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The Pet Photographers' Journal

The Pet Photographers' Journal

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Welcome to The Pet Photographers' Journal, a practical and unfiltered podcast for talented pet photographers ready to build a business with more purpose, passion, and profitability. I’m Ina J, a pet photographer who turned my side hustle into my full-time career. In this podcast, I share exactly what I’ve learned and actually applied in my own business. We talk about pricing, mindset, marketing, client experience, and sales, without feeling pushy. Some lessons I picked up from others but I always tweak things to work for me and I’ll tell you how you can too. I overshare sometimes but in the best way possible because I believe in learning from real-life experiences not just theory. Whether you’re just starting or scaling to five-figure sales this show is your behind-the-scenes guide to pet photography business success.Copyright 2026 Ina J Photography Kunst Marketing & Vertrieb Ökonomie
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  • Consistent Bookings With a Full-Time Job: How Coaching Helped This Pet Photographer Get Fully Booked Three Seasons in a Row

    Consistent Bookings With a Full-Time Job: How Coaching Helped This Pet Photographer Get Fully Booked Three Seasons in a Row
    Oct 12 2026
    Sharon Canovas used to charge $75 for a session with around 40 photos, and it was turning into a very expensive hobby. Today her average sale is around $2,000, and she has booked out spring, summer and autumn in a row. She did it while working full time as a stunt woman, and while recovering from a concussion.In this episode, Ina sits down with Sharon, a pet photographer in Hamilton, Ontario, who has spent twenty years doing stunts for film and TV. Sharon first came on the podcast in February, after her first fully booked spring. They talk about marketing for pet photographers when your time is not your own, why she raised her prices three times, how she sells photo albums, and what changed when she moved from Ina's marketing workshop into the Mastermind.Key takeaways:A planned year keeps your marketing going when you can't. Sharon got a concussion last year, and this year it brought panic attacks, anxiety attacks and having to teach herself Photoshop again. Because she had already planned her marketing for the year, with everything scheduled in HoneyBook and her landing pages done, she could keep going one small step at a time.Three things a night will move your marketing forward. Sharon sets a marketing goal for the month, and each night she writes down three things she has to do the next day to support it. On set she can be gone fifteen hours a day, so she answers emails and blogs in her lunch hour and photographs dogs on the weekend.Posting on social media is not marketing. Before the workshop, Sharon would post, hold her breath and hope for the best. She dropped business cards at pet stores, and the only thing that reliably worked was the Pet Expo. Now she runs a variety of marketing, and she is taking half of November off to plan next year.The clients who value your work won't question your prices. Sharon went from $75 to $250 to $350, and says it got scary. What settled it for her was hiring a pet photographer herself, for close to $1,400. Her average sale is now around $2,000, and she is raising her prices again next year.Put the album in their hands before you talk about it. The photo album is what Sharon sells most. At every consultation the album is in the client's hands while she talks, and she shows videos of albums she has designed for other clients so they can picture their own. A payment plan helps too: "A lot of people don't wanna put two thousand dollars on their credit card."The group is where the ideas get better. Sharon brought an idea to the Mastermind: a colour palette to help clients work out what to wear next to their dog's coat. Ina built it in under an hour, and every member now has it. "It's a very lonely business," Sharon says, "and coming up with ideas sometimes it can be very exhausting."Connect with Sharon:Website: https://canovasphotography.comInstagram: @scanovasphotographyResources mentioned:Sharon's first episode on The Pet Photographers' Journal, February 2026:Listen on CaptivateListen on SpotifyWork with me in The Consistent Bookings MastermindThe Consistent Bookings Mastermind is currently open for enrolment. It's a group coaching container focused on implementation support to help you build your repeatable marketing system, with full support across pricing, sales and mindset.Apply here → The Consistent Bookings MastermindConsistent Bookings AuditIf you're getting inconsistent bookings and you don't know what's causing it, do the free consistent booking audit quiz to find out which gaps is costing you.Complete the audit here.Connect with InaInstagram: @inaj.thepetphotoceoEmail: ina@inajphotography.comMentoring & Coaching for Pet Photographers: https://www.inajeducation.com/coaching
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    41 Min.
  • From Inconsistent Bookings to Booked Out: How This Pet Photographer Booked 14 Sessions and Raised $87K

    From Inconsistent Bookings to Booked Out: How This Pet Photographer Booked 14 Sessions and Raised $87K
    Sep 28 2026
    In April, Aubri Poon wrote down her dream result: another successful calendar contest, and $10,000 donated to dog rescues. By August, the beer can label contest she ran with a Calgary brewery had raised $87,341 for the Calgary Humane Society. A separate campaign, a birthday giveaway she launched during the Marketing System Workshop, had booked 14 sessions and filled her calendar into October. In this episode, Ina sits down with Aubri, a Calgary dog photographer who went full time in August 2025 after twenty two years as a flight attendant. Before this year, her bookings were few and far between. They walk through both campaigns step by step, and the pet photography marketing structure behind each one, from the entry form to the press release to the email drip campaign. Key takeaways: Start with the ordering appointments you haven't booked. Aubri had clients she had photographed and never brought in to see their photos. Her first win in coaching wasn't a new campaign. It was booking one of those clients in, and they ordered over $2,000 of wall art. A giveaway only works if it is set up for clients who will spend. Aubri says she doesn't believe in giving sessions away, so she put qualifying questions and disclaimers in the entry form to set expectations before anyone entered. Over 25 people entered, she made offers to 17, and 14 booked and confirmed. The sales so far are $2,500, $2,500, $1,500 and $700, with more ordering appointments still to run. You don't need an ad budget to get press. Aubri had never thought of sending a press release. She used Ina's template, sent it to Calgary news stations, and the campaign was covered on Global News. She then worked out which Calgary radio DJs were dog people and messaged them directly, which got her an interview on air. A cause campaign should also bring in bookings. Ina coached her on how to keep her own business visible while the contest ran. Two months after telling Ina she didn't have enough enquiries to need one, Aubri built an email drip campaign with a special offer session, and three people beyond the winners had already contacted her about it, with a week still to go. Your own call recordings show you where you lose sales. Aubri now runs her consultation and ordering appointment recordings through AI to check what she missed, the questions she skipped, and the objections she didn't answer. Connect with Aubri: Website: https://www.aubripoon.com Instagram: @aubri_poon_photography Resources mentioned: The Furever Golden Tale beer label contest: https://www.gogophotocontest.com/fourdogsbrewing Four Dogs Brewing Co.: https://www.fourdogs.ca The story behind the four dogs: https://www.fourdogs.ca/about-us.html Aubri on A Woman a Day with Tyler and Danaye: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/962-tyler-danaye-fuzzy-sound-b-122690064/episode/aubri-poon-on-a-woman-a-342224550/ Calgary Humane Society: https://www.calgaryhumane.ca GoGo Photo ContestWork with me in The Consistent Bookings MastermindThe mastermind is currently open for enrolment. It's a group coaching container focusing on implementation support to help you build your repeatable marketing system along with comprehensive support of your business from pricing, sales, and mindset. My marketing templates library is included, press release templates and all, which is exactly where Aubri got hers.Apply here: The Consistent Bookings MastermindConsistent Bookings AuditIf you're getting inconsistent bookings and you don't know what's causing it, do the free consistent booking audit quiz to find out which gaps is costing you.Complete the audit here.Connect with InaInstagram: @inaj.thepetphotoceoEmail: ina@inajphotography.comMentoring & Coaching for Pet Photographers: https://www.inajphotography.com/for-photographers
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    58 Min.
  • Pet Photography Pricing When You Feel Guilty Charging More (Live Coaching Call)

    Pet Photography Pricing When You Feel Guilty Charging More (Live Coaching Call)
    Sep 16 2026

    Kaity Hartley has said the thing most pet photographers think and never say out loud. She wants to be the photographer everybody can afford, because she genuinely believes everyone should be able to have beautiful photos of their dog. She is also a full-time mum with bills to pay, and three families a month at her entry package comes to $1,500. In this live coaching call, Ina works through what that one belief is costing her, and why her pet photography pricing is the only lever she has that does not cost her another weekend.

    Kaity runs Koarlie Studios Pet Portraits on the Sunshine Coast, shooting bright, colourful, joyful studio portraits of dogs. She is a certified canine behavioural dog trainer, which is why anxious and reactive dogs do so well with her, and it is the thing almost nobody knows about her. This is a real coaching call, recorded live, with her real numbers and her real goals on the table.

    In this episode:
    • Why accessible and profitable are not opposites, and what happens to the people you want to serve when the business stops being able to stay open
    • The three gaps Ina looks for first: messaging, visibility and conversion
    • What Kaity is actually booking now, and the dream she almost talked herself out of saying out loud
    • Why more sessions is the wrong goal when your weekends are already spoken for, and what happens to the maths when you raise the average sale instead
    • Making the financial decision for your client before they get to make it themselves
    • Why raising your prices without raising your positioning is what makes people say you are too expensive
    • The client who paid Ina $250 for all the digitals years ago, came back in 2023, and spent $3,000
    • Giving people the full pricing before they book, and letting them decide
    • What Kaity already knew, and the one thing she actually needed

    If you have ever felt guilty about what you charge, this one is for you.

    About Kaity

    Kaity Hartley is the photographer behind Koarlie Studios Pet Portraits on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Her work is bright, playful and deliberately a little bit different, built for furkids of every type and every temperament. She has worked across the animal industry since 2012, from conservation and education to doggy daycare, behavioural training, rescue and enrichment, and she is a certified canine behavioural dog trainer. She was part of the first beta round of Ina's marketing workshop, and the feedback from that group shaped what the workshop became.

    Connect with Kaity

    • Koarlie Studios Pet Portraits: www.koarliestudiospetportraits.com
    • Kaity on Instagram: @koarliestudios.petportraits

    Work with me in The Consistent Bookings Mastermind

    The mastermind is currently open for enrolment. It's a group coaching container focusing on implementation support to help you build your repeatable marketing system along with comprehensive support of your business from pricing, sales, and mindset. My marketing templates library is included, press release templates and all, which is exactly where Aubri got hers.

    Apply here: The Consistent Bookings Mastermind

    Consistent Bookings Audit

    If you're getting inconsistent bookings and you don't know what's causing it, do the free consistent booking audit quiz to find out which gaps is costing you.

    Complete the audit here.

    Connect with Ina

    Instagram: @inaj.thepetphotoceo

    Email: ina@inajphotography.com

    Mentoring & Coaching for Pet Photographers: https://www.inajphotography.com/for-photographers
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