All photographers are hustlers!

[Top LA Headshot Photographers – Vanie]

On the day of his session,

one of my clients expressed to me how happy he was to have decided to spend the money and finally shoot with a REAL photographer. 💪

He thought, and I quote, “all photographers are hustlers,“ and that “they’ll do anything to make money off ya, so why bother when there are plenty of friends with cameras?”

THEN HE TOLD ME THAT AFTER SHOOTING WITH ME, he decided he thought wrong.

My response was, “Well, all photographers are hustlers.” 

We’re all hustling to earn your business and book you as a client, just as actors are hustling to book work with casting directors.

We’re all competing to be noticed and to do better than ‘the other guy,’ so you invest with us, and so we help you achieve the results you’re after.

So what makes someone feel like hustling is the same as being hustled?

Being good at marketing and business doesn’t make one a hustler, but not delivering a product that gets you results… might. 💁‍♀️

As photographers, our goal is to help you get to your desired outcome, whether that be, do get more auditions, to get a reputable agent, or to become a working actor.

And by helping you, we not only develop a good reputation with plenty of social proof but we effectively do well as a business right?

IF YOU HAVE TO ASK how you can tell you’re not being hustled, you probably haven’t done your research. 💻

When you choose an acting school, do you look at all of them and simply choose the lowest-priced classes?  Or, do you look to see WHO is teaching and how your community rates that teacher?

For most of you, I’d bet it’s the latter… because you want to receive a valuable education for your investment– which in turn, will help you book jobs. ✅

So would you ever simply look for the lowest-priced photographer without at least researching if their work can bring you results? 

I hope not! At the very least you should consider this.👇

• Will his or her images help you book jobs?
• Does the community respect and know this photographer?
• Did you bother picking up the phone and talking to your potential photographer or at the very least, emailing your questions to them?
• Did you ask your reps if their work is acceptable to industry standard?

Basically, all the things I talk about in this post and this post seem to apply to actors over and over again.

In short, you don’t know what you don’t know until you’ve done the research!

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