{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fb62289d5-a959-4106-a127-5d1cba7c7539","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"The Real Math Behind a $3,000 Mini Day","description":"You wrapped a full Saturday of mini sessions. Clients loved their photos. And then you sat down to run the numbers and realized you took home far less than expected. Sound familiar?\n\nMini session pricing is where so many photographers silently lose money, not because they don't work hard, but because they've never actually built their price from the real cost of showing up. In this episode, Rebecca Rice walks you through the exact math behind a $3,000 mini day so you can stop guessing at what to charge for mini sessions and start setting prices that actually pay you.\n\nRebecca breaks down both the obvious costs (location fees, props, assistant) and the ones photographers almost always forget, like gear depreciation, software subscriptions, editing time, and self-employment tax. When you add it all up, a typical mini day runs $1,000 to $1,400 in real expenses before you've taken a single photo.\n\nFrom there, she reverse-engineers from a $3,000 gross revenue goal to show you what you actually take home per hour, and why mini session pricing for photographers has to start with your own numbers, not what someone else is charging in your area.\n\nYou'll leave this episode knowing how to calculate your true cost of doing business, how to set a base price that makes your day profitable without depending on upsells, and the three pricing mistakes that quietly cost photographers thousands every season.\n\nGrab the free $3K Mini Sessions Blueprint to build your own pricing from the bottom up: https://freebies.rebeccaricephoto.com/12-ideas-minis","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/9a77189e-6706-4276-a325-e009c3f0d60c/family-photography-business-podcast-1.png"}