Pandemics, who would have thought eh, but we survived and flourished.
How did we manage that?

We diversified, looked at new markets, retrained ourselves and kept going.
What new services did we offer?

We added a full range of photography packages to our service, interior, exterior, video, drone shots and video, training, showing other small businesses how to manage Google local search, how to manage social media and how to make the biggest impact within a set cost.

Lets start with new markets, we worked with local estate agents, national estate agents, letting agents, booking companies, independent AirBnb owners, Booking.com hosts, Gyms, Bars, Restaurants, Care Homes, Car Dealers, Caravan and Camping sites, glamping sites and caravan sites.

I even helped the Local Education Partnership create some Virtual Interactive Work experience sites for year 11 school leavers and managed to squeeze in a virtual transition day for my old secondary school, after 40 years.

Can we help you, absolutely we can, I am working with a group of beauty salon owners to show the how to maximise their local search listings, showing them how to manage this themselves and make progress.

So 2023 is a year of hope, new businesses and I guess quarterly blogs to actually tell you all what we are up to, so see you soon,

​Nic 

Where did February go? That went quicker than I thought. 
But we survived and had a good start to the year, here are a few successes.

• Free Publicity

​We were covered in the Sunderland Echo as we completed a Google Street View of Roker Pier, have a read HERE, so far that tour has been seen over  7500 times in 2 weeks and we had a stack of interest on the facebook and socials of the business.

• Meeting with Sunderland Council

This year we have decided to Google Street View 12 local attractions in Sunderland that are not on street view. Sunderland Council are supporting us, so far we have done Roker Pier, Ryhope Engine Museum and we are starting Hylton Castle, watch this space.

• Google Street View Photo Views

When we started we set a target of 25,000 views on Google Maps from our 360° Photos, this month on March 1st we hit 300,000 views, which is incredible. Our most popular photo so far is THIS with over 7500 views

• Some fabulous new customers to work with

​We have worked with Lorraine at St Oswalds Cottage, completing a stunning virtual tour for her delightful cottage, we met and agreed to virtual tour .
We are working with Grace House to complete a tour for any potential customers they have, Grace House do stunning work providing respite for children and young people across the north east, watch this space but have a look at what they do HERE

• Started Mentoring

I had been approached by a few people starting out in Virtual Photography as a business and although I don't pretend to know everything, I can help people with their sales funnel, that was my life for 20 years, its great to see these guys take the plunge and we will all support each other

So that was February, what's in store for March, more of the same I hope, but check back to see how we are doing

Thanks for reading

​Nic