Everardo Keeme – Episode 015 – A Photographer Podcast Interview

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Make sure you listen in, as on this podcast, Matt interviews Everardo Keeme, who is a certified professional photographer and also a professional snorer. Everardo got into photography on accident. He was working a corporate job, loved it, won a trip to Greece and didn’t have a camera. Since he didn’t have any pictures from that trip, he bought a camera, started photographing cycling events, applied to photograph the Phoenix Open (having never been or photographed golf), got the job and has been a photographer ever since. He got into senior portraits when his daughter got into high school, hence Twelve Year Senior Portraits. He wanted a studio for senior pictures, hence Photo Fusion Studio. Everardo is very passionate about education and is excited about all of the conferences and workshops available now. Overall, photographers are very good about sharing information with each other. He’s also excited about technology and how that’s only going to keep making us better. Internet Resources: Steer away from FB groups - doesn’t want to learn from other strugglers Podcasts - Stacey Brown Randall, Steph Crowder, Everything is Alive Books: 5 core ways of getting referrals - Stacey Brown Randall (https://amzn.to/2LAMfVV) Read Full Transcript Transcription was done by Temi.com which means it’s an AI generated transcript. The transcript may contain spelling, grammar and other errors, and is not a substitute for watching the video. Speaker 1: 00:01 Welcome to from nothing to profit, a photographer's podcast with Matt and Kayak where each week they talk to photographers about what is working in their business now so you can swipe those ideas and grow your business faster. Matt: 00:16 Hey everybody. Welcome to from nothing to profit so today will be a little bit different because kyle is not able to join us today because she's got a sick kid at home. But I'm with my good friend Everardo Akimi. He has a really fascinating story. So I think you guys will be interested to know what he does. First of all, he's a corporate event and headshot photographer. If you guys follow them online, that's what you'd probably see. Um, I know he's also a certified professional photographer. Um, I know that because him and allison both did that kind of at the same time. And then he's been the official photographer of the Phoenix Open from since 2010, which I think is the most interesting part because I'm a sports guy and that's always fascinating to every week when you get it every year for a week when you get to do that. Matt: 01:01 But then you're the owner of photo fusion studios and the twelfth and twelfth year senior portraits. So welcome man. I appreciate you being on the show. Yeah, of course, man. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. So I have to tell everybody a little bit of a backstory about when we went to sync together and I'll throw you under the bus and totally embarrass you. But that's how we, that's how we start every podcast around here is we try to handle it. I'm a big boy so we all stayed. Joy verts has a condo down by where sync is hosted. So um, every year we go down there and we tend to stay at her, her condo, and you know, some people can make it every year, some people can't or whatever. So at the last minute a bunch of people said they could go and enjoy, had already kind of filled up the condo. So what happened is that we started like having to like move people around a little bit and Everardo and I were the only two guys that were staying at the condo that day because I think mentioned Shaylon will actually, we're staying in a different condo and uh, so we ended up having to share a room. So we had two twin beds and shared a room together. And I'll tell you what, man, you're the loudest store I've ever, I've ever hung out with. Matt: 02:09 It was, it was actually impressive. I felt like at moments that you were yelling at me, you start so loud. Well, I've always taught and uh,