Allison Tyler Jones – Episode 022 – A Photographer Podcast Interview

From Nothing to Profit

In this episode, Kia interviews Allison Tyler Jones (http://atjphoto.com), all by herself, while Matt teaches at PPA Idaho. This is Allison’s first podcast, but she’s a veteran speaker and has been a photographer for 14 years. Kia was blown away the first time she heard Allison teach. Allison says her photography business was never just for fun, it has always been to support her family. She shoots exclusively in the studio, specializing in family and kids. Listen in to hear the 3 pillars that are working now in her business. Allison is excited that our industry overall is starting to become more positive. You don’t want to miss what Allison would and wouldn't spend $1k on. You’ll love Allison’s take on the Oscar Wilde quote about being yourself, as everyone else is taken. You also don’t want to miss Allison’s personal habit that contributes to her success or her parting guidance. Resources Internet Resource: Audible (Get two free book here) Books: Essentialism by Greg Mckeown (https://amzn.to/2XgFWMR) The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz (https://amzn.to/2Er5u2l) 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. Allison: 00:01 This is Alison Tyler John's and you are listening to from nothing to profit. Speaker 2: 00:06 Welcome to from nothing to profit a photographer's podcast with Matt and Kaia. We're each week they talk to photographers and what is working in their business now so you can swipe those ideas and grow your business faster. Kia: 00:23 This is Kiah today and I am interviewing Alison Tyler Jones all by myself. Matt is speaking at a convention today and so this is a first for me to do a solo interview and I think it's at first for you Alison to do a full podcast. Allison: 00:40 It is. I'm excited. Kia: 00:43 Yeah, we're so excited to have you here. Uh, although this is a first for Alison to do a full podcast. She is a veteran speaker and has been a photographer for uh, Gosh, how many years? Allison: 00:56 Um, I think 1414 Kia: 00:59 years. Okay. I know it's, it's hard to know how long when you get our bios. So I first saw Alison at actually the national convention and I had not known who she was and I sat in her program and was blown away by how professional she is by how well she knows how to run a business and by how great her photography is. And what I loved about it is that she had come into photography, not from like a mom's of the camera, which is, you know, very typical for women and also not from a, uh, like, uh, you know, like a big corporate job or something and wanting to do something else. She came at it from already being in the artistic industry. Uh, and so Alison, do you want to tell us more about yourself and your expertise? Allison: 01:46 Sure. Am I, as Kaia said, I came into this industry a little bit sideways. I had a, on my own retail store. We were the first scrapbooking store outside of Utah. And I had that business for about 12 years in the late nineties, early two thousands. And, um, when we were selling that business off, I thought, well, I'll just take six months off and I'll just do a little bit of photography and tell I decide what it is that I'm going to do. But one thing is for sure I'm not going to make another hobby into a business. And so 14 years later, another hobby was made into a business. But I came from that aspect of when I had my scrapbooking store, the intention always was to make a profit that it had to support my family. And so when I came into a photography, uh, even though I started thinking that I would just do it for a little bit of time, the intention was always that it was going to be a business. Allison: 02:45 And once I realized that this is what I was going to do, the intention was we're gonna, uh, make it into a business that's going to support my...