Is your business portrait working for you?

First impressions matter! What is the first impression your potential clients get when they see your business card, website or direct marketing piece? Your business portrait is a sales tool. A fine business portrait can help broaden a successful public image and project your achievements. Every successful business person should maintain an up-to-date portrait for publicity purposes. A well-done portrait is not an ego-boosting luxury, but rather a powerful public relations and sales tool that can help you build your image in the community.

HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOUR BUSINESS PORTRAIT WORK FOR YOU?

Like a good book often times a potential client or new client may form their first judgments of your marketing material based on what it looks like and then go back to read the content. In addition to being used on a business card, brochure or website, your portrait is a valuable communications tool for your business. It’s a fact that people pay more attention to an ad or news article if it has a photograph with it. The impact is increased if the photograph is one of quality. Local newspapers are always looking for stories about people in the community. Wise use of your portrait can greatly benefit your business if you take advantage of every opportunity to submit photography-enhanced articles and press releases. Don’t forget to greet your clients with portraits of your staff hanging in the reception area. Portraits displayed in your reception area or office will make your clients feel at home. This comfort will make them more at ease to do business with you and your company.

SEND A MESSAGE OF CONFIDENCE

Don't be fooled by thinking that a potential client will give you the benefit of the doubt, and contact you in order to see how you look in the flesh. They are unlikely to. They will think if you cut corners on your professional image you may cut corners with them as well. They may doubt your credibility.

INCREASE YOUR AFFECT ON NEW & POTENTIAL CLIENTS

Let me help your company make a good first impression. My studio or your conference room, lounge or reception area can be a convenient portrait studio where I'll set up and take publicity portraits of anyone whose business portrait will be appearing in brochures, press kits, speaking announcements, annual reports, newsletters, your web site and business cards.

Denise Gagner – 320-202-0288 – www.portraitsbystudod.com – denise.studiod@gmail.com

Face Value

I just heard this ...


" A smile improves your face value."



One of my friends mom used to tell us ...

"A smile is the most important accessory that you wear."

I guarantee ...

I promise and I guarantee that the portraits you have taken today will go up in value and that they will never, never go down in value!

As you add chapters to the story of your life the pictures/portraits of your past become more and more valuable. Do you have a picture of yourself when you were 5 years old? When you look at that picture it brings a smile to your face and you silently run through the days and the memories that have occurred since then.

This, too, will happen with your son/daughter. Give them a gift that will only go up in value as they add chapters to their lives.

And speaking of gifts ... it is time to be thinking of holiday gifts. A portrait of your children or family is a great gift for your relatives. Or a gift certificate for a friend, relative or co-worker will be a gift that ... will always go up in value!

Call to schedule your family or children's portrait.

Have a magnificent day!
Denise

I'm baaaack ... with Children's Portrait Specials

Good Glorious Morning to you!

I have been away for a couple of months. Fortunately, the reason is because we were very busy at Studio D. We were photographing High School Seniors, a daycare center, I photographed the Radisson's 5th Avenue Grille and Bar. (That was a lot of work, but a blast.) And ... just many, many other sessions as well.

Now we are into the fall and we are photographing children and family sessions for holiday gift giving.

I am running a Children's Special that I would like to share with you ... Please pass it on!

Quick Takes

Children's Session

$75 Includes:

Session Fee/20 minute session

1 – 8x10

2 – 5x7

8 – wallets

$25 Gift Certificate!

All portraits are from the same pose.

Certain restrictions apply. See back for more information.

Next Dates:

Tuesdays in Oct. & Nov. – 9am-Noon & 4pm-6pm

320-202-0288

www.portraitsbystudiod.com

Additional Information:

S $75+ tax is due at the time that you schedule your session. ($80.25)

S All sessions will be photographed on the same background each day.

S Proofs will be posted on-line within 24 hours.

S Proofs will be on-line for 3 days after your session.

S Orders must be placed and paid for within those 3 days.

S Allow 3-4 weeks for orders to be delivered.

Gift Certificate Special:

S Good December 15^th – March 15^th .

S Not to be used in conjunction with any other promotion.

S Family and Children’s sessions only.

Additional Portraits:

Does not have to be from the same pose as your promotional package.

1 – 8x10 - $40 5x7 Holiday cards - $2/each

1 – 5x7 - $25 12x12 Scrapbook Page $95

1 – 4x5 - $18 11x14 - $105

8 – 2x3 - $15 (wallets) 16x20 - $135

320-202-0288

www.portraitsbystudiod.com

IT'S SENIOR SEASON!

I just read an article in today's paper that it is strawberry-picking season. And I am hearing different people talk about cabin season and grilling season and all those fun summer-time opportunities.

Well, for me one of my summer opportunities are the high school Seniors who will be graduating this next May - 2009.

I want to tell you about some of the sessions we have been photographing this past 10 days, but before I do I want to express what our Seniors are telling me right after we have finished their session... guys as well as girls... It is so cool to hear them tell me how much fun they had and how they are so excited to see their proofs. It is so cool to see the big smiles on their faces with their eyes dancing with excitement. It is so cool to see how pleased and happy they are. It is just so cool.

We have photographed a guy from Foley on a tree that was overhanging into the Mississippi River.

We photographed a girl from Monticello with her truck and with the rifle that her grandfather gave her.

We have photographed a girl from Sartell in the studio, downtown, at a park, in her home, with her grand piano and at St. John's.

We photographed a girl from Albany all around her home - with her horse, with an old Ford truck and we took an awesome chair outside when the sun was starting to get low and got some gorgeous evening light.

We photographed a guy from Holdingford with one of his closest friends, his dog, a boxer - TBone.

We photographed a girl from St. John's Prep in the woods of St. Johns - barefoot, with a sundress on and carrying her violin. THEN... we photographed her with her swimsuit at the beach. We got great shots of her jumping out of the water.

These stories are small synopsizes of their full sessions. These Seniors are not only going to have some phenomenal images, but they've had a darn good time, too.

Call to schedule your session!
320-202-0288

Have a MAGNIFICENT day!
Denise

FAMILY IN THE PARK

There are a couple of parks around town that I really, really enjoy taking my clients to. One of them in the Knights of Columbus Park on the Sauk River. I particularly enjoy that park at about 6:30 in the evening. The back lighting is so beautiful. There are many areas to photograph with the river as a backdrop. The portraits that I have here are from a family that I photographed last Saturday night... JUST before the crazy storm came through. I've often said that I get some of the best images just before, during and right after we have rain. This session was proof of that.

As I have often said ... June is a great month for outdoor portraits and we are surely getting some great images right now. I hope that the rains and moderate weather hold out through July.

Call me to schedule your portrait outdoor session.
It is sooo beautiful right now.

320-202-0288

Have a MAGNIFICENT day!
Denise

CREATIVE SENIOR SESSIONS!

Hello everyone!

I'm sooo excited. I've been visiting with many Class of 2009 Seniors and making plans with them to do some super cool things. Truly. The ideas that we have come up with just gets me all jazzed up. We've got great things planned.

--- One girl, from Cathedral, will do a shot in a prom-like dress, her long curly, wavy hair will be a bit damp to show off those curls. She will be holding either her basketball or volleyball.
--- A girl, from Albany, will be photographed on her family's 300 acres which include a lake, a cabin and a wheat field.
--- Another girl, from Sauk Rapids, will be photographed in a sunflower field by St. Stephen.
--- We have a girl, from Monticello, coming in for some portraits at Hester Park.
--- We have a girl, from St. John's Prep, who will be photographed in a 'twirly' dress, barefoot, with her violin, in the woods around St. John's.

There are other sessions that are percolating. I will keep you posted on them.

If you know of a Class of 2009 senior who would like a FUN portrait session with UNIQUE and CREATIVE portraits ... please send them to me.

320-202-0288

Thank you!
Denise