lessons
9hr 28m
A Network That Becomes Your Unfair Advantage
Many photographers operate alone. Surround yourself with a community that'll help connect you with others in the industry. Whether it's passing along a gig they can't take on or putting you on to the stylist that will elevate your next campaign.
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Not only will you become fluent in all things commercial photography, you'll have completed the grunt-work to keep work coming in month after month.
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