Happy New Year!
2009 ended with a busy portraiture sason for us. I've not done all the maths yet, but I think we saw about twice as many customers, with many returning customers coming to update last year's shots, and lots of people coming to us through recommendations. There can be no better feeling for a young business than seeing our growth through personal recommendation. It's what we always set out to do, knowing full well that we're in a recession and money is tight for everyone, not least us in terms of our non-existent advertising budget.
On top of photographing lots of families, we were lucky enough to deepen our relationship by documenting 2 of Unilever's Leeds Christmas functions, and to be called back by my old friends at Hitachi Capital to photograph their Christmas party. We now know our way round 3 of West Yorkshire's loveliest hotels! Loads of fun, and what's even lovelier is that we've already been booked for next year's events, which Jo and I are planning for now (day off afterwards maybe!).
2010 holds all sorts of interesting things. We'll be developing our work with local schools, playgroups and nurseries, running our school holiday portraiture offers as usual (and it's always free for a shoot if you need shoots and the holidays seem far away), we'll be tweaking our product line to make sure we're up to date with new display styles, and overhauling our viewing methods. And that's on top of continuing our core services of portrait, product and PR photography.
There's now a page on facebook which has been gathering fans steadily, where the soundbites of our news goes, but I'll be updating the big stuff on this blog whenever I can.
Wishng everyone all the best for 2010, and I hope those with British Gas and Bosom Buddies calendars are enjoying our photos!
Caroline Sanders.
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