How to get help
If you get stuck, I want to know.
These courses have been pressure-tested by me and my beta testers — but if you hit a stumbling block, or something just isn't clicking, please tell me. I'm here and ready to get you back on track.
Email me: hello@kirstyhamiltonphotography.com
The evidence that changes everything: across five years of Kirsty's booking data, mini sessions are booked further ahead than anything else she sells — a average of 47 days — because clients book the moment dates are announced. What that means for you (the launch is the marketing event, not the shoot date), the four tests every profitable mini passes, and the one-sentence homework that names your own event.
Date, place, format, length, slots: your event, designed on one page. The two timing mistakes I made so you don't have to — the "twenty-minute" minis that sprawled into an hour, and the fifteen-minute experiment my regulars politely hated — and the 25-minutes-two-an-hour format ten years of minis have settled me on. Below the video: the Build Your Offer worksheet, and the Offer Builder prompt that interviews you about your plan and tests it against the four tests. It runs on Claude's free plan — nothing extra to buy. Fill the worksheet in first; leave the price line blank. That's next lesson's job.
The empty price line gets filled.
My actual numbers, worked through: the £695 hour session, the £400 mini, and the per-minute sum that shows my shortest session is nearly twice the price of my longest — with nobody blinking.
The three-payment machine (deposit, balance before the shoot, upsell after the gallery), the gallery gap that powers the upsell, and the test your own price has to pass.
Below the video: the Price It for Profit worksheet with my numbers as the worked example, and the Profit Check prompt — it tests your price honestly but never sets it. That decision stays yours.
Ten shoots in one day, and it's the easiest part of the course, because it's the only part you can completely plan.
My day, block by block: the instructions email and the on-time rule that saves the schedule, the volume ceiling (every session you shoot is a session you'll edit), the sacred buffer at work, and the settling-the-baby story with its happy ending.