Jushien: This is all from my heart!

On your web site…looks good but dosent sell well. Im sure you will be adding catogories like, weddings, portraits, etc. later on. Also, get Scott to take more in focus, mature and stylish picture of you for the site so you dont look like a 17 year old kid with a camera. Clients will not pay $3500 on up to a person who looks like a high school student. Your images are sooooo good and the music you chose is great, but you need to target who your audience/clients are and bring it up about 50 notches in order to demand the fee’s you want to get. If the client you want is between , lets say 20-35 years old, you want music they can relate to, not a song from the 50′s. Same thing goes for your imagery/photos. If you show all beautifuly posed images of model shoots you look like the old style formal photographer. If you show more of a journalistic wild style, with flair and color with movement you are now getting the attention of a more mature professional at those ages who is looking for something different. You need to think about who your client is, buy wedding magazines and look at the ads, look at the photos in the ads for make up and hair, they are ALL wild and different. I think this is what most brides are looking for today and I know you can shoot this stuff.

I would’nt go live with a site until its completely done. You dont know who is looking at it and you dont want to loose any business from it either. One other thing is…I know you and Scott work together and he helps you shoot on occassion, but I would keep the attention on you, your work, your great images and style, dont talk about anyone else except you. Is’nt that who you are trying to sell here?

On your contact page, have them fill out their info and have it submitted with a send key. By putting your email there they might not send you any info except, “Are you open on 9-16-07?” That dosent tell you a thing. The contact page should get you some specifics and a their contact info for YOU to get in touch with them.

This is your first web site and Im on my 6th, so we learn each time what works. I surf on the net all the time and look to see those who are sucessful, I look and read everything on these sites to get ideas and see what works. I dont copy what they have on their sites , I just use a simular formula for getting people to email and call and after all these years its finally working. 

Hope some of this helps you out.

Randy