Personal brand and headshot photographer Jess Kornacki with her laptop
For photographers who can shoot

Ready to stop guessing at the business part?

Build a personal brand photography business that books itself.

Yes! Let's do this $497, or 3 payments of $175.
2,000+ photographers taught
Everything you get, the moment you enroll

Get instant access to all 4 modules and 26 video trainings of Personal Branding Breakthrough, the High Ticket Phone Call Script that gets you off email and onto the phone, a Personal Brand Contract with the commercial release your clients already expect, the Pricing Calculator that tells you what you actually need to charge, the Discovery Questionnaire that pulls the shoot out of a client who doesn't know what to ask for, the full Email Template Suite, the Launch Kit, the Instagram Social Selling Swipes, and lifetime access to every update.

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If any of this sounds familiar…

You're good with a camera. That part you know cold. It's everything around the camera that feels like guessing.

Someone asks what you charge and your stomach drops a little.

You send the price in an email. Then you wait. Most of the time they just never write back, and you never find out why.

You post constantly. It feels like talking in a room where nobody looks up.

You watch photographers who are not better than you stay booked solid, and you cannot work out what they know that you don't.

You've bought a course before. You finished it, closed the laptop, and on Monday you still didn't know what to actually DO.

And somewhere under all of it, quietly: maybe you're great at the art and just not built for the business side.

Here's the part I want you to hear

That last one isn't true, and it's the whole reason this course exists.

The business side is not a personality trait.

It's a set of things nobody sat you down and taught you, and every single one of them is learnable. 🎉

01

Instead of guessing at pricing

You'll have a calculator that shows you what to charge to actually take home the salary you want, after expenses, and how many shoots that takes. Real math, not a number you picked because another photographer posted theirs.

02

Instead of emailing your prices and waiting

You'll get on a quick phone call with a script that walks them to their own reasons for booking. You stop convincing people. That's the shift.

03

Instead of shouting on Instagram

Your website starts doing the work: answering objections in order, then pointing at your inquiry form. It runs whether or not you posted today.

04

Instead of a client who doesn't know what they want

You'll have a questionnaire and a planning process that pulls it out of them, so shoot day is collaborative instead of sitting entirely on your shoulders.

05

Instead of finishing a course and not knowing what to do Monday

You get plug-and-play assets. Templates you paste in. A contract you send. A script you read. Monday has a to-do list.

06

Instead of hoping the right people find you

You'll have a niche you can explain in one sentence, to anyone, without your voice going up at the end. 💙

Personal branding session in progress
Introducing

Personal Branding Breakthrough

The get-it-done course for the part nobody taught you.

The whole system for a personal brand photography business: what to charge, what to say, how to plan it, how to shoot it, and how to keep dream clients finding you.

Yes! Let's do this Personal Branding Breakthrough course mockup
Jess Kornacki with her laptop and coffee at an outdoor cafe
Hi, I'm Jess

For years I was the hardcore hustler. I shot anything that paid. Weddings, architecture, whatever came through the inbox. And I still struggled to make ends meet.

It was a hamster wheel. Always chasing the next client, always a little stressed that I couldn't quite swing it. I kept trying to fix it by getting better at photography, because that was the part I knew how to practice.

That wasn't the problem.

The change came when I started working on my business as hard as I'd been working on my craft. Not tweaking one thing at a time and hoping. Building the whole structure: pricing that held up, a workflow clients could feel, a website that answered objections before anyone asked them, and a way to talk about my work that didn't need convincing.

When I moved into personal branding photography with that structure underneath me, I had my first six-figure year. I started working with clients I genuinely loved, on work that mattered to them. And the part I didn't expect: I got time back. Time with my family. Time to be creative again.

So I built the thing I wish someone had handed me twenty years ago. Not a course about taking better pictures, because you can already do that. A course about the rest of it.

That's Personal Branding Breakthrough. Everything I figured out the slow, expensive way, in the order you actually need it.

22Years in business
2,000+Students
1,000+Photoshoots
100K+In personal brand revenue
kind words

From current students

“Do this course, you won't regret it!”

Jess is so generous with her content and has really pulled out all the stops to create an amazingly detailed, interesting and enjoyable course. I learnt something in every module. I've done two other courses on branding photography and they didn't touch on so many aspects, but this course covers everything.

Jayne

“Yours is so jam packed.”

I had taken another course that was good, but not half the information you're providing, and I left that class still having questions. I'm shooting my first true branding shoot tomorrow and she said I was so prepared.

Maggie

“I will be referencing it again and again.”

I loved the course! It was full of information and so visually attractive. Your engagement with me makes me feel like I have someone rooting for me.

Diana
what's inside

Four modules, in the order you need them

Module One: Build your Business
Module one

Charge properly. Say it without flinching.

We start with what businesses actually want from you, so you can explain the value of your work to anyone who'll listen without hedging. Then marketing, and if that word made you wince, this is the one for you: the five principles that make your content behave completely differently.

Then pricing. If your numbers have ever come from checking what other photographers charge, this lesson replaces that with a calculation you can defend, and a way to present it that makes people want to say yes.

And it closes with a lesson about you. Putting yourself out there as your own brand is the part most photographers quietly dread. The magnetic personal brand planner walks you through being authentically YOU while still reading as a professional.

Module Two: Planning
Module two

Plan it once. Shoot day runs itself.

Great photos start before you pick up the camera. This module gives you a planning process simple enough that shoot day runs itself.

You'll learn to find out what your client wants even when they have no idea what to ask for, which is most of the time. The Four Key Looks method keeps you from over-planning or under-planning. And there's a full lesson on locations, light, wardrobe, props and what goes in your bag.

You set the stage. Then you get to play on it.

Module Three: Creating
Module three

Walk in calm. Deliver a gallery that closes it.

This is the fun part. Pairing your style with the stage you've built.

How to prepare, what to pack, how to walk in without the morning jitters. Lighting, cropping, capturing variety, and getting real, unposed-looking expressions out of clients who arrive nervous. That last one is a technique, not a talent.

Then culling, retouching and exporting, so you deliver a gallery that ends the conversation instead of starting a round of back-and-forths. Plus an easy In-Person-Sales session run right out of Lightroom, if you want to sell that way. Optional. The course works either way.

Module Four: Getting Clients
Module four

Fill the calendar. Then launch it.

Now we fill the calendar with the “I can't believe this is my job” clients.

We take your new personal brand and rebuild your online presence so it pulls people toward your website instead of just existing. Then we go through exactly what your website needs, in what order, to walk past your clients' objections and land them in your inbox, where the workflow from Module One is already waiting for them.

By the end your system is built. So we finish by putting a launch, or a relaunch, into motion using my launch swipe files.

By the end, your system is built.

Yes! Let's do this
In addition to the video trainings

The resources that come with it

These aren't homework. They're plug-and-play assets you can put into your business this week.

The High Ticket Phone Call Script
01

The High Ticket Phone Call Script

The exact words I use to get off email and onto a call. You stop quoting prices into the void and start having a conversation where the client tells you why they want this. It's the single fastest change most students make.

The Personal Brand Contract
02

The Personal Brand Contract

Every personal branding client expects a commercial release in writing. This one sets expectations and protects you, so you're not writing one from scratch at 11pm before a shoot.

The Pricing Calculator
03

The Pricing Calculator

Put in your expenses and the salary you actually want. It tells you what to charge and how many shoots a year that takes. Most photographers find out they've been undercharging by a factor they don't want to hear.

The Email Template Suite
04

The Email Template Suite

My whole set, ready to paste in. Designed to carry a client through your workflow and head off problems before they start.

The Discovery Questionnaire
05

The Discovery Questionnaire

The questions that get a client to hand you the shoot, including the five vibe words exercise that makes planning almost automatic.

The Canva Shot List Template
06

The Canva Shot List Template

A shot list you fill in and send ahead. The client arrives knowing what's happening, and so do you.

The Brand Outreach Strategy
07

The Brand Outreach Strategy

The four-step approach for reaching out to businesses you actually want to shoot, including what to say when nobody writes back. Rejection is part of it. This makes it survivable.

The Almost-Magic Content Strategy
08

The Almost-Magic Content Strategy

High-value content without the constant churn. This is the system that stops content being a second job you didn't apply for.

The Website Checklist and Guide
09

The Website Checklist and Guide

Page by page, what your site needs and in what order, so it answers objections instead of just looking nice.

The Launch Kit
10

The Launch Kit

Launching isn't a one-time event. Even if you've been shooting personal branding for years, this gets more people in the door.

Instagram Social Selling Swipes
11

Instagram Social Selling Swipes

For the days you know you should post and have nothing.

forever
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Lifetime access

To all of it, including everything I add later.

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“I had 3 discovery calls yesterday, and all 3 booked!”

“Time to raise them prices! Your email templates, btw, are SO GOOD.”

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Everything you're getting

All 4 modules and 26 video trainings
The High Ticket Phone Call Script
The Personal Brand Contract, with the commercial release
The Pricing Calculator
The Discovery Questionnaire
The full Email Template Suite
The Canva Shot List Template
The Brand Outreach Strategy
The Almost-Magic Content Strategy
The Website Checklist and Guide
The Launch Kit
Instagram Social Selling Swipes
Lifetime access, including every update
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Same instant access, spread over three months.

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Instant access to everything, forever.

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14-day money back guarantee

14-day money back guarantee

I think this course can change how your business runs, and I'd rather you find that out than take my word for it.

Get into the first 14 days. If it isn't helpful, or it isn't what you expected, email me and I'll refund you in full. No hoops.

I don't want worrying about the wrong fit to be the thing that stops you.

And just so we're clear

(because we don't believe in wasting time)

You're in the right place if…

You're ready to build a personal branding business on purpose.

You're done marketing constantly in ways that don't move anything.

You'll put in some work now to stop hustling later.

You're in the wrong place if…

Personal branding photography isn't where you want to go.

You'd rather keep posting reels than build something that holds up when you stop posting.

You're not in it for the long-term sustainability of your business.

you've got Q's A personal branding photography session in a bright studio
I already have a photography business. Can I add this as a new service?

Yes, and that's the fastest version of this. You already have gear, skill and probably a website. What you're adding is a niche, a price structure and a way to talk about it. Students who already shoot portraits usually book their first branding client fastest, because the only new part is the offer.

I'm newer to photography. Is this too advanced?

No, but be honest with yourself about the camera part. This course teaches the business, the planning and the client work, not how to expose an image. If you can shoot a portrait you're happy with, you're ready.

I've bought a course before and didn't finish it. Why would this be different?

Because most of what's here isn't lessons, it's assets. A contract you send. A script you read. Templates you paste. You can put something into your business the day you buy it, before you've watched Module One. That's deliberate.

How much time does this take? I'm already slammed.

It's self-paced with lifetime access, so there's no schedule to fall behind. Most students work through a module a week, but the resources are usable from day one, which means it starts paying for itself before you finish.

Is personal branding still a profitable niche?

More than when I started. Every business owner now needs a library of images of themselves for a website, socials and press, and they need them refreshed. That's a recurring need, which is what makes it different from one-off portrait work.

What if I hate putting myself out there?

Then Module One's magnetic personal brand lesson is the one to do first. Building a brand that feels like you is a process, not a personality type, and being quieter than average is not a disqualification. Plenty of my best students are.

When do I get access?

Straight away. The whole course and every resource, the moment you enroll.

Is $497 worth it?

One personal branding client at the prices this course teaches you to charge covers it several times over. Students have gone from $100 a shoot to $4000. You don't need that result for the math to work. You need one client.

Jess Kornacki

I can't wait for you to join

Listen, friend. You're here for a reason. There's something bigger you've been circling, and you already know you can do more with what you've got.

Personal branding photography changed my life. I went from stressed out and overworked, spending my evenings hunting for clients instead of being with my kids, to booked out with a waitlist, working less than ever, making six figures and actually being around for my little ones.

You already have the talent. This is the rest of it.

I cannot wait to see you inside. 💙

Jess
$497, or 3 payments of $175. Yes! Let's do this