Professionalism, an act every one knows but not everyone uses!
When you own a business it is very important to be as professional as possible. Professionalism is
imperative to gain business and make your clients want to return to your business again in the future!
Here is the story that brought me to write this blog post. I was checking my personal Instagram and was getting ready to check my photography business Instagram like I usually do. Before I left my personal Instagram I decided to click down there on the little magnifying glass to see the most recent posted stuff and stuff posted near me. I came across a photographer who uses his personal page to advertise for his photography business as well. Now I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that but I personally prefer to have two separate pages because it makes it easier to control. His page name was (I'm not going to state the actual name just give an example) "His first name - blank - blank Photography." I was like hey I will go check his page out, because I always love to check out fellow photographers pages and show them some love and kind words! After clicking on his page and scrolled for a second I instantly regretted it. I didn't regretted it because his work was bad because to be honest is was quite the opposite of bad it was AMAZING!!!! What made me regret clicking on his page was the way he posted profanity, and vulgarity! One post was making fun of women's breast, another post had so many profane words I couldn't even count, and another post about yard sellers with a very inappropriate and hateful comment that I'm not even gonna begin to explain.
Now to where professionalism comes in. For example say you have a person come up to you and they are interested in hiring you but they want to see your work first so you give them a link to your Instagram page because that is the only type of website you have for your photography. (Which I highly disagree on because you should always have a designated website for your photography business it is more professional and better for business. We will not get in to that because that is for a totally different blog post!) They go and look on there and see your Inappropriate and vulgar post's. There is a good chance they are not going to use you because of that. You have to be respectful and mindful of what people will think of each status you post. Once the word gets out about your posts it can really hurt your business because a post that could have easily been prevented by "thinking before you speak" post (if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all!)
Always remember to be professional, respectful, polite, and think before you post and speak! I am going to wrap up this blog post here. My goal was to make this post hit in the right spot and get the point across with out this post being to long and boring to read. I wanted to make it just the right length so it was an interesting and intriguing to the reader! Thank you all for taking the time to read this post and I hope it was informational and helped anyone wanting to get in to posting on social media to advertise for their photography business!
