hello James Greaney here from internetbizuni.com and in today's video what
I'm going to be doing is explaining to you exactly how I went about getting
professional product images taken for this exact product here so I'll be going
through the different images that I got taken for the accountability journal
I'll be showing you these images on my computer and I'll be explaining to you
exactly how you can go about connecting with professionals who can take these
professional images for you also I'll be explaining how I plan to get lifestyle
images taken for free so that's basically people using this product I'm
gonna get these images taken for free and again you can use the same strategy
to get lifestyle images taken off your product so this is the third episode of
this new series that I'm calling brand challenge and yeah I'm just going to be
explaining all about the product images in this episode but if you haven't
watched the earlier two episodes then you should jump back and watch them now
what I'll do is I'll leave a couple of the links down in the description so you
can click on them links and watch the earlier videos where I just explain
about the product itself and about setting up a sale for when you initially
launched the product and the best way to go about doing that so I'll link up them
to videos and you can jump back and check them after this video or check
them during this video or before this video or however you want to do it but
now I'm gonna jump straight into this video I'm gonna jump onto my computer
and actually show you the images that I got made and explain to you a bit about
it okay so I'm on the accountability journals page on Amazon Dakota UK now
and I'm just gonna run through each of the images so what I done was I got two
different photographers to take product images off the accountability journal I
got one to take white background images and I got another one to use props and
take images with the props in them and the reason for this is I just didn't
know which one was gonna look better I know with other products that I sell
most of them look a lot better in the images with props but you also need
images with a white background because you need that for your main image all
amazon main images need to have a white background on them so that's the
requirement and as well as that some products just look better with a white
background but what I don't want I reached out to two different
photographers and just asked them if they could make these images for me and
just explain to them briefly what I wanted in them and this is really
important when you do contact photographers is that you can show them
similar types of products and explain to them that you want your product images
to be the same type of style as that because again just giving them an open
book again is something that you can do but chances are you're not gonna like
the style that they come back with and then there's just gonna be a lot back
forward they're gonna waste a lot of time taking these images and you're not
gonna get the images you want back as soon as you want them so it is good to
be as clear as possible with the type of style of pictures you want so what I
don't yet was reach out to to two different photographers and get the two
different images talks so this one was just a plain wise background image that
was just taken off the product again it's just a high-resolution image so
that has the zoom but once it's over 1,000 by 1,000 pixels it will have the
zoom and then I just threw in the the phone with the how to journal video
course beside it just so anyone looking at this product knows exactly what they
will get and sees some of the difference from the other products out there it's
just something that will make your listing stand out a bit and of course I
could have done a better job putting in this image beside it and this is
something that I will improve upon but one thing that you should note is that
your images don't have to be your final images they don't have to be perfect
again you can see I'm missing some images down here I don't have all the
spaces filled up that is because I do plan to put in lifestyle images here and
again a copepod other images in here in the meantime until I have them lifestyle
images if I want it but you know I think the images that I have actually convey
what I'm trying to get across for now and I think lifestyle images I
definitely required for listings they really make your list and stand out to
whoever is looking at it they can actually start to visualize themselves
using your product which is always a bonus and will encourage them to make a
purchase off your product but again it just doesn't have to all
be perfect when you're first starting out so the second image this is then of
a different photographer and what I'm gonna do is I'll give you both of their
contact details and I'll actually leave a link down to both of them down in the
description below so that you can go and check them out these aren't affiliate
links and I don't get any Commission for referring you but I'll just refer you
anyway if you want to use the same photographers what I'll do is I'll push
this one where props beside it for the one that used props and I'll put the
other one with white background so that you can see for yourself which images
they creation and just be as clear as possible if you are contacting them with
the questions that you're asking them and with the style that you want them to
shoot so this is just an image off with a background and again it's just a nice
clean image has a few props in it the coffee actually looks very stale but
yeah again it's the image is good it's clear and it does have the props in so
people can see the size and this may be important more important with other
products out there with the products that you're selling is that they do have
props beside it because the props allow people to see the size of it so as you
can see you see the size of the pyro and then you see the size of the barrel
compared to the actual journal itself so it just gives you more of an idea if
you're looking for this type of product of the size of the product before you go
out and buy it and again this will all help reduce returns in the future
because one thing you will know what products is a lot of them get returned
if a customer is expecting nothing different than what they actually
receive this again is just another similar product but it's actually open
on the page and again whatever product you're selling just go into a bit of
detail with it show as much detail off the product as possible and that's what
this image is all about just shown a bit more detail this then is the white
background image again the same photographer made it as this front image
because I know that because it has the white background and yet this is just
really clear show on some of the pages that this other one doesn't show inside
the journal and it's just a really clear crisp image that anyone that's looking
for this type of can really just see it in further detail
and again this is just so that you can see for yourself when you're looking at
these images just try and visualize your product and which it'll look better on a
white background or a background with a prop I would recommend that you do get
props put in some of them anyway just to show off the size but yeah your product
may be fine just to show with a white background I know that a lot of my
products just have the white background in them and it works just fine and then
finally the final image is just one again with a slight background inish not
the white background but just show on the front of it and the inside office
again just another clear crisp image that helps bring this product to life
but definitely there is missing images from this listing you know that's why I
didn't have extra images here because I want to put in some lifestyle images and
I'll probably put the lifestyle images up further and near the top because
they're ones that I really want people to see and that's what I want to explain
to you now how you can actually go about getting lifestyle images taken off your
product and the easiest way to actually do that he's when you are communicating
with your customers after they make a purchase ask them can they send you an
image of them using the product and most customers are not going to accept this
but some will you know people are getting very comfortable using their
phone taking images and they just will take pictures offers and that is another
one of the benefits if you've built an audience you're communicating with that
audience to through many chat or email or however you're communicating whether
it allows you to do this sort of thing whereas if you're only communicating
with them through Amazon it's more difficult you're not really building up
any real type of relationship with them so that is why you must be building your
own audience you know that's one of the reasons why you must be building your
own audience is so that you can communicate with your customers you can
get lots of helpful feedback about your product you can actually go into a chat
with your customers asking them for feedback on your product and asking them
for little things like this like can they send you on an image of them using
your product or anything like that and best of all
that lifestyle image isn't going to actually cost you anything whereas if
you're to pay models to shoot your product with them you're going to
obviously have to pay them and that's well worth it you know if that's what
you want to do and get really professional ones you can do that I do
that with most my products but with this one for now I've just asked a couple of
the customers that have purchased the product if they wouldn't mind taking a
picture of them using the product and again we'll see what we get back for it
there's no harm in asking ok so now just to give you the contact details if you
want to reach out and get your product images taken by the same people that
took mine I'll just explain a bit about that so I got this image and the two
white background images so this image this image this image taken by a company
called GQ Studios you can find them at GQ studios that code at UK and they were
really helpful they also made a gif for me which I didn't request but they sent
me on a gift which I've used on the social media accounts and yeah you can
do the same and they were really helpful really good to work with so what I will
do is I will leave their contact information down in the description
below and then for the images with the props so these images and again they
sent me five images of each in total I think it was five of each in total the
ones but the props and the ones with the white background but I only used this
amount of them and that's what's gonna happen you're not going to go for every
picture that they send you but it's good to have a few to scroll through so that
you can see which ones you want to use this company that done the ones what
props is called photograph my product code at UK and again really go to work
with really short lead time and think both of these companies made the images
within five days so I'm not exact on how many days but they were both within 5
days which is really important because once you get your product made once you
have it you're keen to get up and selling it as
soon as possible and you need good images before you get it up for sale you
know so that's why it is good to work with a company that comes back to you
really quickly and what I'll do because again the prices are going to vary
on different products I'll just leave their contact information down below you
can contact them if you've a product that you want them to take images off
and they'll give you a quote on the type of images again a quick tip just to be
as clear as possible with them explain what style of products pictures you want
so after you see a similar product style of image and just send them on a link to
that so that they can check it out for themselves they can see what style it is
that you're after and then just simply ask them for a quote on your product and
its really as straightforward as that to go out and get images taken for your
products so you're probably wondering can you not just take the images
yourself and you can you're more than able to take them with even your mobile
phone if you want and if you have the right light and setup and again I show
you in a video how I have done this with products how you simply set up your
lights and you can take your own picture with your mobile phone all you need is a
light a white background and your mobile phone and you can get all these for like
25 pounds on Amazon if you want to buy it yourself and do it all yourself but
just for me it takes me absolutely ages to take the images and get half decent
images and even at that they're only half decent they're not anywhere near
professional quality and when you're selling products online it's really
important that you actually showcase your products to the best quality
possible because people are really judging on what they see they can't
touch the product they can't feel it so they're really judging you on the images
of your product so it is really important that you do get professional
images but if you're on a really tight budget you just don't have the money
first then you can start off sell them with your own images or if you make any
slight changes to your product then it's okay to take your own images of these
slight changes again if you're on a budget you can do that but ya thought
that this video would help some of you out some of you who may be at the stage
or maybe common to the stage and I'll link up that other video below in which
I show you how you can do it yourself if you want to do it so yeah hope that
you've enjoyed it I also like the video put up at the
moment that explains exactly what the deal you can get if you buy this at the
moment which shows you the con and branding strategy that I've used to
launch this product and that you can use to launch your product as well just
using facebook using manage hat and yeah using just Facebook Ads how you can set
it all up I just show you my strategy for doing that and you can get that it's
only like a 15 minute video but if you buy the accountability journal while
this offers open then and email me once you do that then I'll send you on a link
to this video and you can see the content branded strategy that I've used
hope that you've enjoyed this video hope that you're looking forward to watching
the next one because I will be putting out few of these videos just explaining
the different things as I go along with this brand because I know that it will
be able to help a lot of you out who are in the same situation hope that you've
enjoyed it and look forward to speaking to you on the next one