Remember! you gonna doing business with someone who you love so saying thank you and appreciating each other are two most important thing that you need to do, be grateful for every simple things that you already achieve and always support each other.
You don’t be a super kind partner but when you face the problems sometimes one of you will give up and down but the other one can’t do it! Someone who still standing by on the ground must be help the other one and this is the only way to keep your business run well.
3. Celebrate your SMALL winning
Celebrate for all simple thing that you got, no matter it just a deal for US$100 or you got a best partner that you can trust than celebrate it. You should remember that doing photography business with your spouse isn’t a short cut to rich but it is totally a journey and journey takes time so tryin’ to celebrate whatever you got.
Back couple years ago I got no sales for almost 6 months and when me and my wife got a simple deal of short photo shoot costs US$130 than we celebrate it by eating a cheap chicken noodle in the street, and you this is truly worth it to do!
4. LOVE first, than the business
That is true, lets make LOVE first and than the business,
Some people get the business into priority and forget about their love so once the against hard problems and they can’t solve it during that time than they fight each other, the bad thing even they got divorce, this is why some people don’t want do business with their spouse.
This is me and my wife
I know for sure that you guys doing business for money and the money goes to someone who you love, so at the end you still put the name of someone who you love than don’t ever sacrifice it for money!
5. Dream BIG and start small
Someone said that if your dream can’t make you scare means your dream is too small to think,
The number 5 of simple ways to doing photography business with your spouse is always dream big but you have to start small. So everything in this globe is POSSIBLE even you stay in a small city but you have a dream to serve worldwide couple in such beautiful places. Start small cause you have to walk every steps and it needs time to done. Push your self but if you feel tired than stay calm for little while but when you getting better than back to the track and keep the full throttle through your dreams.
This is my wife where I took her together in my portrait photo shoot in Hong Kong
How to keep earn money everyday while you doing photography business with your spouse
Selling your photos online
There are a lot of way to making money every day and photography is services business so once you got enough deal every months than you don’t need to earn money everyday, but you know what, the clue of running a business is tryin’ as much as you can to earn money every single day no matter how small it is. So one simple thing that you can do to earn money every day as a photographer is by selling your photos online.
I use Shutterstock to sell my photos,
Here I uploading my wedding, travel, or even food photos so in a simple way I just uploading every photos that fulfill my hard drive for the past decades. Start in 2014 I run a destination wedding photography business which is mean I serve worldwide couple and need to travel around the world to serve them. As a photographer I surely shots another part too, such as buildings, food, and people where I belong so rather than keep it in my hard drive than I uploading into that platform and sell it online.
So no one said that doing photography business with your spouse is easy but it’s not that difficult too, if you want to make it than you can have it. Due to my business, kids is still matter, right now I have 3 adorable kids and when I having a photo shoot that we gonna keep them into our parents house and someone can take care of them within 6-8 days.
So selling my photos online is really awesome, and through Shutterstock all you need to is just uploading and put the description – keyword than wait till your photos bought by someone. When you interesting with this than you can sign up on Shutterstock and start earning money!
Do internet marketing and work online wherever you are
There are two factors that able you to make money every day,
First, you have to make the system so your product or services can be purchased by anyone on this world and second one is automation, through here you are able to make money even while you sleep.
Take a look this picture below, as I said before I travel a lot both for business and leisure so when I satisfy with the hotel that I stayed during my trip than I wrote about their facility in my blog and put some links inside, once the reader who visiting my blog book their hotels and using my affiliate links than I will got a small percentage from their booking without any extra work or charge for them.
The table below is booking report from Agoda.com, today I got 20 guest departed and spend US$3,158.05 and through that amount I got US$129.75 commission. All of thing you see below is an automation system so you don’t need to proceed the booking at all cause Agoda.com take care of it, just back to sleep or vacation with your family and start earning.
I recommend you to learn more about internet marketing from Easy Retired Millionaire, they will teach you how to make good system for your cash machine. Just like what I did above than you can start to earn money online while doing photography business with your spouse no matter where you are.
Still wanna doing photography business with your spouse?
Everyone can do it and all of your business journey will have so much fun when you do it with your spouse,
I believe in my philosophy that no matter how long I work out and even get down but if my wife is standing next to me than I still can do another move to make all the dream happen. I just wanna rich together with my wife and take her wherever I go in this planet.
Now it’s your turn to doing photography business with your spouse, lets start small thing and ask her to work with you.