Expanding Business Through Community Engagement

I love seeing growth in my blogging business not only when I increase my sales, subscribers and traffic, but also when my offerings expand due to requests from my community. ___ If you'd have asked me in 2011 if I ever thought I'd get paid for my photography, I would have laughed! 😂 ___ But just a few years later, I was getting paid by brands to photograph their establishments, magazines to buy my travel photos, and visitors to NYC who wanted me to photograph them around the city. 📷 ___ In 2018, I can also add courtroom wedding photographer to my resume, as a client asked me to shoot her special day in Lower Manhattan, followed by snapping shots of her and her beau around Chinatown. 💍 ___ Fellow business owners: It can be SO HARD not to compare yourself to others, especially when running your own business. But I encourage you to think back to where you were one month, two months, six months into your launch...and where you are today. Don't discount the small wins, because small triumphs are stepping stones to big success 🎉 * * *