Commercial Photographer: Your Guide to Marketing, Creativity and Growth

Commercial Photographer: Your Guide to Marketing, Creativity and Growth is the essential podcast if you're a professional headshot photographer or brand photographer. Ready to achieve sustainable business growth? Each week, we share practical advice and actionable strategies to help you master your marketing, ignite your creativity, and build a profitable commercial photography business. Learn how to attract ideal clients, stand out in the marketplace, and build the business you've always wanted. Stop guessing and start growing with business help and guidance from industry experts.

Commercial Photographer: Your Guide to Marketing, Creativity and Growth is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 172 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Commercial Photographer: Your Guide to Marketing, Creativity and Growth, a business show with 172 episodes published.

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  Episode #33

  What Website Designers Wish Photographers Knew

  Aug 18, 202634 minS5

  Ever wondered why some photos land perfectly on a website and others just don't work, no matter how good the shot is? A brand and web designer joins the show to reveal exactly what she wishes photographers understood before they ever pick up the camera — from the details nobody tells you about to the compositional choices that make or break a client's site. If you supply images that end up on someone's homepage, this one could change how you shoot. Download the free guide to Marketing and Creativity here⁠

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  Episode #32

  Why Smart Photographers Get Ahead During the Quiet Season

  Aug 11, 202619 minS5

  The phone's gone quiet, inquiries have dried up, and it's tempting to treat this as dead time. Marcus disagrees — and he's using it himself right now to get ready for the September rush. He runs through the moves worth making while the pressure's off, from a proper look at whether your website still represents the work you actually want, to a low-key way of staying on past clients' radar without ever selling to them. There's also a blind spot most photographers don't think to check: whether everything with your name on it, from your website to your pricing document, is still telling the same story about your business, and why that consistency matters more than ever with Google and AI both scanning across everywhere you show up. Plus why the quiet season is exactly the wrong time to just watch videos about a skill instead of learning it properly, and the one planning move that saves your future self when September turns into chaos. For any brand photographer whose website has quietly drifted out of date, this is the nudge to fix it before the busy season does it for you. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the free guide to Marketing and Creativity here⁠

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  Episode #31

  Making Networking Actually Work for Photographers Part Two

  Aug 4, 202631 minS5

  You've done the hard part, worked the room, swapped business cards, had the good conversation. Tony Bowler, founder of The Business Culture in Hull and East Yorkshire, is back for part two of our networking series, covering how to actually work the room without getting stuck at the wrong table, and why the two days after the event decide whether any of it was worth it. He breaks down the follow-up message that actually gets a reply versus the one that gets you quietly unconnected, why asking "what do you do" is the wrong question, and the slow-build sequence that turns a stranger with a business card into a genuine referral source. There's also a hard lesson in never judging a contact by their job title, and why the busiest-looking person in the room might be the one worth talking to. For any brand photographer building relationships in the local business community rather than just chasing bookings, this is the follow-through nobody teaches you. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the free guide to Marketing and Creativity here⁠

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  Episode #30

  Why Most Brand Photographers Are Impossible To Tell Apart

  Jul 28, 202619 minS5

  Most brand photographers look exactly the same. Same portfolios, same Instagram grids, same prices, same everything — which means clients have nothing left to judge them on except cost. Marcus breaks down why this happens, why quietly copying the photographers you admire erases what makes you different, and the three questions that surface the one thing about you that no other commercial photographer can replicate. If you've ever wondered why some photographers charge what they want while others get squeezed on price, this is where you start finding the answer.

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  Episode #29

  The Networking Prep Most Photographers Skip (Part 1)

  Jul 21, 202619 minS5

  Ever walked out of a networking event and realised nobody in the room actually remembers who you are? There's a reason, and it's usually decided before you ever step through the door. Which group you pick, how you introduce yourself, even what's in your pocket when you turn up — it all stacks the odds one way or the other. This week Sam pulls apart the groundwork most photographers skip: how to spot the right group for your business (and the red flags that mean you should walk away), whether to pay before you've even tried it, and how to build a 60-second intro that actually gets you referred instead of politely ignored. Part one of two — part two covers what to do once you're in the room. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the free guide to Marketing and Creativity here⁠

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