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Specialty: boudoir, seniors, marketing

The Over 40 and Fabulous Project: Making money helping women rediscover just how sexy they really are

Speaker: Mike Fox (Website) (Social Media)

Lecture   

Intermediate, Advanced   

How do you separate yourself from all the other boudoir photographers around you, especially as the market is filling up with brand new boudoir photographers? Other than offering a discount, how do you move potential clients from “I might do a shoot someday” to “I’m ready”? Are you looking for a way to get more consistent boudoir bookings? Would you like for past clients to tell you how much their shoot with you changed the way they saw themselves and changed their relationships?
Society and especially the media traditionally portray women over 40 as no longer sexy. Its time to turn that image around.
Women over 40 are an awesome market for boudoir. Many are at a point where their kids are reaching adulthood and they are ready to start thinking about themselves again. They often have more money to spend than younger women. And many are at a point in life where they’re ready to try new things and worry less what someone else thinks of them.
In this class, we’ll cover:
• How to craft the perfect message to create demand and reach even those women who’ve never thought about doing a boudoir shoot.
• Ways to set your Over 40 boudoir sessions apart from everyone else’s “40 over 40” campaigns, and stop the “shopping around” by turning your project into a “cause.”
• Two key strategies we’ve used outside the “shoot and sell” process to attract women to the project and get them to refer their friends.
• How we’ve harnessed marketing automation to shoot 50+ sessions a year, while both still having day jobs.
This class is intended for intermediate to advanced photographers, and is geared towards photographers who already shoot boudoir. We will focus on how we market and sell the experience, not how we shoot the sessions.

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April 22-25 2024 | St. Louis MO.

SKILL LEVELS

Beginner: Just starting out or relatively new to a given subject matter. Basics will be covered and the course will move at a slower pace. The instructor will spend a little more time trying to explain concepts to ensure everyone is following. On a scale of 1-10 consider this level a 1-3 on the given topic.

Intermediate: Has a grasp of some basic concepts. This course level will move at a faster pace and assume you have basic knowledge covered on the given subject matter. On a scale of 1-10 consider this level a 4-6 on the given topic.

Advanced: You have working knowledge of the given subject matter, but are looking for more fine-tuning and some advanced topics to take your work to that next level. DO NOT expect instructors to explain basic concepts in this course. On a scale of 1-10 consider this level a 7-10 on the given topic.

Class Types

Hands-On

These are shooting courses. You will be shooting and working. Bring your camera, gear, or whatever you need for the course and to create create images. Expect to have some level of shooting.

Live Demonstration

These are instructor-led courses where you will see a live demonstration of what the instructor is teaching. You can still bring your camera to these courses and you can photograph, but the goal of the course is NOT for you to shoot or to ensure you get a shot. The goal is for you to see how and why the instructor does what he/she does in order to get the final result.

Lecture

These are non-shooting courses. Typically classroom-based, bring your laptop and notepad and focus on learning!