Portfolio Slam + Marketing System
Build the Killer Portfolio, Then Find the Clients
Eight weeks. One meeting a week, live. Build a portfolio system quickly, then work one-on-one with me to create your offer and marketing system ready for 2027.
Saturday, October 31, 7AM Pacific:
Class One: Introduction and Materials Resource (pre-workshop
Recurring class each Saturday at 7AM Pacific for seven additional weeks, to December 19.
Holiday break and time for shooting and working.
Final class, January 9, 2027: Implementation and review.
LIMITED TO FIVE STUDENTS
The Portfolio Slam
A Stronger Portfolio, Built Fast with a System
A Clear Portfolio Plan
Choose the work you want to be hired for and map the images you need to create. Then we create a shoot plan to get those images ready.
Focused Assignments
Turn that plan into purposeful shoots that fill gaps in your portfolio. We will create a system that helps keep you on track.
Stronger Image Selection
A deliberate and strong edit down to the photographs that show your skills and make your direction clear to anyone viewing your work.
A Portfolio Ready to Share
Creating a strong and directed flow of images that take the viewer through your work with intention and focused structure.
The One-on-One Marketing System
Turn Your Portfolio Into a Plan for Paid Work
Define Your Offer
Shape a service that fits your strengths and gives clients a clear reason to hire you.
Find Your Ideal Clients
Identify the businesses and people most likely to need the photography you create.
Build Your Marketing Tools
Craft the essential messages and materials you need to introduce your work with confidence.
Put Google Maps to Work
Use my Google Maps approach to find local prospects and organize your outreach.
Use AI With Purpose
Apply AI tools to research prospects and support a more efficient client-search process.
Set a Repeatable Routine
Leave with practical steps for reaching out, following up, and keeping your marketing moving into 2027.
In Just Eight Weeks. A Portfolio and a Plan.
One focused meeting each week moves you from a fast portfolio build to a client-ready marketing system for 2027.
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Weeks 1–4: Build the Portfolio
Define the work you want to get hired for, then use a focused shooting methodology to create and select strong new images.
2
Weeks 5–6: Shape the Offer
Work one-on-one to turn your portfolio into a clear offer, identify ideal clients, and craft the tools you need to reach them.
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Weeks 7–8: Shape the System
Bring your outreach, follow-up, and marketing tools together into a repeatable system you can use beyond the course.
Find the Right Clients, Then Reach Out
AI can help you research potential clients, spot patterns in their businesses, and prepare more relevant outreach. Pair that research with my proven Google Maps approach to find real businesses in the markets you want to serve. In your one-on-one sessions, you’ll turn those leads into a practical prospecting system built around your photography, your offer, and the work you want in 2027.
Experience Behind the Mentorship
50+ Years
Experience
I bring more than five decades of hands-on photography experience to every portfolio review and working session.
Award-Winning
Creative Recognition
My photography and creative work have earned multiple awards across a long career in the industry.
Hundreds
Photographers Mentored
I have helped hundreds of photographers find their direction and pursue professional photography work.
A Few of the Photographers I have worked with:
Your Questions, Answered
The essentials you need to know before you commit to eight weeks of focused portfolio and marketing work.
Who is this course for?
Photographers who want to earn money from their work and are ready to build a stronger portfolio and a practical way to find and keep clients.
What will I create?
You’ll build a new portfolio, or fill out one you have started through the Portfolio system I have developed over many years, then we will develop your offer (in a one-on-one meeting), marketing tools, and a client-finding system using AI tools and my Google Maps approach.
How does the eight-week course work?
We meet once a week for eight weeks, plus the intro-resources class. That’s a total of nine classes. You’ll use the time between meetings to build your portfolio and put your marketing system together, with one-on-one guidance along the way.
What does the results guarantee mean?
The course is designed to get committed photographers to tangible, repeatable results: a stronger portfolio and effective marketing tools ready for 2027. It isn’t a promise of a specific income or number of clients; your results depend on the work you put in. If you have developed your portfolio and created the marketing system, you have done the work, I guarantee that the result you have is a solid move forward.
Saturday, October 31, 7AM Pacific:
Class One: Introduction and Materials Resource (pre-workshop
Recurring class each Saturday at 7AM Pacific
for seven additional weeks, to December 19.
Holiday break and time for shooting and working.
Final class, January 9, 2027: Implementation and review.
Ready to Make Money With Your Photography?
Build the portfolio, shape your offer, and put a client-finding system in place. Take the next step toward joining Portfolio and Marketing Slam.