 Fondly Remembered
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Perthshire Scotland
Posts: 8,168
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In work just now but I'll take a look later....
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Kit 1 Canon 1D Mark 3 Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II |
Kit 2 1D2 & 40D |
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: east sussex
Posts: 3,484
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Dan
A business takes time to build up and usually its, like us, by word of mouth. Just a suggestion, why not book a space at a wedding fair and attract local people or supermarket/shop business display boards, if it doesn't work out then you know not to try that again. We spent quite a bit of time and money finding out what promotes our business and what doesn't. Ok it costs but at least we now know where our target market is. I suspect most people looking for a photographer will be looking in the local adverts -newspapers- yellow pages/thompsons/phone book/Yell. They won't be wanting to pay someone their travelling time to get to them if a local photographer is nearby and handy
Just one other thing, always quote a land line number as well as a mobile, this gives prospective clients the idea that you are not a " here now gone tomorrow person"
Bazza
A business takes time to build up and usually its, like us, by word of mouth. Just a suggestion, why not book a space at a wedding fair and attract local people or supermarket/shop business display boards, if it doesn't work out then you know not to try that again. We spent quite a bit of time and money finding out what promotes our business and what doesn't. Ok it costs but at least we now know where our target market is. I suspect most people looking for a photographer will be looking in the local adverts -newspapers- yellow pages/thompsons/phone book/Yell. They won't be wanting to pay someone their travelling time to get to them if a local photographer is nearby and handy
Just one other thing, always quote a land line number as well as a mobile, this gives prospective clients the idea that you are not a " here now gone tomorrow person"
Bazza