"Consistency builds confidence - and income." Views, visits & conversions. Hey Reader From My Desk Many photographers I speak with who sell on Etsy have a gut feeling about how their shop is doing. A good week feels like momentum. A quiet week feels like something's wrong. But very few actually sit down and look at whether their shop is genuinely healthy, or just occasionally lucky. There's a difference between a shop that sells and a shop that works. A shop that works has titles buyers...

"You're closer to results than you think, so cut one task that stalls you and do the one that moves you." The Extra Shot Hey Reader Have you ever had the 'why didn't I try this sooner moment?' My husband has always been an avid monopod user; personally, unless I was shooting video, I never used one. I was in a discussion thread on Facebook several weeks ago where the topic was monopods vs tripods. Someone shared a monopod that has 3 fold-out feet to convert to a tripod. I was intrigued, so I...

"Small, consistent steps create lasting freedom in your photography business." Hey Reader From My Desk I check what's trending across the stock libraries every few weeks. Partly for 'The Extra Shot', partly because it keeps me honest about what I'm actually shooting versus what's selling. This week, one search term stopped me. "Moonlit night" is up 163% on Shutterstock. My first thought was that it was a random spike, the kind of thing that jumps for a week and disappears. Then I did the...