I don’t know about you but I see these types of blogs and advertisements for workshops, books, and training all the time. Starting a business to teach people how to start a business appears to be a big business. At the same time, I see lots of posts on social media about how a person has started a photography business and is having trouble with a customer and asking for advice on how to deal with a difficult customer. Seems to me we’ve put the proverbial cart before the horse. It seems to me that deciding how to deal with difficult customers should have been decided at the time the business was established.
The reason this topic comes up is that I, like many, considered the idea of beginning a photography business but I didn’t want to limit myself to a particular genre of photography. I also realized that a huge percentage of the time to run a photography business doesn’t actually involve taking photographs. Do we, the world, really need all the weekend photography business warriors or are those business models shortlived? Trust me, I admire people who establish an actual business and make it but I don’t think it is something many photographers should pursue.
Photographer Clay 