Matt Hoaglin – Episode 002 – A Photographer Podcast Interview

From Nothing to Profit

www.matthoaglin.com www.allisonragsdalephotography.com @allisonragsdale In this episode Matt Hoaglin talks about how running paid instagram, Facebook and Snapchat ads is making a huge difference in his business. Tune in to learn how he is converting these ads into paying customers. Here is a free video on what he is doing: https://get.matthoaglin.com/get-clients-now-video/ Matt also talks about how he is seeing some photographers go back to a 9-5 job and why that is good and bad for you. Resources: Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University (https://www.daveramsey.com/fpu) Books to Read: Profit First: http://a.co/d/7sj5fEq Book yourself Solid: http://a.co/d/5ojewWv Never eat alone: http://a.co/d/1K3CUtH Online Resources DigitalMarketer.com Digit App: http://a.co/d/1K3CUtH Read Full Transcript TRANSCRIPTION: 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. Intro: 00:00 Welcome to from nothing to profit, a photographer's podcast with Matt and Kia, 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. Okay. Welcome back everyone. Kia: 00:17 Two from nothing to profit. This is Kia Bondurant and I'm going to be interviewing my cohost, Matt Hoaglin today. Hi Matt. How are you? Very good. So I, uh, we already recorded my interview and I didn't know if I would like this as much, but I think I like being the boss better. I'm like, Ooh, now I'm in charge, so I get to talk about you. Matt: 00:42 That's, that's perfect. You can be in charge of whatever you want, like we talked about in your interview. I can outsource everything to you. Kia: 00:51 That's funny. No. So I'm Matt, you and your wife Allison Ragsdale, photography and drink. Oh, Colorado. And that supports both of you and allison. Uh, even though she's not on this, we'll talk about her. She's fantastic. She never wanted to do anything besides be a photographer. So she started out being a photographer from the very beginning. Is that right? Matt: 01:13 Right from the very beginning she went to college and got her degree in photography and we started the business like the week she got out of college Kia: 01:19 and so you're more like me. You actually, we both have education degrees, although yours is a high school math and you managed a camera store and now you run the marketing and the operations of your photography studio. Matt: 01:33 Yeah, exactly. So Alice and I actually met at that camera store, her part time job when she was so cool. Was that the camera store? So we met there and started dating and then eventually moved to Durango and got married and built. Built a business and stuff together. But yeah, so I taught high school math for awhile, which was really awesome. But I'm really glad I stopped doing that at the same time. Yeah. Now I just run like, like you said, operations and marketing for our business. So make sure that the phone rings in the calendar, gets booked so that she can go out and photograph. Kia: 02:01 Yeah. And you're able to build your life around what you love to do. Matt: 02:05 So one of my passions, just total side note, one of my passions is fly fishing and so what I love about the business that we've built as I'm a I, I fly fish at least one day a week if not more. That's awesome because I can do it on a random Wednesday when there's nobody else on the river and I love the business that we built and the lifestyle that it's given us for sure. Kia: 02:24 Yeah. And I think that that's really good to bring that up because as photographers and as small business owners and entrepreneurs with this podcast, our goal is to teach people to go from nothing to profit,