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5 Steps to Booking Better Clients You Love
free guide : 5 steps to BOOKING BETTER CLIENTS Are you ready to go from booking clients just to pay the bills to booking clients you absolutely love (and that love you right back)? This jam-packed 14 page guide will get you right on your way, enjoy! what other...
Free Action Plan – Our Top 5 Sales Tools
grab your free action planOUR TOP 5 SALES TOOLSAre you ready to level up on your sales and book packages that seriously impact your bottom line? Check out our action plan that outlines the top 5 sales tools & techniques that we apply daily in our 3 studios!what...
Free Templates – 3 Email Templates We Can’t Live Without
grab your free EMAIL TEMPLATES Feeling that inbox overwhelm? Grab the 3 Email Templates We Can’t Live Without for FREE and get an end to writers block! what other people ARE SAYING These templates were so very helpful for me getting my inbox under control! Simple...
Freebie – Our Asset Management Workflow
our shopping list & workflow forASSET MANAGEMENTWe're taking the confusion out of backing up and managing your files! Grab the exact workflow and products we use to take care of our images in our own studio. Don't worry - this system is incredibly simple while...
Four Simple Posing Mistakes to Avoid |(Plus How to Fix Them)
I get it - mastering the settings on your camera during a shoot is already enough to make a photographer go crazy. But then add in the element of posing a couple, and keeping your head on straight can be downright HARD. Jeff and I have taught a lot of...
Find Amazing Natural Light in Seconds | (With This Insanely Easy Trick)
Oh the hand trick!! Our easiest tool we’ve ever used - it’s laughable how easy it makes it to find great natural light at any shoot! I’ve mentioned the hand trick in this blog post here, but I’ve decided to expand on it more since that article has been so...
Our Favorite Camera Bags for Traveling with Professional Photo Gear
Oh the many stories we have of traveling with professional wedding photography gear! In January of 2009, Jeff and I landed in Venice, Italy, to photograph a bride and groom. This was our first international trip where we were actually PAID to travel for a...
Six Features We LOVE About Shootproof |(+ How We Made $5k in Passive Print Sales in Just a Few Weeks!)
We absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE using Shootproof to deliver photos to our clients! Not only does Shootproof have gorgeous photo galleries and is super easy to use (for us AND our clients), I thought I’d hop into our Shootproof account and record myself sharing the six...
How Do I Get More Wedding Inquiries?
Oh, wedding inquiries. If there’s ONE question that every wedding photographer desperately wants to know the golden answer to it’s this: “How in the world do I get more wedding inquiries???” Believe me, my friend, if there was a simple answer, I would share it...
Creative Rising Gatherings
Creative Rising GATHERINGS Come join us in community with other Southern California photographers at our San Diego Studio! Creative Rising Gatherings are free events meant to foster creativity and relationships…and always end with a dance party! Next Gathering:...
Six Critical Email Templates You Shouldn’t Live Without
Controlling my email inbox is a war that I have fought for YEARS. A full inbox can cause so much stress in my life, that it's the #1 thing that pulls me away from getting important work done. Important work like updating my website, posting to my...
How We Shoot a Wedding as Husband and Wife Photographers
Jeff and I are a married photography team, and we’ve developed an interesting approach to how we split up the responsibilities of shooting a wedding as husband and wife photographers. In fact, I believe it’s incredibly different than most married teams out...
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HOW DO I GET MORE (AND BETTER) WEDDING INQUIRIES?
Every wedding photographer desperately wants to know the quick answer to this one question: “How in the world do I get more wedding inquiries???" So in this mega-post, I’m sharing how to build a solid marketing STRATEGY – the same one that has continually brought high quality wedding inquiries to our business for the past ten years.
SIX EMAIL TEMPLATES YOU SHOULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT
A full inbox causes so much stress in my life that it’s the #1 thing that pulls me away from important work. So what's my single most effective weapon against ‘email overwhelm’? EMAIL TEMPLATES. Here’s my pick for the six email templates that every wedding photographer should have in their business and why.
HOW TO SHOOT BEAUTIFUL PORTRAITS IN HARSH SUNLIGHT
When it comes to lighting, wedding days are totally against us as wedding photographers. Most of the time, we’re shooting the First Look, wedding party and family portraits ALL in the harsh afternoon sun. So how do Jeff and I handle the tough light to shoot soft, natural skin tones in super harsh sun? Check out my six technical tips…
CREATIVE RISING
the podcastA show about what it’s really like to run a PHOTOGRAPHY business
We teach photographers to build life-giving businesses that they absolutely love.
About Us
We're Jeff & Erin
We’re Jeff and Erin Youngren – and it’s our mission to help you thrive not just as a wedding photographer, but as a business owner. It’s time to set aside the stress and comparison of a hustle mindset, and build a life-giving business instead.
We met in college, got married, and started corporate jobs before we discovered (and fell in love with) wedding photography. But like many creative entrepreneurs, we were booking anything we could, strapped to our laptops and living dangerously close to burnout.
So we dug in and learned how to build a thriving business that supports our dream life – instead of a joyless business that runs a stressed-out life.
Today, we photograph only 10 Dreamie weddings per year, but we also run two other wedding brands plus a commercial studio in San Diego, CA. And we do it by only working the hours that fit into our life. The other hours? We spend those living a joyful life raising our two beautiful sons, James and Samuel.
hugs,
Jeff and Erin