The success of any business is heavily dependant on networking. It is important to get your name out there to a lot of potential customers, but also to other businesses. The Bridal Fantasy seems to have been pretty successful for us, but it is hard to know how many of the people who came to see us will call us for a consultation. What I do know for sure though is that as a result of the Bridal Fantasy we made at least one contact that will hopefully become very helpful to us in the future.
I met a fashion/commercial photographer named Eugene Uhuad who runs a company called 3TEN Photo here in Edmonton. They do some wedding photography under their other company name Ideal Wedding Photography but mainly their focus is on fashion and commercial photography. I met up with Eugene after the Bridal Fantasy to talk about the possibility of our two companies working together somehow. Right now we’re not too clear on what we’re going to do, but certainly this is the ideal type of business relationship, where both companies can benefit from each other, and not have to fork over too much cash.
Our goal is to eventually move up from wedding videography and onto things like corporate video, television commercials, music videos, and finally feature films of course. By networking with a company like 3TEN Photo it points us in the right direction towards that goal. It’s important to network and partner up with as many businesses as you can, especially those in related fields. One may feel as though they are your competition, but in the long run you will end up benefiting each other more than you compete against each other, and in this case we don’t do photography so there is no conflict at all.
3TEN Photo at work
