Have you considered where to maximise your presence with your professional headshot photo. Here is a host of ideas to help you be the first choice with your clients and potential customers.
Corporate and personal headshots
In today’s world no matter your profession, your status, your circle of friends, people want to know what you look like. Whether that is business associates, clients, customers or friends and friends of friends in your social network will start to connect quicker and more effectively once they have seen your face. To grow that more successfully your headshot should be everywhere you touch. From the internet, to printed work, from business to private relationships. Below is a list of many of the places we are likely to touch during our lives. Do you have a headshot presence in all these areas?
🌐 Website – About Us page
Headshot pictures on your website makes you real. It gives your business a personality. When you phone a company or business they are just a thing, there to provide what you need, it is often a cold experience like the frosty receptionist. It can make you feel an inconvenience to them. If you see pictures of the team on their website suddenly you are dealing with a person and not just a voice. A welcoming photo helps your business look like it cares about its customers. It also says you are not hiding behind a machine and want to be transparent about your business.
✉️ Email Footer
Email is still a major communication method in business and one of the best to keep a record of information and decisions. When this is with someone you don’t know personally then a small headshot built into your footer is a great way to build that connection and familiarity. The email is no longer that faceless message. I find it really frustrating to receive an email with no connection details such as a job title, phone number, website, these along with a thumbnail headshots makes a cold email so much more professional and friendly.
👥 LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn is very often these days the first place potential clients go to check you or your business out. It is that first impression. As LI is business focused then make sure your Headshot is professional.
💻 Social Media; Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok & X(Twitter)
Like LinkedIn social media is a major place to check someone out, to put that face to a name and find out a little more about them. Either your LinkedIn headshot or a Personal Branding photograph gives you that professional status and helps you attract more successful Connect, Follow and Friend Requests. Your headshot will of course be associated with your reels and shorts.
🎞️ Actor and performer Headshots
The corporate headshot was born as a continuation to actor headshots. For actors it is their calling card and essential to getting noticed by casting directors and agents for roles in film and television. Essential for showing true character and likeness that matches the directors vision for the part. A professional headshot is nowhere more important than for an actor or performer.
📄 CVs
I worked in industry for many years and read hundreds of CV’s before selecting anyone for interview. During that time I don’t recall seeing one that had a headshot. If you want to stand out, a professional headshot will put you to the top of the pile.
📇 Business cards
Meeting people for the first time at a trade show, a business meeting or social event, often leads to a collection of business cards. People will more likely remember you, what you do and the conversation you had if your card has your picture. So stand out from the crowd with a business card with your headshot.
📣 Promotional literature (brochures, flyers, trade show handouts)
If you are a small business, a consultant, architect, solicitor or a trades person, one of the greatest ways to bring your personality to all that you do is to use your headshot on all your literature. This will give consistency and help potential clients associate you with what you do.
📰 Press Releases
Like with magazine articles, press releases for a new product or service or a new role will frequently be published in magazines, online and in newspapers. Giving it that personality not only makes it more professional but perpetuates your brand.
🗞️ Magazine articles
As your success grows you will find yourself either being asked to submit articles to magazines, or even offering them knowing that others are interested in the content. Including your professional headshot with the submission to be printed as part of the by line connects your identity with your brand.
📝 Author
Look at the back of virtually any book on the shelves of a book store today and along with the bio you will find the authors headshot. It is a great way for your reader to identify with you and feel that they know you.
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