From the course: Running a Photography Business: The Basics

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The importance of your network

The importance of your network

- Your network is one of your most important components for your business, in fact, for any business. As a business owner there are people that are involved in your network that are there to help you, that are there to challenge you, that are there to give you feedback, people in your network have a wide variety of reasons for being there. And when you look at who should be in your network you've got, obviously, members of your family, that's going to be more or less at the core, and your friends. Now if we took this diagram and that person right there in the middle is you, then we're looking at everybody surrounding that group. Your manufacturers are going to be a serious part of your network, and in addition to your manufacturers other photographers become part of your network. Expanding it further you've got your vendors, you've got the people that are making the albums for you, you've got your framers, you've got other companies that are more in a vendor status providing a service…

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