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Robert N. Provencher – Your Master Coach Marketer
“If you want to be a profitable and successful photographer, then study profitable and successful photographers.”

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What to do when people simply don’t want to have a family portrait taken?

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I noticed a trend these days. And it’s not good.

It appears many folks don’t want and don’t have much patience for family portraits.

Adults seem to hate having their picture taken. Even when with their families.

I could be wrong, but I think I’m mostly right. Priorities are changing.

Cell phones are ruining us all. In this faced paced world, the old adage is new and relevant: “People will take ease over quality everytime.”

My attitude is three fold:

It is what it is. Can’t change it, so adapt we must.
Follow the path of least resistance, water flows downhill.
Find the market that matters

And more.

Don’t get me wrong. We’re still shooting families in our studio, especially the legacy multi-generational family gatherings. It’s just that I detect these subtle changes.

A few ways through this in my oh so humble yet laser accurate opinion is to maintain promotions for families, fairies and such. Don’t sit back. Get at it! Maybe I need to work harder for each booking, but hard work never killed anyone.

Promotions and marketing are in fact the solution.

Maria S has a solution. She outlined it a few months ago when I had her on our marketing mastermind, now available for members HERE.

(one simple idea while out for her bike ride converted one simple family session into a $5,000.00 sale…pure genius!)

Fairies are a thing for us (that image above, in this email, is a current sample- one of many). I just shot over 50 in the last ten days.

We’re up to out eyeballs in fairy orders and I recently shared, as I usually do, my latest fairies workflow, with template download.

For members of course….GET IT HERE once you login.

Next week I am planning on bringing James Hodgins (he keeps bugging me, he has so much to share!) back for a marketing mastermind on selling, educating your clients, attracting the best market and creating ‘perceived’ value. And more.

More on that date coming soon.
Stay tuned, stay frosty my fiends and friends in photography.

Robert N. Provencher – Your Master Coach Marketer

“If you want to be a profitable and successful photographer, then study profitable and successful photographers.”

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“Organic is the way to grow my photography business…”

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We had Danny Rabalais on last night in our October Marketing Mastermind meet up.

He’s retired, 57, married, a grandpa and is CRUSHING IT.
Go figure. His photography business is booming, he has a staff of over 25 worker bees and his main struggle now is: “How Big Do We Want To Grow This?”

This presentation was loaded with ideas shared by Danny.

Members login GO HERE for replay and download.

Danny will be at SPAC next January.

A must attend convention for photographers digging deep and profiting from volume photography.

Yours in photography and success,
Robert N. Provencher – Your Master Coach Marketer

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Is being a critic the lowest form of expression?

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There are critics everywhere.

Not a job I would want. Good thing there are more creators than critics.

I’d rather be a creator truth be told.

Maybe there’s a legit reason we have critics. Maybe not.

Maybe they keep us on our toes. Maybe it weeds out the weak and infirm.
‘Thins the herd’ so to speak.

Who knows. I look at my years of print competition and all the critiques I personally gave out and received, maybe it all had a purpose.

Who knows. Maybe we’d all be fine without them. Maybe in fact we’d create even more? Even better?

Who knows.

But critics will always be with us to darken our souls and cast a shadow.

Some are legit and serve a solid purpose.

Or do they?

If something is crap, and it’s fairly obvious, then, we’d know. Because, well, it’s obvious.

We don’t need someone to point it out, do we?

I always felt the ultimate ‘critic’ so to speak is my client. Her vote counts the most.

She votes with her wallet and her heart.

If something is a work of art, whether it’s a photo or a person, and another person, say a critic, has something negative to say, maybe, just maybe that’s there opinion.

Nothing more. We need to ignore them and listen to the only critic that matters.

Is being a critic the lowest form of expression?

Let the critics do what the critics do best. Meanwhile, my job is to create.

One final point. Don’t confuse coaching, positive feedback and old fashioned kick-in-the butt mentoring on the same plane as what a typical critic doles out.

Ain’t the same. Know the difference.
Robert N. Provencher – Your Master Coach Marketer

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“Gotta punch that internal drama queen in the face…”

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Every time I find myself whining about something, I say to myself “Punch that drama queen in the face…”

I know, sounds a little aggressive. But when it comes to whining, blaming and complaining, I tend to over react.

It’s my nature. Somewhere, somehow, someplace a long time ago I got the message.

And that message is this: When you come up against adversity of any kind, it makes no sense to play victim, to whine about it, to complain or to play victim.

These behaviors in fact will take all your power away.

It’s tempting to default to victim mode. We’ve been doing it all our childhood. And if you want to remain like a child, then embrace it.

But if you want to grow, get strong, expand and find creative solutions, one needs to embrace the pain, suck it up and use self discipline.

Next time you come up against pain, suffering, challenges or road blocks, no matter what the situation, remember these wise words from Napolean Hill:

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

Take a deep breath, relax, and punch that inner drama queen out of your life.
Robert N. Provencher – Your Master Coach Marketer

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September 2018 Podcast with Rob and James

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It’s been a while, but we’re back on the rails, railing about any and all things photography..including smart lifestyle choices, fitness, making money, boosting confidence and raw vs JPEG (not that again!)

The superman images James ranted on about:

Download link in the forum for members HERE

“There’s a lot a of money on the table. All you gotta do is ask for it…”

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I was chatting with a photographer not so long ago. He asked me this question:
“Rob, what’s your secret?”

As if there’s a “secret”, once discovered, all one has to do is wave a wand and magic happens.

Instead of blowing smoke his way, I said this:

“There’s a lot a of money on the table. All you gotta do is ask for it…”

Get focused, get working, don’t cheat, be real, work hard, stay focused, ask for the money and learn to sell.

Selling is the gas that fuels your marketing. People are lazy. They will ALWAYS take the easy road. You know, low cost, easy-to-pose-for shoot and burn photographers that make it real easy for clients.

They seem happy picking up crumbs and catering to the lowest primal urges of humanity.

It’s our responsibility to sell them, making it harder, much harder for them to take the easy road. And make profit delivery a quality product they will truly value over time.

If you want to learn the very best “selling secrets” from real, legit photographers, I created a Selling Series for members HERE

Not a member? I have a bunch of content on the blog HERE

The money is right there in front of you. Just reach out and grab it.

Robert N. Provencher – Your Master Coach Marketer

“If you want to be a profitable and successful photographer, then study profitable and successful photographers.”

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DO what you’re supposed to do…..Lessons from Second City

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Whenever the queen bee Tina and I find ourselves in the big smoke, aka hogtown, aka Toronto, we invariably make our way to Second City for a fun time and many laughs.

One of our favorite things.

And it’s only like $30.00 bucks a person.

A few weeks ago we did just that. And we laughed, non-stop. So did everyone else in the sold out theater. People were rolling in the aisles.

They did what they were supposed to do. Make people laugh. Hard.

This wasn’t always the case. I almost gave up on Second City two years ago.

The show we attended back then had way way too much preaching, nagging and all things hyper PC…..you know, fat shaming, homophopia, social norms yadadayayayada…nothing wrong with this but we came to laugh.

Not be nagged, or pitched an ideology. I got worried laughter and comedy was dying.

You know what I mean.

The thing is, if I wanted to to be schooled in social justice and preaching, I’d attend a gender studies or sociology program.

But not Second City. If they go down this road they’re doomed.

They need to do what they’re supposed to do….make people laugh.

It’s the same in business….you have one purpose: Make money. Make memories. Create clients for life.

Rinse. Repeat.

I know some don’t like to hear that, but on this planet, the way things are set up it’s simple….

DO what you’re supposed to do: Make money and serve people.
Robert N. Provencher – Your Master Coach Marketer

“If you want to be a profitable and successful photographer, then study profitable and successful photographers.”

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