415: Kim Ortiz – How to set up a profitable pet photography calendar project

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Kim Ortiz of www.kimortiz.com is a family, senior and pet photographer based in Austin, Texas – USA. Kim is a PhotoBizX Premium member, and we were recently chatting on messenger about her pet calendar fundraiser. Her recently completed campaign achieved a series of results that piqued my interest and led to me asking to record this interview. * She generated over $6000 in sales. * Raised an additional $6500 for the local dog rescue group. * She gets her known in the local community and brought in new clients. I then learnt that Kim has been implementing this strategy for the past nine years! In this interview, Kim shares how to set up a profitable pet photography calendar project to raise money and support your local dog rescue organisations while creating an avenue to generate terrific wall art sales for your dog photography business. Here's some more of what we cover in the interview: What’s on Offer for Premium Members If you’re a premium member, you should have received an email with links to your version of this interview – the full length and more revealing version where you hear the absolute best tips and advice from every guest. If you’re on the fence about becoming a premium member, join with the $1 trial today and get access to the FULL interviews each week, get access to an amazing back catalogue of interviews and ALL future interviews delivered automatically to your phone or tablet. Plus special member-only interviews. If you have a passion for animal rescue and you want to help, you should do a pet calendar if you're a dog photographer. – Kim Ortiz You'll also receive access to the members-only Secret Facebook Group where you can connect with other Premium Members and interview guests to help, support and motivate you to take ideas you hear in each episode and put them into action. There are also FB live video tutorials, role-play interviews and special live interviews happening in the group. You will not find more friendly, more motivated, caring and sharing photographers online. Seriously, that's not all. In addition to everything above, you'll get access to and instructions on forming or joining a MasterMind Group with other premium members. These groups are super motivating, make you accountable and build friendships with other pro photographers with similar motives to you – to build a more successful photography business. What is your big takeaway? Following this interview, I’d love to know if you're taking anything away from what Kim shared. Is there something you heard that excited or motivated you to the point where you thought, yeah, I'm going to do that! If so, let me know by leaving your thoughts in the comments below, let me know what your takeaways were, what you plan to implement in your business as a result of what you heard in today's episode. If you're doing a fund raiser and you give away to every contestant a family portrait with their dog, you can sell a lot of wall portraits. – Kim Ortiz If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask Kim or if you just want to say thanks for coming on the show, feel free to add them in the comments area below. Daily Vlog Challenge – starting June 7th! Do you find when you get to have a face to face meeting with prospective clients, they usually book you? That's how it is for me, and I'm pretty sure most of us. Did you know you can shortcut this whole process and get in front of and connect with ideal clients before your ...