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Union Station provides the perfect backdrop for hands-on learning and spacious classrooms for lecture and live demo classes.
With over 100 classes, there’s something here for everyone!

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Specialty: Marketing, Business, HS Seniors

Elevate Your Brand with High Fashion Senior Portraits

Speaker: The Grondes (Website) (Social Media)

Lecture   

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced   

Every time a bell rings a new senior photographer is born! (Feels like that sometimes, right?) How do you become the “”Go-To”” photographer in your schools? How do you become the photographer seniors and their parents are willing to travel to for their senior portraits taken? 8 years into running our business we moved to a new state and went headfirst into the already over saturated Midwest senior market. We built a style and high fashion experience that makes us the most sought-after Senior Portrait studios in our area.
Learn:
What marketing and sales tactics we use to fill our calendar
How we photograph our seniors to stand out
How we plan and style our sessions
How we are able to offer wardrobe to our seniors (with about spending thousands)
How we edit our sessions to maximize sales and bring in new clients

Specialty: Marketing, Business, HS Seniors

Scroll Stopping Senior Content

Speaker: The Grondes (Website) (Social Media)

Hands-On   

Intermediate, Advanced   

We all need more content to post on social media! As teens, scroll through their Instagram feeds at lightning speeds, we also need content that will get them to pause from scrolling, admire, and interact with our content. In this hands-on class, we want to get you as much scroll-stopping Senior Content we can possibly squeeze into 2 hours.
We are going to take a few moments to discuss our tactics and past successes and failures for creating viral senior related social media content.
Then, we will have at least four setups with four different lighting styles to not only get you content to share and boost your senior inquires as soon as you get home, but hopefully also help you find a style that you can then recreate with your own clients and influencer teams to build even MORE buzz for your studio over and over again!

Specialty: Marketing, Business, HS Seniors

Start Your Senior Influencer Team FROM SCRATCH!

Speaker: The Grondes (Website) (Social Media)

Lecture   

Beginner   

How many times have you wanted to learn how a success photographer does something only for their class to just talk about what they do now rather than how to actually get started?
We talked about our Influencer Team briefly in our High Fashion Senior Portrait Class last year, and due to overwhelming feedback of wanting to go deeper into how to START a team, we are breaking this off into its own class.
We want to give you real action items and a recipe that you can go home and start building a self-sustaining influencer team that will feed your senior business year after year.
We will discuss:
-Why Influencer Teams are important
-Where to find influencers
-What makes them an influencer rather than just a client
-What we give them to encourage them to get us referrals
-How we get them to post and rave about our business
-How we make them famous in our community

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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!