Charis Wilson – Photo by Edward Weston – Public Domain
This is the third in my “Photographers That You Should Know About” series - the first was Lange, the second was Strand.
Edward Weston lived from 1886 until 1958. He was known to make the comm…

Hi there and Happy Holidays!
It’s that crazy time of the year, and we wanted to let you know about a few little Holiday Gifts we have for you.  :-)  A free class and 50% discounts on Jules Cafe!
Join my sister and me plus 10 other highly successful wedding photographers as we share our greatest techniques and strategies for running a smooth, profitable wedding photography business.
The “I Do” event by The Joy of Marketing  is a FREE 3-day online marketing event for wedding photographers.
On Dec. 28, Jan. 4, and Jan. 11, from 11 am – 3 pm CST each day, tune in for free to learn how to:
• How to attract the right clients (who won’t banter you on price).
• Creating the perfect wedding album your clients will HAVE to have.
• Pricing your photography so you come out profitable every time.
• Getting your phone ringing with an easy, no-cost marketing technique.
• And much, much more!
To attend, all you need to do is REGISTER HERE!
We’ll be on on December 28!   Jules has a host of tips and tricks up her sleeve that help her to get through a wedding as smoothly as possible.   In the hectic hustle and bustle of a wedding day, there is a lot of pressure on the photographer to keep their cool and get the shot.   Along with the photo ideas are tips from Jules explaining her thought process and how she gets the shot.

Well hello there! We are BEYOND excited to go to WPPI this year. We’ve got a full schedule and we want to make sure to let you know where we’ll be and when we’ll be there. If you see either of us on the tradeshow floor or out & about, be sure and come up to say hello. Who knows, we might hand you a prize. Since we do look alike, if you don’t know who you are talking to you just ask. But secretly I know that I’m the favorite sister (don’t tell Jules I said that).

Here goes the Schedule, people. Keep up.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20.

7pm Go Bee Soiree Party with Sara France and sponsored by Pictage

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21

12pm Pictage User Group Think Tank meeting… Check out their new blog The Photo Life and see what’s happening at a PUG near you!

For much of the day, we’ll be on the tradeshow floor, gathering prizes for our Tuesday platform talk (see below!). If you find us and ask about Olive, you might just win a prize. Try it. Mention Olive AND Jules Cafe and you will get one for sure!

Speaking of Jules Cafe, check out our new SHOP and enter CAFE2011 for cool discounts on everything from Jules NEW Presets & Textures to our very popular Essential Starter Consult Kit!

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

3:30pm – 5:30pm Platform Presentation Studio B Preboard by February 18 at the following link: www.preboard.net
The talk is gonna rock, and you don’t want to miss it. If ONLY for the amazing prizes we will be handing out.
Here’s a list of some of the prizes you …

Hi Everyone and Happy Holidays!

Hope you are winding down your Holiday crunch and can take some time for yourself this season. One of the ways you can do that is by taking time to look to the future and think about how you want to structure your photography business to fit your life, and not the other way around.

Jules’ wedding photography business hits its TEN year anniversary this January, 2011, so we are thrilled to be part of this JoySTART your year event with Sarah Petty and her fabulous team. Take the opportunity to learn from so many great photographers about a number of topics… Pick and choose what works for you!

JoySTART Your Year is tailored to whatever education level you are at, starting on December 29, 2010 for FOUR Wednesdays in a row. You don’t have to listen for hours, you can digest small chunks of info, or just tune into the info that you want.

**The best part is that it is all FREE.**

Check it out below:

Learn how to market your business or become more efficient using:
Search Engine Optimization
Social Media
Branding
Workflow
Charitable Marketing

And if you’re looking at expanding into a new niche or need more marketing ideas for your photography business, there are also programs on:
Weddings
Pets
Families
Boudoir
Babies / Kids
High School Seniors

Happiest of Holidays to you and yours this season,

Much love,

Jules & Joy

I had the fabulous opportunity to participate in Chase Jarvis‘ broadcast with CreativeLive and Tamara Lackey this past weekend.   What a rush.  The collective energy of everyone working together to put out a quality product for photographers is contagious, and they do a fabulous job.   I had a blast pitching in and helping with what I could — the moment I walked in the door the producer, a fabulously well dressed woman named Celeste, said, “can you help dress the set?”  Having never even heard of the term, I said immediately, “Absolutely!  We don’t want a naked set!”  and went to work.  Hopefully you liked the result.  :-)  I thought the set was a great combination of warm and inviting, and yet showed the raw fact that this show was absolutely live — which is what gives it that fantastic edge, and learning quality.

I only brought my iphone — hey, Chase says the best Camera is the one you have with you — and still got some really fun stuff.  It was so neat to see everything behind the scenes and then watch it again on the Instant Replay.  The whole experience left me with some great new friends and a new respect for all that goes into a live production.  At one point, Tamara was utilizing now famous white board to take notes and called me in to help.  Phew its a lot of work to be on camera!  And Tamara did it for five straight days.   That girl amazes me.

Alison Henrie shot the last picture of me and Tamara, just wanted to give her a little blog love.  Thanks, Alison!  It was so fantastic to meet you!

thanks again for including me, Tamara!  Fabulous job to the entire …

Content As an Essential StrategyThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
I’m pretty sure you’re sick of folks like me telling you that content is king and that you must produce reams of it in order to compete these days, so I won’t put you through …

Jules and I are excited to be teaching during a truly one-of-a-kind online event, the 10.10.10 SalesSummit brought to you by The Joy of Marketing and whcc. It’s all about the sales process in a successful photography business. The 10.10.10 Sales Summit is F*R*E*E from 10 am to 10 pm CST on Sunday, October 10, 2010.

Featuring Jessica Claire, Kevin Kubota, Joy Bianchi Brown & Jules Bianchi, Julia Woods, Kia Bondurant, Sandy Puc, Bev & Tim Walden, Scott & Adina Hayne, Ron Nichols and Sarah Petty, you’ll learn soup to nuts what it takes to sell your art.

These top-earning photographers will teach you what they do to:
Weed out the clients who will waste your time during the phone consultation
Set expectations at the in-person consultation so your clients are prepared to invest
Shoot to sell so they can’t say no
Work it in the sales presentation – let your art sell itself
Get a incredibly loyal clients and qualified referrals by doing a few simple things AFTER the sale
P.S. If you can’t tune in on 10.10.10 or just want to learn how to sell better immediately, you can pre-purchase the event and start listening NOW for $59. The regular price for this event is $99 starting 10.10.10 so you can save $40 by buying today and get priority access to $10 selling tools from our speakers.

THANK YOU so much to everyone who came out to hear me speak on Social Networking last Tuesday at the NCPP (Northern California Professional Photographers).

If you missed the talk, here is a list of the speaking engagements I will be doing over the next several months (PLUS there are a FEW more that I’m not allowed to mention yet!) I am actually doing a few of these talks WITH my sister, Joy, and we are so flattered to have been asked to participate in such an amazing list of educational events. (Please choose a few to attend so that my mom isn’t only one there!)

August 23, 2010: WPPI Roadshow in Irvine
October 20, 2010: Professional Photographers of the Sacramento Valley
November 6, 2010: Kevin Kubota’s SummitUP
November 9-11,2010: Pictage’s PartnerCon
February 20, 2010: Wedding & Portrait Photographer’s International (WPPI)

Thank you to Tom O’Connor for shooting these pics of us at the NCPP event.

If you want to be inspired and you feel like you need some help with your business… and don’t we all… then I would strongly suggest that you attend this workshop.   Normally if you want to attend this workshop you have to fly to Illinois, but now you can come to gorgeous California and get the same great information!  Click the image below to get to their site.

Check it out:

Tuesday, July 6 at 7:15pm come by our studio, the home of Jules Cafe for fun, networking, support, education, treats, and prizes! Note we are starting 15 minutes earlier than usual, just to end earlier.

Where: 5772 Thornhill Drive, Oakland CA 94611

Join San Francisco-based wedding and portrait photographer Kimberly Sayre for an evening of cool workflow and post processing techniques! Explore some of the brand-new features of Adobe Lightroom 3, learn creative time-saving techniques that make your images pop while giving you your life back, preview the brand-new Cottage Industry Lightroom 3 preset pack, and mix and mingle with all your friends!

We will provide wine and coffee and water, and if you’d like to bring a treat to share, please do! We really appreciate the community that has been happening at Jules Cafe.

Come join us and tell a friend!

We’ll be meeting at our studio on Thornhill in Montclair, so come on by.

Please RSVP on our Meet Up page. If it’s full, email joy at joy@julesbianchi.com and we’ll see what we can do (space is limited). Hope to see you there!