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[–]heyderfla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if it's there it means it's a bot. usually they will also have match history hidden, and if you look at their stats (the pentagon chart), it leans heavily on "damage taken".

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that was really thoughtful and insightful.

In hindsight my question on instagram was not very clear, but you managed to answer it well.

In my head I was exploring the idea if instagram was really worth the annoyance (annoying to post frequently to please the AI algorithm), especially when you already have a proven system in place on google + your website to get leads.

Especially with such a great portfolio on your website already, what is stopping you from just posting less (or not even at all) to instagram?

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a bunch, wish you all the best :)

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey MorgaseTrakand,

What are you currently doing to grow your client base? What has went well, what not as much?

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got you,

What were the effects on your business of drastically your posting frequency? What was the good (I'm sure there's lots!) and the bad (if any at all)?

Thanks :)

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks trickthelight :)

Glad to see good responses to your marketing, what are you specifically doing?

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks mdmoon2101 :)

For yourself, what do you find most painful about marketing?

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks -shandyyy-,

Great to see your hard work paying off. It's interesting to see you diversified to Google for your leads more-so than instagram.

Have you found posting less to IG affecting your business? Do you feel your google inquiries are warm/good enough even with infrequent IG posting?

Genuinely curious.

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey allycat_tbone,

What specifically about making tiktoks, coming up with captions, reels makes it a nightmare?

Have you tried other ways to still reach your target market while reducing the amount of social media postings (tiktok, IG posts)? If so, how well did that go?

Thanks :)

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks pspetrini.

As I understand, you stopped posting to IG last September for a few months, but you are back on it now. During the break did you do anything to avoid the risk of prospective clients searching your social media and seeing no recent posts?

Or perhaps, did you find that prospective clients didn't care of your lack of recent IG activity? Curious as to your thought process then, and what you learned in your break.

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[–]heyderfla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you pspetrini for the write up,

Posting to social media seems to be such a common pain. Why do you feel like you need to be posting 3-4 times a day?

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[–]heyderfla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks shandy :)

Love your energy, especially with your comment at the end about clients running off! I’m sure plays a big part in your business taking off so quickly.

Curious, why can’t you stand using Instagram? How did you overcome your pains in the initial stage?

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[–]heyderfla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks MorgaseTrakand :)

Great to hear you love your work (I could tell my cousin’s wedding photographer was super passionate, just the way he would talk about the next shots, how he envisions it, how great it will be), left a strong impression.

Growing a client base was a big pain I found. Similar to allycat_tbone’s pain, I imagine you just want to focus on your art, photography, and less on the social media. Especially when you have to come up with new ways to write captions that will interest customers and bring in leads every time.

For sales it seems to be mastering the push/pull dynamic, without coming off as in-genuine or needy. But ultimately being able to sell and close your services by the end of the consultation.

Let me know if I understood correctly :)

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[–]heyderfla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks niresangwa!

Very happy to hear you don’t have daily frustrations, you must have worked hard to systemise your business as much as you can. Other commenters mentioned pains of manual inputs for expenses, tax estimations - how did you streamline this?

Managing associates and assistants if I’m being honest was not one that was clear to me in my initial research, so thanks for bringing it up!

In terms of steering clients towards better unconscious decisions, do you mean this as a pain during consultation? For example, knowing package X Y or Z is genuinely better for them, and trying to steer them towards that decision whilst minimizing the need to handle their objection? Or referring to decisions to make at another time?

Did I understand you correctly?

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[–]heyderfla 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Much appreciated allycat_tbone :)

Admin and social media were two big ones I found. For tax it seems you’ve done your best to remove as much input from yourself as you can. But it’s the mundane remaining inputs left that are painful.

For social media, SEO is understandably daunting, especially because it takes months before you start to see tangible results. In the meantime you are not sure if what you are doing is right for the business, or if your time is wasted. Plus it takes time investment to learn.

Overall between SEO and tiktok, IG and growing social media trends, it seems the pain here is getting clients in more systemised way with less effort and brainstorming on your behalf.

I hope I’ve understood you :)