Episode 3: An Unpopular Day, James Day

Unpopular with Josh Withers

James Day is a good friend of mine, who also happens to be one of the leading wedding photographers in the world. I've helped him with lots of business automation and customer journey before today, so before I left his house this morning I had to record a podcast with him! In this episode we talk about sample wedding albums that you leave with wedding vendors and venues, and also automating the photo album process using Gravity Forms and Zapier. Transcript [00:00:00] Hello I'm Josh Withers. This is the unpopular podcast. It's a podcast from the unpopular community and you could find this podcast already at [00:00:07] unpopular.show [1.1] unpopular.com.au is the membership blog. And there's a free blog at unpopularity. The idea with this is that we have a church to business people that are friends of mine. We have a chat about their business and how we can lubricate things and make things a little bit better. This is episode three, episode one and two are both from wedding industry people and also from males. And I do want to try and get some diversity happening. That is happening but I haven't received a James' house and so like this would be a waste of opportunity. [00:00:35] James hello. Hello there to you James day. Wedding Photographer I live near Sydney by the beach which is where we are right now. [00:00:46] It's the most Australian thing, Sydney by the beach. Can you see the opera house from your house? Almost. [00:00:54] I'm really glad we can't. I'm very glad that I'm not that close to Sydney. [00:00:58] Yeah. Well could you get to the beach at Bulli. It's just one bloke with the dog and it's probably a good bloke right James. But what do you give him an insight into you and what you do like like what makes you unpopular. [00:01:16] So many things make me. Well I I think the main thing I do is I photograph weddings as I said before. That's been sort of my one and only big career. That's that's all I've ever done I've had a little little. Flirts with other things before I got started as a photographer. [00:01:36] What's the what's the furtherest flirt from wedding photographer like like where you're a stripper at some point or works in the gym as a personal trainer really. [00:01:46] Once upon a time I was super fit I'm just super fat. [00:01:51] Yes so my friend James is a personal trainer you should talk to him about recent tips and stuff. [00:01:58] Yeah a lot has changed since then. But yeah so I think I've probably photographed in the realms of 600 weddings I've been to lots and lots of crazy parties going crazy and the radio show on Saturday though that was like mind blowing me crazy and I'm in love. [00:02:14] I love being part of ridiculously nuts wedding celebrations. So when people would just go there. We're here to celebrate mass. Let's go all out. [00:02:24] So I like that. [00:02:28] I think some people the whole unpopular philosophy is that you don't have to be everyone's insert business name like everyone's photographer everyone's whatever but you can kind of go niche and you can try and figure out what makes you new. And so how do you kind of identify that like in a line up of like up in Sydney. I'm guessing there's at least a thousand one hundred dollars. I don't know. [00:02:53] Like I'm just saying at the moment that any research but I'm sure there's a lot I think there's probably a thousand people who are wedding photographer. To have a point so. [00:03:03] So they. Because the whole popular thing is that there's a massive amount of people. How do you make how do you know militia. Well how do you kind of describe it. [00:03:13] Well firstly it's taken me a while to work this out with America from country Ahmed out where I found that a lot of the people that were just booking me...