Teaching photographers how to fill the gaps in their businesses

Education for
Portrait Photographers

Our central mission revolves around empowering portrait photographers across diverse niches with specialized, high quality business  education.

Our dedication is to equip you, whether you document families, couples, seniors, newborns, boudoir, or any other niche, not only to excel in your craft but to do so with unwavering confidence. By participating in our coaching or course products, you're not just gaining access – you're immersing yourself in a journey alongside a collective of seasoned professionals.

Your experience with us is far from passive learning; it's a vibrant exploration of collaboration. We share insights distilled from personal growth stories, artistic challenges, industry-best practices, and a tapestry of perspectives only a community of fellow portrait enthusiasts from various niches can provide. 

Together, we will navigate the path to elevate your photography business, ensuring it flourishes in the dynamic world of portrait photography, capturing the unique essence of every subject and niche you specialize in.

Our team is comprised of experienced portrait photographers who have made it their full time careers. We can help you achieve your goals, too!

As active portrait photographers, we are incredibly well versed in this industry. Collectively, we have photographed most genres of portraits including couples, families, newborns, maternity, headshots, and boudoir.

As portrait photographers, we are acclimated to the needs to increase prices and volume in order to bring in the money needed to run a successful business. 

Industry experience

How we can get you results

A major area of focus for us as portrait photographers who run businesses is executing our sales strategies to reach the financial goals we set for ourselves. 

We help portrait photographers improve their lead quantity and quality, get more consults, and book more sessions that they actually want to be a part of. 

Expert sales strategy

We can help guide you to be more critical of your portrait photography portfolio - so you are showcasing work that reflects your brand and the clients you want to book. 

While your portfolio will always be uniquely yours, we're able to help you identify objective characteristics that can help you make better portfolio showcases.

Portfolio Review

wedding photographers

While business (and especially portrait photography businesses) is something we love, one of the main reasons we got into photography in the first place is because we are creative, artistically minded people - just like you. 

As creatives, business can be a struggle since it doesn't always come naturally.

When you work with us, we make learning business accessible and fun. Yes, even the education on taxes.

Creatives at heart

We hold a strong belief that portrait photography businesses are not too different than most other service based businesses. However, that doesn't mean there aren't unique opportunities and things to consider. 

We can help you uncover these unique things that come from many years of experience getting clients to find us. 

Unique Marketing Solutions

While many conversations by portrait photographers will often get into your photography style, composition, and other related things - our goal is to help you create a lasting business. 

As a result, our focus is on letting you be the creative artist you are - no matter what your approach to photography is. 

No Judgment zone

Images seen in this section are by our team through their respective portrait photography businesses

The help you need is just a few clicks away!

Our coaching programs are designed to help you achieve your business goals. 

Hands on learning - One-on-One

Business Coaching

Our business coaching will help you do the following...

  • Learn business fundamentals you are missing
  • Get help implementing changes to your business
  • Make clear refinements to your website
  • Increase the volume of inquiries you receive
  • Improve conversion rates (get more inquiries to book you)
  • Make more money as you grow your revenue and income

Our Business Audit is a unique way for wedding photographers to get insight into their business.

Highlight key problem areas in your business

Business Audit

The Business Audit includes...

  • Full Review of Your Business including Branding, Marketing Strategy, Pricing, Sales Process, Website/SEO, Email Quality, and more
  • ~22 page report highlighting our findings
  • 1:1 Call to Review Our Findings and Create an Action Plan

Our online courses will cover a wide range of topics relevant to wedding photography businesses.

Full suite coming soon!

Online Courses

Our full suite of courses is currently in development and production. We are excited to bring these courses to you!

Be the first to hear about new courses by signing up for our mailing list. 

You can also get our first course, Inquiry to Consult Emails Course, for free. Sign up using the link below!


"...Almost overnight, I started getting inquiries on a regular basis..."

“If you're a photographer looking to get more website traffic, they're the best for it!"

“I've learned so much already, and I've only scratched the surface with their coaching support”

- Nate D.

- Ryan R.

- Mark F.

"If you're a photographer looking to get more website traffic, they're the best for it!"

"...Almost overnight, I started getting inquiries on a regular basis..."

"I've learned so much already, and I've only scratched the surface with their coaching support"

Ryan R.

- Nate D.

- Mark F.

We have taken our collective experience as photographers, creatives, business owners, and teachers ourselves, and paired it with a passion for performance to produce a service suite that will help you get to your next business milestone.

Our vision is to help photography business owners build sustainable, lasting businesses that instill them with confidence and satisfaction with what they’ve built.

meet your
Teachers

Shoot and Thrive

Marshall, Chris,
     Jes and Bethany

Take actionable steps to improve their business


Learn about new things that can have big impacts on their business


Hear from experienced photographers about the things that work (and the things that don’t)

We Help Photographers Who Are Ready To…

Have additional input on their business decisions from our trained staff


Generate more revenue so they can have successful businesses


Have more time to dedicate to the important things in life

We offer online coaching and courses to help photographers get more control over their businesses. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned photographer needing to sure up your processes, we can help. 

You can always learn more about how we can support your business goals by spending a few minutes chatting with us. 

Learn how to improve your wedding photography business so you can get more bookings!

Let's get started!

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