423: John Warrillow – is your photography business saleable or worth selling

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. John Warrillow of www.builttosell.com is the author of the best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You. The book was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the best business books of 2011 and has been translated into 12 languages. Recently, he authored another book: The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top. He is also the founder of The Value Builder System™, software for building the value of a company used by thousands of businesses worldwide. And host of Built to Sell Radio, ranked by Forbes as one of the world’s 10 best podcasts for business owners. In this interview, learn what you need to do and how to build a photography business worth selling, if your photography business is saleable or even worth selling. 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. Selling a photography business is less about the revenue and more about how the revenue is generated. – John Warrillow 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 John 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 the business is dependent on you as the photographer, it's not saleable. – John Warrillow If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask John or if you just want to say thanks for coming on the show, feel free to add them in the comments area below. The Blumes Mini Session Course If you love what you heard from both Phillip (last week) Stephanie today, and want to learn more about this approach to profitable mini sessions in the way of a course/roadmap, it's available here: https://photobizx.com/minis​ IMPORTANT: PhotoBizX Members get a 25% rebate on this course.