Promoting wedding photography package is the main problem for every photographers in this planet. As you know that thousand of people are able to shoot wedding nicely even edited their photographs using any kind software like Photoshop or Lightroom.
Hi I’m Bima and thank you for visiting my blog, through this page I’m gonna share some useful tips of wedding photography marketings that you can start from your own bed room. Before it started so let me tell you something about my ridiculous business story. By the way I live in a small town called Yogyakarta, it’s about 1,5 hour flight from Bali, one of the main problem by being photographer in my town is the price war.
I know so many great photographers live in this town but since the regional minimum salary only US$125/month so living cost is really cheap, that’s good for living but really bad to sell services like photography cause majority of people who live here expect a cheap phootgraphy package for their weddings.
I could said that I’m stuck with my life for first 4 years of my photography career, this situation makes me stumble upon my computer for hours per day and looking for some good ways to promoting wedding photography package. I don’t wanna join an expo cause it costs thousand of dollar and I don’t wanna print a flyer or poster than take them to every single home in my city.
What I looking for is smarter way that able me to sell my services borderless, mean I can sell it to anyone in this planet no matter where they live. Shortly I found the way is by using an internet, a tools that I use daily for browsing and watch movie online but never for sell my services.
I don’t exactly know what problem that face on you but I’m pretty sure that most of us will have similar problem just like me. Right now, in this page I’m gonna share to you what I did several years ago to promoting wedding photography package of mine by using internet, this cheap way (but really hard to do) is able to brought me shooting pre wedding and wedding in such beautiful places like Bali, Maldives, and Hong Kong. Just take a look for this 3 minutes video about my pre wedding photo shoot in 5 star luxury resort called the Angsana Velavaru.
A beautiful lady that you saw in my youtube cover is my wife, Nina, she belongs to my personal assistant and make up artist for the past decades. If you interesting to learn how to doing photography business with your spouse than you can read my articles before continuing read this story.
My client above is coming from Singapore and we met them in Jurong East just before I went to Maldives for 1st time for pre wedding in Lux* Sout Ari Atoll where I serve couple from Hong Kong. As you can see here there is no border for internet to promoting wedding photography package of your own.
Clue is knowing how to do it and ‘God Damn Hard Work’ every single day!
Lets Promoting Wedding Photography Package with Internet
Now I’m gonna focusing this story about how to do it, it’s not a short cut to get your client deal but it definitely need times and a lot of work, if you can’t do it simply close this tab and start watching movie but if you gonna do it and interesting to promoting wedding photography package by internet that lets begin.
1 – Owning a blog
To run a simple blog than you have to buy a domain and hosting package, Bluehost is one great company that I recommend cause you start your own blog for just for US$3.95/month
2 – Running your blog
Once you choose your domain name (I suggest you to choose domain with your photography studio) and hosting that it’s time to run your blog. I don’t wanna waste your time to learn HTML code bla-bla-bla but do it fast just like running a simple blog. Install a wordpress on your Bluehost cpanel and your blog will on within a minutes.
3 – Design your blog
Once you install the WordPress on your blog than you will got login admin link, it’s a special link that make you go to your dashboard. Now it’s time to design your blog, put some pages consist of About (who you are), Portfolio (this gonna be your galleries), and Contact page (this is how your client contact you). You can visit my official photography blog to see how it looks like.
4 – Use google suggestion for free to get the keyword
Keyword is the first door where your couple can know you through internet, you can research it for free from Google. Try to type ‘Wedding Photography in Toron…..’ when you try it on searching column than google will give you with some lists, pick one and make it as your primary keyword
5 – Put your best wedding images and start blogging
I start blogging by telling my future client about my past photo shoot, as you can see on Jasmine and Kevan Wedding, you can see how I met my gorgeous couple in one small cafe in Raffles Singapore. Here I share about Jasmine’s wedding party where taken in one cool beach-front hotel in Kuta Bali.
I use blogging for 800 word at minimum and can be grow up to 2000 words in want to make a primary landing page that use to sell my overseas program. One think that you can do here is making your blog as interesting as you can and it should informative to your couple.
The sad thing of promoting wedding photography package with internet is, it really boring and this how you get tested. If you able to do it regularly than you will get your first email from your couple.
I choose this method and still happily doing it cause it makes me worldwide, global market is always open to you and as long as you can give your best services, best pictures, and best client handling than your client will come no matter you stay 60 feet under the ground.
Retouching my photographs
I use both photoshop and lightroom to do post production in my studio and I used to spend 30-45 minutes to do post production for 1 single image. It’s quite long but I do it with my heart and this really important to make all the photo perfect. Here I’m gonna show to you what I did to make some wow pictures to my couple.
This video below is about my post production of pre wedding photo shoot that taken in Jakarta, the capitol city of Indonesia
If you want to learn more about photoshop post production than you can use this 36 photoshop tutorials for professional, it will help you a lot to know how to use photoshop from basic even you don’t know ANYTHING about it.
What gear I use for the most
Today I use 2 systems for my business and down here are the lists of my photography gears that commonly use in my photo shoot.
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- Canon EOS 5D Mark IV – buy it for US$3099 on Amazon
- Nikon D810 – buy it for US$2796 on Amazon
- Canon 16-35 mm f2.8 L series – buy it for US$1899 on Amazon
- Nikon 24-70 mm f2.8 Nano lens – buy it for US$1796 on Amazon
- EOS M50 with 15-45mm for back up and video behind the scene – buy it for US$699 on Amazon
NOTE – I love all lenses with f2.8 it helps me to provide sharp image
So here is all I did to promoting wedding photography package of my own, I did it with internet and still worth it to do. It might be cheap cause I don’t use any paid software but definitely need super hard work. Hope this help you to figure out how promoting your photo services.
Simply drop me a comment below to ask something or say hi to me, cheers guys and keep rock on wedding photography!