Jamie Swanson – Episode 014 – A Photographer Podcast Interview

From Nothing to Profit

In this episode of from Nothing to Profit, A Photographer’s Podcast, Matt and Kia interview Jamie Swanson, who is really leading the personal brand photography market. Jamie is actually starting a new podcast about building a personal brand so make sure to listen in. She also has a Facebook group for personal brand photography you should go join now. In the beginning, 2011, Jamie really focused on wedding photography. Then Jamie really focused on Moderntog, helping other photographers grow their businesses, in all genres. Now, Jamie focuses solely on personal brand photography and growing her client’s following, through Moderntog. She offers a 6 week course on how to transition to personal brand photography. Jamie also offers a membership for photographers who have taken her 6 week course. This started because Jamie was looking for an ongoing personal brand photographer for herself and she couldn't find one. So she decided to train them up. Client’s are willing to invest in their business and they need your work on an ongoing basis. This gives you steady and consistent income as well. Jamie also talks about goal setting, starting with her yearly goals, then breaking them down into quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily steps to reach those goals. Resources: Link to Jamie’s class: onekweekend.com or https://www.personalbrandphotography.com/ Book: Start with Why - Simon Sinek (https://amzn.to/2BGuArv) 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 with Matt and Kaya. So today we have a really awesome guest that I've, Jamie Swanson, who I've been friends with kind of via the Internet for a couple of years now, but we, if you guys listened to some earlier shows and people have referenced Jamie because Jamie's really leading the personal brand photography movement and I know she believes that that's the future of the industry. So I'm excited to talk to her about it. But she's both an online entrepreneur and a photographer and you may know our because she founded modern tog or the modern tog back in 2011. So you may have been part of her community. Um, but you know her, what she kind does is help photographers and you know, live their life of being a, being a photographer. I know Jamie personally because we're in a facebook group that's called like photographer blogger group and it's like, it, it ranges in size, but it's anywhere from like 40 to 50 people have a bunch of people that put together resources for photographer. So we've been in that together for a number of years and you just announced the other day and in that group that you actually have a new podcast coming out as well. So do you want to take a quick second and plug your pro, your new podcast and tell us anything else we need to know about you? Jamie: 01:33 You're the sweetest thing. Sure. Um, so my new podcast is called the personal brand journey with Jamie m Swanson and basically since 2011 I've focused on growing the modern tog brand because I didn't want to have to be the face of my business. I think a lot of us, you know, don't want to have to be like the person, but I'm seeing more and more that the way to get ahead is to really build those personal connections. And so it's basically chronicling my journey of starting a personal brand. So it's not photography specific, but if there are photographers listening who want to be more of the face of their business, I mean your art, if, if your name is your business then you already are doing that in some respec...