As a business owner, growing your team is exciting. Added help allows you to take on more clients, expand your reach, and reduce your workload.
Having carefully built your brand, you want to find employees and contractors who are the right fit in more than just skill sets.
Let’s look at resources to find you that top-notch talent and go over some positions that typically make up an interior design team.
Read MoreWith the Tuesday Q&A series, CatMax Photography introduces you to exceptional entrepreneurs who have gone through the CatMax Personal Branding Experience.
Today, we’re featuring Laura Mooney, an investor and entrepreneur who’s the founder of OSG Fishing & Surf Charter and owner of the Boho Tamarindo Hotel, House, and Experiences. A lover of adventure, Mooney also has a personal brand website, Mooney Explores, where she shares advice and uplifting stories from her life to “inspire others to fearlessly discover and follow their goals and dreams.”
In this post, we dive into how she balances running multiple businesses with achieving personal goals, her tips for embarking on your own adventures, the details of her Personal Branding Experience, and more.
Read MoreThe perks of winning an interior design contest are plentiful, from prizes, prestige, and visual aids for marketing to networking and media coverage opportunities.
But there are pros to simply entering a design contest as well. Knowing you want to participate in one can push you creatively, force you to keep your portfolio tidy and updated with professional photography, and encourage you to stay connected with industry organizations.
Whether you’re planning to submit an entry for the first time or you’ve participated in multiple contests, we’ll share tips anyone can use to boost their chances of taking home a title.
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A logo, color palette, signature fonts – all essential visual elements of your brand and, today, easy to create yourself using Canva or have a professional put together for you in an affordable brand kit thanks to Etsy.
But at some point, your branding will need upgrading – be that a more robust and inclusive brand kit with more guidelines, design changes to your branding, better implementation of your brand, or a complete overhaul.
Read MoreWith the Tuesday Q&A series, CatMax Photography introduces you to exceptional entrepreneurs who have gone through the CatMax Personal Branding Experience.
Today, we’re featuring Lyn Reaves, founder of L. Reaves Interiors. Following multiple remodels of her own houses and even a few builds, the former catering business owner decided to pursue her passion for interior design professionally and launched her company six years ago.
In this post, we dive into how she creates spaces that feel like home, the people who’ve inspired her, the details of her Personal Branding Experience, and more.
Read MoreThe first photo you see on a website, a magazine cover, an ad photo – all examples of the Hero Shot. What’s a Hero Shot, you ask? The quick explanation is that it’s one photo that visually communicates the most important information about your brand/product.
Read MoreWith the Tuesday Q&A series, CatMax Photography introduces you to exceptional entrepreneurs who have gone through the CatMax Personal Branding Experience.
Today, we’re featuring two ladies who are a joy to work with – Paige Risley and Beth Moffatt, founders of We Recruit Well, which helps businesses fill remote and hybrid roles. The duo was first featured on the blog in 2022.
Now, they’re back to talk about making their business partnership a success, professional development, a website revamp, and, of course, their latest Personal Branding Experience.
Read MoreVisual marketing is one of the most effective ways to tell your story and communicate with clients. Not only is 90% of information transmitted to the brain visual, according to Smart Insights, but when visuals and written content are paired, research says they make your message more memorable.
Having images personal to you and what your business is putting out in the world is crucial. A branding photoshoot is designed to give you those images.
Since I created the CatMax Personal Branding Experience, I’ve seen the impact branding images have on my clients’ businesses. I’ve also encountered repeated questions about branding photography.
Today, we’ll tackle making the most of the images you get and maximizing your shoot. I’ll also share what to look for in a photographer. Let’s jump in.
Read MoreWith the Woman Wednesday series, CatMax Photography introduces you to exceptional female entrepreneurs who have gone through the CatMax Personal Branding Experience. Today, we invite you to meet Cristi Holcombe of Cristi Holcombe Interiors and CH Home.
Read MoreToday, there are apps and software for nearly everything, especially in the business world. They all claim to be the solution you need to get more done, provide your clients with a better experience or product, and increase connection with your team and other systems you rely on. Wading through what’s necessary and what can truly serve you and your business isn’t always easy.
Today, we’ll examine CRM software and how it can benefit a business to help you determine if it’s right for your situation.
Read MoreWith the Women Wednesday series, CatMax Photography introduces you to exceptional female entrepreneurs who have gone through the CatMax Personal Branding Experience. Today, we invite you to meet Alexis Solomon and Taylor Price of Alexis Taylor Interiors.
Read MoreNo matter what type of email marketing you do, there are some strategies you can apply that can make your efforts more successful. In this post, we’ll share some ways to grow your email list as a small business and successfully carry out email marketing.
Read MoreIf there’s one thing the CatMax Photography team loves more than capturing photos, it’s seeing how our clients put those photos to use. Though we’ve touched on the many ways branding photos, in particular, can be used to benefit your business, today, we’re excited to share some real-life examples from clients in hopes of sparking ideas for ways you could use branding photos in your business.
Read MoreWe talk a lot about the importance of strong branding and bringing it to life through images. For many creative professions like interior design or culinary arts, it’s easy to envision the possibilities for branding photography. Styled displays of a finished product, glimpses of beautiful materials, and showing the creator in their workspace may come to mind. But what about creative professions that don’t seem to lend themselves well to photography? Should they bother with branding photos, and what kind of images can be created? We’ll tackle those questions today.
Read MoreAt CatMax Photography, we know what it’s like to pour your heart and soul into your work, for it to be an extension of yourself. That’s why we’re passionate about portraiture and making it easy for employers and working professionals to receive polished business portraits that also showcase personality and authenticity.
Read MorePhoto booths come in various styles, from 360-degree slow-motion video to using and providing old-school polaroids. Today, we’re highlighting what the CatMax Photography team provides with our traditional photo booth and how it can be customized for any event.
Read MoreSummer is here, and, for many of us, that means vacations are, too. As a professional photographer, I love looking back on my own vacation photos and seeing the images my friends, family, and clients share of their trips on social media. Since I know many of you will reach for your phone (aka camera) a lot more in the near future, I wanted to provide tips to take your travel photos to the next level and avoid a few common mistakes I see.
Read MoreRenee Scalzini is the kind of woman who, when she sees a problem, finds a way to fix it. Her luxury handbag company, Scalzini Accessories, was created to do more than give women additional purse options. It was launched to solve a specific problem that Renee and the women she knew faced daily – disarray.
Read MoreAs a creative entrepreneur, developing and fostering your brand helps further bring life to your work, values, and professional goals. One way you can strengthen your brand and enhance its positive associations is to use it to create community. Here are some ways you can encourage your supporters to forge connections with one another and with you.
Read MorePaige Risley and Beth Moffatt have the unique experience of having been in the shoes of the candidates they find to help their clients. The pair of former schoolteachers decided to become virtual assistants before many people knew such roles existed. Fast forward to today, and through their business, We Recruit Well, they now help entrepreneurs find professionals to fill various remote and hybrid positions.
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