How to Find and Pitch Your First 10 Corporate Headshot Clients
One of the biggest misconceptions that beginner headshot photographers make is to assume that somehow the work will find them. You establish a website, post some headshots on Instagram, tell everyone you know you’re doing professional headshots now… and then you wait. Perhaps eventually someone bookings, perhaps someone refers a friend, perhaps you receive a little employment here and there. But if your aim is to develop a full-time headshot photography business, hanging around isn’t much of a business strategy. If I was starting today, my first goal would be incredibly simple: Find 10 firms I want to partner with and go after them on purpose. I wouldn't begin with 1,000 companies, and I wouldn't try to contact every business within 200 miles. I’d say 10. Ten firms with employees, ten companies that seem to be growing, ten companies where people are part of the brand, and ten companies where professional photography might solve a real problem. Those initial 10 companies of you...
