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MARKETING HUB | CLARITY QUIZ

How to use your results:

Everything on this page is broken down into simple sections so you can quickly understand what matters and where to focus your time.

ROAD MAP

BUSINESS SNAPSHOT

POSITIONING
See where your business is currently sitting and what needs your attention first

CLIENT PROFILE
See how your clients think, make decisions, and what they need from you before booking

NEXT STEPS | YOUR PLAN

WHAT MOVES THE NEEDLE
Know exactly where to focus your efforts for the biggest impact

HOW YOU OPERATE
Find the marketing approach that suits your energy, comfort level, and natural way of working

YOUR BEST USE OF TIME
Know exactly what to focus on each week so you stay consistent without the overwhelm

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BUSINESS SNAPSHOT

BUSINESS POSITIONING:

VISIBILITY BOOST

Your business likely already has solid foundations.
It’s not lacking potential. It’s lacking visibility.

Your next stage of growth will not come from rebuilding everything.

It will come from helping more of the right people consistently see, recognise, and remember your business.

Right now, your focus is increasing visibility strategically.

This means:

• Becoming easier to discover
• Staying consistently visible online
• Building familiarity and trust over time
• Strengthening the pathways that bring people into your business
• Creating stronger momentum around your work

This stage is often where photographers realise:

“I know my work is good… but not enough people are seeing it.”

Ready to fix this properly?

The Boost Bookings Bootcamp helps you strengthen visibility, trust, discoverability, and marketing direction step by step.

So your business becomes more recognisable, consistent, and easier to book.

Client Profile

  • Hands On

    Your clients are more hands on.

    They want to feel involved, considered and part of the creative process. They are not looking to control every detail, but they do want to feel like their preferences matter.

  • Storytelling

    They lean toward storytelling sessions.

    They are drawn to real, connected, meaningful moments.
    They want to feel something when they see your work.

  • Emotional Buyers

    They make decisions based on how something feels.

    They are not just buying photos.
    They are buying a feeling, a memory, a connection.

  • Low Social Media

    They are low social media when it comes to online behaviour.

    They are not scrolling all day. They find you through Google, word of mouth, and real-life recommendations rather than trends.

SUMMARY

What this means for your marketing right now.

Your business likely already has decent foundations.

The biggest issue is that not enough people are consistently seeing and remembering your business.

For your business type, growth is most likely to come from increasing visibility, familiarity, discoverability, and emotional trust in intentional ways.

Your clients are lower social media users, which means they are not usually spending months following photographers before booking.

But because they are also hands on, storytelling-driven, and emotional buyers, they are carefully evaluating:

• emotional connection
• trust
• collaboration
• personality
• and whether the experience feels meaningful and emotionally safe

Your marketing should feel emotionally engaging, collaborative, trustworthy, and deeply human.

  • “There’s a future version of you who did the brave thing, and everything worked out”

    —The Universe

  • "I don't want to look back and see a life I was too careful with"

NEXT STEPS

• Increase visibility through emotionally engaging, story-led marketing
• Focus on emotional familiarity and trust over constant content creation
• Strengthen the platforms already building connection and enquiries
• Make your business feel collaborative, meaningful, and emotionally safe
• Build stronger visibility momentum through consistency and repeated exposure

Next, how to make this happen ↓

Your Plan

NEXT STEPS | WHERE TO FOCUS EFFORTS

What Moves the Needle

For your business type, the biggest growth comes from becoming emotionally memorable and deeply trustworthy.

Your audience is not constantly consuming content online.

Which means when they do come across your business, the experience needs to feel emotionally engaging, human, and immediately reassuring.

The businesses that usually grow strongest here are the ones that:

• create emotional familiarity over time
• build trust through storytelling and connection
• make people feel emotionally safe and understood
• strengthen discoverability intentionally
• and create marketing that feels warm, personal, and meaningful

This is not about posting more.

It is about becoming a business people remember, emotionally connect with, and confidently choose.

  • Priority Level: VERY HIGH

    Your website is one of the biggest conversion tools in your business.

    Because your audience is lower social media users, your website often becomes where emotional trust and booking decisions happen.

    What matters most:

    • Emotional storytelling galleries
    • Collaborative messaging
    • Strong emotional imagery
    • Mobile optimisation
    • Clear information
    • Trust-building wording
    • Easy enquiry pathways

    What to avoid:

    • Generic wording
    • Emotionally disconnected messaging
    • Overcomplicated layouts
    • Trying too hard to sound polished while losing warmth and humanity

    What actually moves bookings:

    A website that feels emotionally immersive, trustworthy, collaborative, and easy to connect with.

  • Priority Level: VERY HIGH

    Google matters heavily for this business type.

    Your audience is more likely to search intentionally when they are ready to book.

    What matters most:

    • Strong Google reviews
    • Updated business profile
    • Local SEO
    • Accurate information
    • Strong imagery
    • Consistent branding

    What to avoid:

    • Ignoring reviews
    • Leaving your profile outdated
    • Treating Instagram as your only visibility strategy

    What actually moves bookings:

    Being visible and trustworthy when people actively search locally.

  • Priority Level: MEDIUM

    Blogging can support discoverability well for storytelling-led photographers when done strategically.

    What matters most:

    • Story-led blogs
    • Searchable client-focused topics
    • Emotional trust-building content
    • Location-based blogs

    What to avoid:

    • Blogging constantly without strategy
    • Writing content nobody searches for
    • Spending excessive time here before strengthening your website and Google visibility

    What actually moves bookings:

    A few strategic blogs that improve discoverability and emotional trust.

  • Priority Level: MEDIUM

    Instagram still matters here, but probably less than you think.

    Your audience is lower social users, which means posting constantly is unlikely to be the highest ROI use of your time.

    What matters most:

    • Stories
    • Emotional storytelling
    • Personality and warmth
    • Collaborative messaging
    • Trust-building content
    • Consistent visibility

    What to avoid:

    • Posting daily just because you feel like you should
    • Chasing trends constantly
    • Spending hours creating content with no discoverability strategy underneath it

    What actually moves bookings:

    Steady familiarity and emotional trust over time.

  • Priority Level: LOW

    TikTok is unlikely to be a major booking driver for this business type.

    What matters most:

    • Repurposed content
    • Personality-led snippets
    • Light visibility support

    What to avoid:

    • Spending huge amounts of time learning trends
    • Prioritising views over bookings
    • Treating TikTok as essential

    What actually moves bookings:

    Occasional visibility support, not a core strategy.

  • Priority Level: MEDIUM

    Pinterest can support discoverability well for storytelling-led photographers.

    It works best quietly in the background.

    What matters most:

    • Emotional imagery
    • Website links
    • Search-friendly pin titles
    • Evergreen content

    What to avoid:

    • Spending excessive time creating pins
    • Treating Pinterest like social media
    • Expecting quick bookings

    What actually moves bookings:

    Long-term discoverability and website traffic.

  • Priority Level: VERY HIGH

    This is one of the biggest growth areas for this business type.

    Hands on emotional buyers care deeply about feeling involved, emotionally connected, and supported throughout the process.

    What matters most:

    • Clear communication
    • Collaboration
    • Fast replies
    • Emotional reassurance
    • Personal connection
    • Professional guidance

    What to avoid:

    • Making the process feel transactional
    • Poor communication
    • Making clients feel disconnected from the process
    • Overcomplicating the experience

    What actually moves bookings:

    An experience that feels collaborative, supportive, and emotionally engaging.

  • Priority Level: HIGH

    Local trust and familiarity matter strongly for this business type.

    What matters most:

    • Referral relationships
    • Community visibility
    • Local partnerships
    • Collaborator exposure
    • Repeat local familiarity

    What to avoid:

    • Only marketing online
    • Ignoring local relationships
    • Networking inconsistently

    What actually moves bookings:

    Becoming familiar and trusted within your local area.

  • Priority Level: MEDIUM

    Email marketing works best here as a nurture and familiarity tool.

    What matters most:

    • Warm communication
    • Emotional storytelling
    • Helpful follow-up
    • Seasonal reminders
    • Referral nurturing

    What to avoid:

    • Overcomplicated funnels
    • Constant sales emails
    • Long emails nobody realistically reads

    What actually moves bookings:

    Staying emotionally familiar and trustworthy over time.

  • Priority Level: MEDIUM TO HIGH

    Paid ads can work very well here once your visibility and trust systems are already strong.

    But ads will not fix weak trust foundations.

    What matters most:

    • Emotional imagery
    • Strong website
    • Clear messaging
    • Local targeting
    • Retargeting visibility
    • Consistent branding

    What to avoid:

    • Sending traffic to weak websites
    • Complicated funnels
    • Scaling ads before conversion systems are solid

    What actually moves bookings:

    Putting an emotionally engaging, trustworthy business in front of more local people consistently.

NEXT STEPS | HOW YOU OPERATE

Align with how you naturally function

You do not need to force yourself into strategies that constantly drain you just because they work for someone else.

Some photographers thrive being highly visible and client-facing.
Others thrive behind the scenes through systems, organisation, and quieter trust-building.

Some create best through instinct and connection.
Others perform best through structure and clear strategy.

Neither is better.
The goal is understanding how to lean into your strengths while creating systems that support your weaker areas.

  • You are likely naturally stronger in visible, relationship-led marketing.

    For your business type, this helps create emotional familiarity and trust even with lower social media audiences.

    You will likely perform best through:

    • Emotional storytelling
    • Personal branding
    • Community visibility
    • Client relationships
    • Referral building
    • Human connection

    Strong recommendations for you:

    • Focus on becoming recognisable locally
    • Let your personality strengthen trust
    • Build emotional familiarity through consistency
    • Use visibility to reinforce professionalism and reliability
    • Create collaborative connection through your communication

    What to watch:

    You may unintentionally rely too heavily on relationships alone.

    Do not ignore:

    • Google
    • Your website
    • Reviews
    • SEO basics
    • Clear client systems

    Connection creates trust.

    But strong foundations help people confidently choose you.

  • You are likely naturally stronger in systems, organisation, and quieter trust-building.

    For your business type, this is a major advantage.

    Your audience values emotional connection, collaboration, reassurance, and ease.

    You will likely perform best through:

    • Website optimisation
    • Google visibility
    • Client systems
    • SEO
    • Organised workflows
    • Strategic marketing

    Strong recommendations for you:

    • Build strong discoverability systems
    • Focus on clarity and professionalism
    • Create smoother booking pathways
    • Strengthen trust signals across your business
    • Let structure support emotional trust

    What to watch:

    You may unintentionally become too hidden online.

    Even lower social users still need familiarity before booking.

    Do not ignore:

    • Visibility consistency
    • Stories
    • Personality-led content
    • Referral relationships
    • Human connection

    Trust grows strongest when professionalism and familiarity work together.

  • You likely market best through emotion, instinct, and storytelling.

    This aligns beautifully with storytelling-led emotional buyers.

    You will likely perform best through:

    • Emotional storytelling
    • Human-centred marketing
    • Relationship-based trust
    • Atmosphere and feeling
    • Emotional imagery
    • Personal connection

    Strong recommendations for you:

    • Let your work create emotional trust
    • Focus on how your content makes people feel
    • Build familiarity through warmth and consistency
    • Create emotionally engaging marketing
    • Lean into storytelling naturally

    What to watch:

    You may unintentionally avoid structure or consistency because it feels restrictive.

    But visibility growth still needs systems underneath it.

    Do not ignore:

    • Google
    • SEO
    • Website clarity
    • Reviews
    • Consistent marketing habits

    Emotion captures attention.

    But systems help people repeatedly find and confidently choose you.

  • You likely thrive through organisation, planning, and intentional strategy.

    For your business type, this is one of your biggest strengths.

    You will likely perform best through:

    • SEO
    • Website optimisation
    • Systems
    • Strategic marketing
    • Google visibility
    • Consistent branding
    • Clear workflows

    Strong recommendations for you:

    • Build repeatable visibility systems
    • Improve discoverability intentionally
    • Focus on professionalism and clarity
    • Create sustainable marketing habits
    • Strengthen visibility through consistency

    What to watch:

    You may unintentionally become too transactional or overly polished online.

    Your audience still wants emotional connection and collaboration.

    Do not ignore:

    • Personality
    • Emotional storytelling
    • Collaborative messaging
    • Human connection
    • Visibility consistency

    Structure creates confidence.

    But emotional connection is what makes your business memorable.

NEXT STEPS | YOUR BEST USE OF TIME

Spend time on what matters most

  • Focus on visibility consistency and emotional trust-building.

    Your goal is staying visible enough that people continue recognising and remembering your business over time.

    Weekly priorities:

    • Stories or light visibility
    • Replying to enquiries quickly
    • Audience interaction
    • Asking for reviews
    • Showing emotional connection through your content

    Monthly priorities:

    • Refresh website imagery
    • Improve one website section
    • Update Google photos and information
    • Strengthen trust signals

    Quarterly priorities:

    • Website review
    • Improve enquiry flow
    • Refine package clarity
    • Review discoverability

    Avoid:

    • Trying to post constantly
    • Chasing every trend
    • Ignoring your website and Google
    • Overcomplicating your marketing

  • Focus on stronger visibility systems and repeated emotional exposure.

    At this level, your marketing should begin creating stronger familiarity and momentum.

    Weekly priorities:

    • Consistent stories and emotional content
    • Audience engagement
    • Google optimisation
    • Referral visibility
    • Trust-building marketing

    Monthly priorities:

    • Portfolio updates
    • Review collection
    • Local SEO improvements
    • One searchable blog post
    • Improve website trust and emotional connection

    Quarterly priorities:

    • Website audit
    • Improve conversion flow
    • Refine visibility systems
    • Strengthen discoverability

    Avoid:

    • Posting without strategy
    • Spending all your time creating content
    • Ignoring conversion foundations
    • Prioritising aesthetics over trust and connection

  • Focus on long-term visibility growth and stronger discoverability systems.

    At this level, you have enough time to intentionally strengthen both visibility and conversion support.

    Weekly priorities:

    • Consistent stories, reels, and posts
    • Google and SEO improvements
    • Website refinement
    • Audience engagement
    • Networking and referral visibility
    • Trust-building systems

    Monthly priorities:

    • Blogging for discoverability
    • Refresh website galleries and wording
    • Improve nurture systems and workflows
    • Analyse enquiry and visibility patterns
    • Strengthen local partnerships

    Quarterly priorities:

    • Full website and SEO review
    • Refine visibility strategy
    • Test paid ads strategically
    • Improve conversion pathways
    • Strengthen referral momentum

    Avoid:

    • Treating Instagram as your whole strategy
    • Creating content without visibility goals
    • Scaling ads before conversion systems are strong
    • Building systems you realistically will not maintain

The bottom line

Your audience is choosing a business that feels emotionally engaging, collaborative, trustworthy, and deeply human.

For your business type, visibility matters less in a “go viral” sense and more in a familiarity sense. Your audience is lower social media users, which means trust is often built through repeated small touchpoints, emotional connection, and feeling genuinely safe with you.

The businesses that grow strongest here are the ones that:

• stay consistently visible
• create emotional familiarity over time
• build trust through storytelling and connection
• make people feel emotionally safe and understood
• and create marketing that feels warm, personal, and meaningful

The goal is not louder marketing.

More intentional visibility, emotional trust, and familiarity.

Avoid

• Posting constantly without purpose
• Chasing trends that do not align with your business
• Ignoring your website and Google presence
• Overcomplicating your client experience
• Over-polishing your content until it loses warmth and humanity

The goal

A business that feels:

• emotionally engaging
• collaborative
• trustworthy
• deeply human
• easy to connect with
• and emotionally safe to invest in

Not louder marketing.

More strategic visibility, emotional familiarity, and trust.

Not sure where to start?

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Mini Lessons

This is where you keep the momentum going.

Simple, focused lessons to help you build on your foundations and keep your bookings flowing.

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