8 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}
8 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}

I need your advice on my new agency

by swibowo
7 replies
Hi there,

Sorry for my bad English, but I really need help on something that I've been doing all these times.

I decided to quit my job and began to start my own agency few months ago, my agency field of business is provide photo editing services for eCommerce company, online retailer, and for everyone that is selling online and need their images being edited.

And the problem is, I've been doing many ways to get in touch with some companies but ended up with zero result, some of the following ways to get their attention is through cold emailing and direct approach via linkedin.

As I am new to digital marketing is there any advise that is really suitable for my kind of services getting the client's attention ? I am starts to think focusing my agency campaign on social media, but I'm not sure if this will work right?

I can provide you with link to my site so you can figure out what is wrong with my brand if you want.

Regards,

Satrio
#advise
  • Profile picture of the author zaccks
    Almost every business only care about getting customers, and not fixing the images on their site. may be that's why you're not getting any response from them.

    I think the best way to make profit from your skills is to head over to freelancer sites and bid on projects that match your skills.

    you can also list your gig on fiverr. there are a lot of gigs offering photoshop editing and more photo edits there.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10271989].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author TheMindsetMarketer
      Way before you try to sell stuff to folks you should try adding VALUE to gain their trust. Then you can sell them whatever..
      Signature

      Wanna Chat? TheMindsetMarketer@gmail.com

      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10272006].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author swibowo
        Originally Posted by TheMindsetMarketer View Post

        Way before you try to sell stuff to folks you should try adding VALUE to gain their trust. Then you can sell them whatever..
        This is absolutely right, I've a client once that satisfied with my works and then he offered me to work on another jobs, but the main problem here is how to show my VALUE to them if they not even see me.
        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10272020].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author swibowo
      Originally Posted by zaccks View Post

      Almost every business only care about getting customers, and not fixing the images on their site. may be that's why you're not getting any response from them.

      I think the best way to make profit from your skills is to head over to freelancer sites and bid on projects that match your skills.

      you can also list your gig on fiverr. there are a lot of gigs offering photoshop editing and more photo edits there.
      Hi Zaccks,

      Thank you for your respond, I've put all my efforts when building the site, but you got the points I think there is still something is missing but I don't know what it is, by the way here is my site dropicts.com, will appreciate if you can criticized or let me know what should be improved. Appreciate your concerns.

      Actually I've been starting my career at that freelancing sites and the reason I built this agency is because I have a higher goal.
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10272015].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author DHB Web
    Originally Posted by swibowo View Post

    Hi there,

    Sorry for my bad English, but I really need help on something that I've been doing all these times.

    I decided to quit my job and began to start my own agency few months ago, my agency field of business is provide photo editing services for eCommerce company, online retailer, and for everyone that is selling online and need their images being edited.

    And the problem is, I've been doing many ways to get in touch with some companies but ended up with zero result, some of the following ways to get their attention is through cold emailing and direct approach via linkedin.

    As I am new to digital marketing is there any advise that is really suitable for my kind of services getting the client's attention ? I am starts to think focusing my agency campaign on social media, but I'm not sure if this will work right?

    I can provide you with link to my site so you can figure out what is wrong with my brand if you want.

    Regards,

    Satrio
    Using social media is the way to go sending emails and cold calling will not work. I believe that using Freelancer and fiver as a promotional tool is a great way to display your services and gain clients.
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10272063].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author kk075
    My friend, I am going to be completely honest with you and you probably won't like my advice. Just know that it's coming from the heart though with your best intentions in mind.

    Go get another job or get your old job back, because photo editing is not enough of a profession to start a business on. Most companies have someone on their staff that's decent with Photoshop and they can get by with the smaller stuff, while they trust their design firms to handle the bigger projects. So that leaves very little work and repeat business for you.

    HOWEVER, once you get a job again, then you need to evolve from being a person who touches up photos to a professional that's a digital artist. If you can design business cards, make logos, web art, infographs and those kinds of things, then every design firm around could use your help on occasion and you'd be in huge demand. And with photo editing as one of your skills, you'd certainly get more of those projects as well when you have a full portfolio of services.

    The reason I say to get a job though is because you want to take your time with this and truly master these skills before trying to take on clients. You only get one chance to make a great first impression, so you want to be fully prepared to market your services from day one. And you're just not there yet.

    So bravo to you for quitting your job...but you left a little too early. Go find another one, polish your craft just a little more, and then take the world by storm once you're ready. Good luck!
    Signature

    Learn to sell like a pro through Web Synergy's marketing blog.

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10272092].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author swibowo
      Originally Posted by kk075 View Post

      My friend, I am going to be completely honest with you and you probably won't like my advice. Just know that it's coming from the heart though with your best intentions in mind.

      Go get another job or get your old job back, because photo editing is not enough of a profession to start a business on. Most companies have someone on their staff that's decent with Photoshop and they can get by with the smaller stuff, while they trust their design firms to handle the bigger projects. So that leaves very little work and repeat business for you.

      HOWEVER, once you get a job again, then you need to evolve from being a person who touches up photos to a professional that's a digital artist. If you can design business cards, make logos, web art, infographs and those kinds of things, then every design firm around could use your help on occasion and you'd be in huge demand. And with photo editing as one of your skills, you'd certainly get more of those projects as well when you have a full portfolio of services.

      The reason I say to get a job though is because you want to take your time with this and truly master these skills before trying to take on clients. You only get one chance to make a great first impression, so you want to be fully prepared to market your services from day one. And you're just not there yet.

      So bravo to you for quitting your job...but you left a little too early. Go find another one, polish your craft just a little more, and then take the world by storm once you're ready. Good luck!
      Hi my friend, thanks for your honest respond and your concerns with my problems.

      But I need to clarify something that you missed here, you may see I'm working alone in this business but actually not, I collaborate with some of my colleagues and they have their own specialization from design to web development, and we decided to focusing our services in photo editing services.

      Why photo editing services? Yes you were correct they must have someones works in their company that decent on photoshop and might be able to do the following task, but how many employees it takes to edit thousand of images in a day? I've been experiencing that 1 client could took 10-20 photo editors to complete 1 batch with 5000 images in one day turnaround time. Trust me it will cost more if they build their own graphic department just to do this kind of task.

      Anyway the company where I quit before is in the same field as the agency I built here and they are keep growing and I've been there for 5 years entering as a junior photo editor to project manager as my last position.

      But thank you so much for your post, it had me realize one thing that I might missed, its the brand imaging itself.
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10272189].message }}

Trending Topics