Shoot to the Top
A Podcast for Commercial Photographers
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A podcast for professional photographers
What happens when you get a commercial photographer (Marcus Ahmad) and a seasoned marketeer (Sam Hollis) in the same room?.
That’s right, you get all the answers on how to “ Shoot To The Top”
Learn the best marketing strategies for your commercial photography business.
Sam will tell you how find the ideal client, get yourself noticed , build your brand and loads more!
In short the best and most current strategies to make more money!
But hold on, it’s not just about the money is it?
Marcus will be defending his corner with hard hitting punches on how to be be the best photographer in your market, to really start taking images that you can be proud of and most of all how to really add value to your work to get those premium clients.
So if you are starting out as a commercial photographer or been in the game so long you remember glass negatives, tune in to the show that is focussed on shooting to the top!
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Meet the shoot from the top team
It’s fair to say that Marcus has led the “classic” life of a photographer.
You know – studying Editorial Photography at University, years spent assisting the worlds best advertising photographers (it’s official they won an award!) After that setting up his own practice as a global fashion photographer working in London, NY, LA and Paris. And then to cap it off, giving back to the community as a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Advertising photography at the University of South Wales.
These days you can still find Marcus behind a camera. Working with brands that need a bit of pazazz, after all his tagline is : “Aspirational Photography for Inspirational People”
On his rare days off Marcus likes to entertain the wedding crowd with his 7 piece funk and soul machine, slapping the bass like there’s no tomorrow! Guaranteed to get the audience dancing.
Sunday mornings are when you can find Marcus on his beloved road bicycle pounding the tarmac and sweating up hills. Probably a bit too much information there!
Sam Hollis has been building websites and helping business with their marketing almost since websites began.
More recently Sam has been running Sam Hollis Web Design, helping small businesses get websites that help them grow. But Sam knows that websites don’t work on their own and helps businesses with their wider digital marketing. Sam focuses on working with businesses in the long term, working as partners with business owners to help them and their business grow and develop.
Sam Hollis Web Design now has a team of designers and writers, which leaves Sam more time to do what he enjoys best, talking to business owners. Although the team do from time to time let him lose on a website if he’s lucky.
Sam’s first job was a wedding photographers assistant (to his Dad) so would spend his Saturdays in the summer at English country churches carrying bags and getting casual shots of the guests.
When he’s not at his desk you’ll either find him either driving one of his teenage daughters to their next engagement, or enjoying the great outdoors, with his dog, on his bike or sat in his kayak.
It’s fair to say that Marcus has led the “classic” life of a photographer.
You know – studying Editorial Photography at University, years spent assisting the worlds best advertising photographers (it’s official they won an award!) After that setting up his own practice as a global fashion photographer working in London, NY, LA and Paris. And then to cap it off, giving back to the community as a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Advertising photography at the University of South Wales.
These days you can still find Marcus behind a camera. Working with brands that need a bit of pazazz, after all his tagline is : “Aspirational Photography for Inspirational People”
On his rare days off Marcus likes to entertain the wedding crowd with his 7 piece funk and soul machine, slapping the bass like there’s no tomorrow! Guaranteed to get the audience dancing.
Sunday mornings are when you can find Marcus on his beloved road bicycle pounding the tarmac and sweating up hills. Probably a bit too much information there!
Sam Hollis has been building websites and helping business with their marketing almost since websites began.
More recently Sam has been running Sam Hollis Web Design, helping small businesses get websites that help them grow. But Sam knows that websites don’t work on their own and helps businesses with their wider digital marketing. Sam focuses on working with businesses in the long term, working as partners with business owners to help them and their business grow and develop.
Sam Hollis Web Design now has a team of designers and writers, which leaves Sam more time to do what he enjoys best, talking to business owners. Although the team do from time to time let him lose on a website if he’s lucky.
Sam’s first job was a wedding photographers assistant (to his Dad) so would spend his Saturdays in the summer at English country churches carrying bags and getting casual shots of the guests.
When he’s not at his desk you’ll either find him either driving one of his teenage daughters to their next engagement, or enjoying the great outdoors, with his dog, on his bike or sat in his kayak.
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