Social Media First Impressions
What does your business portrait say about you?
When a prospective customer, a future employer, or and old classmate finds you on LinkedIn or Facebook, or sees your Twitter avatar, what’s their Social Media first impression?
Is your profile photo a crop from a larger image of you smiling after landing a 20-pound bass. Does it show you in a wedding photo or standing in front of the bookcase in the office or even on the beach in Cancun? If you answered yes to these questions or don’t have a professional business portrait, you need a new profile photo.
Social Media has changed how we present ourselves as business people, employees, friends and associates. Face-to-face contact now takes place on the Web. The old rules don’t apply.
Business cards today are virtual
The new rules brought about by Social Media interaction makes every contact important. Your business card is now more virtual than printed.
How many of you have called someone on the phone and, while you’re explaining the reason for the call, hear the listener typing in the background? While you explain your position or proposition, the listener is Googling you, your company, and your Social Media contact information. Before the conversation is close to being complete, your business and personal information has been reviewed and opinions formed.
Do you want your business photo to be one of you on the beach at Cancun?
$49.95 Photo Package
Classic Studio is offering a $49.95 photo session where we will help you create a set of business portraits that separate you from the larger mass of people who are represented by cropped and untoned snapshots.
Here’s what you’ll receive for an hour of your time.
- Your selection from two of our three business lighting setups.
- A CD with your chosen photo at resolutions and sizes suitable for online use, avatars, business cards, letterhead and news releases. Also on the CD is a low resolution gallery of all the photos we shoot for you You may browse through thees photo at your leisure to find other uses.later.
- The CD will also include a set of PDF e-books about how best to use Social Media to advance your business.
Your Mom was right about first impressions
Don’t let yours be less than perfect because you don’t have a professional business portrait.
Contact Classic Studio at Gallery 202 today to set up your appointment for the Social Media Business Photo Special on Tuesday. December 21, 2010.
Gary Gardiner
gary@garygardiner.com
614-270-5705
Classic Studio at Gallery 202
38 North State Street
Westerville OH 43081
A part of Gallery202, a 501(c) 3 non-profit for art and art education. Ask about our photography classes, studio rental, and consultations.





