Me sarcastic? Never. Hurry up!
We've got stuff to do.
Here's how to get work done faster.
We all love shooting photos right?
That's what we do, but most the time
we're spent behind the computer, and we
need to learn how to hold a camera and
not a mouse.
I do not come up with that my friend
Rochey came up with that!
You need to get your work done faster.
Guess what? There are really only two
ways that you can get work done faster.
You can either outsource, or you can
streamline it.
Only two possibilities!
Let's just talk about streamlining.
First here is how I streamline my
work in my photography studio.
Number 1: I use a program called
17 hats. 17 hats is a client management
system. It'll help you keep track of all
of your leads. It'll help you make sure
you're getting all of your work done by
checking off all of your workflow items.
17 hats does your bookkeeping for you.
All of these things in any client
management system, is meant to do one thing.
Help you work smarter and that
means work faster. Another way to
streamline is your marketing. If you are
using social media, make sure you are
using something like Buffer or HootSuite
or Meet Edgar. Personally I like to use
Buffer, so I can schedule all of my
marketing posts on
social media ahead of time. Then I'm
posting them at the best moments to post
on social media, for that particular
network. Another way to streamline
without outsourcing is to manage your
time effectively. Construct your day in
time blocks, give yourself an hour for
email the beginning of the day, and at
the end of the day, give yourself an hour
a week for scheduling your social media.
Give yourself another hour a day for
some of the tasks around your studio.
Don't multitask, multitasking actually
slows you down.
The second way to hurry up and do your
work already, is to get someone else to
do it for you. This means outsourcing, I
know what you're thinking. Oh God... don't
let the creative control go...
I can only edit my photos, no one else
knows how to edit my photos. Well you know what?
they do. They're called Photoshop experts
or Lightroom experts. Someone else that
you can send your photos to. Personally I
don't edit all of my wedding photos. They
get sent off to Shoot That Edit, who does
my culling, my editing, my post-processing,
uploading to my online gallery, so I
don't have to do any of that. Outsource
your editing if you can, you have to be
ready for it financially and emotionally,
so if you're sitting there thinking that
no one can edit your precious photos...
except you! You're probably not ready for
it! Yet here are five things that you
should outsource!
Number 1. Outsource anything that you hate doing!
You did not become a photographer and
follow your dream to spend time doing
what you hate!
Number 2: Outsource anything that slows
you down, you might actually love editing
your photos, but it takes you a millennia
to do it. Get rid of it!
Number 3: Outsource anything you're
not good at, maybe you love designing
your own albums, but you stink at it, so
don't do it! Number 4. Outsource
anything where your face is not. Meaning
I have an office manager, and she can
answer my phone calls, she can write my
wedding day schedules, she can put
together my social media posts even,
things that your client is not noticing
whether you are doing or not..you can
easily outsource, and Number 5..
Outsource anything that you can pay
someone else minimum wage to do. I bet
you Steve Jobs did not change any of the
toilet papers, in any of the toilet
stalls at Apple? Why because that is not
a good use of his time!
So outsource anything that is minimum
age.. outsource anything that is minimum
wage work, and that my friends is how you
get done faster. So you can have more
time with your camera. Now you have more
time to take photos. So download this
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