Gary Yelland
pro member
I thought I would start a thread on marketing ideas,
what ideas do we have and innovations to help build a healthy client base.
All ideas are welcome, even the wacky ones.
Here are some to start the thread:
1. Let your customers do the marketing.
If you are taking portraits, Print 5-10 business cards or postcards with their picture and your company details on. Ask them to hand out the cards to their friends, for every friend that returns for a photo shoot with one of their cards that can have a free print or £10 cash.
2. Target your audience
Always carry flyers and business cards, but not to hand them out to anyone only to potential clients. For example if you go to a craft fair or show ground. Try the promotion girls and guys on the stands, these people are hired on their looks, and are already interested in modeling, they always need images for their portfolio.
3. Use Technology and Trends
Open a page on myspace, Flickr, faceBook and other social networking websites. Most of these sites you are able to search for people in a particular town or area, so search for local people and offer your services. People in general like to use local photographers as its easy and convenient. By the way myspace is great for new bands starting their career that need album cover images for a reasonable cost.
4. Sports events
These are great for promotion, take free sports images of the games with the permission of the organisers, offer some prints or web images free. Why would you do this, because the money is not in the small local sport team photographer its in the families and social clubs that are linked with them. If you can get into this area through the club, the word of mouth in a very closed community of like minded people can be very powerful.
anyway these are a starter for 10,
see what you think, post you marketing ideas and hopefully start to build some really innovative ways to get your people banging your door down for work.
Cheers
what ideas do we have and innovations to help build a healthy client base.
All ideas are welcome, even the wacky ones.
Here are some to start the thread:
1. Let your customers do the marketing.
If you are taking portraits, Print 5-10 business cards or postcards with their picture and your company details on. Ask them to hand out the cards to their friends, for every friend that returns for a photo shoot with one of their cards that can have a free print or £10 cash.
2. Target your audience
Always carry flyers and business cards, but not to hand them out to anyone only to potential clients. For example if you go to a craft fair or show ground. Try the promotion girls and guys on the stands, these people are hired on their looks, and are already interested in modeling, they always need images for their portfolio.
3. Use Technology and Trends
Open a page on myspace, Flickr, faceBook and other social networking websites. Most of these sites you are able to search for people in a particular town or area, so search for local people and offer your services. People in general like to use local photographers as its easy and convenient. By the way myspace is great for new bands starting their career that need album cover images for a reasonable cost.
4. Sports events
These are great for promotion, take free sports images of the games with the permission of the organisers, offer some prints or web images free. Why would you do this, because the money is not in the small local sport team photographer its in the families and social clubs that are linked with them. If you can get into this area through the club, the word of mouth in a very closed community of like minded people can be very powerful.
anyway these are a starter for 10,
see what you think, post you marketing ideas and hopefully start to build some really innovative ways to get your people banging your door down for work.
Cheers