This person saw an Ad ...she agreed to meet and the meeting went well but the fact that I
did not have
so quick story ...I ran a Facebook ad campaign like I did in this video here
and I was meeting with one of the potential clients ...one of the potential
brides. I only did a couple of weddings at that point. So, we started chatting over a
cup of coffee. I think I give a lot of value in terms of running through what
the wedding day would look like in terms of photography and my services as
well as some things that she would not have known from not actually getting
married before. She had a lot of questions ...I had a lot of the answers to
those questions. I really used that session to build rapport ...for me to
understand a little bit more of what she needed in a photographer and more of a
relationship-building session ...especially since I did not have much to show yet.
You know, at the end of the meeting I thought that it went really well.
There's a point where I thought she was actually going to ask if she could
pay down today. I felt like that was a question coming up and that could have been
because of my lack of experience! I left there so excited to do the wedding and
even more than that ...the money that I was going to get paid for doing
the wedding. I already went on Amazon checking out the the prime lens that I
was interested in getting. You know ...when I told my wife how good the meeting went,
she started checking out stuff that she wants to buy ...there goes my lens ...
So the bride committed to get back to me one week later
well really just to arrange a meeting location and I'll bring the contract and
we'll finalize things. She'l make her down payment and we'll move forward
One week later ...Nothing! ....I gave it a few days extra ....still nothing. So I decided to
call ...she didn't answer... I called back ...left a message... I don't want
to seem too needy, so I gave it a few more days again ...then I sent a
whatsapp message ...no response. I mean, she read the message but no response. I was
thinking to myself "what went wrong?" then I realized that ...of course ...
I'm not the only photographer that she's been meeting with ...This is a big
investment it's a lot of money to spend for a wedding.
It's not $5 decision . So, I finally got a response ...this might be the exact words:
But she and her fiance reviewed all the information that they got from all the
photographers that they met and she was pleased with everything that I explained
to her and she thought we hit it off! I thought we hit it off as well! but
basically, that she decided to go with somebody else ...we had to end
things ...before it got started ...she wanted to be just be friends ...but I wanted more
than that ...I wanted a photography relationship ...Of course I was a little
bit disappointed ...I mean who wouldn't be? It wasn't the first time I got rejected.
But this time I wanted find out why? So I did reach out to her and I asked ...I
told her: You know I appreciate you getting back to me and I'm happy that you
have a photographer that you're comfortable with but if you don't mind me
asking what was the reason you chose not to proceed? It was simple ...in that I
just didn't have enough to look at look at... Not that I wasn't to look at but she and
her fiance just didn't have enough information, pictures about me compared to
the other photographers that they were looking at. It was not easily accessible.
She just saw a couple of pictures on the page and simply she just couldn't tell
how experienced I was compared to the others! I did not have enough information
out there ...I didn't have you know pictures easily accessible via a website. I didn't
even have a website! That was a big deal to her that I didn't have a website even
though the meeting went well. You know, that saying is true... "the proof really is in the
pudding" and in this case I didn't really have much pudding...
is that correct? Now if I had a good photography "ecosystem" if you will, it
would have definitely had a different outcome there but I thought that was
interesting ... imagine that! ...this person saw an Ad she
agreed to meet and the meeting went well! but the fact that I did not have online
presence, that was a deal breaker there! So don't let that happen to you! The
truth is there is no disadvantage to having your photography website up and running
it works well with your Facebook ads as well and I'll show you a bit more about
in later videos if you're ready to get your site up and running there's a link
in the description of the photography website hosting that I strongly
recommend as well as some themes that will work best for the look of your site
but be sure to hit that notification bell because in the near future I'll have a
step-by-step tutorial on how you can quickly get that site up and running. I
hope that this video is useful to you if there's any topics around a photography
website that you want to find out more about, let me know in the comments down
below. I'll see YOU in the next video!