336: Ryan Welch – Growing a team and focussing on your enquiries to book weddings

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Ryan Welch of www.ryan-welch.co.uk and www.freedomedits.com started photographing weddings at just 17 years old and was shooting 200 weddings a year when he was 24. He's since grown a successful team and if you check his website, you'll see a staff of 16 who shoot stills, video, edit, design and manage the studio. In addition to his wedding photography business, he started Freedom Edits to help other photographers get through their culling and editing. Looking around online, I don't see a ton of marketing or advertising but I do see plenty of great reviews. Based in the UK, where I continually hear how tough the market is, I was looking forward to learning how Ryan seemingly cracked the market and is doing so well! From the outside, it looks like the secret is growing a team and focussing on your enquiries to book weddings. Here’s some more of what we cover in the interview: What’s on Offer for Premium Members If you’re a premium member, you should have received an email with links to your version of this interview – the full length and more revealing version where you hear the absolute best tips and advice from every guest. If you’re on the fence about becoming a premium member, join with the $1 trial today and get access to the FULL interviews each week, get access to an amazing back catalogue of interviews and ALL future interviews delivered automatically to your phone or tablet. If you can just position yourself somewhere in the market and create that demand for the product or service that you're offering, there's enough weddings out there for everyone. – Ryan Welch Plus special member-only interviews. You'll also receive access to the members-only Secret Facebook Group where you can connect with other Premium Members and interview guests to help, support and motivate you to take ideas you hear in each episode and put them into action. There are also FB live video tutorials, role-play interviews and special live interviews happening in the group. You will not find more friendly, more motivated, caring and sharing photographers online. Joining a Mastermind Group (encouraged by Andrew) has been incredibly valuable and fun, I look forward to connecting with my group members every week. Jina Zheng, Premium Member and Melbourne Children photographer. Seriously, that's not all. In addition to everything above, you'll get access to and instructions on forming or joining a MasterMind Group with other premium members. These groups are super motivating, make you accountable and build friendships with other pro photographers with similar motives to you – to build a more successful photography business. What is your big takeaway? Following this interview, I’d love to know if you're taking anything away from what Ryan shared. Is there something you heard that excited or motivated you to the point where you thought, yeah, I'm going to do that! If so, let me know by leaving your thoughts in the comments below, let me know what your takeaways were, what you plan to implement in your business as a result of what you heard in today's episode. Wedding photography is 90% about making people just relax in front of your camera. As soon as you can do that, you can get great images. – Ryan Welch If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask Ryan or if you just want to say thanks for coming on the show, feel free to add them in the comments area below.