Portrait competition

The portraits featured below are from past students who are now making money from their photography skills.Our January 2012 photography courses are filling up fast, to book and for more information please call 01603 629 739 or visit our website www.barrettandcoe.co.uk1st - Photographed by ex-student Marisa Taylor2nd - Photographed by Ian Wilson3rd Photographed by Brenda W...

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Partnership

The National Childbirth Trust  (NCT) have just made the following nationalpress release:                                                                                     ...

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New Studios

Following the finish of our December photography courses eight graduates will be opening studios of their own early in the new year.Elaine is visiting three this week who, have already earmarked premises, to advise on suitability and layout. Studios do not have to be large, neither do they have to have a high street presence.About 500 to 750 square feet is about right with rents in the region of £6,000 to £7,000.It is usually possible to negotiate a rent free period, and a break clause after one year. As a start up business there should be no...

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Portrait image competition

Barrett and Coe franchisees (all ex students from our Wedding and Portrait courses) benefit extrodinarily from continuous and ongoing tuition from one of the UK's leading Wedding and Portrait photographers David MacDonald.The following images caught his eye whilst judging the October Portrait Competition1st - photographed by ex student Caroline Brocklehurst2nd - photographed...

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www.barrettandcoeportraits.co.uk

Finally the new site went live at 10.15 pm last night.Thanks to Alec and Dominic who have managed a complete rebuild in less than 10days. This site is likely to become the most frequented Portrait site in the UK expecting to book approx 10,000 portrait appointments in 2012. The site will evolve as we have several bells and whistles to add.All our studios have been flat out for weeks and the checking and monitoring of all orders for customers is making long hours essential. Chris Kay at Loxleys has informed us that the spend by Barrett and Coe franchisees...

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New web site

Well, they did not make it! Fingers crossed for tomorr...

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New Portrait Site

Our new Portrait site www.barrettandcoeportraits.co.uk launches today.Where we do not have a Barrett and Coe studio we will be appointing Barrett and Coe approved and recommended Studios to take Portrait bookings from our partner companies: Activity Superstore, National Childbirth Trust and Parent Teacher Association UK.We are selecting these studios very carefully. Only the very best studios in the UK will be appointed thus ensuring that all our Partners customers/members receive the highest standard of photography and service. Each selected studio...

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Course Costs

We are often asked about the cost of our Wedding and Portrait courses. Below is a list of last weeks sales achieved by some of our ex students.Week 49 - Total salesStudio  £5,620Studio 18 £3,790Studio 1 £3,766Studio 19 £3,570Studio 6 £2,755Studio 3 £2,412Studio 20 £1,830Studio 10 £1,575Studio 13 £1,535Studio 2 £1,419Studio 8 £1,010This illustrates how quickly it is possible to cover the cost of a Barrett and Coe photography course and the level of income that can be achieved after graduating from our cours...

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September Portrait Competition

The portraits featured below are from past students who are now making money from their photography skills. Our January 2012 photography courses are filling up fast, to book and for more information please call 01603 629 739 or visit our website www.barrettandcoe.co.uk1st - photographed by ex-student Ian Wilson2nd - photographed by ex-student Ian Wilson3rd - photographed by...

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Olympic Torch

Apologies to blog readers for sharing my excitement. Have just been told that I have been chosen to be one of the people to carry the Olympic torch. Amazing...

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Course costs

We are often asked about the cost of our Wedding and Portrait courses. Below is a list of last weeks sales achieved by some of our ex students.Week 48 - Total salesStudio 1       £3,904Studio 2       £3,640Studio 3       £3,500Studio 4       £3,130Studio 5       £2,845Studio 6       £2,100Studio 7       £1,810Studio 8       £1,603Studio 9  ...

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Course practical day

Saturday 3rd December Practical dayBelow are pictures of three of our successful students who achieved a Grade 1 Barrett & Coe Diploma, together with an available light image they took on the day.Course tutor Andrew Coe and student Andrew GingerCourse tutor Andrew Coe and student Gregg SmithCourse tutor Andrew Coe and student Yolanda Fr...

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October Baby of the Month

October Baby of the Month has been chosen. A selection of images and winning photo, taken by Brenda Wooldridge (who runs a Barrett & Coe studio in Bagshot) are shown below:Baby of the Month OctoberPhotographed by ex student Ian WilsonPhotographed by Astra RichardsonPhotographed by ex student Carl ReevePhotographed by ex student Carl Re...

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Course Comments

On Saturday and Sunday we finished our Option One courses. Everyone did well with a record number of six students achieving a Grade 1 Diploma.  Here are some of the comments made about the courses:"The course provided me a very comprehensive introduction to portrait photography which was inspirational. The balance between practical and business advice was just right and has left me feeling very confident about my future options." Hazel Faint - Portrait Course"Another very enjoyable, positive and relevant learning experience which has...

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Mentoring

Our courses are structured so that it is possible to come on a course and following completion to immediately earn money from your camera. It also enables someone to find out just what is involved if someone is considering becoming professional - the upsides and the downsides!It is also a possible way for someone considering a franchise to find out about us, and the potential of a photographic business, without making a commitment. Either way, with what is learnt on the course, it is possible to earn back the cost of the course and equipment...

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Wedding Course

Quite often we hear from students about how they are progressing.Victoria Cook and Robert Jackson finished their wedding course with us in June achieving high results with their Barrett and Coe Diploma. Yesterday we received an email from Robert updating us on their progress:"We have weddings booked in for next year, and my employer has actually made me their official corporate...

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New Websites

We currently have five different websites. www.barrettandcoe.co.uk for Wedding and Portrait Courses, for the Barrett and Coe franchise www.barrettandcoefranchise.co.uk www.barrettandcoeweddings.co.uk for weddings, www.barrettandcoeportraits.co.uk for portraits, and www.portraitleads.co.uk for independent photographers wishing to use our portrait booking and leads service.We are busy completely revamping the wedding and the portrait sites. The portrait site should go live at the end of next week. Over the next couple of months we will...

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Ex-student success

Posted this morning on the Barrett & Coe Facebook group by one of our ex students:"Two family viewings this evening, first one mum, dad and livewire 4 year old - at the start of the shoot the mum was adamant she wanted to be in as few pictures as possible. £870 spent :) Second one, 3 generations, only 3 of the family came back for the viewing but couldn't stop spending... £2910 spent :) :) Just blown my highest order value and highest monthly totals completely out of the water!!"For more information on our Photography courses please...

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Winners

At our last course weekend students were shown how to select images for qualifications and awards by reference to the CLEPS scoring system. Images are assessed seperately in the five categories:CompositionLightingExpressionPosingSpaceDuring this session a number of images are judged after animated discussion and exchange of opinions. Students scoring closest to our...

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Next courses

Our next courses begin in January and places are filling up fast. We are getting as many as four/five enquiries a day and in many instances I speak to the people enquiring on the phone, or some come and visit and look around our extensive facilities. It is always interesting listening to the many different reasons that people give to begin professional portrait/wedding photography. Today I had a call from a lady who owns a dog grooming parlour and is often asked for portraits of the dogs! She has the space to take pictures on her premises and to...

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Super Group

Last Friday and Saturday were our Seminars 3 and 4 for the Portrait and Wedding course 2 and on Sunday Seminar 5 for our Course 1.Before the Saturday seminar began the Portrait course were given a tour round David Macdonald's studio by David before he started a very busy schedule of family sittings.  Course members found this hour inspirational.Below is a picture...

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Quadruple sales

This email was received from one of our part time studios yesterday:"Dear Elaine & DavidI just wanted to write and say a massive thankyou to you both for all the help and advice you have given me over the last couple of months, especially when I was struggling with sales and viewings in October. I have changed a few things around in the studio and adjusted my viewing process and things really feel like they are working well at the moment (I'm waiting for the bubble to burst but hoping that it won't). This has resulted in a couple of really...

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Kodak

Once Kodak was one of the biggest companies in the world. They are now reported to be close to going into the American version of administration Their success was built on global sales of film, but in the early nineties they did not put their resources behind research and development of digital technology, preferring instead to please their shareholders with increasing short term profits.Typical of our western culture.In the mid eighties they paid us £450,000 for less than 40% of our company which had 35 wedding and portrait studios, all with one...

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Busy studios

Most of our studios are fully booked through to Christmas which has been the case for a couple of weeks. As we appear to be in the midst of a recession this is very encouraging.Our new partnerships with The National Childbirth Trust and Parent Teacher Associations UK are proving very succesful and marvelous organisations. A proportion of any monies spent with a studio goes back to them.They have not appointed National Partners before so this is a very exciting new initiative for the photography Market.We began working with NCT in July and have...

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September Baby of the Month

September Baby of the Month has been chosen. A selection of images and winning photo, taken by ex student Jenny Baxter (who runs a Barrett & Coe studio in Oxford) are shown below:Baby of the Month - Win...

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Kim Kardashian will be a Wedding Organizer Soo

The wedding ceremony of the American actress, model and socialite Kim Kardashian with a basketball player from New Jersey Nets Chris Humphreys was one of the key secular events this year. In his triumph, Kim literally put his heart and soul daily for a few months she went to the salon Vera Wang fitting to wedding dresses ,...

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