040: Melissa Love - Why Your Website & Branding Matter & How To Implement a Killer Marketing Strategy

09/10/21 • 42 min

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Melissa Love is a graphic designer and website developer who works with creative professionals to help them develop a strong brand presence and stand out in a crowded market. She is passionate about affordable design for small businesses and founded The Design Space to help photographers, designers and other makers grow their businesses on and offline. Based in the UK, she is also a keen photographer.

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039: Image Salon - The Taboo Of Outsourcing & How It Could Change Your Life

Victoria is the CEO of Image Salon, an editing, retouching and photo studio based in Montreal, Canada. It was founded in 2014 with the core value of placing people first and offering a tailored editing and retouching services for its clients as well as a high touch Customer Service.

Victoria found her calling and passion in management pretty early in her career. Prior to joining the Image Salon team in 2016, Victoria grew and managed several photography studios, first across Canada, and then internationally aboard cruise ships. She has also worked as a Wedding and Portrait photographer, both including to some destinations such as Australia, the Philippines, Bahamas and Lebanon. In her free time, she enjoys spontaneous road trips, long-distance biking, and hosting dinner parties.

With a strong interest in streamlining workflows for photographers and team members alike, Victoria’s embrace of exploring new and innovative technologies and methods has and continues to help Image Salon grow and continuously improve all it has to offer. She has a bright and forward thinking pedagogical approach and between her experience in Leadership and the trust she has placed in her team means Image Salon can keep pushing business forward for both clients and her team.

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041: Kai Coombes - The Worlds Only Remote Shooting Underwater Photography Studio

Kai Coombes is an award-winning photographer based in Nottingham, UK. He specialises in a unique studio based approach to underwater photography, that has lead to him being shortlisted as British Fashion Photographer of the Year 2021.

In this podcast we find out about Kai’s studio - TankSpace, and it’s rather unusual beginnings through a combination of luck, business knowledge and mermaids! Although unfortunately opening fully just as the pandemic took hold, TankSpace is now a vibrant hub of creativity. Regularly host to some of the largest brands in the industry, not to mention the hundreds of photographers and models who have visited for workshops.