360: Thomas Vargeletis – How to build and grow a profitable real estate photography business

Premium Members, click here to access this interview in the premium area. Thomas Vargeletis of  www.tv.photography is a real estate photographer who started as a listing agent after earning his license to sell real estate. Following bad experiences with local photographers, he learnt how to shoot for himself. A few years later, other agents began hiring him to photograph their listings and Thomas Vargeletis Photography was born. Since then, he's released three books, on real estate, photography and business. He hosts a podcast, Full Time Real Estate Photographer, where he covers real estate photography business information, best practices and gear recommendations. In this interview, Thomas shares the details on growing a real estate photography business from scratch, scaling and profiting. He covers how to generate bookings with agents, pricing, scheduling, shooting, post-processing and delivering images. If you've entertained the idea of shooting real estate photography for profit, you'll get a ton from what Thomas shares in this interview. Here's some more of what we cover in the interview: What’s on Offer for Premium Members If you’re a premium member, you should have received an email with links to your version of this interview – the full length and more revealing version where you hear the absolute best tips and advice from every guest. If you’re on the fence about becoming a premium member, join with the $1 trial today and get access to the FULL interviews each week, get access to an amazing back catalogue of interviews and ALL future interviews delivered automatically to your phone or tablet. Plus special member-only interviews. One of the best things about real estate photography is that if you have a portfolio, and you can prove that you can take decent quality images, real estate agents are super super easy to find. – Thomas Vargeletis You'll also receive access to the members-only Secret Facebook Group where you can connect with other Premium Members and interview guests to help, support and motivate you to take ideas you hear in each episode and put them into action. There are also FB live video tutorials, role-play interviews and special live interviews happening in the group. You will not find more friendly, more motivated, caring and sharing photographers online. Joining a Mastermind Group (encouraged by Andrew) has been incredibly valuable and fun, I look forward to connecting with my group members every week. Jina Zheng, Premium Member and Melbourne Children photographer. Seriously, that's not all. In addition to everything above, you'll get access to and instructions on forming or joining a MasterMind Group with other premium members. These groups are super motivating, make you accountable and build friendships with other pro photographers with similar motives to you – to build a more successful photography business. What is your big takeaway? Following this interview, I’d love to know if you're taking anything away from what Thomas shared. Is there something you heard that excited or motivated you to the point where you thought, yeah, I'm going to do that! If so, let me know by leaving your thoughts in the comments below, let me know what your takeaways were, what you plan to implement in your business as a result of what you heard in today's episode. If you're a really talented photographer, it's not too difficult to get busy, but it's exceptionally difficult to scale your business. – Thomas Vargeletis If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask Thomas or if you just want to say thanks for com...