The Blogcademy: Live From New York!

Kat

June 18, 2013

After the runaway success of the livestream from Portland, my fellow Blogcademy headmistresses and I decided it was high time to do another one. So, on Monday 24th June at 1pm EST (that's 6pm if you're in the UK) we'll be broadcasting live from Blogcademy's NYC HQ!

Business Bites: Favourites

Kat

June 14, 2013

Did I mention that I'm off to New York next Wednesday for the next round of Blogcademy workshops? Gosh where is the time going this year?! I'm so super excited. NYC might just be my favourite city in the whole world, and of course I get to see some of my favourite people in the whole world while I'm there too.

Three Ways to Make Your Past Clients Your Biggest Cheerleaders

Kat

Matt Irwin for Vogue, Russia

June 11, 2013

I didn't grow up in America so I never really understood the whole cheerleader thing... well except what the movies told me of course. Correct me if I'm wrong but it's my assumption that they're basically squads of popular girls who dance around, wear really high ponytails (do even higher kicks) and who's main goal in life if to make the football team feel special. Putting our cultural differences aside, I can see the appeal... well, for the footballers at least. I mean who wouldn't want some gorgeous babes telling them how awesome they were every time they scored a touchdown?

Business Bites: Instagram All The Things!

Kat

June 7, 2013

Yesterday I was in North London shooting an editorial for the brand new edition of the print magazine. Issue 3 can't come soon enough, especially since we completely sold out of issue 2 recently, can you believe that!? I don't want to give too much away but it's pretty different, and hopefully something you won't be expecting from Rock n Roll Bride. OH BOY, I can't wait to share it will you all!

Addicted to the Busy

Lisa Devlin

Devlin Photos

June 6, 2013

Are you always busy? When that group email or Facebook event invite gets sent your way, are you never able to go because you have to work? Weddings are a weird industry, everyone knows that you work a lot of weekends but then it is also expected that you are contactable first thing Monday morning. If your marketing campaign has been successful and the bookings are healthy, you may well find that suddenly weeks and weeks are stretching in front of you with no proper break. Every wedding you take on has a significant amount of admin and for us photographers, there is that mountain of post production. Throw in a few double or even triple header weekends and that mountain can quickly become Everest.

Going into Business with Friends

Kat

Made U Look

June 4, 2013

I've decided to go into business with three other girls who I met online and have since become great friends with. We all run our own businesses independently but this will be a collaboration between the four of us. I'm really excited about it because we all have different skills and I think we can all bring something different to the table. I was wondering if you had any advice about going into business with friends (I know you've done it with Gala and Shauna with The Blogcademy and you all met online too!) The business idea was actually mine so I guess I'm the driving force behind it but obviously I can't do it on my own. My main question is how do we spilt the finances or decide who gets what? Do we split it evenly because that is the fair thing to do, even though each of us will have a different level of involvement and workload? We roughly know where everyone's strengths lie and even though it will totally be a team effort, it was my idea. Some of the others are more driven towards the networking and exposure that this venture might bring rather than the money but at the same time, I don't want it to become awkward further down the line with the potential of someone not pulling their weight because they aren't getting paid.

Business Bites: Being Weird Together

Kat

May 31, 2013

Being friends with other bloggers is totally awesome. I was reminded of this just yesterday when I had a lunch date with the gorgeous Emily of Fashion Foie Gras, who I met at the Cosmopolitan Superbloggers Masterclass. It's the same as when I hang out with Gala and Shauna (19 sleeps and counting!) because we don't have to worry about feeling weird wanting to photograph our outfits or document our hang-out, talking through the benefits of twitter vs facebook or discussing the latest internet drama. To us this is all totally normal behaviour!