The first step before any major business change is to evaluate what is working and what is not.

This is a longer episode where Alison & Melissa deep dive all the aspects of your business and personal life that need to be evaluated before you launch anything new - new locations, new niche, new offers, anything.

Your personal life matters greatly here - what can you feasibly handle? When can you be available for clients? Are you working weekends?

Take some at the beginning of the year to really evaluate what needs to change and what you can do more of.

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• Leave a review in Apple or on Spotify
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Its that time of year again for the military community - orders are starting to roll out! Even if you don't know WHERE you're moving to, the idea of ripping out everything you've built is terrifying. You've worked so hard. You've spent so much time on it.

We've done this 9 times between the two of us - Melissa twice, Alison 7 times. She knows first hand the emotional roller coaster that is owning a business & moving.

In this episode we want you to feel the feels - all of them. We're going to walk you through our own phases of frustration that ultimtely led Alison to launching this podcast & coaching so others wouldn't feel so lost.

Links:

• Leave a review in Apple or on Spotify
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This is an early episode that deserves proper attention.

Keywords are the crux of all good, well-performing SEO. Whether you're writing webpages or blog posts, you need to know:

• WHAT keywords to use
• WHERE to use each keyword
• WHY keywords matter.
• HOW to figure it all out for your business and location.

Alison & Melissa both rely on SEO & keywords to get photography clients. Alison has relocated 7 times, the most recent to in Hawaii last year. Because of good SEO practices, she reached the top spot on Google in 9 months after moving.

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• Leave a review in Apple or on Spotify
• Get Alison's FREE Keyword Tracker
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The week before Christmas, most people are traveling! Weather by car, plane or train, you could probably use some recommendations for what to play in your earbuds.

On this episode, we're share our favorite business books that have made a difference for us and why we like them so much.

Alison & Melissa's Top Biz Books Picks:

1. Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine (Entrepreneurship Simplified)
2. You're A Badass At Making Money
3. The Pumpkin Plan
4. Building a StoryBrand
5. Business Made Simple
6. How to Grow Your Small Business
7. Marketing Made Simple
8. Who Moved My Cheese?
9. Get Rich, Lucky Bitch!

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• Leave a review in Apple
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Another episode on money, Profit First is a financial framework both Alison & Melissa use in their businesses.

Weather you're new in business, struggling to make a profit or a seasoned pro, Profit First is bound to have some insight on organizing, saving, and creating profit in your business.

And, if you're making any of the money mistakes from last episode, this book will help you straighten it out!

Buy the book!

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• Leave a review in Apple

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The top 5 money mistakes we see photographers making all the time - and ones we have made ourselves!

We're talking about paying yourself, saving for your business, and taxes.

Learn from our experience but keep in mind we're not CPAs, accountants or tax professionals.

Let us know if this was helpful! Send us a DM on Instagram: @‌keep.it.moving.podcast & @‌pictureperfectrankings

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• Leave a review in Apple or on Spotify

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Mini Mentoring is a series where we chat with real-life business owners in the middle of transition, whether its a relocation, restructure or relaunch. We chat with them about what's working, what's not and how to keep their business moving.

Laura Longmire is a personal stylist and military spouse. She's just relocated from Alabama to Delaware and is sharing what she wish would have done sooner.

Listen in to hear our advice for her next steps and how you can make the most of your relaunch!

Links:

• Find Laura at WhereLifeMeetsStyle.co

• Leave a review in Apple or on Spotify

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There's do parts to this conversation - What we're buying for our businesses and what we're offering our clients to make that money! Melissa is a Black Friday aficionado so listen in to get her tips!

Get Alison's list of Black Friday Buys here.

Melissa is offering 25% off for her Early Bird Black Friday Sale running 11/18-11/22. If you listen late though you can still grab 20% off Black Friday - Cyber Monday. Codes will be on a banner bar on the website so just grab them there! Plus you'll score a FREE GIFT with purchase of 1 month FREE in The Blogging Club when you make a purchase in the sale.

SEO Group Coaching IS included in this 25% off sale so go check it out now!!

Shop Melissa's SEO Sale here!

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It's here! The final quarter of the year.

Our most popular series, each quarter Melissa & Alison share get real about their own businesses:

• What's working
• What's not working
• Did the previous quarter go as planned?
• How are we pivoting?
• What's coming up for the next quarter?

Listen in to get our nitty gritty:

• Melissa's subcontractor glory

• Personal boundaries

• Hawaii's tourism drop off

• Reverse engineering the quarter's dates

• Holiday surcharges

• Alison's Workcation

Tool Time: Pic-Time Gallery

This episode we share why we love Pic-Time so much. Get a month free with this code.

• Its Pretty

• Easy sales automations

• Built in slideshow (REELS!) creator

• Custom packages for volume work or collections

• Mini session upgrade options with Simple Sales

• Did we mention it's pretty??

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• Leave a review in Apple or on Spotify

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Pricing is never easy.

There's physical costs to consider but also metaphysical considerations like time and profitability. But there's also our own pre-conceived notions about money, our own values and limiting beliefs that we unknowingly bring to the equation.

On this episode we talk with Annemie Tonken all about pricing, how to get out of your own head and set up a system that works FOR you.

Melissa & Alison both use Annemie's stratgies in our businesses - but very differently!

Annemie is a family photographer in North Carolina and founder of the Simple Sales Blueprint - a system that combines the strategy of in person sales with automation to give you more time.

Links:

• Learn more about Simple Sales Blueprint.

• Annemie's Podcast, This Can't Be That Hard

• Leave a review in Apple or on Spotify

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