This episode is part of my quiz series, where I tell you all about the four archetypes of brand photographers. You can go here to take the quiz, Are You Ready to Be a Brand Photographer, and I will tell you what your brand photographer archetype is!

This episode is diving into the second archetype, The Dual Positioned Photographer. If you got this result in your quiz, keep listening to discover your best next step towards becoming a successful brand photographer.

01:08 Exploring Brand Photographer Archetypes

01:30 Understanding the Dual Positioned Brand Photographer

02:37 Key Considerations for Dual Positioned Photographers

03:41 Marketing Strategies for Brand Photography

04:21 Enhancing Client Experience

05:06 Final Thoughts and Encouragement

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Full Show Notes

You're listening to Take It Personally,

a podcast for photographers about

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the personal side of business

and the art of standing out.

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Here I'll help you build a business

and a brand that is uniquely you.

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If you want to attract dream

clients and stop looking at the

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competition to decide your next move.

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If you are ready to show up as a

confident branding authority to help

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you serve your clients and consider

your goals and priorities too.

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If you want to make your mark in a

new, underserved niche of photography,

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then this is the place for you.

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I'm your host Maddie Pachon, South

Dakota brand photographer and educator.

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I'm a straight shooting,

Instagram obsessed, and blogger.

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Diehard Swifty who has built a multi

six figure business on the back of brand

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photography all while raising a family.

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And I know you can do the same.

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Let's get ready to take it personally.

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Wireless Microphone RX-2: This

episode is part of my five-part quiz

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series, where I tell you all about.

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The different archetypes

of brand photographers.

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You can go to Maddie.

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Dot com slash quiz.

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If you don't know what your archetype

is, you're going to take the quiz.

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And then I will tell you which of the four

types you are as a brand photographer.

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This episode is all about the dual

positioned brand photographer.

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Wireless Microphone RX: The dual

possession photographer is the

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second most common, most popular.

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Photographer that I work with.

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The dual position.

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Photographer is a photographer

who is interested in adding brand

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photography to their services, but

they are not interested in leaving

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weddings or portraits behind.

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Sometimes these photographers

will tell me they have no interest

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in leaving those things behind.

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They still want to offer

family sessions in the fall.

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They still want to take a

couple of weddings a year.

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Uh, and sometimes photographers

will tell me that they eventually

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want to leave those things behind,

but they want to do more of a

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slow pivot into brand photography.

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And the ladder is the

camp that I fell into.

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I very much wanted to only do brand

photography, but I just was apprehensive

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to like, let everything else go and

pursue brand photography full on.

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So I had a very slow pivot.

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I had years where I was.

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Still shooting.

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Weddings are still shooting families

and just not bringing it into my brand.

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So that's one of the first decisions

that you will want to make as

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a dual position photographer is

what does your brand look like?

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What do you want to be known for?

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And sometimes this means that

dual position photographers will

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have duplicates of everything.

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They'll have multiple Instagram accounts.

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They'll have multiple websites.

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Sometimes it means that everything

just lives really cohesively under

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one account or under one website.

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I have seen both work really well,

but you do need to be really, really

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clear on what it is that you want.

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Wireless Microphone RX-1: In order

to charge four figures for brand

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photography in order to have a six

figure brand photography business.

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You need to have a personal

brand that makes booking

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brand photography really easy.

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And that's difficult to do if you're

not clear on your business and on

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your goals, it is easier when you

have really crystal clear positioning.

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So as a dual position photographer,

there are very specific things that I'm

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going to want you to consider so you

can have success with brand photography.

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This starts with your positioning

and where you're at online,

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your social media, your website.

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But it also gets into your

marketing marketing brand.

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Photography is different than

marketing, other types of photography,

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portraits, and wedding photography.

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You are talking to a client who's at a

very different part of the buying journey.

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And so how you speak to them in a way

that really educates them about brand

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photography and how you can help.

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It's a really different process.

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So you want to make sure that your

words are cutting through all of that

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noise and that they understand that

some of the problems that they're

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having in their business are the

things that aren't quite right.

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Can be solved by brand photography.

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And then lastly, your client

experience is extremely important.

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Client experience is always going to be

important with photography, but brand

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photography is really unique because

you're working with businesses and brands.

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So client experience looks different then

helping mom put together outfits that

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look good together for family photos.

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Brand photography.

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Clients are also different because

they are often repeat clients, but you

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need to make sure that your business

is set up in a way where it is inviting

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for people to become repeat clients.

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A lot of the time we are constantly

looking for the next sale and brand

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photography is really exciting because

you don't always have to do that.

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A lot of your business can come from

those repeat clients, but that's not going

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to happen if you're not strategically

set up for them to come back.

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If you're a dual position photographer,

I would love to hear from you.

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Dual position photographers are

the second majority of clients

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that I work with inside of rebrand.

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This is a really common one.

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And I do have to say that a

lot of people will come in as

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dwell position photographers.

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And then by the time we are done working

together, they consider themselves more

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exclusive or elite brand photographers,

which we'll talk about in other episodes.

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But I do have some clients who

continue to want to pursue.

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Doing other types of photography and it's

something that you can absolutely do.

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You do not have to burn down your

wedding and portrait business

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to add brand photography.

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You just have to do it in a strategic way.

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