Friday, 17 October 2014

Studio Planning

After a few phone calls and some long discussions i now have a few ideas of how to go about starting my own business and how to go about it.
I have an appointment schedueld with a business advisor who is going to help me write up a business plan and talk me through possible finance options etc. I also have a friend helping me to build a website. which i'm hopping to have up and running before christmas.

My business seems to be taking two separate directions,

1 Is the set up of my own studio for portraiture and family photos, really I want to set this apart from the average family portrait studio in that most studios do photos of mum, dad and their 2.5 kids, or even just the kids, I however have a larger family than that and have no photos of myself with my parents, 2 sisters and brother. I also am separated from my daughters father and we both have new partners, his partner has 2 other children and my 3 year old wants a photo of all of us together. (we are all on friendly terms so this is not a problem), however it is quite difficult to find a studio with enough space to cater for larger or extended families so this is what I want to try and cater for.

2 Is my online presence as a nature photographer, I sell prints of my work and would also like to start entering competitions and sending work to magazines as well as to a stock website.

I'm now trying to work out how to integrate the 2 together. I'm not sure whether to have both on the same website / Facebook page etc or whether to keep them separate. I think that until I have my own studio space then I will have to concentrate more on the nature photography side of it as this is what I can do and sell. however once I have a studio then this is what I want to be my main job description as it were so that is where I will concentrate my main efforts.

There is still a long way to go and a lot of things to but I am gaining confidence that it's all going in the right direction.




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