Podcasts about la rousse shoppe

If you've been on Facebook or Instagram at all in the last few years, you've undoubtedly come across an online quiz. Who doesn't want to know which Disney princess they are?!? But have you ever considered creating your own quiz in order to generate leads for your wedding business? In this week's episode of the This Week In Weddings podcast, we're chatting with a wedding photographer who is doing just that and successfully bringing in leads every single day using online quizzes targeted at her ideal client. About our guest: With over 6 years of experience photographing intimate weddings, Katie Doherty has traveled from upstate New York to Bali to Tuscany to document unique love stories. Run Away Together, an elopement photography studio based in Los Angeles, emerged from Katie's desire to work with unconventional, romantic couples who are up for an adventure. Katie adores photographing elopements because they are often a no fuss, no muss approach to getting married. Couples have described her images as nostalgic, poetic, and cinematic.  Katie is also the host of the Run Away Together podcast, a resource for couples who are considering an elopement. On the show, she is able to share her love for travel and inspiring places around the world to elope. She enjoys researching stunning, unique ceremony locations and assists couples in finding the best places to stay, dining options, and things to do for fun in any given city. This eases the couples' stress and simplifies planning. When Katie is not photographing weddings, she loves documenting her travels. She's constantly on the lookout for landscape and nature scenes to create fine art prints, and has partnered with the likes of Samsung and Urban Outfitters. Lastly, Katie is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of La Rousse Shoppe, which sells glass photo boxes and other elegant packaging products to photographers. Her mission is simple: creating beauty for others to enjoy. In this episode, listeners will hear about: Katie's experience in the wedding industry How Katie came up with the idea to create quizzes as a lead generation tool Quiz ideas for wedding industry businesses Starting from the end of the process (the quiz results) and working backwards to create the questions The software Katie uses to create the quiz - Outgrow quiz maker How Katie has used Pinterest ads to promote the quiz The number of daily leads Katie is now getting through online quizzes Katie's previous podcast episode with This Week In Weddings, "Making Money While You Sleep" Copywriter Kayley Vandenberg Want to connect with Katie? Online: http://www.runawaytogether.co/ Instagram: @runawaytogether.co Katie's podcast - Run Away Together: An Elopement Resource for Couples ------- SUPPORT THE PODCAST! Have you gotten value from This Week In Weddings? If so, it's time to pay it forward! Your contribution of as little as 10-cents a day will help us offset our costs, like file storage, web hosting, and editing. Plus, a larger donation gets you perks, like access to a private Facebook group to discuss each week’s episode! Check out the ways you can contribute to the show.

Are you educating yourself and growing your network by attending industry conferences? In this week's episode of the This Week In Weddings podcast, we're chatting with photographer Phillip Van Nostrand about his experience on the conference circuit and how it's affected his business and industry connections. From the Engage conference to WPPI, Phil will share how he's leveraged wedding industry conferences to grow his business and network. About our guest:  Phillip Van Nostrand is based in New York and California. With a strong background in weddings, commercial and lifestyle projects, he is an expert in capturing bright, cinematic lifestyle imagery. He travels abroad once a year and has photographed 30+ countries. Co-founder of La Rousse Shoppe, a successful e-commerce company specializing in glass memory boxes. Phil has been published in the New York Times, Dwell Magazine, Fortune.com, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Parade Magazine, San Diego Style Weddings, and was a Master Class speaker at WPPI in 2016 and 2017. In this episode, listeners will hear about: Phil's experience in the wedding industry and his early conference experiences How tenacity allowed Phil to photograph the industry's premier luxury wedding conference How to Philip does the conference scene as affordably as possible Want to connect with Jes? Website: http://phillipvn.com/ Instagram: @phillipvnweddings Facebook:@phillipvnphotography

What do you do when the career you always thought you wanted, doesn’t work out? How do you begin to piece your new career path together? How do you know if you’re better off going off on your own? Hey listeners! Today we chat about that with Katie Doherty, who is the founder of La Rousse Shoppe, a resource for photographers to purchase decorative packaging and boxing materials, like La Rousse’s original product the Glass Photo Box! La Rousse originally started out as a platform for Katie to promote her wedding photography, but after not being able to find products to suit her brand’s style and aesthetic, she decided to make products of her own. Since La Rousse has continued to grow as an outlet for her creativity, and now features a blog that showcases customer’s use of their products, and a podcast that shines a light on other entrepreneurs across various industries! Before Katie started La Rousse, was a third-grade elementary school teacher, and had grown up thinking that education and teaching was her calling. Unfortunately, once she started teaching, she became bogged down by the workload and frustrated with its lack of pay. She said she knew that those aspects were just part of what being a teacher meant, but she was surprised at how much it took over her life, and felt it had taken away her freedom and creativity.    She wanted to feel like she was in control of her own life, and have an outlet for her artistic expression, so she decided to explore her side passion for photography. To dip her toes into professional photography, she started to teach herself how to use her DSLR camera through research and YouTube videos, began taking evening classes at a community college, and started being mentored by a friend in wedding photography. Once she felt comfortable enough in her skills, she launched her online portfolio and took the final leap of quitting her job, and moving in with her parents so she could save money, and focus on getting her business off the ground by booking wedding, travel, and child photography gigs. As her portfolio started to grow, and she began taking her presentation more seriously, she started looking for little print boxes to give to couples after their wedding, and have for herself to present her work. As she scoured the internet for something modern, cute, and unique, she could only find clunky wooden, or linen boxes that just didn’t match her brand’s aesthetic.  She then became inspired by entrepreneurs on the podcast, Money Pillow, who had come up with amazing ideas for products, and made their visions a reality by manufacturing and selling them. That’s when she came up with the idea for a glass photo box, and after searching high and low for a similar product, she decided to be the first one to create one!  To get started, she first had to find a supplier and searched Alibaba, which is an e-commerce site that connects buyers to sellers from India and China. After sifting through the site for hours, she finally found a supplier that made a terrarium, which is a glass usually made for vases. He didn’t make the type of product that she needed, but he had the supplies, so she reached out to him with the dimensions of her box, and a sketch. A month later, she got a sample from him, and it was perfect! She proceeded to buy 50 more, and launched La Rousse using Shopify! After a decent start with a few sales, her business began to sink, because she wasn’t sure how to market or reach her target audiences. So she decided to share her business and product with her friend, Phil, who was a fellow wedding photographer and he loved it. He eagerly wanted to hop on as a business partner, which Katie said helped take a lot of the pressure off of her and provided her with a confidant and mentor as she navigated through the rough waters of entrepreneurship.  As orders start to increase, she had to move her inventory and work space to her parent’s garage, and hand packaged and detailed each order, and drove it to the post office. As business increased, even more, she had to hire some girls in her neighborhood to take over that aspect, despite her desire to oversee every little detail of the order. She had to relinquish even more control, as business continued to boom, and they had to hand their inventory over to a fulfillment center in Texas, which cut her out as a manufacturer and sent products straight to customers. Since her brand and products have continued to skyrocket and have been featured in Allure Magazine, Lauren Conrad’s Holiday Gift Guide, as well as MSN’s 25 Holiday Gifts under $100! Hear more of how La Rousse grew, and Katie’s story on this week’s episode! In this episode you will… Know how to create the solution to your problem Be able to find suppliers for your product Learn to let go aspects of your business and outsource Know what to consider when picking a new space for your business Be able to choose the right overseas shipping company for your product Figure out if you want to be a hands-off or hands-on CEO INSIGHTS “I think my dad was taken aback by the fact that I had spent all this money on student loans, to become a teacher, and two years later, I had completely changed my mind…[but] everyone I came across was really supportive, they never had any doubts.” -Katie Doherty “I was talking with a friend…and I very casually brought up this product I was working on, and he thought it was amazing. He was like, ‘Katie, you need to sign me on as your business partner, I can take this to new heights!’ I [thought] a business partner would be a great idea. All of the weight wouldn’t be on my shoulders, I could always go to someone for a second opinion, our just anything really. We have a great open relationship. Ever since Phil started on with me, I’ve seen the business grow times 10, it’s been amazing.”- Katie Doherty “I’m like kind of a crazy perfectionist. I want everything down to the sticker being straight on the packaging, I want it all to be as perfect as it can be. And I was kind of convinced that unless I did it myself, that it would never be perfect, because no one else would care as much as I did. And I really had to let go of that because I bet there are people who pay great attention to detail, so that was one important thing for us as we were looking for fulfillment centers. Who was going to be willing to do a bit of boutique packaging to fit our brand.” -Katie Doherty RESOURCES Katie Doherty Website La Rousse Shoppe Instagram La Rousse Shoppe Facebook Money Pillow by Sean Malarkey Artifact Uprising Alibaba Website

On today's episode I'm speaking with Katie Doherty and Phil Van Nostrand of La Rousse Shoppe, a company that sells beautiful glass photo boxes. You're going to hear how the two of them took their background as long-time photographers to develop a business that, in about two years, is generating over $200,000 in sales annually. All this while taking up very little of their time. In fact, you'll be surprised to hear how many hours a week each of them are actively working on this business.... Whether or not you strive for similar results, our conversation will provide some valuable nuggets and insight on how to start designing a business and life on your terms.    To learn more and get the show notes, visit: www.annettestepanian.com/officetalk  

It's a pleasure to welcome Katie Doherty from La Rousse Shoppe to the podcast today. Katie is a photographer turned e-commerce shop owner in the wedding industry and on today's show she spilling all the beans on how she got started, how she found her partner, how they've hit 6 figures and MORE! But first, here's a little more about this impressive brilliant woman: Katie Doherty is a whimsical redheaded photographer and entrepreneur, who actually started out her professional career life as an elementary school teacher, then ultimately decided working full-time for someone else was not her jam. After retiring from teaching in 2014, Katie starting building a six-figure e-commerce company from the ground up. La Rousse Shoppe sells boutique packaging products, such as glass photo boxes and USB drives, to professional photographers. It all started with Katie’s love of creating beautiful things, fueled by a desire for freedom and the ability to work from anywhere. Her favorite aspects of running La Rousse Shoppe are designing products, branding & packaging, and seeing all of the wonderful ways photographers are sharing their styled print boxes on social media. Katie and her business partner Phil are working on further automating the business by building their team and outsourcing daily tasks like shipping and fulfilling orders. The goal is to build systems and automation so that Katie and Phil can focus on expanding their product line, and, of course, enjoying a life of travel and leisure.

In a service-based business, there is always a limit of scalability. You can only work so many hours and so many weddings, and the most common way to scale your business is to bring on more team members.  In this week's episode of the This Week in Weddings podcast, we're talking to photographer Katie Doherty, who in addition to her photography business has created a successful online, product-based business, La Rousse Shoppe. With her online business, Katie literally makes money while she sleeps, and she's sharing her story of passive income with us this week's episode.   About our guest:  Katie Doherty is a whimsical redheaded photographer and entrepreneur, who has built a six figure e-commerce company from the ground up in just two years. La Rousse Shoppe sells boutique packaging products, such as glass photo boxes and USB drives, to professional photographers. It all started with Katie’s love of creating beautiful things, fueled by a desire for freedom and the ability to work from anywhere. Her favorite aspects of running La Rousse Shoppe are designing products, branding & packaging, and seeing all of the wonderful ways photographers are sharing their styled print boxes on social media. Katie and her business partner Phil are working on further automating the business by building their team and outsourcing daily tasks like shipping and fulfilling orders. The goal is to build systems and automation so that Katie and Phil can focus on expanding their product line, and, of course, enjoying a life of travel and leisure. In this episode, listeners will hear about: Katie's background as a photographer in the wedding industry How Katie came up with an idea for a product to sell  The steps Katie took to bring her product idea from inception to product sample to market How bringing on a business partner helped Katie launch and grow her business The first thing our guest decided to outsource when building her online business The technology Katie uses to sell her products online How Katie's online business has changed her life for the better What items Katie now outsources in order to have a truly passive income Want to connect with Katie? Web: katiedoherty.me (all projects) / larousseshoppe.com (e-commerce shop) Instagram: @larousseshoppe

Today we’re bringing on Wedding and Portrait Photographer, Katie Doherty of La Rousse Shoppe. She’s a service and a product based business babe. She started out as a teacher, had a passion for photography, saw a hole in the market and filled it with a 200k+ business that is as passive and automated as possible while continuously growing and expanding. In this episode Katie is sharing with us on how her dream was born, we get a peak into some of the resources and tools she uses to make it all happen and we find out more about what she actually sells. We’re super excited about what she’s spilling in this episode so keep listening. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes go to thestrategyhour.com. To download the transcript of this episode head to: thestrategyhour.com.

Welcome to the very first episode of 2017! Listen in on this conversation with Phil and I as we reflect back on 2016 and our hopes for 2017. We talk a little bit about personal resolutions, then dive right into what we are proud of with La Rousse Shoppe and business goals for the coming year.

Katie Doherty quit her job as an elementary school teacher and transitioned into life as a photographer and founder of La Rousse Shoppe. In this episode you'll learn how La Rousse Shoppe was built from scratch in December of 2014, including details on the platform we use to host our online store and where we source our products. Katie and Phil also discuss her secret for success and where she finds her biggest inspiration.