{"id":95057,"date":"2018-06-15T02:58:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T09:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=95057"},"modified":"2018-06-15T03:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:02:37","slug":"how-to-measure-your-progress-as-a-photography-entrepreneur-come-up-with-new-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/how-to-measure-your-progress-as-a-photography-entrepreneur-come-up-with-new-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Measure Your Progress as a Photography Entrepreneur + Come Up With New Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you know when you’re making progress as a photography entrepreneur? How do you know what to write about? Some practical tips:<\/p>\n

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Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Photography Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Thanks to Michael Kowalczyk for leaving this review for my ‘Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Photography Entrepreneurship” course on Udemy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Michael<\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0I learned that providing inspiration and education is most profitable these days. Building a 12k email following took Erik 6+ years. Newsletter are still the way to sell products\/services. Erik says hustle \/ publish blog post untill you have true 1000 followers. 12k took him 6 years, 1k will then take 0,5y. Publish preferably on Monday. Wednesday and Friday midday. 3 times a week for half a year = 547 inspiring post about what you consider valuable and inspirational. The course did not mention to research topics in front and concentrate on what might be relevant or missing. Instead it just suggested to follow your own gut, interests and skills, stay positive and get away of naysayers. Erik sounds motivating but is clearly biased towards positive thinking. I would liked the course to be a bit more thoughtful and reflective. Consider adding more info about how\/when\/where to get usefull milestone like feedback\/indicators (trough tech and people) along the steps in becoming an photo entrepreneur. Anyway thanks for putting this basic course together Erik. The best thing I got out of it is that it motivated me to start doing!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1. How to research topics and to concentrate on what might be relevant or missing<\/h2>\n

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Thanks Michael; here are some practical ideas:<\/p>\n