We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful RHODES BLAKE. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with RHODES below.
RHODES, appreciate you joining us today. Looking back, do you think you started your business at the right time? Do you wish you had started sooner or later
I believe that God’s timing is everything and that I started when I was supposed to start. I started my photography business by accident. I was just doing what I love to do which was taking pictures on my phone. I never thought of going into photography until someone pointed it out to me and I thought to myself “Hmm maybe” So for my birthday my husband brought me a camera and from there I fell in love and started a business I took off. Looking back through all the things I’ve done and the failed businesses that I’ve had God was preparing me for this business without even knowing it.
RHODES, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I believe that every bride deserves the best on their wedding day, whether their wedding costs $1000 or $20000 everyone deserves beautiful pictures that will last a lifetime. I got into the industry by taking pictures on my phone for families and editing them. I fell in love with taking pictures and serving my family in that way. I never thought of photography as a career until my husband purchased a camera for me for my birthday. So my biggest challenge has been learning how to use my camera and learning how to run a business as a photographer. The type of service I provide is wedding photography and I recently added wedding highlight videos. Wedding planning is stressful so a few things that I do to help my clients be stress-free is that I’ve created a lot of resources to help them navigate the planning process from beginning to end. I provide a wedding venue list with over 45 wedding venues throughout Arizona, a vendor list, etc. It’s like a one-stop shop.
Can you tell us about what’s worked well for you in terms of growing your clientele?
Consistency has helped me grow my clientele, just stay consistent through it all even when the booking comes, and when they don’t book just keep going In the famous words of Dory from Nemo “Just keep swimming”
Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?
The book Atomic Habits by: James Clear and 12 week year by Brian P Morgan
Contact Info:
- Website: https://rhodesblakephotography.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rhodesblakephotography/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rhodesblakephotography