Dealing With Feedback in Photography: Pricing Criticism, Tough Clients, Constructive Critiques, and Handling Online Trolls

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When it comes to… basically anything, everyone has an opinion, and our photography and businesses are rarely exempt. And because our work is often so personal, the feedback can hit hard.

But not all feedback is useful, relevant, or even true. It is just information, and we get to choose what to do with that information and how much we let it affect us.

In this episode, I’m sharing why feedback can feel so personal in creative businesses, how to navigate different types of feedback in our photography businesses, and how we can differentiate helpful feedback that can help us grow from the feedback that isn’t serving us.

Let’s dig in!

What’s in this episode:

[00:00] Intro

[00:53] Why feedback can cut so deep and how we can use it to grow

[01:39] How to handle feedback on your pricing

[03:30] How to navigate feedback from disappointed clients

[06:26] Navigating critiques, both from genuine feedback and from the trolls

[09:00] What feedback is… and what it’s not

Tune in to this episode for some advice on taking the feedback that serves your business and leaving what does not!

For full show notes, resources, links and to download the transcript, visit our website: https://themilkyway.ca/podcast/

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